The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1882-07-22
Our New York Letter.

tical bearings. Dom PEDRO.
Our New York Letter.
Regular correspondence of ADVOCATE.
NEw York, July 10, 1882.
WARM TOPIC.
am not going to write anything about
the dreadful heat of last week, even if it
did carry off in one day, eighty of the
little folks, who tried to live through it
in the tenement house district, and after
a struggle against Odds gave up the fight,
and quietly passed away. There is moth
ing new about that warm topic, that has
not been thought and said every year in
midsummer. But the days of snow and
ice are coming on again, and the dwellers
in these same tenement houses will look
with longing for another boiling July
SIN. Then will we see something of the
W 1rk of the two companies who are now
encouraging profanity, by the way they
are tearing up the streets down town, for
the purpose of laying mains for the trans
mission of steam throughout the city, for
heating and power, One of the COM
panies has already expended, as the Pre-
sident informs me, more than million
and half Of dollars. and will put hun
dreds of thousands more in the work be-
fore dollar of income comes in. From
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ent points, they are to send steam through
the adjacent DISTRICTS to factories, stores,
houses, apartments, &C., and il will be
measured by meters and paid for by the
foot, as gas is now. Manufactures can
dispense with boilers and engineers, with
the attendant expense, and the danger of
explosions, when the engineer gets sleepy
or careless. Builders will put in con-
Meeting pipes instead of furnaces and
heaters. Dwellings, will be divested oil
ranges and the occupants of coal-bills.
Machinery will be run by steam germin.
ated mile away; houses will be heated
and meats cooked by the same agency
and if the city so determines, the Snow
and ice, instead of being slowly carted of
to be dumped in the river will be rapidly
: melted by pipes laid along the CUTTERS
and curb. stones.
Something of the magnitude of th,
parations for the age of steam, may b,
judged from the stations erected for steam
terminating, in Greenwich street, wher,
. the chimney rises 225 feet high and con
tains over one million bricks, and sevel
= hundred barrels of cement. 1t is 80 fee
6 inches by 13 feet at the bottom and 8
feet, 10 inches by 10 feet, inches at tn
top and lacks only 10 feet of being q
:, high as the Bunker Hill Monument.
:, will be one of the most prominent amon
j. the tall towers seen from whatever poin
Ia the city is approached.
= COOLING OFF.
n admit, 1t is something of an aggrega
le tion, when the mercury is up in the nine
70 ties, to talk about heating up by steam
r or any other process. Nature is doin
+ something too much of that, without an,
l. help from men. What we want just now
Ie is a way of cooling Of, not warming up
y, Well that is going TO be done by machin
n cry too, and, after time, we shall turn o.
<; hot or cold air. as we now do water.
10 good deal of interest is being shown il
L the processes which are being tried 70
;, producing artificial cold. In England
v they have been working the thing dow
" fine, mainly with the purpose of reinforC
D. ing the domestic supply offresh meat Is
10 restricted as to keep the price of beef an
le mutton beyond the reach of the laborers
l. by the unlimited amount to be found i
ri distant colonies, and especially Australi
4 and New Zealand. How to get it to th
,e mother country was the question, an
"a they have solved the problem so satisfaC
10 torily, that meat which were raised
"a slaughtered and dressed thirteen thous
in and miles away, is sold in London shops
. in as good condition as, and for less pric
~ than the domestic article. 1t is brough
ID all that long way, and across the tropics
" seas in frozen state, never once thawin
4 from Melbourne to Southampton. Th
j. great merit of the system is, that this II
ID suit involves no ice, to give damp an
le foggy air, nor chemicals to give dele
h. terious flavor to the articles transported
r This dry-air system is being applied o
h. transatlantic ships and steamers. wa
be talking few days ago, with the chief Ell
I'd gineer Of one of the great Cunard steam
ly ships, which has the dry-air process o
ne board. He was enthusiastic oyer the ne
It, system, which made the Company ind'
be pendent of the rapacious ice men an
re kept all the provisions for the ships tab
he in perfect condition throughout the vo!
n. age, without trouble and with neither il
ke nor chemicals.
at A public test is to be given in Ne
by York, before long of this refrigeratin
he process. Then ii will be speedily adop
ho ed, not only for sending our meats an
or fruits abroad, but for bringing from II
On cattle-raising West the carcasses of be,
,e- aud mutton, at aR enormous saving