The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-06-10
FURS IN COLD STORAGE.
How New York Women Preserve Gar
,neufs in Summer

There are probably more handsome and
valuable furs in New York than in any
city in the country. This is naturally be-
cause there is more wealth here, but the
climate does not give people half a chance
to exhibit the treasures they possess. To
thought it would probably be something
of surprise to know that number of
New York women have thousands and
thousands of dollars worth of furs in
their wardrobes. To the woman who
loves handsome furs a set of Russian
sables is necessity, and they will run
up to the value of from $4,000 to $4,000
themselves, and, in addition to these, the
fur lover will have some nineteen or
twenty complete sets of furs of different
kinds.
This is not the season of the year
when people generally are thinking of
furs but it is just about the TIME when
the woman who possesses them realizes,
as she does semi-annually, that she has
large stock to care for. This is the sea-
son that she puts them in storage. That
the furs could have their say about it
they would rejoice al the change from
the days of camphor and moth balls.
The cold storage warehouse is compa-
ratiyely of recent origin. A New York
man number of years ago was pos
sessed with the original idea of taking
his trunks in the summer down to the
cold storage warehouse for merchandise
under the bridge, but that was an indi-
Vldual idea, 1t was not until some FIVE
years ago that the idea of cold storage
for household goods was put into prac-
tice, and that was in Washington. It is
in the storehouse there that Mrs Pcary
of Arctic fame stores her valuable furs
every summer and leaves them in such
perfect security that not a moth will in
jure them. Since that time the cold
storage warehouse has found it's way to
New York, and the woman who has
twenty sets OF furs sends them there to
be cared for.
f.; The temperature in these warehouses
is kept from rs to. 80 degrees, and it has
been found that below 40 degrees moth
eggs will not hatch. Then the furs, being
in the cold temperature in which they
were grown, do not exude oil, as they will
frequently DO in warm place, and re-
quire, redressing in the fall. In the
warehouse furrier is kept in attend
ancc, and when the furs are brought in
ne examines them carefully to see that
they are IN proper condition, and after
ms inspection they are put away, to be
lett until they are wanted, which saves
the wear and tear of repeated br,lshings
which are necessary when they are kept
III Il inherent temperature,
Household furniture is another of the
Things which goes into cod storage now
adays. One storehouse in New York has
in its charge set of furniture which was
imported at a cost Of $25,OOO. 1t is up
holstered with tapestries from an old
French castle. Valua bic tapestry hang
ings are among the treasures that 70
into cold storage; Turkish rugs, rug-coy-
cred furniture, and fur rugs and animals
heads from all parts of the world-a men
agerje of things that have been Dicked
up by travellers.
The cold storage is not let out in small
apartments, as furniture warehouse is
Inc smallest apartments are large and
they are taken by dealers in furs and
destrnctib1e goods who keep their goods
locked up and have them cared for by
their own employees. Garments belonging
to private individuals are hung where
they will keep in the best possible condi-
ton. The bachelor who sends his Win
ter wardrobe into cold storage has no
trouble about it. He simply packs it
into the hampers sent from the ware
house, and when it reaches there it is
taken out, carefully brushed and nut
away. The most valuable eiderdown
quilt in the country IS said to be in cold
storage in New York. a beautiful thing,
made of tn. smooth feathers of the back
dll HECK VI luc elueT uuCk, which are
delicately and beautifully marked.-New
York Times.
The Quiet Great.
John Hay says one would hardly ex-
pect such vigor and Astounding force and
"go'' in so quiet and amiable a gentleman
as Commodore Dewey. The first impulse
is to take such men for the easy going
sort; but it's not even the rule that this
&c Tho IF ro0nr1c ho
been, they are and will continue to be,
the reticent, quiet, usually amiable sort.
A loud man, now and then, is great, but
he's the rarest of exceptions. Good
King Alfred, William the Silent, William
III. of England, George Washington, r.
E. Lee, u. S. Grant are samples of the
modest great. They are men who never
talked loudly, never dealt in superlatives,
never boasted but who disclosed under
their quiet exterior to the eye of the ex-
pert judge of human nature Il reserve
force, mental, moral, and physical, and a
deep and strong conscience, that the
transparent man never was known to
develop. Rouse one of these men, give
him occasion for thorough wrath, and
he is human volcano. Give one of them
a load of responsibility to carry or task
Of mountainous difficulty to perform, and
the load is borne with surprising ease,
and the task is done with force as of
the hurricane and earthquake combined;
but he doesn't blow and puff; he doesn't,
in the sense we apply the words to ordin-
airy men, ''rush' or 'hurry." He moves
as an avalanche, carrying all before or
with him. Nobody thinks of questioning
his plans or disobeying his orders. He
is "the whole thing" for the time being
His army, his fleet, his country become of
himself, and he stands forth the embodi-
ment of all that moves with and for him,
and by the irresistible breath of his will
The shadows murmur while the deeps
dom snowy man. The more of fash
and display men develop the less of solid
ity and real value they have, generally
speaking. attanooga Times.