New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-06-06
SELECTIONS FROM THE MAIL.
WHICH IS THE BETTER ICE ?
DEFENCE OF THE MANUFACTURED PRODUCT
THE ADVANTAGES CLAIMED FOR IT.

DEFENCE OF THE MANUFACTURED PRODUCT
THE ADVANTAGES CLAIMED FOR 1T.
TO the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir Under the above caption in your Sunday,
May 81 ISSUE you give TO the public statements con-
corning the merits of manufactured and natural ice
The article quotes the reputed sayings Of parties who
claim to have used the manufactured ice only in a
limited quantity. One ice cream manufacturer, one
liquor dealer, one butcher and the president OF tho
Knickerbocker Ice Company sum up all the evidence
against manufactured ice. In its favor are two
hotels which have served thousands Of guests with
manufactured ice for months and would not return
to the use Of natural ice. To these / may add the
names of several Of the prominent hotels 1000
Of the best families, 100 more OF the best
butchers, poultry and fish packers and shippers.
a hundred more Of the best liquor dealers and
restaurants four of the most popular foreign steam
ship lines twenty or more reputable dealers in butter,
eggs and cheese in the district renowned for tie
enormous amount OF business done in these staples
in Greenwich, Washington. Harrison, Barclay, and
other streets All these sensible people are using
manufactured ice with perfect success and entire
satisfaction 10 themselves against the advice ana
doubtless the chagrn Of the natural ice companies,
whose representatives have constantly had their
arguments and misstatements retuted by the salts
factory operation Of manufactured ice In butchers
boxes cold boxes for butter coolers and beer
storage etc., not to mention one hotel supplying
5000 guests DAY with manufactured ice water. We
challenge any natural ice company in the city to
prove that It's ice will give out any more cold or last
as long as manufactured ice anywhere in the city
under fair and equal circumstances.
No butcher has ever had a pound OF meat turned
black or unsound by manufactured ice. No man has
ever had difference Of fifteen or twenty degrees In
favor of natural ice In his box. such statements as
these are falsehoOds and impossible and are
doing exactly the work of the cratic and singular
boomerang They recoil, and by their return blows
pound out the facts that the butcher was careless
and spoiled his by leaving it too long without
manufactured ice, and the man who had fifteen or
twenty degrees cold from natural ice has
box that performs miracle by giving temperature
impossible to make with any ice In any box.
There is no extortion in our prices We are giving
satisfactory prices to the public every day Our
drivers make no prices to any aud all orders pass
through our Offices. 1 wish TO correct some Of the
statements made by your correspondent regarding the
process OF manufacture. The ammonia circulating
through pipes Of extra heavy iron every Joint sodered
with special soderand tested before the ammonia is
admitted up to pressure far beyond any pressure tat
can ever be reached by the ammOnia-is carried in
these specially prepared pipes in coils through an I'M
ense tank containing brine made strong as the best
imported salt can make it. BY compression the am
monia is heated and its affinity for heat is increased
BIZ its expanson-in the pipes, in tie tank, IN brine
taking away in the expansion number OF degrees OF
heat from the brine, making ii cold enough 10 freeze
in a clean heavily galvanized cannot iron boA-the
clear pure distilled water most wholesome and safe 10
use.
Croton water converted into steam. after being I'll
tered once then condensedthc process OF dlstlaton
which all the world knows Is the best and only way OF
purifying water or any nqud-passes through charcoal
filters being rebolled force out the air and comes
forth freed of all impurities. The purified water Is
conducted into tie galvanized cans and frozen IN
thirty hours into solid cakes OF Ice so clear tat
print may be read through cakes eleven inches thick
There are no tinctures from iron pipes-they are gal
vanized There is no iron box, but galvanized can
There is 10 ammonia the ice 1t Is impossible for IL
10 get there or freeze II it there There can be
no greasy smell taste In the manufactured lee Tor
the water II IS made Of passes through fifty feet OF triple
burned hard wood charcoal and no mpurlty can pass
through this. Using DO the extremes OF temper
azure In steam and frost in pipes constructed to avoid
all ris also such careful aud repeated hteThs' therS
are no greasy compounds In the Ice. lie fOuy OF your
correspondents assertions Is apparent anu H'S po
proven by visit TO our factories at any tme AS 70
thorough trial gwen the manufactured ice DY INC
hnckerbocAeF Ice Company, their eAPIls.gee Pidne
Is myth and they nave never MADE Pounu OI ice |
during their existence In this city The GLASGOW Ice
CONF any several years ago endeavoled, with made
QGate nachinery-nO cOndensers or hIeilng apparatus
to ice and failed, might have been expected
What WIS impracticable 10 them, and, perhaps. the
knickertocker Ice Company, In loeO, Is To-Day, 10
u.s. very practicable and successful In every par
tcuar uat make Ice pure enough and cold
enough 20 cause the most intelligent people 10 WOnQer'
We guarantee ice will give better satisfaction than
any natural ice the fOOtSfOl. \ word regarding the
sources of Natural ice. The great supply Of this city
comes from the hudson River, above the flow Of the
tides. The Hudson Is here practically an open s'wer
and people ale being brought 20 face this fact The
drainage of the cit Of Albany with population Of
$50 900 people. Of fifty factories Troy with GO,OOO
people and thirty o. forty manufacturing places, sew
era other towns and adjacent farming districts,
empties into the Hucson River The ice thus gathers
the denominations Of city filth. which IL freezes, for
the theory that nature precpitates all Impurities into
the water below was long ago exploded. almost
any school boy znOws. Then TOO, While the ice is
!
filth OF from 5000 70 10000 men, and 500 to
900 horses spend entire weeks the ice fields.
These facts WILL think. sufficiently answer those
who seek N njpe an industry that Is increasing In
strength and popularity, and has already proven its
ability to take cac of Itself and taught the natural
ice companies thatthcir day OF high prices gone
Finally, let me ask this pertinent question Of the
v'seacres Has an Of the millions Of beer aud
ale drinkers ever fund in his glass any taste Of
monia, greasy compound. tlncture OF iron, the
process Of manufacture being identical with ours, in
the use Of ammOnii iron pipes etc.
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