Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1845-06-14
AMERICAN ICE IN ENGLAND.


mer is almost as much article Of necessity as of
luxury, has until lately been very partially used in
England, partly because the heat of the summer did
not render It's use SO acceptable, and partly because
the expense attending its storage and preservation
caused It to be too expensive. The progress Of
luxury and refinement creates, however, many arti-
fetal wants. and it is well that the increase Of popu
lation is generally accompanied with proportions
ate increase of these wants among the rich, produc
ing employment for greater number of the labo-
rious poor. Owing to this process, ice which ten
years ago was luxury the use Of which was con-
fined to the wealthy of England, has now become
in some degree an article necessary for their COM
fort, whilst plentiful introduction OF it from the
United States has increased the demand and the
consumption by reduction in lis price, and by I'M
proved facilities in procuring it. The Illustrated
London News, one of the pictorial newspapers OF
that metropolis, has in a late number devoted four
columns to an article on this subject containing Sc
ven engravings of the various implements used in
cutting and preparing the ice for shipment and
transportation, and a large and well-execued en-
craving of the Uenham Ice Luke in Massachusetts,
from whence the principal part of the supply for the
English market has been hitherto transported.
Thousands tons of this Arctic crystal says the editor
Of the News annually shipped from Boston Omitted
States) our East Indies the West Indian Archipelago
and to the continent of South America Not content with
these extended fields Of consumption, the indomabe perse
of these Yankee espasses the domnlons OF King
Frost has induced them to throw their merchandise into the
English market and after two individual and but par
tally successful attempts to introduce it here had taken place
of late years. the Wena Lake Ice Company have taken up
the in earnest erected extensive icehouses here lin
London) and Liverpool and arranged for the ransporta
this country of thousands of tons Of ice Many OF our
readers have of course the massive specimen OF
this commodity which has for time attracted SO much
attention shop window the Strand and we learn that
fragment of similarly vast dimensions few weeks
SINCE transmitted Windsor for the inspection Of her Macs
ty and Prince Albert
The " Illustrated News" gives at great length a
detailed account of the processes used In the United
States of cutting, storing, preserving, and shipping
this ice, which we would extract could we conve-
nienty afford the requisite space, for it affords
view of the extent of the undertaking. as well as OF
the labor, skill, and enterprise employed, which we
did not previously possess. We find the following
extracts from another English publication in one o.
our exchange papers
"TaE WESaAm LAKE IcK.--This commodity, which wa
first introduced to the notice of the English public shor
time ago. through the medium of the Liverpool press
rapidly advancing popularity in the metropolis that no ban
que Of any magnitude considered complete without It,
has become an essential element the civic etes Of the Lon
don Coffee House, Iudgae H and Blackwell at the Lon
don Tavern Bishopsgae-street the Albion, Adersgate
street Long Hotel and in fact at every establishment
a similar kind of any celebrity in London. Merely rs de
coraon dinner table it UNIVERSALLY regarded as beau
tfu accessory Its CRYSTALLINE transparency, rejecting
reacng the lights of the chandeliers in muudnons hues
renders object of general attraction while the sownes
of its quefaction preserves its original bulk almost undmn
ished through long night in the sues apartment par
t,cI of
of that beverage without in the least deteorating
quaiya result wholly unattainabe by the substitution
English ice of which times the bulk required to prodnc
the effect the expulsion of caloc which latter
is really equivalent a dution by just many times
spring In the cooling of fruits jellies CONNECTIONS,
and the like and the cooling of large crowded
by placing block the Wenham lake ice in passage where
of air pass it, is considered invaluable
and hence Introduction the routes and OF
the nobility of London, especially the foreign ambassadors
with whom study OF hermometrca vcissudes Ill thronged
assemblages much momentous matter than with
Not only is the Wenham lake ice coming into vogue as
luxury among the asocracy but il is also recommending it
self the middle classes necessity and 20 the hum
bier ranks of life subject of economy As preventative
Of food whether in IN cooked state 1t IS OF the
greatest possible utility But as being conducive to pub
lie health we especially glad that this ice is coming into
general use and il much be desired that all who have
experienced the luxury and the benefit of should recommend
those who ignorant of Its virtues, and who are deter
red from testing them by notion that to do
would be expensive We should strongly recommend that it
be prominently brought under the notice of the Royal Agcu
tua Association the approaching great meeting at Shrews
bury No farm house of oerabe decent petensons would
be found without it, if introduced and every shilling
pended in the purchase of would repay itself tenfod to say
nothing of the comfort devabc 10 the family using it, Vast
quantities of the ice continue be forwarded from Liverpool
all parts Of the north Of England and the demand Lon
don from the southern and provinces great
that agencies will doubt have to be established very shortly
all over the country"
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