The Hawaiian gazette., 1896-07-14

Mr.. Editor:-By last Australia" we
were favored with a copy of vour
valued paper of issue of May 29th. In
IL is contained an article, in which the
paper used for insulating the cold stor-
age rooms of the new refrigeratinp
plant IN Honolulu was subjected to ad-
verse criticism, and charged with being
the cause of tainting the meat and
spelling the butter stored in these
rooms.
As this paper was manufactured by
This company, we naturally feel that a
reply is due. The charges made by the
professors, and the manager of the Met
ropolitan Company, are so absurd TO
persons familiar with cold storage.
that, were they made in any city of the
United States possessing cold storage
plant, they would not be noticed.
They state that owing to the presence
OF coal tar and creosote in the Insulat-
ing Paper, an odor is impaired to the
meat, and resulting taste, objection
able to the consumer. is produced. In
the manufacture of P. & B. Paper, the
Insulating Paper used, no coal tar. ere
osote, or like material is employed. con-
sequently none can be present or evolv-
ed A thousand tons of the material
used by us for coating and saturating
our Insulating Paper, even if subjected
to chemical analysis, would not pro-
duee an ounce of coal tar or a gill of
creosote.
The paper is edorless and imperme-
able. It will not absorb odors. neither
will it give off any. 1t being the only
paper manufactured that possesses
these qualities, it is universally used in
the construction of cold storage plants,
refrigerator cars, ice houses and other
buildings, where the normal temper
ature is the desideratum, in the United
States
The eastern house of this COMPANY
sells over $50 million square feet of this
paper each year, while in the west we
sell over five million square feet. Of
the latter, about one million square feet
are used for drying raisins. A large
percentage of the paper sold is used for
refrigeration. In 1895 the New York
Central Railroad Company alone used
over three million square feet of three
ply P. & B. Building Paper in the con-
struction of its new refrigerator car
system.
This paper is not new thing. 1t has
been on the market for nearly twelve
years, and now has a position in refri-
geration from which it cannot be dis
placed. 1t was awarded a gold medal
at the Columbian Exposition, Chicago,
in 1898, and also at the Midwinter Fair.
San Francisco, in 1894.
Outside of the United States it is well
known. BY the steamer Alameda, -
which Will be in your port a few days
after the receipt of this letter, we are
shipping 100000 square feet to be used
in a cold storage plant about to be
erected at Brisbane, Queensland. This
shipment brings our total sales in the
Colonies during the last six years to
over 100000 square feet.
If the products stored in the cold
storage rooms are tainted or spoiled
the causes must be outside of the In
sulating Paper, and may be one of the
following:
1st.-The meat may be stored in the
room before the animal heat has en-
tirely left the carcass, and, consequent
ly, have soured. The Western Meat
Co., at South San Francisco, lost g
large percentage of its first months
product through this cause.
2nd.-The temperature of the rooms
may be kept too low, so causing a freez
ing of the exterior, and preventing the
chilling of the entire carcass.
3rd.-These cold storage rooms may
be built on filled in or swampy GROUND
which gives off odors, which are readf
ly absorbed by fresh killed meat an(
butter
4th.-General inexperience in tn,
manipulation of the plant, which car
only be corrected by studying the pc
culiarities of the humid climate of Ho
nolulu 1t may be that in order t,
successfully store beef and butter il
the Islands modification of the pro
cesses used in the United States an
other countries will have to be adopted
We are, yours truly,
PARAFFINE PAINT co.
By S. C. Irwin, Manager
San Francisco, July Is, 1896.