The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1908-07-16
Charlotte Chronicle.

Charlotte Chronicle
The actually of IA revolution in the
manufacture of ice is what is now on
demonstration by the Carolina Ice
Machine Company, of which organ
ization has just been perfected with
an + authorized capital stock of
$25, 900 and headship that means
putting through each specific under
taking Officers have been named as
follows: Messrs. S. S. Miles, presi-
dent; DR.. Charles L. Alexander, vice
president; J. R. Curry, secretary and
treasurer. Within short time all
parts and appurtenances will be
manufactured in the establishment
in their commodious quarters on
Fourth street.
INVENTORS EXPERIENCE.
President Miles, of the new con-
Germ, is q native of New York,
though he has spent many years of
his life in Cincinnati He is a man
who has devoted more than thirty
years to his chosen work, that Of
handling icemaking machines. Much
of this time he had associated with
him his son, Mr.. c. w. Miles of Cincin-
natl, who is also practical ice man.
Many of the earlier patents of Mr.
Miles, senior, under the ammonia
process, have already passed out by
expiration. He has for several years
been on the alert in preparing other
processes that will mean decreased
cost in production, and such efforts
have been most signally crowned in
the success he is to achieve with this
last-named process. The
solution OF the matter with regard to
such direct personal and acknowl-
edged ability as is granted Mr.. Miles,
is that ice may be now manufactured
| at a cost of something like 81 ton
Good, clear ice is being produced at a
pressure of IS as against the old
carbonic and ammonia pressure of
22O to $50 pounds. This is far
cheaper, is non-explOsive and SELF
| lubricating. A technical description
OF the process and the modernized
outfit would only mystify the lay
| man, but the machines stand for
themselves in actual and active dem
onstration Of what they have already
accomplished. The specimen ma
chine on exhibition proves the won
ders OF the inventors plannings and
evolutions in the art Of keeping cool.
THE VARIED CAPACITIES.
These machines will be built from
the five-ton class down to that for
private or family use with capacity
OF 100 pounds of ice in each natural
period of freezing. The last named
outfit will embrace a commodious re-
frigeratOr, with the storage spaces in
the center, and the motor and ma
chine on opposite sides, which will
| permit OF cOmpactness that will af-
ford easy handling and the shipment
in that form to any market. The
public will be interested to know that
the power of an ordinary 16-candle
circuit is sufficient to operate the
machine. The fitness of application
of such outfits to factooies and enter
prises of all kinds employing consid-
cradle help will be at once apparent,
and where such concerns have their
water and power supplies the cost Of
such operation would be scarcely fig
urabe. The mysterious part of the
process lies more largely in the gas
supplied by the makers. An ordinary
supply is deemed sufficient for five
years, Or at the outside the cost per
annum may hardly exceed from 60
cents to ST.. The company is finish
ing one ton-and-a-half machine now
for one OF the large hotels in Atlanta,
Ga, and orders have already been
received such as tell the merits of the
perfected machines. 1t will
be the matter of short time only
| when the machines will be made here
on large scale. The prices of the
various outfits will run approx
matefy from 5000 for small output
to a range covered by the necessary
increase in supplies and accessories
The city is to be congratulated on
securing another enterprise that will
not alone prove the revolutionizine
OF an industry, but that will bring
here many more skilled laborers in
wood and iron, as it is q matter o.
time only when all parts and attach
ments will be produced here at home