Show SOLVES ICE PROBLEM German Invents Simple Way to Harvest Har Harvest Harvest vest Crop Nightly ly New York Tribune A chance listener In the vicinity of kitchen doors those these days will hear hoor in inthe inthe inthe the course of any forenoon all aU shades of ot Invective from the horrid thing up to effrontery highway robbery rb ery and an criminal monopoly These terms he ho may easily discover are applied to that perennial theme of ot ribald song sons and revolutionary speech the Iceman The Iceman has just drawn down fresh torrents of wrath upon his head hood by boosting the wholesale price irice of ice with a certainty that retail prices will follow and as aa usual he Is receiving the torrents so coolly so frigidly that they will probably freeze up before long and give him an extra Ice crop It pay pa the Iceman to get hot over tho the bard hard names by which he is called and he knows it too So long as he lie refrains re refrains retrains trains from irritating the public with open contumely no great competitor will ill break into his field and antI force him to sell ice at a reasonable figure And from small rivals he has nothing to fear tear because he can either wrest their lake and river rights them or crush them them by br underselling as soon as they begin cutting into his business seriously So at least the tho situation has appeared to the Iceman and amid vic victims victims victims tims alike alilee The Ice ico monopoly however unreal in at sense seems fore forc foreordained foreordained ordained by the nature of things to continue a real monopoly in methods and in prices until the th Styx is ready for cutting But it is darkest before the dawn A AGerman AGerman AGerman German has discovered an avenue of oC escape from tho the iceman Like many I great discoveries this one ono Is so simple that you ou must mu t wonder why you think of ot it fl years cars ago and It is so 50 cheap and withal that a poor pool man may become a successful competitor of the Ice lee monopoly Aa As de described described described scribed in an scientific journals the Ger Germans Germans Germans mans contrivance is nothing more than titan a two story scaffolding at the top of at which a common co garden hoso sprin sprinkler sprinkler sprinkler kler connected with a a water main throws li rows a spray over the structure As Aa the t e water falls taIls upon the numerous crossbeams cross eams on a cold old winter day Icicles form and soon fill the whole framework with thick crystal columns which the tho ice trust buster easily casU breaks off oft and ana lugs Into Icehouse In Wurtemburg where the first icicle machine has been in successful opera operation operation operation tion for some time a scaffolding twenty ty t feet square and twenty feet teet high produces twenty cubic yards of or ice in one nipping night The Tate clever German does not have to wait for tor lakes Inkes and J ponds to freeze thick He does not have hac to employ a gang of Ice lee cutters horses and Ice saws He does not have hae to haul has product by wagon agon or 01 by moving platform to storage His Ills ice Is made of pure drinking water not In the du dubious dubious dubious bious fluid which gets into in o much natural natural nat natural ural ice And his own back yard Is when measured by its On od n productivity ity as big as as a h Ii river It is Interesting to reflect that th t 1000 or thereabouts would set a small up in business and that a va vacant vacant vacant cant lot some rough lumber a rubber hose and an ordinary American winter Would make the tiny scaffolding of the man yield between and cubic feet fe t of ice A few en enterprising enterprising enterprising men next door to the open In hr the outlying boroughs and andI I I the suburbs beyond might n undertake to serve their respective neighborhoods with icicles at half halt the prim price of cakes And it be 1 6 interest interesting interesting ing to watch a corporation worry hattan Ice depots by putting tip up a n truly big scaffolding and sled sti on on the upper up r cud end of the island t it be a rare rare rae joke jolee if iC landlords made Icicles on apartment house roofs roots stored them in cellars and sold them to their tenants at a 11 neat profit and yet et below monopoly prices But of or course all ail this is mere fantasy The Icicle factory is so exceedingly f simple and antI obvious that suspicious Yankees scent in it ht a acon acon acon con game They will continue to prefer ice hauled hundreds hundred of miles from pools of unknown purity and sold soldat soldat soldat at lapis lazuli prices |