The times., 1898-09-04
TURN ON COLD.
It wiz he Easy to Do That with
The Liquid Air.

the Liquid Air.
Inc raging. heat has not prostrated
Charles Tripler, the inventor of the cheap
process of producing liquid air which has
temperature of more than 800 degrees
below zero. In. the cool presence of his
freezing machine he has vision of a
neat. His invention leads the New York
Commercial Advertiser to say:
Every Summer month in our climate,
wlth Its constantly recurring heated
term, makes occasion for the thoughtful
person to ask: why are we, in this age
OF inventions and devices, so helpless un-
der the thermometrical nineties? We
can mitigate cold and the zero periods by
the stove or furnace, but when the dog
star RACES we simply succumb and swell
ter.
THE best we can do up to date with
all our nineteenth century enlightenment.
when we wish to keep cool, is to use hand
or electrical fans, or go to the seashore
or mountain, or to some very high lati-
tude. Yet nothing is more certain than
the fact that these are only for the most
part feeble mitigations of our affiiction,
What we ought to do is to make our
houses cool. There is no more doubt now
that this can be done than there is that,
in cold weather, we can make them
warm.
The new process of liquefying air Is
now so well understood that its aid In
cooling hospitals, both for the comfort OF
the soldiers and the extinction of dis
ease germs. is naturally under serious
discussion Mr. Charles e. Tripler, whose
experiments with this new agent have
been recently reported, affirms his belle;
in its efficacy to cool rooms and buildings
and hospitals on land and water. In the
last two named IL would be especially
valuable in relieving the men from the
depressing and debilitating effects OF
great heat 1t would also serve as d
protection for physicians and attendants
of the sick against attack by-fever, and
a curative agent for the patients
For $1,000 he thought a liquid air plant
could be established almost at once that
would equip a room sufficiently large TO
accommodate 100 patients He says:
:" My plan would be TO construct a
room well insulated to keep the heat out.
Then, through pipes, | would force the
liquid air into the room, where ii would
evaporate and produce any degree OF low
temperature desired DeneVe tnaI any
one can go into yellow fever room
with impunity where the liquid air is
used; hence there will be no need of inn
mune doctors and attendants. Liquid air
has not yet been used in medicine, but
its possibilities seem TO me to be very
great
Mr. Tripler does not refer TO the equa
possibility of making everybody's house
cool-for the suffering soldiers, very
properly, are now first in our minds. But
In time. this will be thought Of and viii
be accomplished. To have constantly
cooled house or one cooled at night II
heated towns, viii Soon be demanded aftel
its practicabiIity Is ascertained. AT frs
the cooperation Of money in a single
plan may be necessary to tighten expense
and coolress, like gas and water. may bt
delivered in municipal pipes. Later OF
some cheapening process viii make tbs
cooling benefit accessible to each rura
residence.
"As result of this great advance il
comfort, invafids and old and feeble peo
pie need not die before their allotted time
The massacre of the innocents in city
tenement districts, through the effects o
burning sun, wili cease TO be an annua
expectation, and human life will maxi
one more triumph on behalf of well beini
and gain a new victory over the hostilitie
of pitiless natural force"