The Brunswick news., 1919-08-03
During a Day of General Dis
comfort Citizens Form
New Ice Plant.
ICE PROCURABLE AT THE
MUZZLE OF A REVOLVER
New Manufacturing Plant pro-
jected in View of Lack of the
Commodity. ogIethorpe and
Savoy Without Ice While
Streets Are Without 1t.

On information at hand a popular
move to secure a new ice plant to
cover the shortage in the city will be
made inside of twenty-four hours.
Citizens subjected to the vicissit,Xes s
OF the ice famine during the hottest
days of the year and who have been
obliged to discard the contents of
their refrigerators time and Tim, a.
gain will welcome the suggestion.
Last evening plans for financing
new enterprise We're practically a.
greed upon by group of citizens end
such encouragement has been com
ing in from the city that it wa, de
cided to let the public in to get the
stock of the infant corporation at
low figure.
There is money in ice. Today the
citizens of Brunswick. a. widely prac
ticing physician was obliged to secure
vers Of the ice teams to get it. The
fact that ice hold-ups are frequent
in the city has caused several an
ployees of the Glynn Ice Company to
refrain from working their routes
Does this account for the shortage9 ?
Yesterday one of the most popular
citizens Of Brunswick. widely practic-
ing physician, was obliged to secure
ice at the oint Of revolver for a
sick patient
A like thing occurred when col
Ored driver in front of Faber's Bak-
cry yesterday told an applicant to
take the wagon and get over with it
This was in answer to what the dri
yer considered to be an unreasonable
Teqnest. The request for a .pieGe. of
ice being deemed unreasonable
A near shooting affray is also re-
ported on Gloucester street where a
weapon failed to explode. proceeded
earlier in the day nv a wagon % ice
being driven away from a group of
prospective customers by one Of the
managers of the ice plant The lat
ter acting on the assum tion that a
half dozen of the best business men
in the city were going to loo one of
his wagons.
"Drive on away from here" he is
alleged to have said to his driver as
the wagon rumbled on up Newcastle
street. A dozen wrathful citizens
tried to expostulate that nothing had
been said or done to MAKE him think
his ice was going to be taken away
by force of strength.
Hotel and large restaurants failed
in deliveries yesterday and ar,ong
them was the Oglethorpe The Savoy
with as large a'patronage. probably.
as any of the local eateries was with
out ice In addition 90 this whole
streets hanvn't heard the rumble of
an ice wagon in a week.
In the face of shortage, where it
has been impossible for some people
to secure any ice, others have tod on
the street they had forty pounds that
morning.
A large quantity of ice, is arriving
by express from Jesup. The loss
evaporation makes it cost excessive.
Last year the shortage was acCoun-
ted for by the number Of strangers
in the city. Today there are only
a fraction of the strangers and still
the problem is more acute tina be-
fore.
In Savannah, the Atlantic Ice and
Coal Corporation has just established
q new plant at a cost of 100000 and
the machinery is on the way from
New York 1t was not thought ad-
visable to put the venture off until
next summer. In the Incorporation
of the new plant, Charles S. Browne,
of the Phoenix Grocer COMPANY, H
Gignilliatt, and DR.. G. V. Cate are
associated. both in the new business
and with the circulation of stock
subscriptions. that are part of wo-
mans organization The funds for the
beginning of the work will be forth
coming at once.