The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-06-13

MT. Walker and Mir. Arnold went to New York without waiting for Mir. Downs and reported back that they could not close the deal.
 Shortly afterwards. MT. Arnold came to sec Dexter L. Bishop of the Beaver Lake Ice Co. of Meriden, who was one of the 12 to subscribe, and told him that the property could be had for s130.0oo and that Mfr. Walk CT would take s65, 900 of 1t, MT. Arm old s25,0OO. Jerry Kleinfelter of Stamford, the Danbury Ice Go. and the Waterbury Ice Co. $1o,ooo each and that I was down for the other IS1O,ooo.
 I declined to so in on that prop osition as at the meeting of the as- isociation 1t was understood that q cornmittee h+vas to control the Berk- shire, and under the new scheme. an interest in both the Waterbury end Stamford companies. They bought it without me. And Walker started out on his crusade against the other fec deaiers of Connecticut.
 Arnold is president of the Trout Brook Ice Co. of Hartford and a director in the Berkshire Ice Go.
 Benjainin Milner. for over 20 years connected with the ice business fin New Haven and one of the leading spirits in tho organization of the Gen. rerfreeze To Co. testified that since D 91o there. were five large fee houses fin New Haven that had burned and dlad never boon rebuilt, one of them 1hat of the Wood6ridse Ice Co. hay 1ng a capacity of 60,o00 tons. In conversations with the owners of the different plants he was told that they would not rebuild because they could mot compete with Berkshire at s1.50 a ton and mako any profit.
 The Centerfreeze was organized in 1913 when the Berkshire was sell dng ice at the platform at ss a ton. Tho anne day the Centerfreez open ed the Berkshire dropped to S4 a ton and two days afterward to s2 ton. We could not make a profit at $2 md we never sold for less than that n,rics, We went along until 1916 when we went into the hands of a receiver, Timothy Sullivan. & builder, who had a lien on the prop erty. took the plant from the receiv- er.
 MT, Sullivan testified that he took fhe plant June Is, 1916, and ran it nntil the last day of May. 1917. when l1a sold 1t to Harry Walker.
 Early in 1917 Sullivan invited MT, 1Iarrison of the Hygenic and Mir. waikAr to meet him at the Garde 1Iotet to talk oyer the price of ice. MT. Harrison came with MT. Futile slso of inc Hygeaic. and MT. Walker game with ME, Br9wp,
 I told tfem that we ought to get a better price for our fee, We spent most of the time discussing personali- aies between HarFison and Walker. bIsrytson would say your peddlers cut khs price, WafheF would say your psdlers sut the price, repeating the game thing over and oyer, l got dis gustsd after the first half hour and 5eft,
 got out, sold to Walker the last day of May, and eR June 1, both walker and Harrison raised the price to S4.00, and I-hah spent over a month arying to get them to speak to each other. They were good actors. l wouldn't go back ja the ice business If I got SIC a ten. All I have is a painful recollection of the ice busi- ness.
 Dexter L. Bishop told how Mrs. GarIick, who held q second mortgage ton his Beaver Lake. ice plant in Meri- den, came te shln 9ne day" and said that q FetiFedt minister had called on her ara she .haA solA the second mort BaSe t9 nssr:. WHS4 SNS S@a~ eue AnA" bstsr lived in Bridgeport and knowing that fhs iee bYsiqess was-no business For q Yl9ister, Bishop became suspic- lous sF@ c9mlu< to Bridgeport found khAx fRe ipyestlnF ralqlster was no ptheF sthaR AwerA p. Beach. . real bssfe Maa wfs AiA business for DGae6 '1Reeszte4 Hlshop with . bill ] " GE TT 4<JDly8 s{1ikerest amounting