ICE TRUST.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 702, 30 December 1909, Page 5

ICE TRUST.

A PINE OP 41000 IN NEW YOKE. By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright. ' New York, December 28. The American Ice Company was fined £1000 for attempting a monopoly in tho production and salo of ice, contrary to the'Donnelly Law, in tho Now York State. The New York correspondent of "The Times," commenting on this application of a Stato law, declares that the Tederal law against intor-State monopolies is powerless against monopolies operating within tho bounds of a single Stato, hence the necessity for complementary . State legislation?, wherever requisite, to ■ assist Congress. i ; WHAT ICE MEANS TO'NEW YORK. New York throughout the year consumes enormous quantities of ice, which is a natural and inexhaustible product of ; the Hudson River, and harvested in tho , months of January and February. It is . sold normally at an avoiage of four dolr jars per ton. 1 Thp recently connoted lee Kinr' Morso and other monopolisers L increased the price .to 18 and 20 dollars por ton, whioh meant putrid food and . tainted milk to countless thousands of , Iho pool, and a staggering rata of mortality. The "Ice Trust" has been dc- ' scribed, as tho most unconscionable mono- , noly America has over known. It was Williadij.R. Heafsty who 'initiated.;and ; pursued with ':■ merciless' vigour; 'the • cam- , 'Paign/.that; led. toi.the break-up of ■• tho , :trust;;,and;':that'- •brought' ■'~to, light" its ' inner;workings—how: thousands of women and "ctildren.i.perished in .-.the "'congested East; Side] districts .of ; ,New ; York : City through being deprived of what is in the •' euihmer"months ,; a'.dire ';'neoessity—an, .abundance of cheap';ice. '' V : ,;/' .