Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-05-04
THE WISE NANUFAC-
TURING COMPANY
Have Excellent Plant fer the Manu-
,1faeture Of lie cream and
GS Soft Drink.

t@ } - 1919 b. s'ss 10
Webster City people know that the
Wise Manufacturing Company stands
for good ice cream, root beer, pop,
etc. They know that the company
sells a great deal of these products
in this city, also in Hamilton coun-
ty towns and farther away to cities
and towns in this and other states.
The business of this concern is grad
ually growing larger. Few, howev-
er, have been beyond the neat front
office in the Wise building. They
do not know what a fine place the
employees have to work in. In the
large and commodious cement base
ment-cool in summer and warm in
whitehall machinery and other
paraphrnalia connected with the
making of ice cream is located. Here
is a place for everything and-bet-
ter still-everything is in its place,
making the big room systematized
one. A large trough against the &C.
ment wall is filled with rock salt;
compartments are filed with para
fine papers of different sizes, card
board ice cream boxes, and other
minor articles used in putting up ice
cream. Everything connected with
the making of ice cream is done by
motor power and it does not take
long to freeze one of the large ten
gallon freezers full of ice cream. A.
ter the cream is frozen the freezer is
packed away in the large cypress
storage tank. This cypress tank is
packed full Of ice and each section
of the tank will hold thirty gallons
of ice cream. A hot and cold water
system is also found in this base
ment, making the work of cleansing
all utensils an easy task.
During the past winter Fl. R. Vau-
BILE, an employee Of Mr.. Wise, turned
mason and carpenter, excavated I'M
der the front sidewalk and put in
two large windows in the front of
the basement, making the place de-
cidedly lighter and more airy. Mr..
Vauble then excavated at the back
of the basement place IA by 40
feet, after which he cemented it and
made it into a very convenient stor-
age room for rock salt and ice. A
frame addition of the same dimen-
sions back of the main floor is also
used for storage.
On the main floor after one passes
through the office the first notice
able thing is large refrigerator,
which occupies position between
the Office and rear rooms so that it
can be conveniently reached by peo-
pie working in either room. Here is
kept all bottled milk and cream on
sale at any time. Continuing to the
rear room one sees the machines used
for filling and Gaping the root beer
and pop bottles. Filling and Gaping
the bottles takes little time the Wise
way. Large tanks, equipped with
hot and cold water, are employed in
washing the bottles. A balcony ex-
tends the full length of the west side
of this rear room. Mr.. Wise uses
this balcony for his laboratory and
mixes all of the delicious connections
for root beer, ginger ale, and differ
ent favored pop here. The tanks
filled with sterilized water are also
on the balcony.
The Wise manufacturing plant
will soon be equipped with a fine
new elevator, it having already been
ordered. The elevator will be in
stalled in the extreme rear of the
building in order to be handily
reached from the platform at the
back of the building, as well as from
both stories inside.