Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-11-30
Affairs i'm West washington.

THE REMAINS OF the late Francis Bates whose
arrira as thg mas oeen mentioned IN IHs
put ID charge OF Mr. Burch, the undertaken The
funeral VIII take place from Dunbarton street NJ.
Z. church Friday afternoon. The deceased will be
buried with Masonic rites and the pall-bearers
selected from his lodge chapter and command
cry.
A DESERVING SAILOR from the schooner George
X Breeland-Capt. Van Cleaf-was arrested yes
terday afternoon on the complaint of the captain;
ana, after hearing before Magistrate Buckley was
committed until the vessel clears.
MACHINE-MADE ICE-The ice factory, where ice
Is produced by artificial MEANS lthe methods have
already been described in THE starr. is In full OPP
Grafton In this place, and all is done in the way Of
| manufacturing ice that in the previous article in
! THE STAR it was stated would be accomplished by
the machine BY the process used, 40 large cakes,
10 feet long, feet wide and ranging from IL to IS
Inches in thickness OF beautiful transparent ice
are frozen in deep tank, and removed therefrom,
four each day, equivalent to ten or twelve tons per
Ice commencing to form Immediately as others
are removed. Ice taken out in the pres
e ehsa,, oil. OF STAR reporter was l6 inches
water used is thoroughly filtered Potomac water
and as the ammonia. which is the only freezing
water, being inclosed in tight iron pipes, which
pipes are also tnclosed in tight iron boxes, upon
entirely pure and free from any foreign substance
The ice in all respects resembles natural ice, has
similar grain and can be cut in the same manner
Without dlfnculty. Its specific gravity Is said to
be fully as great as that OF Kennebec ice The
company, OF which Captain David Smith is the
transparent Ice Manufacturing Company" and
the machine now in use is their first one, Of ten
tons per day capicity. They propose, however, to
enlarge their mandatory during this winter and
10 be ready at the opening of spring to turn out
forty to fifty tons per day. They propose to sell at
wholesale possible. II not they propose to put
out teams and enter into the retail trade.
THIEVES entered the residence OF Mr. G.. Belt.
l21O 30th street early Sunday evening and carried
on several articles OF wearing apparel, consisting
or an OvercOat, two umbrellas, canes. caps, etc.
The robbery was not discovered until Monday
morning.
,PoRT:-Entered- Schooner Geo. R. Breland, Van
C!eaf, from New York, light. schr. Annie M. Allen,
White, from Boston, light; schr Calvin S. Ed
wards, Corson, from Philadelphia, with coal for
L Llnkins; sehr Bette Hardy, Crowell, from New
York. Cleared-SchOOner James A. Garfield Wood
bury, for Hoboken; schr. Carrie Hall Lester Pierce
TOT Norfolk; schr Electa Bailey, Smith, for Nor
fOlk-all with coal.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Seneca, with 1, 900 bushels
wheat.
THE Coal TRADE.-Twenty-flve boats left Cum
berland Monday, with 2,94O12 tons OF COAL as fol-
lows: For OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES CO., so, or
tons; Maryland CO., 1917 tons; Borden CO., 4S417
TONS; New Central CO., 361.10 tons; Blaen Avon,
ILLS tons. For Observation-Disclosures co., 465, OS
tons
THE GRAIN MARKET Twenty-Five hundred
bushels wheat sold yesterday at prices ranging
from 81 .4214 to $1.52