The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-03-10
To KEEP THINGS cool.
Cold Storage House To be Ready for Bus
mess this Week.

| The Wichita chemical cold storage
! house on North Water street above
I Tenth is now completed and viii be
ready for business by the end OF next
week. Monday morning the company
! viii begin filling il with ice 10 be made
| by the Crystal Ice company Of this
city. Orders for 900 tons have been
/ given and that is equal To- about forty
cars. Very few people are aware.
perhaps. that this is the biggest enter
prise of the kind i'm the state Of Kan
sas. People pass il every day without
realizing what il IS or its importance
| TO the commercial interests Of Wichita
The building is constructed Of brick
built on "A concrete base which IS two
feet wider and longer than the build
ing itself is The building Is thirty feet
wide. seventy feet long and lifts feet
high. Its capacity is forty cars of Ice
forty cars of perisnable goods The
basement * twelve high with the walls
twa feet thick and cemented on the
outside and underneath 70 prevent the
possibility Of dampuess IN this re-
spect II is so well constructed that the
contractors guaranteed that a parlor
match left three months in any part
Of the interior Of the building viii b. -
dry that IL viii light az the first
scratch There are IN the building
nine different apartments. each room
entirely separate from the other and
supplied with incandescert lights.
Two Of these are freezing apartments
20 preserve game. meats. butter or any
other article desired 70 b. held for any
length Of time desired Thee rooms
are supplied with immense galvanized
iron pipe tanks which viii be filled with
ice and salt and always kept al "A rsgu-
lar temperature u I've degrees. below
freezing point The other apartments
Ziil be the fruits. vegeta 1ies, eggs and [
-
Guire % be kept cool fCg their preser- .
walton through all seasons 0f the year. I
In the ordinary cold storage houses 4
the temperature o. kept low ty chem +
ic4ls and machinery. but Iu this ease .
Ice VIII be- trc only means used This 4
xiii obviste the irreguisrltiCs iu tenn
Derature- incident @ the stgqrtI2 or 4
breaking down % rnachinerv Enough /
ice viii be put IN the coming week FOR
the entire year and this. % course. will /
KEEP Cd q strictly even fs7rr-eFar gra
TIE machinery method 81 keeping the
teTnperatU-e cool has also another
dra back which this rnerusd is free
from Through the former method
TIE air in the apartments becomes i'm
pure bur- ~ this method 60 IN aIwags
kept moving bF means q air charTI}s.-rs
with which the building is veil sup
Piled The cold air o. constantly com
ing down through ore st ~ char. beers 2
while the other air - escapinE through
another Set ard .u THIS HAV tire air 81
always i1 circulation ard Consequently
always fresh TIE company VII store I
goods a. = stlpuisfsG price according 4
.o the quantity and charscter - 49,
goods. and the ZINE. ~ 81 ElIi reef
; Fiartineats - fTa1F. F.ach arzFt-larlf
= separate q is provided VIII a Ia-ek
11d ky ciftereuf frrr1 the gt-ar anzrf-
heats and is aIwaTs scc-@sib1e o. ]
-clterE- The indications u11F ars thas ,
b. most o Ire apsrtueatE W1i3 -
-ruted % -re cgTuFrliFslo. EolEra-
The building eaat sIzGaa ard - tne Z
iuest sad EEosf .ornrlste c1f8 storage
lEii9aE ll t1e state II 81 cle vas; ,