The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1894-12-31
MAKING ZOE BY STEAM.
Artificial Jack Frost Employed BY a
Honolulu Corporation.

Honolulu Corporation.
Nature being rather onc-sidcd in
this country in supplying temper
AZURE, Art has come to- her help in
affording GOODNESS in commercial
and portable form. For many
years ice has been manufactured
in Honolulu. Willer's ice works
up Nuuanu valley were described
in the BULLETIN nine or ten years
ago. Then the Peoples Ice and
Refrigerating Company started
plant where the corporation of the
same name now has its factory.
Wilder's sold out, and then there
was one. Next the Union Ice Go.
came into being, but, after spell
of competition, 1t became merged
in the Peoples. with whose oper-
ations this writing is concerned.
The factory of the Peoples Ice
and Refrigerating Co. is situated
between Beretanla aud Young sts.,
beyond Thomas square, occupying
nearly two acres of ground with
works, dwellings ami stables. 1t
is unnecessary to say that Ice Is
frozen water. In countries where
Nature furnishes the frost for the
process, the ice dealers get their
supply from the surface of rivers.
lakes, canals, or ponds of fresh
water. They store it in houses
with thick. double walls stored be-
tween with sawdust, also packing
the ice in the same or other non
conducting material. Ice Is there
by kept through the several months
of n much hotter summer than IL
ever known in these islands. Ii Is
delivered in exactly the same man
ner rs the artificial ice of the trop-
les. Natural ice is often much i'll
ferior in degree of purity to the
artificial article. The water is just
as Jack Frost finds it, even IT it
receives any Of the refuse of fac
tory or farm. Even after the ice
forms it is liable before being har-
vested to receive impure drift
blown upon it, or various sorts of
pollution, before or during its be-
ing sawed out.
Artificial ice, on the other hand,
is capable of being turned out ~
pure as anything that enters int"
domestic consumption. That made
at the Peoples works Is just ~ free
from impurities as the clear artes-
ian water from which il IL made,
this being drawn from well 2OU
or 300 feet deep on the premises.
The well affords all the water re-
quired for that purpose and plenty
to spare. Several houses III the
neighborlloud get their supply of
water from this source, and IN times
Of scarcity many of the govern
mcnts customers are blessed IN
having the same source available.
The water is concealed by an Arctic
Ice machine, operated, NJ may he
required, 10y one or two double up
right engines. This Ii the plant
OF the former Union ice works, but
the machine used by the original
Peoples company Is still service
able, 50 that one, one and half al
two machines cum he put in uper'
alton. Ii il therefore next To IN.
possible To get out OF ice. Their,
are duplicate pumps and machines
Of every kind, also duplicate boil
ers, and m independent horizontal
engine Is connected wich the old
machine. As there is always II
supply of 30 tons of ice ahead, how,
ever, the company could supply
the town for one week If every
machine in the place should go OH
strike. The company has placed
five tons Of Ice on board steamer
III an hour after receiving the or
der. Forty tons Of ice can be fur
nished to order, and the works &c
right along without interruption
Last "Wednesday. the day most oI
the island steamers sailed, til,
works delivered ten tons Of ice
Its average daily output is six t.
seven tons.
The ice is nude in iron cans OF
two sizes, with capacity, respec'
lively, OF $50 and 200 pounds
These vessels are filled with water
by gravitation from the artesial
well discharge pipe. They arr
submerged in brine mad" as strong
AS salt can make it. Ammonia II
employed to rob the water Of it,
caloric, thus producing congclatioi
similar to the process OF an ic'
cream freezer. Coils of pipe ont
foot apart extend from one brine
tank to another, there being thirt,
coils with eighty pipes i'll II coil
The ammonia is pumped into th'
coils by the engine, and starts from
the condensing house, n shed ID few
feet away from the main building
Here it passes through n system o
sixty pipes, each twenty-f"ur fee
long, of one and quarter inch
black iron. Water is made to fal
all over these pipes, lowering tin
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