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corporation. explained today that the
increase was made necessary due to
the advancing cost of raw material
and labor and emphasized that the
increase of 20 cents a gallon did not
produce reasonable return. i
hope" he said. that the price does
not go higher"
sugar Price Jumps.
The cost of sugar. Mr.. Chaplin point
ed out, has gone up 100 per cent
Cream is $3.50 a can higher than
year ago and milk is selling at win
ter prices, In addition. he said, the
wages of employees of the corporation
have been raised. Some OF the en-
ployes were given increases in sal
aries on May / and others on May 10.
1t cost 16 cents more a gallon to
manufacture ice cream during the
early months of this year than the
same period last year. Mr.. Chapin de-
clared. Although without dehnite
figures. he expressed the belief that
in April and this month the figure is
higher than 16 cents.
sale price, Mr.. Chaplin explained. the
Increase in reality amounts to 10
cents on a gallon. as the retailers
paid s1.30 a gallon wholesale untll
March 15 of this year. Anticipating
downward trend in the cost or Ia
bor. a decrease of 10 cents gallon
in the wholesale price of cream was
ordered at that time. At the present
time, he declared. the cost or manu-
featuring Ice cream is 22 cents a GAL
lon greater than the corresponding
period of 1922.
washington is not the only city
that has been struck by the increased
cost of ice cream, Mr.. Chaplin said.
According to press dispatches, he de-
clared, the price of ice cream mas
gone up in Philadelphia, New York:
Chicago. Cleveland and number OF
other cities
Answers Steuart Charges.
Replying to charges made by Po-
tentate Steuart, and printed In The
Star, that he had sent out an erro-
neous report concerning hotel rates
at the coming Shrine convention. Leo
A. McClatchy, Washington corre-
spondent of the Sacramento Bee. to-
day cited instances he claimed to be
in proof of assertions he had made.
Had Mr.. Steuart taken the trouble
to investigate" said McClatchy, "he
would have learned that Ben Ali Tenn
pie, Sacramento. is being charged
81 900 for accommodations in hotel.
a price that the management admits
is in excess of the regular rate.
These accommodations consist OF two
parlors with balconies), three bed
rooms. two baths and little room
described as a buffet. The accommo-
dations are on two different floors.
and in one case there is a public hall
way separating the parlor from the
bedroom.
Called Rate Excessive.
"The hotel management has agreed
to furnish ten cots for use in one
of the parfors. Neither in the other
parlor nor in the bedrooms are other
cots to be furnished. The $1,000
is to be paid whether the quarters
ere occupied for one week or one
day, the maximum time being one
week.
THE Sacramento Chamber of
Commerce sent a complaint to the
local chamber because of this ex-
reply that the rate was justified
because numerous cots were to be
placed in the rooms. That was not
true, the agreement being, as l have
stated, for only ten cots. That was
all the hotel management would
allow.
Some To Pay S12 Per Day.
ben All 1emple was 1OrceQ TO ac-
cept these accommodations. and to
pay this high price. because there was
nothing else available that would come
anywhere near meeting what was
desired. I know whereof I speak, for
1t happens that I was the person who
made the arrangements.
MIR. Steuart could have been ad
vised at the Shrine committee head
quarters as / was advised that the
Los Angeles Temple is going to be
charged $1,000 per day for the ex-
elusive use of a hotel parlor. Ger
tainly he does not mean to attempt
to justify such prices.
THE potentate of Ben Ali Temple
has publicly stated that some of the
members Of that temple are going to
be charged S12 per day each for hotel
Accommodations here. while on their
visit to New York their hotel rates
will be SO per day each. In other
words, the Washington hotel rates
will be four times higher than the
New Yordk rate"