The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-06-29

Nashville, Tenn. and in New Orleans,
Louisiana. We take the following from
the Daily American, Nashville, Of May
81.
ICE MAKING IN CHATTANOOGA. |
Our Chattanooga correspondent sends
US the following interesting account of
ice making in that city, under a patent
and process different from these to be
used in Mr.. STATIONS establishments
| To the American.
Chattanooga, May 20 1876. Prompt !
ed, suppose, by the warm Weather,your
correspondent took look at the ice
factory now In operation at this place. i
Although this enterprise,has been here
tofore briefly mentioned by me. I feel
convinced that now, while the benefits it
bestows are SO apparent, it IS deserving
Ct more extended notice in your
columns
The Chattanooga ice factory was an
experiment--or rather the elimination
of series Of inventions extending over
a period of some twenty years-that has
realized the most sanguine antlcipations
Of the inventor and proprietors. The
4 brother of MI j. M. Beath, the inveu-
tor, from whom learned that the com
panY controlling the exclusive right to
manufacture ice under their patent is
composed of Mr.. j. M. Beath, Mr..
Coglln, both residents Of California, and
+ Senator Jones, of Nevada. They are not
combining their operations to the United
] States, but are now engaged in erecting
works on large scale IN India, where
: have no doubt they will not only reap a
rich financial harvest, but prove them
. selves even greater benetactors 10 the
e inhabitants of the fervid cline than was
e Mr.. Tudor, the enterprIsing Yankee who
e forty years ago dispatched the first cargo
n of ice to Calcutta.
d The main building from the outside
;, presents to the view brick cube oil
about 50 feet dimensions, covered with a
? thick coating of whitewaeh. On the
) roof of this building exposed to the all
s is system Of iron pipes arranged in q
E. coil and resembling somewhat the worm
d of STILL extending around and perhaps
d fifteen feet above the roof of the build
g ing.
The engine room and house for storing
the ice after It's manufacture are situated
- in sheds adjoining the main building
e On the roof of the building is also sltuat
e ed the ret0rt into which the spirits o.
IS ammonia, the chemical employed in re
h ducing the state Of the atmosphere, il
.e first placed and purified before IL goe
r to tie boiler; from the boiler The am
o monia ascends in q vaporized state Il
= the system of pipes on the roof of thu
= building. whence, after undergoing &
= ]sudden COOLING process, it decends into {
z system of pipes in the freezing room
sr reducing the state Of the atmosphere
a therein to the freezing point. Thence
lie it passes into a retort, from which it i:
le again pumped into the boiler. when il
q again starts out and performs the same
evolulAn, and so continues until the
supply is exhausted by the unavoidable
evaporation which takes place.
,e Passing from the engIne-rOOm, in com.
t. pany with Mr.. Beath, stepped into the
a freezing-room At first I was so ever
al come by The novelty of the surrounding
lg that would have found it difficult &c
of divest myself Of the idea that the Ian.
3 tern in my hand was not the veritablt
n Alladdin's lamp, and I, its precocluus
Of owner, translated In trice TO some fairy
d. land, had it not been for the dripping o.
the water and the chilly state of lht
h. atmosphere, which soon served 10 olsen.
: chant me in this particular.
70 Looking around. | soon discovered
! that instead of the tropical fruits that
,e greeted the eyes OF Aladdin, was sur.
20 rounded on all sides by huge blocks Of
T. Ice, extending from floor IS ceiling, will
G. here and there beautiful stalactites anu
le stalagmites--so to speak-all combining
h to form one of the most charming glacia
le grot oes imaginable. Two or three
lie minutes in such an atmosphere served te
e effectually CONCEAL any few sparks o.
rs romance that might have been lingering
It, in me, and, after few hasty inquiries.
d. was only too glad to step into more
2. congenial atmosphere where the Their
Il mometer marked ninety in the shade
ID Inside The freezing room there are one
or hundred pipes, called columns. eacf
column eighteen feet high, around which
when the freezing reaches its full capaci
IS ty B tons of ice CONCEAL. The freezing
! capacity of the factory is six tons pei
= day. We're the machinery kept in mo
= ton for fifty successive days aud no ice
= removed during that period, there would
q CONCEAL in the freezing room a soliC
block of ice containing eighteen
thousand four hundred and thirty
two cubic feet,and weighing six hundred
thousand pounds. Were there room tC
hold it block of any size could bt
made, the process being such that there
, is no limit IN this regard. A ready
e market is found at good price for all
: the ice that can be manufactured. Al
g present the highest price charged il
Y about ole and three-fOurths cents per
q pound. This is for small lots Of five or
+ ten cents worth at a time, the price rang.
ing lower as the amount purchased IN