Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-12
WILL MAKE THEIR ICE.

The Piftsburg Storage People Increasing
Their FacIIIties-Property Bought and
Buildings to Go Un- Introducing Ice
Machines.
Having met with most hattering success
in their cold storage establishment, corner
Of Thirteenth street and Mulberry alley, the
incorporators of the Pittsburg Storage Com
pany have decided to increase their facili-
ties by the erection of another building at
the junction of First, West and Liberty
streets, and to this end have purchased the
ground atthat point Architect Pod is now
busy preparing plans for the new buildings;
there will be two. They will be large and
substantial and, az near as it is possible to
make them, fre-proof. This undertaking
is in the hands of q new company, but
it is intimately connected with the other,
and will embrace most Of its stockholders.
One OF the proposed buildings will be de-
voted to cold storage, and the other, which
will be connected with it by an overhead
archwaY, will be set apart for the msnufac-
ture of ice. To this end, two immense ma
chimes, costing $35, 900 each, have been pur-
chased, and all the appliances in the way of
most improved accessories haveo been ar
ranged for.
In an interview with q DISPATCH re-
porter last night Mr.. James McCutcheon
said: "About four or five years ago Mr..
Nichols, the iron broker, first suggested
the proposition Of building a cold storage
house to me. Impressed with its feasibility,
! became interested. The present company
was organized, and four years since we
erected the first building. The business
increasing rapidly neeessitated the second
year the building of an addition, the third
year the erection Of another building, to
which further addition was made during
the past year. To show the perfection at
tanned, it may be stated that we have eggs
in storage now in perfect state OF preserva-
ton which have been on hand five months
There we have several acres Of ground for
storage of scrap iron etc., with room Tor
railroads to run through. The primary OBJ
ject in view in the establishment of the ice
plant is to provide for our storage rooms,
and, having two machines, we will be Sc
cure against any exigency which may arise,
such as either becoming disarranged, the
manufacturing capacity Of one being sufi-
cient to meet our own needs. While this,
as say, is the main object, we may in
the event Of a short ice crop at any time
manufacture for public use.
"The membership OF the new company
has not yet been entirely perfected; all Of
the stockholders in the old company will be
invited to join, and if there is any surplus
stock left it may be put upon the market.
Mr.. J. NJ. Schoonmaker is chairman of the
committee on purchase of stock, materials,
etc., and no one more competent could have
been selected for this responsible position.
''With the completion Of the plans BY the
architect work will be Immediately begun
and vigorously prosecuted. We hope to
have everything in working order by next
fall"
Prominent among the incorporators of the
new company are Messrs J. M. Schoon-
maker, William Rea, P. D. Nichols, E. M.
Ferguson, A. Garrison, James S. McCord
and James McCutcheon. The capital stock
will be from 100000 to 100000, and the
charter will be applied for on February
proximo.