The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-08-13
Artificial Ice.

Frozen water has become almost lUllS'
pensnble in every household. As q san
itary agent, to say nothing Of the luxury,
no family can afford To do without ice,
either in winter or summer. ln the pro.
Tess Of freezing water becomes purified
from the vegetable and animal matter
which il always holds in solution in
greater or less quantities. Hence the
peculiar excellence Of melted ice or liquid
snow, which country people drink with
such relish. In New England nice old
lady tea drinkers find special purity in
the flavor Of the cheering herb when
boiled in snow water. 1t is quite posi-
BILE that every drop Of water now on the
earth may have been concealed and
thawed thousands OF times, as no drop Of
water, or any other particle Of matter,
can ever be destroyed, only changed; now
solid, now liquid, then ethereal, and back
again to solid. II is quite possible, also,
that each individual drop, in some Of it,
various forms Of lee, water or air, has
visited every spot on the earth, and been
drunk and evapOrated millions OF times,
and in every contact with grosser matter
il becomes more or less tinged with i'm.
purity. The natural ice n'ed for
domestic purposes never can he
free from these impurities, wheth.
or gathered from the surface Of
lake or river. II il only the artificial
article, condensed into solid, transparent
blocks from carefully filtered watcr that
Is absolutely pure. And these blocks 81
ice-diamonds manufactured more easily
than glass, are daily coming to he regard.
ed moi only as luxury, but necessity
in every family. We repeat, this pre-
pared, manufactured ice Is infinitely bet
Ter, and not much dearer than the natural
ice. The curious yet simple machines for
covering water into Ice are manufactured
on grand scale by the patentees, who
occupy immense premises and employ
many hundred hands in London. We
shall not attempt to describe the process,
and will only call the attention Of hotel
keepers, especially, to the Importance Of
using these machines. Major Leland, Of
the San Francisco Palace, we have no
doubt, will soon be after one that can
turn out fifty tons day Of ice, without a
speck or stain, and which can only be
compared in p urity Of appearance TO
diamond Of the first water The
editor Of a contemporary, who has wit
messed the beautiful and wonderful pro.
cess Of condensing water into Ice says
HThe magician, at whose bidding we
saw several tons Of ice either made
or in course Of formatiOn-at whose
engineering mandatory a large num-
bef Of gentlemen, prominent among
whom was Sir Robert Peel, Assem-.
bled, recently, to witness the process
of ice.making- achieved wonder.
full scientific success. From one to ten
tons OF ice can be made in twentwfOnr
hours, according to the size Of the ma
chine, and the spectator may actually
zee the large slabs Of perfectly tfanspar
ent Ice in course Of formation in the cells.
Al first sight il looks clever pantOmime
trick 10 see these ice slabs being lifted,
one after the oihet, out Of the cell nr mar.
row ttouRhs in which they have been
made, and you expect them to disappear
"a quickly as they come before the
vision. There they stand, however,
against a smiths bench or the factory
d9or-glacial monuments Of the ingenui.
" of man. We have anticipated the
question which everybody will naturally
nut AZ TO the cleafness of the Ice by stat
Inc that II il perfectly transparent. The
highest compliment which we can pay to
The clever inventor isto say that the ice
made at the Lambeth factory by the
agency Of ether ia az transparent and
beautiful to look at az the great cubes
taken out Of the Neva for consumption
in the palaces and mansions OF s.. Peters.
burg" We believe the cost Of prOdnc'
ton is only about "a. Cd. per ton. No
.hip should 90 to sea without one Of these
ice.making machines in use.-We Co''
mgIoliidn.