The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-21

Not all the medical men IN the
world can prevail upon the American to
forego his iced drinks in the summer
MANY of MS look upon ice water as
an all-tbe year round necessity, and
great is the howl if the ice trust raises
the price al critical time. Free Ice
funds are feature of the socioioelcsi
is preserved by cold storage, the street
drinking fountains are cooled with ice,
iced soda water and soda fountain con
,octions are sold by the million drinks
? dav, and the ice wagon is ever 60
ing and going from door to door.
A weIlto-do family in an English
town of 100000 people docs not know
that there is such a thing as Ice, so
far as household purposes are con
.erned. The butcher in the market has
a deep pit filed with ice IN which he
hangs his meats. but he will decline to
sell any OF it, because ii is so much
trouble to get at IT. Ginger beer ana
nottIed soda are delivered warm and
drunk warm. In those places where
Americans are wont to visit. thero is
ice. and of course many English peo-
ple have il, but the general use which
Il has in the United States is un-
known AS IN England, so in other
countries of the world-the American
idea of drinking ice water. all inc year,
Of eating ices, and of having fruit and
salads iced, all these things are pTac-
tically unknown,
An American. Dr. John Gorrle, of
Apalachicola. Florida, invented the
process of making ice artihcally, and
so made the modern ice trade and sys-
tenn of cold storage possible. Another
American Frederic Tudor. OF Boston,
ha Grc9 fn
in natural Ice. From Tudor, first, and
then from Gorrie and his followers,
the American ice trade has spread all
over the world in one fashion or anoth.
er There was a time when the United
States sent ice TO Asia. Now 1T sends
machines to make the ice.
The effort to alleviate human suffer
ing was the direct cause of the begin.
ing of both the natural ice trade and
the artificial ice industry. In 1905 Mr..
Tudor S brig .'Favoritc - carried a load
of ice TO the people of Martinique, who
were stricken with an epidemic OF yel-
low fever. The ice was not properly
packed and all of ii melted before it
reached It's destina ton. Notwithstand
ing the loss of that cargo, worth about
$4,000, and the loss of a second sent TO
Havana two years later, MI Tudor
was not discouraged. and in 1916 he
secured monopoly of the ice trade in
Havana from the Spanish government
and successfully launched his business.
This was followed by the establish
ment of ice ship lines to Charleston,
Savannah and New Orleans. BY 1888
shipments of ice were made from Bos-
ton to Rio Janeiro and Calcutta.
Dr. John Gorrie. a native of Charles.
ton. South Carolina, was practicing
medicine in Apalachicola, Florida. He
was scientific man. and fond of max
ing experiments He conceived the
idea of arti6ciallv cooling the air in
the rooms occupied by fever patients
by taking advantage Of the absorption
of heat from surrounding objects by
expanding volatile gases. He was so
successful as 10 make actual ice as
early as Js45. In 1850, in the Madi-
son hotel in his home town, he publicly
exhibited his machine and made ice
with it, He was granted the first pat
enJ for an ice-making machine III the
same year, The New York papers made
fun Of the invention, and DR.. Gorrie
could not get enough money TO enable
blm TO make experiments along large
ines. He died In 1855, without having
seen the success Of the line of work
which be had begun. Jacob Perkins,
an American engineer, living IN Eng
and. had made some successful expert
ments with cooling apparatus several
years before. Professor Alexander
TwiDing In America, and James Har~