CONE AGAINST HOKEY POKEY.

Vendors of Ice Cream State Some Ethics of Trade.

The ice cream cone war is on and the established cone merchants who sell the cooling edible at 5 cents apiece have sworn to drive the 1-cent "ice cream sandwich" pushcarts from the field.

The "sandwich" men, however, hold that they are in no manner infringing upon the unwritten laws of business competition, and claim that the "ice cream sandwich" or "hokey pokey" was a fact long before the ice cream cone went on the market.

The man who holds forth at Hennepin avenue and Fourth street refuses to allow his name to figure in the present unpleasantness, but says stoutly that the "sandwich men have broken all rules of business propriety in selling a 1-cent cone."

"We are absolutely within our rights," said one of the pushcart men. The main reason why we feel that we are not infringing upon business principle is that we cater to many children who never have more than a penny and couldn't afford a 5-cent cone even if the 1-cent variety was not on the market."