New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-24
NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER "a 1905

masonry, and is really three buildings In one, for
the machine freezing and boiler houses are sep
arated by brick walls solid those by which the
whole structure. the plant, and the product are
isolated from the outer world. OF course, the ioea
Of this plan is TO keep any communicating influences
of the boiler house from stealing into the machlne
house, and to prevent like influences from leaving
the latter to permeate the atmosphere OF the CON-
partments wherein the fee is made and storeo' Oul'
precsitons eVerytbing me IN each department is
skiIfully planned. from a sanitary point OF view
The first story Of the boiler house is lofty ana
spacious room the whtewasned Wads d ean as a
DTTeh SddTa e here & coal feeding
and stocking and conveying devices, anu no ho' +be
speck of coal dust ashes Is to be detected py We
floor above where are Installed two more $50 horse
power boilers On the top floor Is dne td nnse
one is apt to associate with "engine room" spat-
f ng % waste a1d b hnhs
and gttering Steel the whole pTesloe9Trb osy Iooe
room Of this plant actually ursets all ones PreeGfn
ceived ideas Imagine stately sd nan OF width and
90 feet in heght-flled with rachnes in seemlngy
endless END VARIETY as to sz9 and Ro man IN sight
The gttering steel and the mirroring DTn1
are not but for the movement OF maen igg 4be
might think the room newly built ana a. t{HT care
fully removed. and the place shut up ags9 IN itq
day Of starting-so immaculate Is TINS nan III 4''
Here are installed refrgerating machines. dyna..
100000 and the other Of 100000 gallons capacity
and an air compressor for the pneumatic holsrsc
tors steam condensers charcoal filters. condenseo
water coolers, large feed water heater ana t"o
The third floor Is occupied exclusively BY the am am
Swimming tanks. the ammonia and Oh fore-Go4IeTs
and the Machine nS h9P 9o5 o the e type
The freezing house which Is l t its vast e ex
s st Of e2E TO ice cakes
rousy dry floor and its overhead array Of frosted
ooofs Ike some the ice in ATctlG resigns
form Which extends the entire length of the stor-
age room and fronts on 138d-st Large as 1t Is 1t
fi1s S9 Of fhe train of Wagons which
until stretches away through fa "a 1sstbst
and includes the forty wagons OF the he aecoHntd
f fo 10 f5e fact that tn many physicians as
chemists have Inspected the plant and recqmneha-
fact fa ltf thP thus ice IS Charged for despite its
rqry at the rate 6e as t T8 the artificial
owing to the fact that 1t lasts much longer than
ins s to E schaa 100 Flos Of natural ice vii! melt
il from M to 15 hoqF 9 where's he SoTs 100 k0s OF art
Above the Storage room are the three freezing
tank floors Eve one c al each Of 200
AS can nolds cake of 300 pounds II can Dc Se9Lt
tse goi me night i8 and day hygeno ice No
tank is ever left exposed even 20 the FOR the BRIEF
space that it takes to insert can and M IL WIN c
to remove one cOHIdIhi4S 140 NSAS w. 49,
No human hands touch this product
PROCESS OF MANUFACTURE.
Croton water only is used for Ice making IL goes
into the exhaust heater and purifier on the seconu
floor before enters the boiler or feed pump uIuer
the evaporator Then as condensed water. it leaves
the boilers for the coke filters from which IL passes
into three evaporators, which are simultaneously
fed nv the feed pump from purifiers under same
Thence It passes into condensers whence II
goes to the storage tanks and re-boilers on me
inner floor From these 1t comes down tnTousn
water coolers, and passes into the chaESoad MEG 81
ar deodorizers from which 1t goes into the can 90
4 viii he seen that the water after being first care
fuIy uttered is turned into steam, then c9nEs[[so
into water and that this water is again nIteIeu-
through large charcoal flters-to insure Jhat any
color odor, or settings from the pipe VIII De re-
moved before It enters the galvanized cans 70 De
frozen These cans always sterllzed peL ULe
thew are used and of course, the tanks are sterile
Everything through which the water passes -
Extraordinarily sealed it come in contact with ne
contaminatlng Influences. But, despite its perIect
nsuiation extraordinary precautions are still taken
to prevent the entrance into the factory OF any
thing that even savors of communicating l is
ences" The very floors themselves although co0 OF
sta fIv with filtered water.