Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-07-06

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New York Is the greatest Ice market
In the world.
London might use more Ice II II
wanted to, but 1t doesn't for several
| reasons.
The Briton likes beer cool, not cold.
Iced mixed drinks are almost unknown
to him. Ale does not need to be kept
In cold storage as lager is. There Is
no long continued heat to drive London
to cold drinks as New York Is driven.
Hence New York carries the banner
as an Ice consumer.
If all the ice brought to New York
and made there In one year could be
Immediately divided among the people
1t would give to each man, woman,
child and baby, a lump weighing a
little over 1000 pounds.
The masses Of Ice harvested and
manufactured for use In Greater New
York this year Is estimated by l.. o.
Reeve. Of the Consolidated Ice Com
pany, Mt six thousand million pounds.
This vast mass would make a green
glistening pyramid 531 feet high and
751 feet square at the base.
The shape of this pyramid would
differ slightly from that Of the Egyp-
tian pride. 1t would be four feet
smaller at the base line, but would
overtop the biggest of the great pyra-
mids by fifty feet.
This comparatively trifiing difference
In. frIf o,tx, 10 rf
the enormous difference In bulk.
The ice pyramid would contain 1O0,-
100000 cubic feet, which rs $500, 900
feet more than the largest pyramid Of
Egypt contained i'm it's early days. be-
fore quarrymen and builders had stolen
millions of cubic feet of stone from
II.
Union Square would not begin to
contain the base Of the vast ice noun
tain which represents New York's
needs for one year. 1t would more
than reach from Fourteenth to Seven
teenth street, and from the east side
of the square it would reach over to a
point midway between Broadway and
Fifth avenue. The houses In the
square would be dwarfed into insig-
nificance, and IL such tall building
as the Waldorf-Astoria were moved
down to Union Square for comparison
the iceberg would tower 81 feet
above its highest point.
The box of two-horse ice wagon is
ten feet and six inches long, five feet
high and three feet ten inches In
width. If New York's vast ice noun
tain had to be distributed ut one time
1t would take 967, 742 of these wagons
and nearly 100000 horses to do the
work.
Allowing thirty-five feet for each
wagon and team, they would make
procession 6,513 miles long.
The practicable parts of this North
American continent are not large
enough to accommodate such process
sion. 1t would stretch in n straight
line south to Cape Horn, at the fur
thest end of South America, or it
would stretch out across the Atlantic,
Spain, the Mediterranean, Italy, Tur-
key in Asia and the Caucasus Noun
tains to the Black Sea.
If all these wagons were combined
In one vast ice van. its body would be
approximately 1.050 feet long, 1888
feet wide and 500 feet high, and 1t
would stand on wheels Ala feet in d.
ameter, which would raise the roof of
the van about 7S4 feet from the level
Of the ground.
The roof of this wagon would be
more than three and one-half times
higher than that Of the Waldorf-As-
toria. With pair Of horses added of
proportionate size, the outfit from the
tongue to tail-board would reach from
Madison Square down Broadway and
through Union Square to Fifteenth
street
1t took about 10000 men to prepare
the ice for sale, and about 5000 are
engaged in distributing it.-New York
World.