soldiers on until he gets involved in a divorce case in 1903 when a terrible table person that charles morse -- this is a fun kind of thing. you can explore when you're researching a book. i had never heard of this guy, but just a hugely -- i refer to them in the book as a serial business killer which is exactly the case. but in 1900, right about the time that olga was getting off, thanks to abe hummel of the obscenity charge, charles morse and his cronies, and i mean it in the most pejorative sense possible, got a near monopoly on the ice market in new york. they had control over about 80% of the ice supplied as of april. and i had not realized just how important ice was to new york in the late 19th century. no electricity, no refrigeration. obviously, no conditioning -- air-conditioning, no fans. so they got a monopoly and they jacked up the price of ice. they doubled it. and even the newspapers, which were generally sympathetic to monopolies, thinking of it as being sort of modern forms of economic management, they were three years. this is the case with the tabloids really work. but it w