PRICE OF ICE GOES UP  

PRICE OF ICE GOES UP

Logansport Ice Dealers Raise Price Five Cents on the Hundred

MAY STOP TRADING FOR DRINKS

SALOON KEEPERS MAY HAVE TO PAY FULL PRICE.

The expected has happened.

The ice dealers of Logansport have raised the price. Scarcity of ice duringthe past winter is responsible and the dear public has to stand it.

The Jeanerette and the Maxinkuckee Ice companies harvested only abmit half a crop during the past winter and now all of them, including the Logansport Ice and Cold Storage company have decided to raise the price 5 cents on every hundred pounds. Heretofore butchers have been getting ice at 15 cents a hundred; now they will have to pay 20. Saloon keepers have been getting it at 20 cents: now they will have to pay 25. Private consumers last year paid 35 cents per hundred; this years they will pay 40.

If private consumers do not pay cash, but let their accounts run along until the end of the season, they will have the pleasure of paying an additional 5 cents on the hundred pounds, making it total 45 cents a hundred! It would therefore seem advisable to buy coupon books and pay in advance. This is a new point on many private consumers.

Another innovation is threatened. The companies will probably do away with the practice of trading part of their ice to liquor dealers for drinks. Heretofore it has been the custom for the iceman when he delivers ice to. turn in a 50 pound "shaver" in addition to the regular order necessary to fill the ice box, and take it out in drinks.

The "shaver" is a piece of ice used behind the bar to cut into shavings or chips and used in. cooling glasses and drinks. Liquor dealers consider this as a sort of "thrown in for good measure" and in exchange for the courtesy they give the driver a couple of drinks. If a driver has many saloons to visit in one day he can get a comfortable jag in a short time and not spend a cent.

This practice the companies are now talking of abolishing and requiring the liquor dealers to pay in full for just what ice they get, and no "shavers" thrown in and no drinks taken in exchange.

10 April 1906 - LOGANSPORT DAILY PHAROS