The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-04-30
WITH LIQUID AIR.
How Hotel Waiter Was Treated by
an Expert.
an Expert.

Here is a good story Of tile use Of
LIQUID air as told in the Warren O.
Tribune,
prof. L. Orville Davis. B. L., the
LIQUID air expert, recently had no end
of fun at hotel where he was break
fasting with some college friends
while awaiting railway connection to
the town where he was scheduled for
experiments and lecture that night.
Having asurplus quantity OF air along
he carried to the dining room a pint
or so enclosed in the wonderful DeWar
bulb, the yacum-lacket bottle which
so protects it's contents from the heat
of the atmosphere, that evaporation is
greatly retarded and the mysterious
fluid does not wholly disappear for
several hours. 1t was a pint Of the
coolest thing on earth-made Of every
day Boston air. reduced to one-S00th
Of its ordinary volume: 3l2 degrees
below zero. looking and flowing just
lake water. one of the most marvellous
substances known to scientists and one
whose energies, when harnesSed, may
revolutionize the industrial world.
"A rear steak was among the
things ordered and the same was soon
on the table before Wizard Davis who.
while the waiter was bringing coffee,
poured a. little liquid air over the
steak, quickly freezing it as hard as a
rock.
waiter, where's the rare steak l
ordered? And what is this you've
brought me?" said Mr.. d. tapping the
adamantine piece OF COW with his
knife, while a well-asSumed air OF in
dignation masked his usually happy
countenance.
Il d-dOn't k-know. b-boss. the wait
er faltered: l d-didn't do it," and he
started for the head waiter. who
quickly appeared.
Does your hotel usually serve steak
this way" and Mr.. Davis picked up
the meat between two fingers and
struck it with a knife, causing it to
ring like bell. =,
"No-I don'J-perhaps it's that fool
of a cook: he's a new man. I'll find
out what it MEANS" and he hurried
with the icy beef to the kitchen, where
CONSERVATION reigned for a while.
"Mr. Davis unobserredly turnd a
little from his bottle into the tumbler
of water, which being nearly 400 de-
gress warmer than the liquid air, the
latter was caused to quickly eyaporate
and what looked like stream arose
from the tumbler.
waiter, didn't ask you for hot
water: please bring me glass of ice
water"
For de Ian sake alive, dat man in
dare must be de debbil hisself or neah
kin Shuah. l know when l got 'nough
and l don't so neah him no more-not
if he done starves entirely'-and he
was true tc his assertion: though he
afterwards admitted perhaps he's
only one of those hypnoteSters."
The hotel proprietor now appear
ed and recognizing Mr.. Davis as the
liquid air exhibitor, repeated the wal
ter's kitchen remarks and kindly re-
quested that he not scare away all
the hotel help, adding that good
cigars were in the office awaiting the
party's pleasure.
a little. liquid air yet remaining,
Mr.. D. gavea few stock experiments,
such as freezing quick silver into
hammer hard enough to drive nails
with, the softening Of a tin dipper SO
it crushed as readily as pasteboard.
and finally the freezing of straweber-
rieS as hard as bullets, meantime Stir
ring them with an old steel fork the
tines of which were almost completely
melted. sparks Of burning steel flying
fercely, yet this intense heat not pre-
venting the liquid air from imparting
It's terrible frigidty to the berries"