The evening world. Newspaper, December 22, 1906, Page 8

\ Published by the Press Publishing Company, No. 6 to © Park Row, New York Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Clasa Mat! Matter. WOLUME 47 riiiiecsesclscscccscsccecese onecee cesses NO, 10,589, ICE AND JEROME. Every fortnight or $0 last summer The Evening ‘World told the facts in regard to the ice situation. Its statements Attorney-General Mayer’s complaint against the [ce Trust fully-eorrobo | The average citizen of New York has no concern about the price can get along without it’ then. Nevertheless it confirms es, the Dein legal ac the charges made in t Of ice was a matier of great concern to ever} There was no real shortage of ice last summer. Contemplating a Taise in price, and knowing that the consumption would be diminished by: the increase in price, the Jce Trust cut d ven the, of thesice crop from (6,000,000 to 4,000,000 tons) It thus. sived the cost of harvesting and transporting 2,000,000 tons, h, according to’ the Ati torney-Gener: figures, amc to $2,200,000, Then the Ice Trust raised ‘the price of ice so that {t received almost’twice as much money for 4,000,000 tons of Ice as prior 6,600,000 tons of, ice had sold for. To quote from the Attorney-Gen- al’s complaint, the price Increase | mes: larger’ than ase In the cost,’ urtailing.the supply, and same time increasing 1! a net profit was had of ‘from 71 to 84 per cent centage of profit dy. the higher re g onthe sale to small consum- cted was as of} cid snot éxceed $1.14 per ton. The so-called independent ice companies were | part of this conspiracy, Written contracis were made between them ~ and’ the Ice. Trust by which {hey would not compete, but instead uni to maintain extortionate prices ~cess to the New York market wei by agreements between th: i 2 | handle outside ice. : Ye | Altorney-General Mayer excuses his failure to. act soomér on the | Ground that last summer District-Attorney Jerome had taken charg the matter ind was conducting an investigation. Had the Attomey- General acted then it might have resulted in conaict between him and District-Attoy What _a_terrible indictment of Me. Jerome Is this. off hy Attome@y-General Mayer, all the more biting because ifs nor Mr. J ¢ WU tininientiona! ind unconscious ! cost This paper has repeatedly asserted that the agreement het directo i officials of the American Ice Company to restrict the jorithé crop was conspiracy punishable under the Penal Code. stated! time after time last summer that the so-called ing independent, but that they and the Ice Tr gether to-extort the last centfrom the public. In support of thes: soneral Mayer now furnishes cokimns of detaited par- But what did Mr. Jerome: do? 5 He conferred with President Oler, of the American lee Company, as he had conferred with the Equitable banking parasites, with Geor: MW. Perkins and the distinguished criminals of the New York Life, wi the MgCurdy outfit and the Mutual Life gang, and to Mr. Oler, as to all the others, Mr. Jerome awaried certificates of exculpation from criminal guilt; Phe. Evening World's Daily Magazine, Saturday, ‘December 22, 1906. er Subscriber—Can you give fraid not, miss, At the Circulating me “A Man to Love? But you might ask Library. Strothen brethe olr defends of the who tole the Sota S © the shoud! be If these facts are accessible to Attorney-General Mayer with the exercise of inquisitorial power, without the beating of tomtoms be -__ the Grand Jury,-without_John Doe proceedings or other: fubsub, what is to be thought of Mr. Jerome? Was Mr. Jerome ignorant, or was he i comp etent, or oh was he? Letters from the People. dea for Suto Speedway, ways fh whifch tw: Heney PECK TY AND WEEK 0 7 WITHOUT ASKIN OF SALARY! DON'T. KOU Kk. Now THAT. fics Boby 15 MARKING MOMEY=- THE COST OF LIVING GONE UP > aie a PRISER ee if (HENRIETTA: ) You LEAVE ”) STO ME exe GA WENT L Hew ont i, NwHo LET 17 WOR K¢-ER- LienyrANe| PEM eRE~SEE WERE =) RE {o ST WANT A RMSE — Chea Done tr! lnerayet LT THE | WORK FOR |) A no ust £59) Ve aon) EMCEE Ger WHAT) \you DONT! II": anes WN DESERVE) | Fam OTA /08) NEOR» By F..G. Long. A Late 9 Oxy deere’ one puttin to the a u they “were before?” urn therm | inawhich Le number of ee both th and eyO—p! ibe of by Walter A. Sinclar, the sun's air and sonp, Written for The Evening World. The Vanishing Bride. | | By Anna Katherine Green. | Author of “The Leavenworth Cas” and “The Woman inthe Alcove."