The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-09-24
A CENTRAL MARKET.
Cold Storage Warehouses with Meat and
Fruit Stalls. 4

Cold Storage Warehouses with Meat ana
Fruit Stalls.
TIE Pacific Freezing and Cooling Con par 10
tskiug steps not only toward completiuf ~ cold
storage warehouse. but toward building large
central market Yesterday the directors of the
company held IN informal meeting which was
attended BY J. ENSIGN Fuller. OF New York,
president Of the Interstate Cooling Company
the parent concern, and Z. G. w. Rietx of Chi
cazo. president OF the Chicago Cold Storage Ex.
change. In talking II the results Of the meet
Ing. Mr. Fuller said to Q PosrINTELLreEScEs
reporter that the Pacific Freezing aad Cooling
Company Was IN established fact. A number Of
prominent local capitalists were interested in
the concern. among them r. II. Osgood, j. H.
McGraw, james r. Mcknight, William H. Lew
eliyn, J. ,. Esheimaa, J. W. Mcleod, J. R. Mur-
ply. A. n. Brookes, p. p. Carroll and from
Portland, Mayor Van B. DeI4ashmutt
"The company" said Mr. Fuller, 'shas OBJ
tsinsd the lease Of fiue piece Of ground 24o
oy 10 feet on the water front, ct the corner Of
west and Union streets. The work Of driving
piles for supporting the heavy machinery Of the
refrigerating establishment win be begun this
week. As told you on Monday night. part Of
the machinery had already been shipped from
Chicago. and have this day received tele-
gram from Chicago that the rest of It has been
started on the way. The cold storage plant. for
which the arrangements are now perfected, will
be completed In time to begin freezing nsh this
fsu. Instead Of drying or canniu e
your salmon or halibut we shall freeze
them, aud by shipping them inrefrigsr-
ator cars shall be able to put them fresh
as far east ~ the Atlantic coast, II we choose.
The reirigerasing works, whose rooms and
vaults will be kept cool by the evaporation Of
ammonia, will not only be used to store the fish,
game. fruit and dairy products which we buy.
but your merchants will be able to get room
there TO have their psrishable stocks stored
n q of M az 1paa fuf -oot il Tho faoS
that we are TO spend about 100000 in build
Ing big market, to be called the Central mar.
ket. We shall have plenty of room to put UP
place like the famous Warrington or Fui ton
markets in New York city, where all food prod
ucts can be kept aud sold. You know how sue.
cessful financially these markets have lately
been in all large citiea People prefer to trade
there, because II Is more convenient to buy all
their supplies ct one place, and the merchants
scattered about the city are only too glad 70
ter their shops and stores there. We shall 1T MP
large part OF this market for shops and stores,
and those who use them can have all their
stun well kept In our vaults; aud besides that
We can run our cold pipes into every refrig-
orator box N the whole establishment, so the
merchants will not have fee bills for keeping
their meats and fruits from spelling.
more than this, We have obtained franchise
to run these cold pipes, just rs gas or steam
pipes are run, under the streets into other parts
W suo Sssy "A0av P0opsO "sus W Aecp ieitiSel'
atofs.
THE situation We have obtained IL an ideal
one for the purpose. The boats can land ut on
wharves, the railroad tracks run past u.s. the
street railways are near, and we shall build Q
bridge from Front street down to the market,
So we are confident that we shall be as success
full 50 we have been elsewhere. The cold
soraee plant will cost shout $500. 600. and of the
coo moro for the completion of the market
cne-third will be subscribed by the local and
Portland capitalists have mentioned. with
some Others. and the rest will come from Chi
cago snd New York. Work on the market
proper II to begin before December l."