Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-10
DANGER GROWING /
OF FAMINE IN ICE
Main Line and Gloucester
Suffer Severely From
Shortage
COOKE ORDERS SAVING
Hotels and Cafes Told to Stop
Use on Salads and
Fruits
COOKE ORDERS SAVING

Ice shortage in Bryn Mawr and other
that Bryn Mawr Ice Company officials
today announced they are able to fur
nish only forty per cent of the ice de-
manded
Labor shortage. inability to get freight
cars in which to haul reserve supplies of
natural ice and poor quality COAL which
reduces efficiency of ice-making plants,
are the reasons assigned for the short
age.
we are trying to supply butchers,
milk dealers and others who must have
ice." said an announcement by the Bryn
Mawr company today "Householders
must economize and submit to big re-
ductions. Persons who have been get
ance sixty per cent and over in order to
help the smaller consumers. The sit
uation Is serious and nothing but the
hearty cooperation of consumers in the
effort to economize will relieve it"
Gloucester Also Suffers
Gloucester City ice dealers are unable
to get a sufficient supply to serve their
customers. and many homes have been
without ice for two or three days. Many
storekeepers have suffered through meat
and other articles spelling. The plant Of
the Gloucester Ice Company has resumed
operations. after being closed three days
mand.
Gloucester ice cream dealers have not
been able to get more than 25 per cent
of their usual supply: the demand has
increased 300 per cent. Nearly every
night this week the ice cream stores
were closed as early as 8 o'clock, and
some did not open at all.
Drastic curtailment of ice Consump-
ton by large consumers has been or
dered by Jay Cooke, Philadelphia food
administrator. to avert threatening
famine
Saloons, hotels. clubs. restaurants and
other places using large amounts Of
ice must begin to save now. Less ice
must be used in drinks. no fruit may
have ice on it when served And other
steps rnNst be taken. the administrator
less during the hot weather.
Record heat and a labor shortage such
as has not existed before caused the
ice supply of the city to ne in danger
There are not enough laborers to remove
the ice from the storehouses
Homes Must BE Supplied
1t is the aim of the food administra-
ton, Mr.. Cooke announced to see that
homes receive enough ice and to make
this possible the larger users of the
commodity must materially cut their
consumption
Mr., Cookies order, effective at once,
follows:
Saloons must curtail their use of ice
to 20 per cent of normal
Hotels. restaurants clubs and all pub-
lie eating places must stop serving
crushed ice on fruits. seafoods. salads.
celery and tomatoes.
A reduction in the use oe ice by ice
cream manufacturers and dispensers of
soft drinks must be effected they must
practice strict economy or their supply
will be cut down.
Every economy in the use of ice by
commercial users must be practiced
There is no doubt about It," said Mr.
Cooke. this hot weather, which is al
most unprecedented, is likely to cause a
shortage of ice, even with all plants run
ming. The ice manufacturers are labor
ing under considerable difficulty. chief of
which is the decreasing pressure of
water in the boilers of ice-manufactur-
ing plants. Unless this pressure is kept
up the plants cannot run to full capacity.
| The eXtravagant use of water for sprink-
| ling lawns and in other ways must be
| stopped Immediately, and the greatest
care taken of our water supply.
| Diaries in Serious Need
| 'The big milk wholesalers who main
tain private ice plants for cooling their
supplies are in serious way because
| of this low pressure of water"