The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1890-06-07
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A Pleasant Tank with NJ. """d"af'
Abrainms, President OF the Cochran
OIer Ice Company.

/ a Pleasant T"ik with NJ. """d"'i''
Ahrahams, President OF the ""'i'""-
| OIer Ice Company.
With the thermometer close to niuety
in the Shade IN an early june day, zee
would seem 10 bo Il timely t"pic, e'rec-
| iaIly when suggested 10y rs Intelligent an
exponent of his ideas, opinions and eNlef
fence relative 10 it, rs Mr.. Woodward
Abrahams president of the Cochran 'ler
| Company of Baltimore, who VS. IN Elk
ton ON Wednesday,. Mr.. Abrahams, lop-
ularly known among his intimate Assoc
ciates As Woody" Abrahams, has passed
the three quarter century line OF me-
thirty-live years of which have been De
voted to the prosecution of the ice huH'-
ness IN the city of ltimore. II" tolls
very interesting story of the origin and
growth of the business there LOW
small and insignificant the first ice
houses we're, and which were erected
along Stony Run, a small stream near
that city. The Susquehanna river with
it's pure aud sweet mountain water, was
III those days never dreamed ct is
source of supply Of this needed commod-
ity for the market OF Baltimore, while
the idea of bringing the crystal blocks
| from the shores of the distant kennebac
never entered the mind Of the moSt mag
NATIVE Spectator in those days. But rs
! 10 Al. In
nestle purposes, 6uJ III its business uses,
it was soon found that tEe SasqNen ma,
! while 1t Afforded a convenient ice supply
| for Baltimore, was Hkew 1850 an uncertain
source of supply. 1t could be relied npon
as a failure, Mr.. Abrahams says, all ut
once in every ten years. II failed II lH'",
again in 1850. and now for three success
sive years it has yielded no crystal har-
vest. Such failures are matters OF con-
siderable cost to large firms ike that
which Mr.. Abrabams is at the heal OF.
| This fact, glance at the comparative
cost of handling Maine ard Susluehanna
| ice will show. Susguehanna ice can be
! landed on the wharf III Baltimore Tor the
cost Of the freight alone. from the Ken
nebec, to say nothing Of the cost 81 tio
commodity there ihe los" oy tfa'i'i't''"-
ton and tie additional handling it 70
quircs when laIdad st Baltimore. The
| i5e barg"S of their CrspDuy are IN sea
sons when crop has been harvested
at Ha9re de Grace daily lowed t" b .lI'-
more. 1t is un'o"d'd oirecf'9 1n'' 'Ae'r
! wagons ana delivered ny one hahd'io@ I"
| consumers. When shipped, however
| from Maine 1t has 70 y" stored on "ei'V-
| cry FROM IT, vessel ihiS involves aGdi-
ti"nal eTQena" rs vel IS additional los"
TIE ain7 Va sbIPpnz &c from Sh' hlS' J"
| t. brhs 1t IN Il" large car''+' as P'Ss'0'o'
Packed solid IN tie vessel ME 2 caf&" OF
! or!cE" men me" ~ tI "i"h'' he sues
| and top with Sa"Gnst 10 eN"iH"e tNe ar
/ yet with every lr'y.1tl"7, and to3 most
| skiliiul han"'HE- " cargo say @! !'Jo
| tons, Will vel" "n'y one h"i' 'tHt guam
uty !" s3e consumer III i'''timoie, fi'>
| per cent, VIZ. A"fhiia'HS says Is '."''1
! the FYerag@ loss on Name nee in'~ year
th"t4l&ure. by 'he way ABOUT covers inc
advance over ia"l year prices. f'om
/ thirty 10 forty cents per hundred E"undS
to domestic conNumerS III the usual p''ce'
This year the hgure IS SIXTY cents per
/ hundred from the wagon. some .dod OF
the extent OF the business OF the com Qahy
/ represented hy hf. A'E"hAilS may w
formed, when 1t requires iom Tour TO
i've hundred men to handle 'heir roe IN
Baltimore Win zone nnnG'e" ara MY
wagons loi II" daty u"i'try aho some
thEee hHh'rcu horses 20 haal tieN' way
ons. Inc heaviest trade OF tee him IS I"
iotd4 cohauihelH' IHe coId storage process
now adopted by tue brewer" and butch-
ers having SnpPlaHted The use OF zee, as
d" III FORMER years
Mf. AofahahlS Jh'hKs 'hat IL Tue h"V
very distant future the general demand
! for ice vii! be supplied by artificial pro
ductIon. The process OF manufacture,
however, Is now imperfect, SIMPLY be
cause no mechanical means has get been
discovered to eXpel the air from the
water frozen by artthelal means and
hence no perfectly clear ice has yet beea
, produced. 1t Is tact stated 10y Mir.
Aorahams, that perfectly clear and trans
parent ICE is only produced by moving
water being quickly irczcu at a very low
temperature, while the still water frozen
at the same temperature will produce the