Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-03-26
Il NOVELTY IN ST. PAUL.
A Storage and Refrigerator Packing House
Description of q Unique Bulldog
Rooms for Salid Freezing All the Year


Description Of q Unique Building
Rooms for Snlid Freezing All the Yea
ArOuod
On Chestnut street near Fort Their
stands newly completed building 45x6
feet with an old fashioned Dutch tower
ing in quaintness above Emmcrts ston,
brewery. In front Of it on the same 10
a score of carpenters are driving trust,
nails and by rope and tackle are liftin:
huge oaken posts, setting them in plac,
Gaping them with iron supports ant
resting them on stone pins with solldity
of structure mos. remarkable. Wiley
Carlson have the contract in hand anG
pronounce it the strongest frame building
In the northwest. Our reporter was in.
formed that the completed building and
the incomplete structure ~ 80 feet
which faces Chestnut street were both
ice houses. It taxed the credulity
OF our scribe when he saw
the tons of sawdust going to
| fill inner partitions, and where he saw
| mysterious air spaces and the several
| floors with ponderous and expensive sup
ports. Further inquiry led to solution
Of the mystery.
The Attic Storage company are the
owners of the property, and Mr.. II. G.
Drake. the brother of the land commits
sioner. Of the Sioux City road, has the
scheme in hand and will manage their
houses, which are monster refrigerators,
intended for the preservation of perish
able articles-especially for butter, eggs,
fruit and meat of all kinds. Mr.. Fl. G.
Drake has given the subject much
thought and careful investigation, and
has made an extended tour to visit other
houses of the same kind in the east and
to acquire ali the information to be gath
cred by experiments of others in this d.
rectlon. In the building now being erected
there will be six large rooms, each of
them willOe practically ceiled from the
outer air, and from 500 tons Of ice over
head there will be constant fall of cold
air and an outlet for the warm air in
each room. The degree of cold will be
regulated by trap doors suspended on
pulleys and an exact uniform tempera-
ture will be maintained in each room
with circulation of air that will carry
off for publication to the ice above, all
impurity impaired by the articles stored
lOF preservation. In one OF THESE rooms
mercury will stand at 10 degrees above
zero throughout the year. A lean-to will
be attached to the main building l2xl42
feet and iron pipes filed with clipped ice
and salt will reduce the tempera-
ture Of this outer room to the
same temperature as the hallway of the
main building, before the doors of the
main building will be opened for the |
taking out or putting in of goods. We
are informed that if the venture is found |
to be successful extensive additions will |
be made next autumn, and cheaper
house fer receiving perishable goods in
packages foe general storage will be con-
structed.
Mr.. Drake will confer boon upon the
citizens of St. Paul if he succeeds in af-
fording supplies of good eggs and choice
1utter during the seasons when they are |
20 difficult to obtain, and if this novel
monster refrigerator affords to the cpl
cure choice fish, fruit and game, we can
scarcely fail to see reward for the ven
ure, which, to say the least, is display
# enterprise both brilliant and unique