The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-03-07
ICE As AN ARTICLE or COMMERCE..
Growth Of the leo Trade and What Il
Now Amounts To.
IIlnatnn Trananrlnt.I

l tb09tOu IEHussript-i
| Ice did not become mn article of cnrnuerce
until the present century; bxtalready III this
country alone $40, DOC, 900 are In ths business of
gathering and selling 1t. As an article Of ex-
port Its Importance has attained III estimate
Of very considerable proportions. Large
shipments arc made 10 South AmerIca and
Asia, the Europeans receiving tho bulk Of
their supply from Norway.
| If we trace the history OF leo End snow, 40
applied to tho wants Of mankind to earty pc
RODS. we find that both we're utilizsd ii the
East at n very ancient date. The manufacture
Of artificial leo was known, We are told, to
the. Greeks and Romans. The custom Of
cooling beverages With saltpeter was general
ID Italy In the sixteenth century. In The sev-
enteenth century ''ics eups" were introduced
into Francs and Spain. method Of pro-
duciDg ice " chemical IN, means was Invented
the employment Of sulphurlc acid for the
same purpose IN 1910. Harrison patented IN
ce-making machine In which ether and salt
| were used In 1867. The ics trade Ut this cOun-
| try was first introduced by Mr.. Tudor la Bog
| ton In 1906.
II IL said that In many portions OF Asia the
snow WAS, In early times. gathered Ia sscks,
| far up In the mountains, and transported W
| and there preserved In cavities sunk la tho
ground. carefully packed between layers OF
straw.
Frederick Tudor, a wealthy cltz' N Of Bos-
| ton, largely engaged In salt works ut Nahaht.
soncelyei the projsct OF the stli,,,nsilt Of ies
| 10 the West Indies, In 1906, at which time the
yellow fever was prevalent there; and his
scheme was considered about HI ludcrous,
by his towns people, az was that Of Lord
| Timothy Dexter. who shipped TO ths same
| locality cargo Of warming pans. Az to the
success Of both OF these ventures history has
chroniclsd the happy results which attended
the enterprises, and Tudor IL creiited With
| the pioneershp oi an important commercial
Industry to the country. Ia tho winter OF
small ANA pond near Boston, amounting to about
800 tons which he conveyed by t,ans to
Charleatnwn. where he loaded the brig Fayor-
it's with his novel freight, and saisd with it
was s received with manifestations OF surprise
And incrrduity by the inhabitants. Its bene-
iieini advantages. however, were soon de-
| nonst rated. mud in due time additional ship
who came to be- regarded as d bsnsfactor.
whiia nrntitlnu iarueiv nv his SPECULATION.
1The Rfitiah oovernment VIVA the frat 10 an
preciate the advnntaues likely to aenr,is To in
colonists from the Introduction OF Ice, and ten
venra after mr.. Tudor'a frat ehI1,np1,t. ar
sybnr.,v after tho close ~ tho war ~ iai1 hs
Tecaiy.ti oysrtures that were very favorable
toward the development of the Industry. the
unon conditlof,s which he ut once embrnctsi.
he The second waa the releases ri eertain norf
dues then very henyy) to ali shjpa bringing ies.
The frat regular cargo WAS shipps1 to
ChnrpHtNn n, o.. In tho summer OF 1917, Thai
citv was then the moat i'm portnrt commercial
mort in the southern States. In 1sls Mr..
T,idor established q branch Of the trnd., in IA.
vannah' n rival nj that time ~ Charisatnn.
and In $50 he eetnbllshei les ho,,sea in New
Orleans. which civ. thirty venrs later. he-
| United States south Of Philadelphta. IL 10 4
remarkable fact that ut this time, and Tor
some little time later, the leo trade WAS con.
| fined mainly 70 foreign export aud the supply
OF the Southern States, while tbs localltits il
| the Vicinity Of the sources or supply ia the
Northern States were slow to adopt the new
commodity. At the present time les Ia re-
onrded more az OF, article of stable ,1sa
Throughout the year than one Of mere luxury.
| There are delivered and consumed m New
| York city alone during the winter months
| more tons Of Ice than were cut, shipped ana
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