The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-10-11
SODA WATER.
ar1ABouT A REFRESHING SUM
aIER DRINK.
Making the Marble Founfain-Its
Interior Construction a Marvel
Of Ingenuity - How Soda
Water is Made.

Into slabs ana inc LiauAl4 ~
dis operation Is performed would excite
yeur establishment. SAYS g Boston letter 70
the New Orleans PieayliHe. The block Is
niaced on solid wooden i'slias, while
swinging frame Of parallel saws, 10 lesI
each u length. descends upon the marble
mass from above. The frame holding the
saws traverses back ard forth, under toe
action Of powerful machinery, dividing
the great stone by slow degrees into
slices, the thickness Of which Is regulated
~ the space between the saws. Thus
rough l0-loot cube is soon Transformed
into, say, forty smooth slabs Of 3-inches
Thickness. But the cutting, strange 70
Say, IS not really done by the ssWs, but
by sand. which. mixed with water con
finually flows from overhead upon the
marble block. Tie saws, which are Of
steel and t0othless, grind the sand INTO
the stone ai0ng the lines Of cleavage and
n this manner the slicing is accom-
piished, two weeks being required to
transform into slabs such a block as
that described. the slab thus pro-
duced s r0ughed out according
10 design By the copper,
after (which the cutter prepares It
'fBr Il1-istily- smoothing OF che edges, :
ec- Next. after being chafed down by
steel wheels with vet sand, i Is polished
iaboriously by hand with Bhetstones.
The final shine is put on with felt, each
ldnd q zaarble requiring some particular
kind q assistant in the performance Of
tbs last process, such as jewellers rouge,
poiishers' putty, or ozalie acid. Circular
hoies are cgt ID the slab, II desired, with
revolving steel saws, though little ones are
made With small tubular drili, the pierre
ing end Of which Is set around with a
circle 81 good sized diamonds. These stones
are noi 81 the precious variety, however,
being black aud not useful for oEna-
mental purposes. But they cut Just the
same. Bereled and rounded edges are
put on bg revolving steel instruments
taEt 60 the work automatically, and thus
Chr piece Of marble is turned out In
flashed shape to be bolted and cemeuted
Eith other into the saltwater fountain
Of which Il Is intended to form a part.
The marble dust produced incidentally
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Tie MASKING Of the fountains inside
Hofiis q not less iaDorious than the pre-
IafAtlen and construction Of the marble
exterlar IN the fountain, as represented
~ Us uiiiin'ie Development to-day, the
llosL important feature IS the cooling ap-
p-riils which occupies she place Of
sorl q stomach Tor The concern TINS
s-tln--ll is ln the shape OF q big tank,
t-islng l2 nearly az OF the room inside
l.1lse ne line oi spieotsi and kept filed
> ~ lee in the bottom Of the tank is
81 intestinal arrangement Of coiled metal
TUBS. eEinoers and things resembling
piacElne- boxes Taken together they
represent the utmost accomplishment Of
mechanical science thus far in the line
d rcirigeraten- They require very lit
ne space and yet the work they do is
surprising The tubes, the cylinders and
tie blalllns- 1oz cells, as they are called,
az al connected together IA such q WY
iiiai the stream Of sooa water coming from
the storage nsesp.scie beneath flows
Up - ~ lees through an ice