Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-09-01
EDN'T WORK HERE.
GENERAL RGUTS REFRIGERATOR SCHEME
WAS VIEWED IN WHEELING.
90, oass With One o, Two Of ths Interested
p,russ-Ihs Bottom Isll Out Of the Salt
Scheme Abandoned.

Dsr Raum's refrigerator scheme in
/ sunday edition of the New York
l,8 a brief synopsis of which was
H. in yesterdays REGISTER, has
..+sd considerable interest about
inasmuch as some prominent clti-
1 we're connected with. the project.
LII be remembered that about last
+ober. General Raum was here to
IL the scheme In which he belived,
4, Col. Sellers, there were millions In
mon the Wheeling public. 1t will
well remembered hew the apparatus
n exhibited at the old Court House for
ID time, and the interest the new dis
[erv created at the time. While IT
1 on exhibition a great many people
.i-ed the Court House, aud endeavored
work out the practicability Of the
Home. To the casual observer this
med an easy matter, and supplement-
nv elaborate explanations and guar
lees by the exhibitors, quite a num-
I NJ well-knOwn citizens were not
,w I'm catching on. They caught on.
~ '9oked upon it as an achievement
science and a boon TO mankind. In
opinion OF some OF the members Of
local company, it may yet turn out
be a practical project. Such was
faith in the enterprise that
COMPANY WAS ORGANIZED
re. consisting OF Henry c. Brunhaus
President, j. II. Vance, w. T. Burt,
j. w. COwden, George w. Atkinson
some gentlemen at the Iptelligencer
ce. The capital stock was placed at
l0.OOO, with shares at S33. Quite a
Imber OF subscriptions were gathered
and the company at the close OF the
detrimental exhibition proceeded to
lroduce the new marvels into such
ces as work TO the best advantage.
csc refrigerstors were not designed
private houses especially, but
IRE particularly for large meat,
retable and other establish
snts where ice and cold
needed by the wholesale. President
iunhauS, however, placed one In his
staurant in the Second ward market,
ere he claims it worked admirably,
long as the right quality OF salt
h out. One was also placed in Nc
rskey's oyster house, and one in Me
rgalps slaughter house in Ritchie-
I'm. The contract made with Raum
IS that the salt should be pro-
! ed for twelve cents 2 pound. But
difficulty was In the quality OF the
L which was sent a short time after
} company was organized, altogether
ferent from that which they had been
perimentlng with publicly. This salt
not work well. And with it the
npany was
UNABLE TO PRODUCED
necessary frigidity, which aroused
} suspicion in the minds OF several OF
local members that they had been
posed upon, that the properly pre-
red salt could not be produced for
Dive cents a pound, and almost three
luthS ago after dallying unSuccess-
y with the project they threw up
sponge and abandoned the project.
i local members were led into the en-
prise by what they believed to be
bd faith, and all being gentlemen of
most honorable intentions, naturally
pierred to drop the scheme rather
IN appear to be imposing upon the
Dple.
commenting upon the salt question,
Herald says:
L has been the practice OF this COM
ny wherever it has operated refriger-
,rs to sell TO les customers the nitrate
ammonia under the name Of "refrig-
be salt" at twenty-five cents a pound.
e barrel of nitrate would therefore
i 500. Adding SO for carriage and
light we may call il S103 for four hum
"a pounds of nitrate.
TO your 400 pounds of salt you now
400 pounds Of water, making 500
lndS OF refrigerating brine. Suppose
; water which you mix to be at tenn
rature of 20 degrees. There being &c
yreeS Of cold in nitrate of ammonia
; temperature of your brine will stand
20 minus 46, or "a degrees.
4 MATHEMATICAL DEMONSTRATION.
Now, one pound Of ice contains 143
DO units. A heat unit means the
sing or lowering OF one pound OF
ter one degree. One pound Of ice
I bring one pound Of water from 176
frees temperature TO 33 degrees and
lends l43 heat units in doing so.
7our hundred pounds of water, there
e., lowered As degrees means $500
1t units, which, divided by 143, the
mber OF heat units In one pound of
, gives an equivalent Of lsS pounds
ice.
Vow your brine has not only to pro-
re the cold, but it must cool all the
IN IN the coils OF pipe from the atmos-
eric temperature down TO "a degrees.
is perfectly safe TO assume that 10
7 cent. of the cooling energy is used
in this preliminary work, for say
u the pipes are 3-inch pipes and
igh ~ pounds a foot, and the return
Ids about the same, il the refrigera-
has ten lengths 5 feet long and ten
urn bands, you have a mass or iron
ighing AZ pounds to cool from 20 de-
,es to "a degrees. Assuming that
lr allowance Of 10 per cent. expended
this way is enough, you have the
livalent of - $40 pounds OF ice al
.dy used up, leaving Is 2-10pounds OF
as the net equivalent from the use
400 pounds of salt or 4-10 pounds OF
Q TO produce one pound OF ice,
Now this us 2-1O pounds Of ice can
supplied in New York at seven
N and a half cents per 100 pounds, or
fifteen cents in quantities OF 600
lndS or more. So that quantity OF
equivalent to the refrigerating effects
oduced by the use OF 400 pounds OF
salt can be purchased for
enty cents, as against an outlay OF
1900 for the salt.
THE ITEM OF FUEL.
But coming back again to the recov-
: Of the salt in solution, for we are
? thrc..k ,.-gsb that vat with tllS