The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-03-24
LARGEST PLANT
IN SOUTHLAND
Great Industry in Operation in This
City.
WHAT THE PRODUCTS ARE.
How pourd Of Ice Is Made at the Home
Brewing company's Plant-Its Ca.
pacity the Greatest Of Any
in the South.
WHAT The PRODUCTS ARE.

c,o,nnaraiivcly few thermometers know
that this city has one OF the most Hoo-
ern,y equipped brcweries in the country.
and The ice plant operated by the Home
Brewing Company is the largest south oi
Philadelphia The Homo Brewing Com
many has now an annual capacity o.
900 barrels and a storage capacity Oh
,5 oee barrels. yet within another year 1t
is the intention of the company to prac-
ticaily double the present capacity OF
the plant. The daily capacity OF the
=jcc plant alone is sufficient to supply
.one-haif the demand OF this city III the
hottest summer season.
Roth The brewing departments ana inc
ice factory are extensively equipped Win
the most modern and up-to-date inachih-
crr. The brewing capacity IS l5o barreis,
or $50 every twcnty-four hours. While
the l,ottlinS capacity is 1,5c0 dozen daaiS,
,,ndcr ordinary conditions. Anothcf
feature OF the establishment is that the
Home Brewing Company is the ohis
brewery in Richmond which includes ale
among its products. The products bear
ing the Home Companys label are
NSurtzberger Malt Extract, Weiner En-
mort. Pabst. Back. Bovarian, Dewitt Ale,
and xxx Porter.
Tho company operates its own line OF
refrigerator cars and has depots IN Inc
principal cities of Virginia and North
Carolina. including Newport News. Phoc-
bus. Petersburg. Fredericksburg, Suffolk.
Wilmington. Henderson, and Rocking
ham.
THE ICE PLANT.
The ice plant. as has been said, IS the
lsrses, south of Philadelphia, and has
of 1.n tons. Inc
enuipment of this department, Ike .tnat
of the Others is OF the most improved
design Four l.0-horse-power boilers are
fed ny two 9xl6 Deane high pressure
,,urnns and furnish the power linen there
are TWO -5-ton compressors, DRIVEN ny
Two e4x4S Corliss' engines ana me %
horsepower dynamo, with direct conliec-
lions lights the entire plant Inns ina
..hiuerr together with one u holse-poH.t
engine. which drives the ian III me cooi,
inp, tower. and three five hundred ana
,;f5,- Gallon per minute duplex pumps.
,oper,,er with one Is horsepower asla1t-
snS engine. comprises the motive power
machinery of the ice plant
Tho building which is occupied D! inns
Great plant occupies about has1 a oiocfN
between Marshall and Clay streets Oh
,be north and south and HARRISON anu
Merton Streets The building is olsioeo'
each division containing 800 cans, each
canaf,le of freezing a 3G0-pound cake. IN
all there are eighteen hundred cans for
,akin-- this ice out of the wells suitable
machinery has been installed, consisting
M four cranes and as many dumps. Iheie
are also three cold storage rooms. capa-
bis. of holding 1850 cakes. The ice Is mace
from distilled city water and that from
artcsiau wells.
HON WATER IS DISTILLED
But the process of distillinS is one most
Interesting and known by comparatively
few. Take for example sufficient water
10 produce enc pound OF ice First 1t is
pumped out of the James River and final
ly reaches the plant of the Home Com
1anv. Here is begun the process Of dis
tilling. First ii passes over the ammonia
.condenseI-s and then over the steam con-
,iensers to the hot well and then 10 the
and then to the engines. from whence it
passes exhaust steam. and being con-
densed is once more returned to the boil
crs- In the Teboiler process it passes
through eight rcboiiers to the fiat coolers
and thence to the filters, three in num-
ber. To the storage tanks, of which
there are four. having a capacity of II, $50
gallons, the water next goes, and from
there into the ice cans and into the freez-
ing tanks. Ice is the next product.
IL any nlicrobc or bacillus can live after
going through that process the scientists
are docking for him. The water from
which the ice is made at the plant Of the
Home Brewing Company is. like the ubi-
Quitous ''ad., " absolutely pure"