The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-06-09
PURE ICE.
The Ice Factory in Successful Operation and
Turning Out About Eight Tons Daily.

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The factory of the Ice and Cold Storage
Company of Westminster is in successful OPP,
GRAFTON and is turning out about eight tons of
clear, pure ice daily.
The engine was started about,3 o. clock on
Inst Saturday afternoon, and at 10 o'clock
on Thursday morning the first tank was har-
vested. Ice from the second tank was har-
vested Thursday night, and seven or eight
tons will be taken out daily hereafter.
The ice is from ten to eleven inches thick,
and comes out in plates eight by ten feet.
There are four plates to the tank, weighing
altogether about eight tons.
Ever since the factory was started it has
been an object interest, and hundreds of per.
sous have visited it daily, 10 observe process
of manufacturing ice. Among the visitors
have been considerable number of ladies'.
When the ice was harvested on Thursday
everybody ate piece to see if is was really
ice. 1t was not expected the first ice would
be ofthe marketable kind ,,but it was, and the
success was beyond the most sanguine sntici
pations. The ice is solid, clear and pure, and
the citizens of Westminster and vicinity are
to be congratulated upon having an ice fac
tory in their midst, from which ice will be
supplied at prices that have heretofore pre-
vailed in this city. The company will not
take advantage of the fact that no ice was
harvested in this section last winter, but will
sell ice from 80 TO 90 cents hundred pounds,
according to the amount purchased. The
Company will issue ice tickets, to suit the
wants of the people, and canvassers will wait
upon the citizens on Monday with the cards.
Most families will use ten pounds daily, and
the company will sell 30 pounds ice tickets
at S1.00 each. When ice is delivered by the
drivers, ten pounds will be punched out. II
more is wanted on any special occasion the
driver will deliver it and punch the ticket
for the extra amount also. Ice is ready for
sale now, though the delivery wagons will
probably not be started before Tuesday.
The factory of the Ice and Cold Storage
Company is on the plate system, and is the
second one of the kind in operation in the
United States. The other one is at Whining
ton, Delaware, and has a capacity of 55
tons daily. The Remington Machine Com
pany, Of Wilmington, put up the Wilmington
factory and also the one at Westminster. 1t
is far superior to the can system, so extern
sively used, the plate ice being produced
cheaper, and the ice is purer. The plate is
the latest invention in ice making and will
eventually revolutionize ice manufacture.
The plant here was put up under the super
vision of Mr.. f. l.. Baker, of the Remington
Company. The machinery was erected by
Mr.. Henry Sullivan and the plumbing was
done by Mr.. Frank Grouse, both from the
Remington works. The factory is run by u
35.horse power Corliss engine, and the boiler
is 60-horse. The Remington Company have
used great deal of care in putting up the
plant, being desirons that it should be highly
satisfactory in every respect and that it
should produce clear, pure ice, and that the
capacity should be fully equal to the guaran'
tee. From the appearance Of the ice first
harvested it looks as though the Remington
Company had fully attained their object.
At a meeting OF the Board of Directors last
Monday afternoon MIR. Denton S. Gehr, treas
urer, was chosen also general manager, and
he will have general supervision of the fac
tory. Charles Babylon is day engineer,
Theodore Crawford night engineer, Harry
Stoner, tank man, and Harry Cootes has
charge of ice delivery.
The factory is 40 by so feet. and was put
up by Il. A. Case, carpenter. Reigle and
Stone did the mason work, and s. X. Ying-
ling the painting, Ht.t.i