The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1908-02-07
NEARLY FREEZES
10 Death In Ills Own Refrigerator
an Atlanta. Ga.
DOOR SHUT ON HIM


And w. II. Whito, Jr., Had Artic
Adventure in his Ice House, Where
He Had Conc to SEQ How the
thermometer Was Working and
II the Meats Were in Good Condi.
ton.
This is the story OF how an Allan
Ia man was lost in the artics Sunday
morning and kept himself from freez-
lis 10 death only by dragging the
loreqnarter OF beef frantically back
ana 1orth for more than an hour as
told by the Atlanta Journal.
On last Sunday morning shortly
after ten o'clock w. III. White. Jr.
OF the White McLendon company,
wholesale dealers In meats. stepped
into the refrigerator OF his ware
house at 1 and 3 East Wall street,
1or the purpose of seeing what de-
gree his thermometer registered No
sooner was Mr.. White inside than
the door Of the ice house banged and
the spring lock clicked fast
From then until / o'clock he had
no need to consult the thermometer
to know the temperatures
Il have discovered the north pole"
he said shortly after his release,
and l can tell you it's a bad thing
to hunt for"
While Mr.. White was working his
hardest to keep up a faint spark OF
warmth in his blood, his carriage
with Mrs. White in it was awaiting
him in front Of Durant's restaurant
on Alabama street. Flo had called
at the restaurant few moments be-
fore to take James S. Gaines and
Mrs Gaines for a morning drive. Mr..
Gaines was slightly delayed SO Mr..
White said:
II think III drop by the warehouse
whilei@e're waiting and have look
at thj,tmercury. BE back In min
ute
When the minute had passed and
twenty moro had followed the ladies
grew uneasy. BY eleven o'clock Mr..
Gaines yielded to their anxiety and
set out to find the trouble
In the meantime strange and.
for the time being a terrible drama
was being enacted in that ice house.
Anyone who could have pccpcd in at
the time would have seen a white
faced man lighted by the misty blue
OF solitary incandcsccnt globe rae
ing from one side OF the box to the
other with huge quarter OF beef
on his shoulder. lie would hang the
beef first upon one hook and then
upon another. all the while swinging
his arms high above his head and do
ing thousand and one Swoboda
stunts.
''lt was either this or freeze" ex-
planned Mr.. White. "If man is
hard at work he can live In such a
refrigerator hree or four hours, but
if he stands still he will pretty soon
be like one Of those petriiied animals
that gcologists dig up In northern
Russia.
And so back and forth he tuggcd
the beef until the end Of his impris-
onmcnt 1t looked like soup bone
that had done duty three DAYS.
Once telegram messenger boy
passed on the alley on which n tiny
side window Of the refrigerator OPP
ems. Mr. White heard him whistlng
and with all his might he shouted
and beat upon the sides OF the ice
house. But the boy kept on his way
unhecding. Then he began to think
what might happen. Ilc concluded
at first that someone was playing a
joke on him and then he decided
that pretty soon the policeman Of
the beat would pass and seeing the
keys In the front door would lock
thinks up and go away.
He conjccturcd that i'll the mean
time Mr.. Gaines and the ladies would
decide that he had been detained on
business and would take prcimi-
nary drive over town. However, he
might vicw tho situation. it looked
hopeless and he remembered all the
stories he had read of travellers being
buried undcr the snow and freezing
TO death With no earthly sound to
greet them, except tho lugubrious
howl Of far away packs Of wolves.
Every detail Of his strange prison
fell into harmony with such roman
ces The incandcsccnt globe cloakcd
in its chill fog shot forth fantastic