Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-20

how the refrigeration is produced, hut our
space will not admit of going into detail,
besides, those technicaities would not be
Of interest TO the general reader. The
writer adds that this Denver plant, the only
plant in operation as yet, holds to even tenn
perature the butter-room of a large COM
mission house at ~ degrees, Fahrenheit;
several meat-market rooms at 80 degrees,
Fahrenheit; the beer vault of an extensive
brewery AT proper temperature, while nu-
merous stores, saloons and private rasi-
dences are kept al exactly the temperature
contracted for by their occupants; also
number Of hotels. club-houses, lodge-rooms,
churches, aud so on. Not few residences
have artificial ice factories in closets adj
Joining their kitchens, and hosts of ice-cream
manufacturers are putting up their goods
70 order without the necessity of patron
izing any ice company.
The Denver club, au extensive institution
vel known to club men throughout the
United States, and located one mile from
this central plant. has SIX different compart-
meAts refrigerated. maintaining as many
different ten ncratureS. One for fruit
stands at forty-five =, one for meats.
fish. game etc. stands at thirty-six F, one
Tor wines and liquors At forty T., and one
fer freezing carafes Of wafer ice cream and
wines al about ten below zero Fresh meat.
poultry. game. fish and ali k ads Of delicate
foods are thus readily preserved for weeks
IN he warlnesl weather, OF as long as one
desires TO preserve them.
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And here we may introduce an idea all
our own, not advanced by the Scientific
American. 1t Will be remembered by the
readers Of scientific works that we got our
correct information relative TO the long ex-
,iac, mastodon from finding 4 carcass of
that animal frozen III an iceberg stranded
upon the shores of Newfoundland. II had
been in the ice thousands OF years, doubt
less, but there it was, Just as it had died,
covered with its heavy growth Of hair, aud
with flesh So perfect that people hauled it
AWAY as food for their dogs and hogs.
Nothing decays SO long as it is entirely
lIbyFll- At D'tN "a a tilliiidii btiils "Ou4b
keep rs long under complete refrigeration
d would the body Of d hairy elephant.
Doubtless the reader already understands
what we are driving ii. Who can now say
that many people OF the far-future ages viii
lut DE Afforded the opportunity of looking
upon he perfectly preserved remains of
their forefa;hers who walked the earth at
the close of the eighteenth century:
he New Zuricner Zeituug says It VIII be
remembered that last year NJ. Joseph Val
81, erected an observatory and hut of refuge
Oh Mont Blanc on the Roeher des Bosses.
1872 fret from the summit Of The mountain:
agr his undertaking is now to be eclipscd
Lr the construction Of an observatory on
the yerc summit of Mont Blanc 15,1Sl feet
aupui sea level. The idea originated with
" .lausscn, VINO stayed on the mountain
Some Iime last summer for the purpose of
making meteorological observations. In
cyajuuctiou with NJ EiTcl and with the
supror, Of ". BischotTsheim, Prince Ro-
lald Bonaparte and Baron Alfred de ROths-
child lac has now elaborated u plan which
j, as DARING aS the Jun@frau railway
scheme The observatory is to be entirely
If iron. and il to have a length of of eighty
five fccr and breadth of twenty feet. The
iron roof is TO have the spherical form of an
M.u-clad turrct. which the construction
ri.. much resemble. The erection of such
4 building on the highest point
o. Mont Blanc naturally involves thor
nu-h preliminary stGdics, with which a
Zurich engineer experienced in works on
Uiea mountains has been charged by NJ.
lTdel and NJ Jansen. In the first place. it
IS necessary that firm foundation should
he ioIud for the supports of the building on
the rock of the mountain. For this purpose
d horizontal gallery Is to be driven through
Tie ice OF the highest glacier until rock IS
Ilct with and by means Of this gallery the
formation aud position Of the rock buried
beneath the Zee aud snow are 10 be ascer-
aimed and examined. If once this has been
accurately determined, structure is 10 be
designed which win give TO the observatory
d firm hold by iron pillars founded in the
1ors j. is not stated how these pillars are
= resist the movements Of the ice. The
question Of how the heavy materials are to
moved 10 the top of the mountain does
lo' appear to give much concern, but what
cyel. method IS adopted it will certainly
prove laborious AID costly More is thought
o- ne work OF surveying. which was TO
have reeu commenced this month. Should
.ae surveys prove the practicability of the
pan. II Is intended 10 proceed with the
erection III once.