Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-10
THE STROLL.ER'S STORIES.
Odd Oplnioss and QaaInt ObservatIous Erou
Curb Bud Corridor.


Odd Oplnfoss and QaaInt ObservarIous From
Curb Bud Corridor.
a LARGE, broad-shouldered old gentleman.
with kindly face and white beard, who
was at the Seventh Avenue Hotel Yesterday.
was James Mix. of Kankakee, III He is an ice
dealer, engaged in shipping that cool com
modify to the New Orleans market He was
asked what he expected to do for ice this win
ter. he replied: Trust in ProVidencen Nh.
Mix however, is looking around for ice-making
machines experience having taught him that
Providence sometimes fails him. He has been
in the ice trade over 20 years, and says that
there have been three or four years when there
was no ice crop. He said: I'VE got none last
year. There was ice, but it was Of poor quality
ana not ft for shipment. We used our surplus
stock, but this winter we have no sur
plus. II is possible that l may be
compelled to make artificial Ice. If 1
am viii make the ice at New Orleans, and
thus save freight. An ice machine will cost
from $4,000 to 100000 according to its ca
pacity. There has been great Improvement
in recent years. and machine will make good
ice IL inches thick and 70 inches square. The
machines are made IN Chicago and New York.
have been in consultation here to-day with a
gentleman who claims that he can build us .
machine cheaper than anybody else. We can
cess as We can get it naturally, but we must get
it somehow" Mr.. Mix believes that a gradual
change Of climate IS going on in this country,
the winters becoming milder. He attributes
the change to the increasing temperature OF the
Gulf stream, and other ocean currents,
and thinks that the Gulf stream,
from some unknown cause has come
nearer TO the coast Of the United States.
MFR. Mix acknowledged that he had examined
several goose bones. but they did not give him
any satisfactory information. He departed last
evening for Washington.
A IExANDEB DE LANo. President, and F.
Williams, superintendent of the Detroit
Steel and Spring Works. are at the Hotel
Anderson They will remain in this city two
or three days. They intend to enlarge their
plant, and recognizing the fact that Pitts
burg has become the headquarters for the best
mill machinery and general equipment in
the country, they have come here to buy what
they need. Their purchase may be large one.
They were accompanied to the city by H. l.
Jenness, glass buyer. and B. p. Van Court,
the Detroit representative of Park Brothers,
OF tho Black Diamond Steel Company, who
are also at the Anderson.
HERBERT g. D. CRAWFORD, representing
Philadelphia capital has been for two days
in the city, trying to buy lots on which to erect
"a Snr." -. .@ss =. eAteusNe ueS.sn. ne
land and Chicago, that he had found the
prices Of real estate here to be exorbItant and
had decided to try elsewhere. The principal
man behind the scheme is Joseph B. Hancock,
OF Philadelphia.
MARvN HUGHITT. of Chicago. President of
the Chicago and Northwestern Railway
passed through the city yesterday morning on
his journey to Washington. At the Capital he
will lend his influence to the effort TO
secure the Worlds Fair for Chicago. Mr..
mense frecht tr. fic be;rc' -" as,
The immediate resnIt he said -. i,c-aa".S
earnings. and the Intimate resuit vonId hs i'm
proVement of the railway lines ant the ertan-
sion of feeders.
A WOMAN who was intoxicatad mas vr, ov.-
"A by a butchers wagon a. +ba oo-,.r =,
Ross street and Second avanna A. .ho,t -.
yesterday. She Law still alter the vhesIs had
passed over her She was picked up and car
rls1 70 'ne sidewalk, where a large crowd
Ss- nrss,h "u Ato ,oUAse a. ner enorts 70 recover
said. apr 90 and .",.st -. = man
A. the -n-a y, 49, 0e. ~. 'no PAsoi
avas .c-e,ob1aii - -. g.. -, u.AP oPoneu net
ha .ssao. a.. 10. enS away
vst.r T--'0' "9' 'iNe sN~s u nuOAesAui oA coia
w d. MORGAN. sugar producer of IOuisi-
ana, is at the Seventh Avenue Hotel. He
says that II the tarih Is made high enough, all
the sugar consumed in the United States can be
made In this country. At present the home pro-
duction Is about ene-etghth of the consump-
uon. MI Morgan does not want bounty. The
people would not stand anything Of that sortshe
tninkA ne does not nave much faith In beet
sugar, ana does not fear that 10 will ever crowd
cane sugar OUT OF the market
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