Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-08
COLD" FOR SALE.
A New Invention "COld" Commercial
Artiele-A Valuable Discovery.
Mexican Minister'S Reception Senator Rea-
gan's Habit OF Sitting Down in Any
Mans Chair but His own
Special correspondence of the Gazette.

The other day while skirmishing around
for news 1 happened to meet a friend
who has made some recent valuable dis
eoveries, and was invited to examine the
wonders of his latest invention. l was
startled at the outset by the astonishing
announcement that tcold is no longer
an abstract substance, but that it will
soon be commercial article like sugar,
salt, ice, etc, and sold in open market.
The inventor has demonstrated that me-
chanical refrigeration has at last reached
perfection and can be satisfactorily and
practically applied to the requirements
of humanity The system of producing
"'cold'i as described and exhibited is
briefly as follows:
In the top of an ordinary refrigerator
box metal cylinder is fixed in which is
stored compressed gas (anhydrous am
monia) while Just below is a coil of tin
pipe of curious design. Connecting these
two constructions is the governor, -
whose function is to regulate the temper
ature and hold it to set degree At the
bottom of the box is small tank of
water, into which q waste pipe extends
from the tin coil above. The gas having
been charged into the cylinder at the top
by an instrument called transferrer >
Il valve is opened and ''cOld Is thus
generated. In few seconds the atmoS-
pheric temperature in the refrigerator
(S0f. is reduced to the freezing point,
or even lower if desired. The tin coil is
soon covered with 9 beautiful white frost
(the moisture in the atmosphere) and
the box is possessed of Il pure, dry cold
atmosphere, automatically controlled
ature is thus maintained without further
attention for period of many days, ac-
cording to the size OF the cylinder and
holder. The process OF manufacturing
the gas is an important feature of the
system, but space forbids an explanation
of the apparatus: but the operation is
most simple and is generated with such
economy that the gas is again used after
it has performed its functions in produce
ing ''cold - thus being practically mex
haustible. The distillati0n of aqua am
monia for refrigeration has been a source
of study and experiment for many years
owing to its apt compressibility. cheap
ness and affinity for water, but it has re-
manned for the cage of invention to
reduce the mechanical contriyauces for
handling it to practical shape.
The 90 governor, - which so completely
controls the flow of the gas, is very in
genious instrument, its automatic factor
being bulb of alcohol, the fluid con-
tracing under heat and cold to effect its
purpose. The "transferrer'' is a re-
markable device for handling compressed
gases, and admit of the handling of two
distinct gases in one holder, enabling a
given volume of gas to be compressed 100
per cent by one simple operation without
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Leading scientific men who have exam
med this process of manufacturing
cold have pronounced it an unquali-
fed success, and perfect in its operation.
Patents covering its principal features
have been secured and have been vested
by title in company for the purpose of
bringing the apparatus before the public.
the preliminary arrangements for organ
iZatiOn being almost completed. The
company proposes TO enter into negOtia-
lions with other corporations throughout
the United States formed for the pur-
pose) and will shortly issue a prospectus.
Rights and licenses to use the apparatus
will be sold in all the cities Of the Union,
especially i'll the South. An elaborate
and complete plant viii soon be con-
structed in Washington, where the COM
pany will have its main office. This
novel plan of refrigeration is destined
to supersede in large measure the
uses of ice. and F'cold'' can be pur-
chased at less than half the cost of ice.
Its uses are practically without limit,
and the simple devices for making
"'cold'' can be used in houses, restau-
rants, refrigerator cars, vessels, thea
tiers, public halls, storehouses, laborato-
ries, hospitals, vaults, churches, tOmbs,
it will be found invaluable, and after its
general Introduction a great improve
ment will be found in the condition of
perishable commodities shipped from a
distance.
The afternoon receptions of Madame
Romero Lane bears the features of the
winter s entertainments here during the
day, and her gracious hospitality is doing
much toward cementing the friendship
and goodwill of the sister republics.
Madame Romero is showing to Washing
ton that she is an ideal international
woman The Mexican government, next
to England, has erected the handsomest
and most expensive legation building in
this city, and has sent to preside over it
and dispense its hospitality, this lifelong
friend of the United States, Senior
Romero and his accomplished American
wife. No greater proof of the goodwill
of Mexico toward the United States could
be given. Every Tuesday afternoon
reception is held to which everybody in
society goes. The scene inside the lega-
tion building last Tuesday was like
glimpse of fairy-land. The entire first
floor of the spacious legation building
was thrown open to the guests,
the rooms being lighted with myriads
Of gas jets, and brilliant candelabra.
The refreshment table was n marvel of
artistic taste and the rooms were all
beautifully decorated with tropical
plants and flowers spreading their
foliage and fragment perfume over the
scene. The floor of the ballroom was
crowded with dancers, and like enter
tainment that was not card reception
has never been witnessed in Washington
There is no more popular hostess here
than Madame Romero, and it was the
generally expressed hope Of each parting
guest that she long might preside over
the Inequalities of the Mexican legation
Louis Garthe, the Washington CORE
spondent of the Baltimore American,
whose letters are widely copied writes as
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