San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-05-22
\ GOODNESS
Which Exists at the Ice ManuIaC-
tories of This City.

In these SUltry days when the mercury
in the thermometer holds forth in the
upper end of the tube and almost every
thing around one seems oppressive and
burdcnSOme. nothing will bore the aver
age individual near 50 little as when You
treat him to something cool. whether il
be substantial or imaginary. CndOUbt-
edly. this was the point the Shrcwd city
editor had in view when he tried the new
man on the staff by sending him to find
ont how the L." question stood for this
summer.
a call at the former Alamo lee factory.
showed that this company had gone out
Of the ice business since January lSt. and
that they at present only manufacture
enough ice to meet the demands Of the
Alamo brewery. As they did not sell to
consumers. they could give no practical
data. and the reporter who was bent on
something cool, whether facts. or drinks.
helped himself at the icy tank and wendell
his way toward the newly rcfttcd factory
on LOSOyO street, upon reaching which.
scribe explained his mission to some en-
plOycS. who in his estimation. were fully
capable of answering the few simple qUcS-
lions. When they found that they had TO
deal with newspaper man. they suddenly
rccOllcctcd that he had better call again
when Mr.. Tcndick was in.
Slightly discouraged. he set out for the
y.
in the most cheerful or hopeful mood that
he introduced himself to the manager,
Mr. Ed. Glaze. This gentleman. however,
very readily opened to him all the infOr
nation sought for and COurtcOuSly showed
him around the factory and the we'll
known artCSian wells.
The Crystal company. supplying the
whole town trade, as the San Antonio
factory has shut down for the present. its
manager is well qualified TO speak on I've
question. The consumption of ice in thiS
town runs up to twenty tons per day,
while they scarcely ship any ice at all.
only about one ton per day by express.
There need be no fear Of an ice famine
this year, as the capacity Of the Crystal
and San Antonio factories is between
sixty and SiXty-tivc tons every day in the
week, while during the hottest months
the daily consumption in town will not
exceed thirty tons. Neither will there be
any such ruinOuS competition i'm ice
among the brcwcricS for the saloon trade
as existed a few years ago, the brcwcricS
having come TO an agreement that 10
such thing should happen again.
As to the price of ice, Mr.. Glaze says
that in Kansas City and other important
towns 1T sells for ~ cents per pound for
less than one hundred pounds, while ice is
sold in this town at | cent pound to
families and q cents per pound TO saloons
lie says that at the New York docks II
sells for So a ton and there is no telling
what price it will take when the real hot
days arrive.
The courteous manager then took him
through the freezing department. In this
large room there are 100 tanks. forming,
when frozen, so many bars weighing 24O
pounds each. This mass of Isl, 400 pounds
of ice can be frozen every sixty hours.
While this factory with its twenty five
u Is n nj ii Il IS
Il day thus giving every man one pound of
ice, this town of sixty thousand people
need not fret themselves about an ice
famine.