Show ICE TRUSTS TRUST'S DAYS BAYS F. F NOW NUMBERED I New York Attorney General Brings Suit for Dis- Dis DisI solution I IMMENSE EARNINGS SHOWN Company Cried and amI at nt the Ito Itoe e Time cil tI to Bur Buy a From Froni Independents York lork Dec Charging O 0 time the American Ice Tee company compan that It Jt has lias hasa a a. monopoly of or the natural and antl I cial Ice output especially In Greater I New York Attorney General Julius D D. Mayer in n the name of at the the- people of or the thc state stale tu today began besan an action Ix in the Supreme court for 01 the dissolution r t lion tion of or the Ice trust t Among Amons the Limo char charges es made in tho the j complaint are alC I I That It secured control of ot the i t Maine ice fields and antl cut the harvest harves g last year yeam from tl to o I to tons r I- I That it similarly controls the thc other s sources of supply L That by means of Its Ct control of ol J the landing places laces In iii this cI cIt it Increased In iii In- In 3 creased the price per ton tomu at th the m wharves from to 5 an and 6 G rI That by these me s price omI 01 om ice Ico to the thc poor man was from tram 10 10 I v 1 I to Sl Sl-J Sl a no ton it That when the tho trust was advancing a n shortage of Ice It was refusing supplies supplies sup sup- I plies from Independent producers ii That It Jt contracted with other companies corn corn- r panics to prevent pre their entering the Held of ot competition That of total assets of 1 33 represents na nn tangible asI asset as as- set I That on December 1 1 1906 1206 It paid L l. l J 4 a n. nine per pel cent dividend dl t That the time tru trust t In Ju July I 1 1906 DO G. G sold I 11 fee Ico at an average a price of 8 per ton that cost only and earned 71 per Pel cen cent t. t i Besides reciting the above charges es the thc complaint sets forth to the allegation atlon that while whilo the time company was Issuing ice famine fa warnings earnings s It refused to lo buy Ice from Independents at any price Time Tho attorney general declared that tho the company owns nil all but 17 of the time il 1 Ice fee louses houses on tho the Hudson but that the key to the tho situation lies in lii inthe L r I the trusts trust's control of the thc Ice bridges es or or landing landing- places In this city b by means of of which it is able to fix the price of t fice Ice Mr Mayer alleges that the time company's corn com com I J I pan pany's s ice fee harvested In tho the winter of 1905 OG OG cost only 25 5 to 35 cents a aton ton the transportation 35 cents a aton ton from fi the Hudson river and 45 G 1 to SO 80 cents from Maine that artificial Ice Ico was sas produced In fn the city at an average price of a ton and antl yet et ett t the company Increased Its price from rom L k to 6 at the thc Ice bridges which iJ enteen times larger than any Increase in he ho cost th thereof to- to the I defendant and rind lh that thit t the tho percentage I ol ot Increase In the bridge e price charged ed b by this defendant for Cor ice sold old at atUs I Its Us bridges In the thc city of New York was 21 1 times as much a as the percentage Percentage percent Percent- age of increase in the cost COt price thereof there there- of ot to the time defendant Mr Mi Mayer said paid today that the time action action ac ac- ac- ac tion had been begun with the approval al r j of or his successor Attorney General General- elect Jackson He said he felt It was 4 time to begin the suit bult now as a warning warn warn- 1 in Ins ing to the thc trust to make the most orthis orthis or orthis this winters winter's ice crop It was said eald by those familiar with the situation tha that should the tho facts 1 I alle alleged be ue proven in this civil c action I It would e establish a a. basis for tor fora S a criminal action f t t |