The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-08-13

best refrigerated building devised for
the habitation OF man.
| The refrigerating machine. which
cools both the big exchange room and
the safe deposit vaults. has n capa-
ticy equivalent to the melting OF 500
| tons or Ice per day. 1t is operated with
| exhaust steam from engines, and uses
lup four and one.half tons OF steam
per hour in cooling the space men,
! toned.
| This Is an economical method" said
Professor Rosa, las the exhaust steam
would otherwise be thrown away. Air
| Is taken in above the roof--l70 feet
above the sidewalk--filtered through
| eheesecloth. then cooled and blown in
| TO the big Stock Exchange room. con.
tanning l.250,0o0 cubic feet The big
brine coils that cool the air consists OF
four miles OF galvanized iron pipe"
Some few theatres offer canned cool
weather on tap. but they have gone
into the enterprise upon a scale mere
ly large enough for advertising pur-
poses and far too insignificant for ap-
prec!able effect.
| Theatre Audiences Needn't Sweat.
One OF those plants has just been in
stalled in tho State. war and navy
building. in Washington. at cost OF
! $4,000 True. its function is to sup
! ply ice for the building rather than
| 10 cool it. but pines, radiators and fans
| are the only accessories that would
be needed to convert this little ice
/ factory into a refrseratiuG plant big
enough to cool a theatre of ordinary
size
| Suppose 1t cost $50 a day to operate
| It? Would it he difncult matter to
! get the money back at the box Officer"
asked Professor Rosa.
| During the hottest weather" he
| added. Sit would cost Less than 81 per
| day Per room OF the average size OF
your big rooms in public buildings
| or from % to So cents per day per
bedroom in hotels. We estimate that
to cool buildings IT costa 81 per ton
! of refrigeration which adopted unit
/ means the amount OF cooling produced
| by the melting OF ton OF ice
Why Will not the direct saving OF
| human life give as great return FOR
this investment as the saving of Ours.
Oriental rugs and the reserve supply
OF eggs meat and poultry, stored away
to protect. with other things, the high
eoet of living:
No hospitals are known to have
adopted such system. even for such
emergencies az those OF the hrst ten
days OF July, wherein seven hundred
OF our citizens had their lives frizaled
Out Of them by the elements. Some
medical institutions Nave Installed
small plants for the freezing OF preel.
Gus cor1ses. needed for dissection, but
have considered IL gross eStravaR.
anee to extend the system towards
whete mere live bodies lie In torture
| such seasons as this.
1--WE read OF the millionaire dying
/ in his palace from the heat" said the
physicist. whereas in such cases re.
| lief can be had BY simply placing cakes
OF Ice in tub and letting an electric
fan blow over IL onto the sufferer.
| Several hundreds ot pounds OF ice
would he needed per day. depending
on the size OF tie room. ane although
you might suppose that this air. com.
Ing over the melting ice. would be
charged with Increased humidity. as
matter OF fact the ice greatly re-
ducos the humidity and the patient re-
csivas air that N nnt only eoolor nu.