The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-10-14
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VISITING THE REFRIGERATOR.
Great Interest In tho Community I'm IN
Gold Producing Machine Now on Exhib
tion.
The method Of maintaining n low tenn
Iperature now exhibited at the old cour
house, Is gradually becoming tho talk o
the town. 1t is pronounced by thos
who examined 1t, ono OF the marvels o
the this day OF marvels. Mr.. Frank A
Smith, the inventor, has been in the cit,
since Saturday, and Gen. Green b
Raum, tho head OF the Universal Re
irigerator, Company, which controls tn,
patents, IS expected to arrive today
MIR. w. j.. W. Cowden is forming com
pany to control the invention In Wesl
virginia, and as soon as tho merits o.
the device are presented TO one. the
value OF the stock In such a company Ii
apparent. :
Ihe lNTELLIGENCrR has already said
something OF what the refrigerator now
10 be seen in this city can accomplish.
Such refrigerator Is but one OF the
numerous uses to which the idea ia M.
plicable.
a week ago to-day Mr.. Cowden nut n
fresh beef roast in the box, Yesterday
the meat was as fresh and sweet ms on
the day It was put there, but it showed
Signs OF drying up. The atmosphere In
the box is so dry that beef could be
cured in 1t at temperature as near
freezing point as desirable.
Mr. Smith, when demonstrating the
utility OF his patent, placed his device In
tho interior OF huge beer cask, and
kept the beer on draft in New York for
seventy-eight days. In that time 1t rc.
mained as clear and fresh as ut first. and
was kept at Il Uniform temperature,
When one reflects on the numerous
uses to which the patent can be put, il
is seen ut once what profitable invest.
ment company controlling West Vir.
ginia would have. The same apparatus
which cools the box can be used TO
make artificial ice. Small cans are fur.
nlshed users Of tho patent, which can be
tilled with water and immersed in the
cooling fluid, and in short time the
contents will be solid ice. Ice cream
eau he frozen in much less time than
with ice, and kept solid in the ice box.
In shot, the applications of the cooling
mixture are innumerable.
For the past week the temperature in
tho refrigerator at the old court house
has been kept between thirty and forty.
1t can be regulated at will, and in the
boxes fitted up for household use the
apparatus is so arranged that all there ia
10 be done each day is to turn ono cock
and allow the old brine to run oil. and
turn another and let fresh water run in.
It has been found in other cities that
cold boxes can be kept going at charge
away below the cost of ice, at n profit to
the company which makes Col, Null
berry Sellers famous eye.water scheme
pale into insigniticance, There ia not A
use to which ice is now put that cannot
be accomplished better and cheaper by
this system, unless it be the use of ice
on the table or in beverages, and the
cooling mixture can be used to make ice
for these purposes.
The agent used is "Refrigerine Salt"
an article composed OF certain mineral
salts, which, when mixed with water,
produces brine which instantly falls in
temperature below the freezing point.
+ The method used and owned by this
company is to utilize the cold brine in
an iron tank and, by gravity, conduct il
into suitable coil OF iron pipes set up
in the space to be refrigerated, or where
the ice is to be made. The salt has the
advantages over all other cooling
methods OF being portable, odorless,
harmless. emitting no gas, and being
composed Of materials abundant and
cheap,
The tanks and pipes necessary for the
refrigeration OF given.sized chamber
by this new system occupy about one.
filth OF the space required for ice; there
is no drip, and the atmosphere is KEEP,
pure and dry by the conversion Of the
moisture into ice upon tho tank and
pipes.
While it requires about twenty-four
hours to cool refrigerating chamber
withice by the use OF this new system
the space can be cooled in one hour; 30
that large refrigerating chambers, re-
irlgerating cars, etc., can be used jsnme-
diately after tho Refrigerator Salt brine
is introduced into the tanks and pipes.
The brine need be renewed every TWEEN
ty-four hours only. Anybody can oper.
ate it.
1t is in satisfactory use in some OF the
largest caics and other places where for.
merly agreat deal OF ice was used, and
has been found an improvement in
every respect. besides being very much
cheaper. The cooks in the Senate res.
taurant some time ago wrote to the com.
pany as follows:
These rclrigcrators are fitted up with the sys.
lem OF your company. We have observed with
care for more than two months the use OF these
refriserators. aud pronounce them the best We
have ever seen. The temperature OF the reirig.
orators Is kept very uniform and the cold air
very ury; There has actually been no loss OF
nny article since these refrigcrHtoIs have been
put III use. We have Kept snipe In perfect order
Tor period OF three weeks and dressed chick.
ems for two weeks. In our opinion tho meats
poultry ana game come out iu better condition
from these reirigsators than we have ever seen.
1t is noticeable that the cold produced
by the refrigerating process is not the
moist cold like that which comes from
the melting Of ice, but is dry cold which
has wonderful effect in preserving
fowl and game, which can be kept only
a few days in an ice refrigerator. Then,
too, the temperature OF refrigerator can
be reduced to zsro, which gives an ad.
vantage OF thirty.two degrees over the
use OF ice.
It's proposed to put refrigerator on
exhibition in some more public place
here. In the meantime, all who are in.
terested-and who is not ?-should call
and inspect the workings OF the plan at
the old court house.
Another New Railroad.
Secretary OF State Ohley has issued a
charter to the Potomac, Blackwater &
Greepbrier Railroad COMPANY. The com.