The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-27
ApRopos OF THE ICE SHORTAGE
The New Ice Company's Temporary
Orgenization-Weys TO Keep Ice.


Orgsnization-Weys TO Keep Ice.
The Chatham Ice Company cannot com
plete its organization until it has obtained
its charter, for which il must wait until the
legal thirty days publication Of Its petition
for Incorporation. It has. however, per-
fected temporary organization, so that no
delay will intervene.
The temporary organization was effected
by the election of w. q. Cooper, grocer, as
chairman, and Isaac Beckett secretary.
A committee composed Of Geo. w. Tiede-
man, Chas. H. Dorset5 and Robt p Lowell
was appointed to select a site for the works
]. P. Williams and Robt P. Lowell were
appointed a committee 20 devise plan for
closing up the stock subscriptions 70 the
company.
Isaac Beckett and T. H. Williams were
appointed to get estimates for ffty-ton
compression ice machine. MIR. Roberts,
representing the Arctic Ice Plant Manu-
featuring Company Of Cleveland is in the
city in conference with the committee, and
the agent of the De La Vergne company is
on the alert and will come on TO Savannah
to talk up the merits of the machines manu-
featured by his company. Both companies
manufacture compression machines
The mechanics have arrived from the
north and are putting up the machinery for
the new ice plant at the Savannah brewery.
The engines and boilers are in place and the
work is TO be pushed forward rapidly, so
that the plant may be put in operation by
the middle of July
The new vat to double the output of the
Winter factory is expected next week, so
that Savannah has a fine prospect OF hav-
ing an increased supply Of ice during the
latter part Of next month and a still safer
supply next summer.
Some relief is noticeable in the ice
scarcity, and the retail shopkeepers are not
all charging as high as l Il cents per pound
now. Most of them retail at l cent pound,
aud the Knickerbocker wagons in the south
ern part OF the city were offering ice tickets
yesterday on basis of 60 cents per hun
dred for ice, and this has tended to mitigate
the feelings of some disguised consumers
who couldn't get ice at sny price last week.
The principal retail ice dealers are the
grocery keepers and the colored keepers of
the many little melon and candy stands
scattered about the streets and lanes of the
city. oftentimes in the Easements of private
residences. These stands are generally kent
by colored women, whose stock in trade
usually comprises few assorted candies,
pies. cakes, and often double armful or so
of sawed and split wood, which is sold in a
small way to colored people. Each one of
these little shops has rough ice box packed
with sawdust and half filled with sawdust,
upon which the ice is kept, and ice Is re-
tailed in blocks OF from three pounds up to
twenty. An advertising sign with "Ice'
in large letters, not always artistically
painted, attracts the customer, and during
the scarcity of ice last week the stands
were patronized by the white people as we'll
as the colored, and oftener the servant went
back with an empty basket or pan than
with ice
There are many devices for preserving
ice, and during the hot weather, when It
melts so rapidly, it would be well to avail
ones self of some plan to husband the con-
gealed liquid as long as possible, and
especially where the housekeeper has no re-
frigerator, which, after all. is the best pre-
server.
Ice packed compactly in old newspapers
and set in cool place will keep nearly as
well as it will In refrigerator, and even
better than in a refrigerator where the ice
is immersed In the water. The block should
be wrapped so that it will be as nearly air
tight as possible, and If it is then wrapped
in wooden cloth it will keep proportion
ately longer.
1t is said that ice may be kept in pitcher
a much longer time if the pitcher be envel.
oped in paper. as it may readily be done.
plnning the paper over the top of the pitcher
so it will be as nearly air tight as possible.
A stone or metal pitcher will preserve ice a
much longer time than china or glass
pitcher. The exclusion of warm air is the
secret of preserving ice, and any device
which will aid to exclude the heated air
will tend to prevent the solid from becom.
ing liquid.
The Hindoo jug, suspended in cool room
with few small Jumps of ice dropped in
it, will keep the water cool all day, and the
writer succeeded in keeping the artesian
water palpatable without ice in one OF
these jugs last summer by simply suspending
the,vessel in a cool room. In fact, the tenn.
perature of the water was less in an hour
after it was placed in the jug. Fortunately
for the ice barons the Hindoo jugs have moi
come into general use here, and clumsy
servant shattered the one referred to.
The bendadi of Hindoo crew Of firemer
ON a tramp steamship. who presented the
jug to the MORNING News reporter, said
that water kept in these jugs in India, il
the hottest weather. is always cool, and the
steward Of the vessel said he bad used them
in his voyages, and corrobofated the state
ment of the bendadi.
1t is possible that tho common Jug in ust
In the prohibition counties of Georgis
would answer the same purpose, and a.
they have not all been sent out to the rura
| districts it might be worth while for some
reader Of the MORNING NEWS to try the ex
| pertinent.
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