The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-06-13
How Ice Frankenstein Dined On
 Bones Of Little Ice Companies

touch with Ives and told him what action to take at the meeting. In Stamford the experiences of Pal rner & Washburn was the same as ours Berkshire selling so low that Saltwater Company could not make profit and Palmer told me that he couldn't spend his life on losing proposition.
 In 1916 when the Berkshire was cutting into our trade in Meriden by selling for s15o I went to Stamford
 where the Berkshire was getting $500 a ton. For seven weeks l sold ice there and the Berkshire came down | to s2.O0. I could name quite a num- | Der of concerns between Meriden and New York who were compelled to go | out of business by the Berkshire Ice Company or to raise their prices in | order to stay in:
 l On the property that Harry Walker
 has recently bought at New Hartford | the Trout Brook Ice Company har- vested ice this last winter. and Mir. | Bishop was superintendent for 19 days during the harvesting.
 From this pond while Bishop was there 15O cars a day for the 19 days were shipped to the Berkshire Ice Company, and it cost about 35 or 40 cents a ton to harvest. Each car car l ried about 25 tons of ice.
 At the last meeting of the Connect icut Ice Dealers Association it was i the common understanding and talk, | that Harry Walker had paid S25. 900 for | the g, 900 tons of ice that he had bought sof Walker Brothers in Wor-
 cester, Mass, according to the testi-
 mony of MT. Bishop and of Albert | Widman, another member of the asso- | ciation. MT. Widman said that it was
 also commonly understood that Wal
 ker had refused S70.CO0 for the lot. This is the ice that Walker refused to | tell the committee what it cost him. 1 Walter Main of the Spring Lake Ice Company of West Haven said that the company is now winding up it's bus | mess. That his houses had burned
 down in 1916 and had not been rebuilt
 because ice could be bought from the
 Berkshire pearly as cheap as 1t could
 be harvested
 That he paid the Berkshire company ] in 1915, 90 cents a ton; in 1916, S1.15,
 and in 1918 and 1919, 8 a. ton. In 1914 he had a contract with the i Berkshire people for a minimum of the Berkshire company was to get 50
 price charged by the Spring Lake
 company to their customers. MT.
 Main believed that the city of New
 Haven should secure some ice prop
 erty and be prepared for this kind of a season.
 He said that about once in four years you could count on, an ice short
 age and the city ought to be prepared
 for 1t
 1 In his testimony Benjamin NIi1ner
 said that the Centerfreeze plant was
 a Duplicate of the Federal Ice Com
 pany's plant in Boston and that as the latter had no Walker to contend with
 and being outside that baneful infiu.
 ence they had been successful. Tho Berkshire people always insisted
 that if the local dealers would take enough of their ice they would get out.
 | Brown told me that on a number of occasions. and after Walker became interested they were more insistent
 than ever. Miner said he had seen a statement the Berkshire company
 made which stated that the cost to
 them of Ice ready to be shipped was 66 cents, the shrinkage would amount to 14 cents, the freight to so cents,
 making the total platform cost s1.60 in
 the present year.