El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-07-05

weather instead Of hot air in cold
weather. The furnace man shONels Ice
into it instead Of coal
Simple Continuance.
Nothing more simple than this con
trfvance cOIud well be imagined ~
principal feature IS a box Dig 5ECI7 IL
TO contain 200 pounds Of Ice, when Is
renewed twice a week Into this box a
current of air from outdoors IS lOiCeo
through a pipe by an eleclIlc IAN q
small motor hitched to a light wire
socket furnishing the power me ar
cooled by passing over the Ice descenuS
through another pipe (Weu lnsulaIec 70
prevent loss of cold) into Prof Ben
study. below. where it escapes near lne
floor. Even when the temperature, as
recorded by the weather bureau, goes
above the 100 mark, the Thermometer IN
the study stands at 90 degrees
The inventor says that anybody can
rio M such an apparatus at trltln8
cost using an old refrigerator 10 noIu
the ice But ii Is important Jndt me
room to be cooled by such means sHStlI
be as air tight as possible about me
floor and lower walls, inasmucn as coLu
air beng a relative heavy uuld, mas h
tendency to flow out through cracks
and under the doors. Prof Bells study
- fo~nerIv a swimming tank, and
the walls being of tile, with WINDOWS
high I'D and the door reached by a
short ladder. it is particularly wen
ADAPTED for the purpose.
Used in Modern Flats.
There are already a few high priced
flat houses in which cold air is sup
piled to tenants in the summer time as
regularly as hot air in the winter All
they have to do IS to turn sWllch
and the tempera ture of their rooms can
be made exactly what they wish, no
matter how the thermometer STANDS
outdoors This is accomplished by
pipes carrying ammonia gas, the apart
ments being included In great reIrlS-
Grating system which Incidentally tur-
nfshes cold to the ice box IN every nat,
so that the luxury enjoying mouse WlIe
never sees an ice man. She needs no
ice
But this. of course, costs a great deal
OF money. Tt offers no suggestion that
is useful to ordinary folks Nevertne-
less the time is sure to come before
very long when cold will be obtained
in hot weather at a reasonable price
Large business concerns have almost
entirely abandoned the use Of ice, cool
ing by eVapOrated ammonia IN COILS De
ing cheaper and much more SAUSAGE
tory. Some system is sure to be found
that is adaptable to dwellings. In our
highly developed civilization the ice
man with his fugitive daily lump IS
distinctly a back number; one mlshL
almost say. an anachrOnisn- A century
from now people will wonder how Jhelr
ancestors ever managed to get alonS
with so primitive a method OF supply
ing themselves with cold
As the latest development OF the
method in first class hotels, the Tarl-
Gus compartments of the huge refrls-
orators for containing different KINDS
of food supplies are Kept slmuI-
taneOuslv at different temperatures
the fish compartment at SO degrees, the
meat compartment at y degrees, the
butter and milk. compartment at "A
degrees. etc. each of these being the
"ontimum'' GOODNESS for perlShable ma
terial concerned From the same source
is obtained the cold for making, at 10
degrees fahrenheit. the small cublcal
blocks of crystal clear ice. which lend
so dainty an attractiveness to the hotel
Goodness by Pipe Lines.
So much success has been obtained
with this method of cooling that its eN-
tension for the service of whole com
munities through pipe lines has been
deemed practicable Already we get
light fuel. and even power through
pipes laid underground in cities. W ny
not cold alSO2 How convenient II would
be to turn a faucet in hot weather ana
let in q stream of cool air Pipe lines
from central stations should supply
eVapOrared ammonia like gas, the con-
sumption being measured by meters
Properly arranged coils would chill the
rooms and the family refrigerator
could dispense with ice fOrevermOre-
It is a most attractive idea, but un-
fortunately, IL has not proved prac-
tiCaDle up TO date A very thorough
trial of it was made in Boston some
years ago and some millions of dollars
were sunk in the enterprise, the prin-
Cipal trouble being that there was too
much leakage" Of cold on its way
through the pipes It was not econom-
iCal. Unless some entirely new method
of utilization can be devised. neither
ammonia gas nor cold brine VIII ever