® (Copyright, 190%. by Anna K. Grean Rohits) SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. ee Haron, o martiea Georgian’ Hazes Tmmediatny ‘after the and began tts ‘cheep, cheep,! Mr. Kane som broke the spell by saying in low Our atudiourly ®usinessiike tones;" Have you thought tt worth while to y the ground under hor window or! ere elee for footprints? It might jet be amisa; what do you think about! Sire “Let us go," er, rising ti show of al readily acquiesced the hiv feet with an hon=! ‘after which I York. I was exe tes there will! our hand on pect. my assure you ot any aroy wate eataract # bink falls she pot itin hla pocket. As he dia his eye flashed sidewiee on the G Sipts and & brought the’ riable laws presentiments jn color to thi yer's chee. co SrEE XIV. getinund.) the oMes hanging rounded thet a nar Ke wale with the. koran broken. fa the 2» Tt wae + -that Anitra, to have ¢l’pped an@ pintloss, o9f Bt Mr, Ransom to me. Didn't she m wlign she gave word. She said. ‘You wit re was to glance up at! tm t¢ ever thin will is pa | a5) fOr Fi) Ing one and dible enougty you to s re *y me by seeing ho gets n note? how much easier It any, unnesessity trouble’ | Would be to drop upon It from the Httle all she satd or would say baler id than to traverse the reach tho ground he- silpping. ut as they, ench face betrayed doubt. fo was a womah of ansom, My punted fi ¢ opinion t |e descent from the balcony was easy ‘Auiohin repeated Ransom. | on> how abouc the passage unknown quantity k the | from G. an's window to the kal- "Another F This latter was confined to the and waa surrounded by an. Wr@ cony? of my poor girl's Ilfo. : 1 am | one window, Do’ you wonder. that $2 asthe so-called | ornamental balustrade. high ‘enough now Auchin bio offer a dectded obstacle to the ade Ransom, I share your con- urous person endeavoring to leap ‘A sire on it from the adjoining window= Do you?" The wonts came very /jedge. However, this leap, made in the fowtey Ponetrey “Haven't lg rk and under circumstances Inducing, some Idea—nome possibly, utmost recklessness, might look a tuition Ww cal enough from the window- ford wome ¢ > itself, Mr. Harper. making fetes Faan if sk to this effect, proposed that they should examine the ground tathor thaalls as : pn the house evidences of Mra. and affairs. You nsom's slip and fall as related by, Je experien en | Hera CRNETERE KOMe poéwer to prob +The only spot where. they could hope . baeeniea taielee 1 auch was in the one short which, wil harmonize all ith Ms | stroceh—the. width of the L-—under- aint stembats and make clear Its | {ying dae edge of the sloping root, “B complication Ui apot “iaae all Maawied, as I” hay eee : | olrendy ‘satd, and when’ their ey Linresre shee ad, but there) vieayed beyond it to the untilled Nel ned excitement n his| gtr ach was not altogether’ the |r on of that which dominated Ran-) Which she, was se nd a latter, observing It, loaned | Wr ive ot es able-till thelr faces almost | walk itself, Not ning between them and the great) he waterfall from 1to have taken | to find them as) lonce as, the brick ¢ palr of feet sbut many had passed since early morning, The ground ‘Showed a masa ofi impressions of all alzes and shapes, id which it would have been impos oa my tho} me and tell e Look a bu guess my tho for them, without the necessary The lawyer healtated, eying renee, ta Inve followed up the rembling Mp, the changing color, any one person, They had 4 i task too tate. wide-open, deeply Nushed eyes no ne ded the lawyer. “Thera Kin slow smile af} yy no use in our; going that wa it not of cam-| And Ue» turned to look ngain at the ered In a barely audi-| Rround tn thelr Immediate vicinity, j Aw he did so, hia eye hy fo, I may be mad, but T | | < hink L do, boris | {| othyr rank back withoa elgh ane shargtyl with lawyer tnter~/f the wlteh Mr. F reseated |" "\Chat are those?” he asked, polnt= e Holthior | ai Sata aivastone arias niner? and neither opoke; | er whinlt disfiguned thse t small platy if almost avem as 1 nelther | © footprints,” ventured, } hen, as wu bird, deceived by | yy | *) hopped to window stil (To Be Continued.) eee erererd| This Week's Prize Winners in the . “Domestic Haps and Mishaps”’ Contest, ‘MISS KATHERINE ZIZGLER, i 115 Week's prises in t! Mest !e axe Haps nd Mishaps’ contest aro) twelve, No, 4 Ninth avenue, Long Tals | ewarced o9 follows: and ¢ for tory of geese who got erry brandy. WILLIAM R. KUILN, Pearl River, Ni ISACK, No. 494 Chaun-} Ye-(P, 0. Box 34), for story’ of Httle for story of ttle} Dox Christmas alr-gun and the dame ¢ away ta camphor ball) &&e f ble Mereto, r treated her furs, ROBERT STRACHAN, Carey avenuo, nekr Bement, Weat Now Urighton, 8. Ly for story of xaillor who Impersonated {frend at al ry and Was mado to th Horatto! go to bed and take micdicine. 35 Priz2. F t | | i ASANO, for story of womate who crawl © Evening World |i? giving $0 ho bed when (ae landlord culled! week in cash riers for the best mugs ng; und whose Hitle boy: told on} ycstions (which nedd not bo mecompas nied by drawings) for the “Domeatlo The The 4 P.O, PRANK FL AN, No, 19 Melrose aireet, Brooklyn, for story of man w intatook box pontaining gift clock for bomb - Haps and Mishupst comic series. I mergeay tions Inu ho gent to Comick Kaltor, Events Ww: oes Lox 1034, New York Clty." X