Republican farmer., 1919-06-13

The Naugatuck Ice Company owns 300 shares. the Trout Brook Ice Company of Hartford owns 140 shares and Monroe Howell about 135 shares
 Mir. Walker said he was a director ! in the Naugatuck Valley Ice Com pany the City Ice & Coal Company
 of Bridgeport, the Citizens Ice & Coal
 Company of Bridgeport, the Hall & Upson Ice Company of Waterbury the Ansonia-Derby Ice Company. He is d director in the Saltwater Ice Company of Stamford. He owns pG- sonally the Centerfreeze Ice Company
 of New Haven.
 The Berkshire company obtains its
 principal sup1y from Congomond Lakes in Massa <husetts, where it can harvest 23o,0c0 tons: Bantam Lake
 with a capacity of 7O.00O tons. Still
 water Lakes, Stamford 1000 tons and Beaver Lake, Meriden 10000 tons
 The Berkshire company supplies all cities in Connecticut and from Westf1eld to New York city includ- ing New Haven, Hartford, Meriden, Bridgeport, South Norwalk, Norwalk, Stamford. Rye. Greenwich. Larch- mont. New Rochelle, Mount Vernon. woodlawn. New York city. Pough-
 keepsie. New Britain, Bristol. For
 estville. New London, Plainville, An
 sonia, Derby, Waterbury and Middle
 town.
 The Mountain Ice Company of New Jersey does not send any ice into this territory except into New York city. Last year the Berkshire company sold the N. Y, N. H. S H. R. R. Go. I4,O00 tons of ice for its cars at s1.90 a ton f. O. b.
 Last year the platform price to re- tailers was s4.0o a ton. This year 1t is s10 and SIP.
 Supply All the Ice.
 Tn Bridgeport the Naugatuck Valley
 Ice company and the Sprauge Ice company supply all the ice The
 Bridgeport Ice Delivery company is a
 partnership of which the Naugatuck
 Valley company owns two-thirds and
 the Spraeue Ice company one-third.
 'Is the Bridgeport Ice Delivery company controlled by the Naugatuck Valley Ice company?' asked Mir.
 Crawford. No doubt about it. said Walker.
 And the Naugatuck Valley company is controlled by Walker. In ordinary years the Berkshire does not have to send any ice into Bridge port as the Naugatuck Valley com pany gets all the ice 1t needs from Beards1ey Park Pond and the artifi- cial ice of which they make about 1000 tons a year.
 Mir. Brown, my agent. usually sees people for me.
 MT. Walker said he did not attend
 a meeting of the upstate ice dealers this spring at which the suy ply and prices were fixed. He did not know whether any one sent him a. report of the meeting if anyone did. he said. he threw the report in the waste basket. Do you mean to say," said Craw- fgord that there was a meeting of | the ice dealers and you did not go or have some representative at it?" MT. Brown might have been at it," said Mir. alker. There was req
 son for me to go. They had to de-
 pend on us for their ice.'' T am member of the Associa- tion."
 When asked the object of the Asso-
 citation lnfr. Walker satde T don't
 care to state the object of the Asso- | ciation."
 When Mir. Crawford insisted that
 he state the object, MT. Walker said. T don't know as they have any ob- 5ect. They just meet. I don't
 know. unless they talk over ice, or have some fun or something" MT. Curtis is president. Earl Sprague. secretary. They usually have some speakers; mayor, or something, like that" "I don't remember stating that we expected to sell ice next fall for 60 cents and 50 cents In winter" You
 mean in Bridgeport! when the re- porters get after me? I might have said that ice might sell for SO cents
 next fall and if the winter was nor