Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-05-15

TBE CRUP GIrHERED Lssr WINThR
sam 10 RE 10000 rows.
Names OF the Dealers and the. Sumber o'
Wagons of Esch-Ihe ptohlor in the
Business-When the Commodity
Was scsrce-which Is the
Eetter ouality'

"Keep COOL" is good advice to give any
one during these times OF strikes and riots
and especially is it 50 now at the beginning
of hot summer.
Ice is an excellent agent with which to
reduce the temperature OF summer heat, and
the temper of cholsric people which often
gets above blood heat.
GO soak your head in leo water" is advice
often given to persons whose stomachs are
soaked with something else.
The ice crop of Lancaster, the present
season, il estimated at $4,000 tons OF this
aggregate the regular ice dealers have i'll
their ice-houses $1,000 tons
The brewers, butchers, ice-cream manu-
facturers aud others who use large quantities
ot ice in their business, have not less than
10000 tons stored in their ice vaults, and
private families who have ice vaults of their
own, have not less than 6,OH tons, additional.
This supply is expected to keep cool the
good people of this city until after the dog
days.
THE CROP AN ENCELLENT ONE.
The crop of ice now being drawn upon, ia
an unusually fine one The past winter was
very severe aud the streams aud springs and
ponds in the vicinity of this city were tightly
frozen for weeks, together enabling the
congealej crystal ice from six To fourteen
inches in thickness.
The greater part of the ice was taken from
the Big Conestoga creek, but large quantities
were also cut from the Little Conestoga.
from Mill creek, from the tish-ponds north
of the city, from the city reservoirs aud from
neighbortng springs and ponds
NAMES OF THE DEALERS.
Following are the dealers who now supply
the city. We place their names according to
their seniority in the trade, aud give also the
number OF wagons each has in use:
Peter b Fordney, wagons Finley Elliott,
.; Samuel Elliott, Simmons a Bro, {;
VIM. 7. Nousrt, Jr., |; Samuel Cruel, 2 {;
| John Hartman, 1 Henry Gla2ier, / ; Isaac
Heiney, / Piscatorial company, 3 Daniel
| Brown, l.
! The above named dealers with their twenty
| wagons and a score or two of assistants are
| on the street daily delivering the cool chunks
OF comfort from door to door. Some of their
| customers, who use large quantities, are sup
| piled two or three times a day.
| ICE IN THE oLDES TINE.
In the good old days of "Tippecauoe and
| Tyler too" the late Jacob Hartman, the
pioneer ice dealer, with one one-horse Wagon
supplied ali Lancaster with ice, and made
money at it. Some years later he obtained
leave from city councils to erect an ice hous
on the grounds east of the city reservoir, anC
from the reservoir, until his ice hous
was flied, at the end OF which tim
he was to give the use of his machinery I
others who might want TO take ice from tn
reservoirs. No one, we believe ever avale
himself of this privilege and the lease is ye
vested in John Hartman, successor 10 Jaco
Hartman.
Michael Steigerwalt was Mr.. Hartman
first competitor in the ice business h
; built house and cut ice ON the Conestogi
near Reigart's Landing. He sold out b
| place to Samuel Taylor, who after the wa
r | sold out to Shirk & " eidler, and they, i
1869, sold out to Peter L. Fordpey, who ha
= from then to now carried on an extensy
, | business.
, Both Mr.. Hartman and Mr.. Ford ney hay
had their ice-houses several times burned b
incendiaries, but each fire resulted in Ill
erection OF larger and more COnvenier
| structures.
D GREAT INCREASE IN CONSUMPTION.
A The consumption OF Ice in this city is nO'
six times a. large rs it was ten years agC
The heaviest customers arc the hotel an
. restaurant keepers. One of these gentleme
f informed the lNTELLIGENCER that his bi
tOr ice during the past year was s2St
Several others have paid bills as large @
, larger. 1t takes au immense amount OF ic
to keep the beer pumps, liquor refrigerator
and water coolers Of hotel or restauran
supplied.
BREWERS, BUTCHERS AND NDCOSFECTIOSERS
Most of the brewers, as stated above, Gu
their own ice for cooling purposes in thei
business, but buy from the dealers to suppl
their saloons.
Butchers, during the summer months cor
/ sumo large quantities nt ice to keep thei
meats in good condition. Those who d,
. pend on our dealers for supply use froI
100 To 800 pounds per week.
: The lce-cream manufacturers are ais
i | nj an iTnp n.t1s
. quantity of ice to freeze the thousands
gallons of milk and cream that are use
daily in the form of ice-cream, to cool th
throats and stomachs of swetering h,
mauity.
The soda fountains also make heavy draf
upon the ice dealers, but the public will n
doubt be astonished TO learn that the uude
takers are still better customers. Gold
death" becomes a saying of sad significanC
. when we consider the hundreds OF corpse
that before burial are enclosed in the ghastl
; ice boxes, their cold aud rigid forms an
4 features being rendered more cold and rigi
by their chilling surroundings.
ICE FOR THE COMMON PEOPLE.
But, after all, the best customers OF Il
dealers and the greatest consumers OF ice al
the common people. Thousands OF dwell
ings and stores and shops and offices al
supplied with refrigerstOrs and water cooler
and into these daily the ice merchant pitt
+, his wagons An ordinary sized water coolt
= will be kept constantly supplied for 20 or ;
= cents per week, and family Refrigerator
b from p to 80 cents per week, according
It size.
4 Families are supplied by the year al frol
1 sl2 to SIS. Those who take ice only durin
t the summer months are charged hight
= rates.
a The usual price charged per 100 pounds
= from 20 to 30 cents, the average being abOI
2 p cents.
u FAMINE.PRICE OF ICE,
n The highest price ever charged in this cit
was in 1872, when Messrs. Hartman an
. Fordney were the only dealers, and whe
= on account of an ice famine the price wei
up to ono and a.half cents per pound, au
3 | hard to get at that On several other o
casiOns, owing 20 scarcity, ice was sold
a'hat and three quarter cents per pound.
. For three years past, all the Ice sold
Lancaster has been cut in the vicinity, an
there has been abundance of 1t,
7 RELATIVE MERIT OF RIVER ANp RESEI
YIoR ICE.
There is some diversity Of opinion as
the relative purity OF ice cut from the diffe
ent sources OF supply. Many people prefe
, the ice cut from the city reservoir bscaus
1t is taken from the surface OF a still body {
water that has had time to settle before
freezing, and is therefore more free from in
purity than that taken from large runnin
stream, or from ponds or springs. Other