The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-04-26


CAPITALIZED CooISEN. "A Tro
KsarS' Supply Of lee IN Store, Among the
many things which We Yankees can pat
ourselves apprOvingly on the back ior
having done, IL the starting OF that
enormous enterprise, the Ice business.
Indeed, one Yankee, cobbler, claims TO
have invented ice, for his especial use in
cooling certain seductive liquid COM
pound, which he had invented, and
which was called, in honor OF him,
SHERRY Cobbler."
In the last part Of the last century the
ice business was commenced In 4 mild
way in some Of the Middle States. II
was then slowed In cellars, we'll drained
or 80 arranged that the melted ice could
be pumped out. Some one discovered that
dolls stuffed with sawdust were never at.
tackled with fever, and arguing from that,
that pulyerlzed wood was non.cOnduc.
tor Of heat, and would be good article
In which to embalm Ice, the experiment
was tried with signal success, and instead
Of ice cellars we have ice houses. With
the improved method OF preservation, the
business gradually increased, until the
ice business has become one OF the most
important branches Of industry. Almost
every farmer thinks an ice house to be as
essential as a corn crib. We have be.
come 40 that we will not drink a glass
Of water in summer without il be we'll
favored with ice, and our appetite for
ice cream has increased to an alarming
extent.
When Wheeling goes into any line Of
business she does not do itby halves. We
put up more ice for our own use, accord.
ing to the extent Of our population, than
most any other city in the Union. When
the rnmbling ice wagon stops at your
door next summer, and q cake Of pre-.
served water Is left at your gate, you
need not hurry to take it in. Indeed,
you may let It stay out and suffer se-
we're case OF Sunstroke and melt away
without any lear that you will immedi.
atel y come TO want, for we laid by last win.
ter enough to last Us two years. The winter
Of 700 was poor one for ice, and the
greater part Of the large quantity used
here last summer had to be brought from
other places. Reymann, the brewer, paid
ont over $4,000 for ice last summer, and
the ice used al the Nail City brewery
during the same time cost over $4,000.
This ice was brought from the lakes by
rail. Retailers, too, keenly felt the ice
famine, and the very useful article Of
merchandise came to be considered quite
a luxury. This year every ice house has
been filled to its utmost capacity, and
new ones were built and filed, so that we
will not run out Of ice II next year should
be continuous Fourth ofJuly.
The manner Of cutting the ice and ele-
waiting it into the ice houses is too we'll
known to need description. An i'm.
mense stock Of ice has been LAID in at
Reymann's brewery. As is we'll known,
large quantities Of it have 10 be used TO
keep the storage cellars cool. An i'm.
mense ice house, beneath which is n two
storied cellar, and the floor OF which is
Of iron, is filled with ice, which is left
there till it melts away, and is then re.
plenished. Mr.. Reymann eleyates his ice
from the creek with an endless chain. It
requires l2.horse power engine to pro.
pei the chain, which is simply an elonga.
ted straw carrier. This endless chain is
the invention ola man in Cincinnati, who
has had the pleasure Of seeing hundreds
OF them in use. They will lay in leo at
cost Of probably SlOO per 1000 tons
Three large ice houses were filled in this
way by Mr.. Reymann, enough 10 last two
years. Mr.. Robert Luke also used an
endless chain in filling hiS large ice
house, near the Market street bridge.
The Nail City Brewing Company filled
four houses ut the brewery and one ont
Wheeling creek which was rented for the
purpose. Last year the ice used By this
company cost them over $4,000. The
supply on hand, the harvesting Of which
cost from 81, 200 tOSl 800, will last from
year and a half 10 two yeaE5. This
company lahOrs under the disadvantage
OF being some distance away from the
water, and have had 10 transport their
ice from the river by teams.
Mr.. Frank Walters, who sells ice only
at wholesale, has three houses filled near
his place up the creek. NIessrs. C. IL.
Booth & Co. have laid in about 800 tons,
which they furnish only to the steamers
for which they are agents. Besides those
already enumerated there are probably
fifteen or twenty persons in the city and
vicinity who deal exclusively in ice, and
who have all laid in large stocks. These
dealers, who generally furnish the hotels,
saloons and private consumers daily from
their wagons, have already agreed upon
schedule Of prices for the coming sum.
mer. The ice will be left at your door
every morning, and evening also il you
desire, at the rate OF fifty cents per 100
pounds, or one.hali cent per pound.
Saloon keepers, restaurants, hotels and
others consuming large quantities, will
he supplied at the rate OF IS cents per
100 pounds.