In the summer of 1903 John Leverone of Cincinnati received 24 cars of pineapples from Cuba. Ten cars came by the Illinois Central via New Orleans with an icing charge of $11.37 a car. Fourteen carloads came on Trust cars via Mobile, 100 miles nearer Cincinnati, with icing charges of $45 a car. Even when shipments are made in railroad refrigerators from regions the Trust claims as its own peculiar territory, the full Trust charges are collected and paid over to the Trust. For example, in August, 1904, Coyne Bros. of Chicago received an Illinois Central refrigerator car loaded with melons from Poseyville, Indiana. The freight was $39 and the icing charge $45. The Illinois Central icing charge for that distance was $10. Coyne Bros. went to the manager of the railroad refrigerator service and found that the road had an arrangement by which the Trust was to be paid at Trust rates on all shipments from the melon region, whatever cars were used. If the firm refused to pay the charge they would be boycotted or taken off the credit list. August 11, 1904, Coyne Bros. received a Louisville and Nashville car loaded with melons from Epworth, Indiana. On the bill were two charges for icing, one was the railroad charge of $14 and the other the Trust charge of $45. The firm asked if they were expected to pay both charges. The railroad then erased the $14 item. The firm refused to pay the $45 Trust charge for a service worth no more than the railroad charge of $14, and the railroad took them off the credit list. Mr. Urion, attorney for the Armour folks, came to Coyne Bros. and told their manager that they must pay the ice charges or else everything shipped to them must be prepaid. The firm found that shipments to them from the Michigan grape region were cut off. They sent their own man to load the cars, but the railroad agent refused to bill them. “I have my instructions from Armour’s man here,” he said, “and I must follow them.” On a car of melons from Carlisle, Ind., to Mr. Scales of Chicago, the freight was $35 and the icing charge $50, representing 20 tons of ice. There was no re-icing, and the car bunkers would not hold more than 6 tons of ice, so that there was a clear overcharge of $35 for refrigeration. J. D. Mead & Co. of Boston were charged $99.90 by the Armour lines for icing on a car of peaches from Missouri. This is a startling sum for a service that the railroads used to perform free of charge. On another car of peaches from Maryland, the charge was $64 for icing. As the car bunkers would not hold more than 4 to 6 tons and only one re-icing was necessary between Cumberland and Boston, the firm protested vigorously. They were told that the bill was a “trial bill.” “What is that?” they asked. “Try to collect,” said the railroad manager. In this case, on appeal to New York, the bill was reduced to $24, a slice of $40 off the icing bill, which was to Mr. Mead a _trial_ bill in more senses than one.