The morning times., 1895-11-03

Gov. n. G. ordway, was the third. The
present Officers are:
President, eX-Goy. n. g. Ordway; super
intendent, Frank g. W wilkins; secretary,
Samuel W. Curriden; clerk and treasurer,
Preston s. Smith, and auditor, Ii. w.
Tinker.
Board OF directors, William Birney, John
Casseis, William E. Chandler, Reuben b.
Clarke, Samuel W. Curriden, Frank Tenny,
Matthew G. Emery, Hallet Kilbourn, Pa
cificus Ord, Nehemiah G. ordway, Paul
Butter, Preston s. Smith, Edward K. Tinker,
and Frank G. wilkins.
%COLD STORAGE ROOMS.
Extending from the B street building
into the court yard, is a four-story brick
structure, with a small annex at the west
ern end. In this annex are three great
steel boilers, in which is generated the
steam for the cold storage machinery and
the elevators. The upper floors OF the
building in the court yard connect with
three immense floors OF the great ware
house structure, recently constructed over
head in the street building.
The building, as originally constructed,
was of one story; now it is practically of
the height of five floors, the space of the
two floors being below the warehouse
structure, which contains three floors. OF
the three floors overhead, two have been
adapted for what is popularity known as
''cold storage" and in this way has the
management OF Center Market furnished to
to the dealers in the market and to every
merchant who deals in food products in
or with Washington, one of the most valu-
able and desirable facilities now known
TO our modern cities.
The cold storage floors are divided
into rooms OF convenient size. constructed
after the manner of large refrigerator.
In these refrigerator rooms not pound
of ice is used. The coils of pipes, filled with
cold brine around the sides and overhead,
do the work.
TEMPERATURE OF SIBERIA.
The temperature of these rooms is be
low the freezing point, the goods stored
being as hard and solid as if they were lying
out doors in q Siberian winter.
Expensive machinery is required for this,
the system used being that which is known
as the compression system" Two ma
chimes of this system are now in operation.
The market company has also set aside a
room for the storage OF furs, carpets, and
other things to which moths are fatal.
To meet the demands for pure drinking
water the market company has put in an
ice making plant, together with a system
of filters. Caraffes are filled and the
water therein frozen, a satisfactory way
waters. The store rooms on the first floor
of the wholesale building have in the past
five years become the center of the whole
sale meat business of the city.
Nehemiah George Ordway, president of
the Washington Market Company, was
born on The southern slope of the Kcar-
sarge Mountain, Merrimack county. New
Hampshire, where he spent the early years
of his manhood In mercantile pursuits and
banking until 1856, when he accepted the
office of high sheriff OF his native county,
which he held until 1861, when he was ap-
pointed by Postmaster General Mont
gomery Blair, general special agent of the
England States, with headquarters at the
Boston post-offce.
COMMISSIONED AS COLONEL.
Upon the breaking out of the rebellion
he was commissioned as colonel and placed
in charge of forwarding newly organized
regiments to the front, making investi-
cations OF the numerous losses through
the mails, reported between New England
soldiers in the field and their families,
to which was added the duty of superin-
tending the enumeration and destruc-
tion Of all the ante-beilum postal stamps
and replacing them with the new war
issue in the New England district
A 1.-THE commencement of the Thirty eighth
Congress Col. Ordway was elected sergeant
alarms aud paymaster of the United States
House of Representatives, and was re-
elected n t the commencement of the Thirty
ninth, Fortieth,. Fortyfirst Forty second
and Forty-third Congresses. At the close
Of the Forty-third Congress he returned