Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-12-12
FROZEN INNOCENCE
is COLD STORAGE
Necessity and Not Meriting
public Abuse, Says
Keeper Of Plant
SYSTEM OF OPERATION
Nv MIIss


s.ss lns about taking visitors through his
hfspan.s 80 s,,nerirtendent OF n Kimberly
plAhs s,lne with every egg, even the
sss9 Kind. a Kohlnoor. who can biame
hint -.., =. ..,u ,.u
but hnrt faahion II IL because he Is
you " ILL., ~ having his houn dsws
et elat sround II eggs are selling at hny
ele ,ss dossn instead OF at twenty-five
800 bas he got to do with II, ieop'e
-, ,o be darn giad--yes. he said uarh-
- rst them az any cost az tnls ,so seaso" ~
tett.,ts. himself only TO Keep edibles eul-
"a. is a benefactor TO the human
ble ~, a blaclruard and sroundrel, az
.rS,s of the newspapers and most OF 1ne
s.sseVlvss seem to believe. 80 thtre
tt.v,nr thus rid himself OF his ire. the
a s,orase man brought forth heavy coats
~ ~ nreoared to be hospltable by personally
eapr,ins a tour into places where the
..sss,,,o.,,ctsr sometimes goes as low hs ~
.....os below zero and always stays-n
900 OF the rooms--at : or degrees Oe'""'
THE PLANT
To the average woman. worn ana spent 10
A. sndcayor 10 keep UP with the high cost
~ i,yinr. the cold storage plant is an abode
81 mystery. In its grim pree.ne.s ua'n
ss.as auch as corners when make u
sn,.as.,bie for any but multi TO get
tssksys for Thanksgiving or breakfast eggs
ssat a. not taste like glue factory smells.
srs pulled on II II we're not Tor tne eoia
storage plants. she lmaglnes the land WouIu
49, Win milk and honey all the year
,..,,,d and We would be race OF people
20, and rood.humored as old King Cole.
In reality the cold storage plant Is very
t,noesnt looking and as the superintendent
Al the pennsylvania Cold Storage ana Mar
n, Company pointed out, very necessary
institutIon. Albeit. II Is cold. win me
aaid Nhat the toes
CONCEAL and the nose look pinched ana
blue.
No matter what her feelings may have
heen provious TO a visit TO cold storage
piant every woman instlnctively sympR-
thires with stored cgg. II has tts age
labeled on It's crate In plain view or al
who wish 10 behold II.
Eggs In Pennsylvania, however, reach
me patrlarchal stage in eight months; hut
ter In nine months and poultry In ten.
After this protracted sojourn In the ice
house the law demands that they be taken
out.
ONLY EIGHT MONTHS
To the uninltiated the storage egg looks
no different from the one laid yesterday.
The expert. though, by the process OF
eandllnE. which IL now done electrically.
can tell in an instant whether an egg
& palsying with age or whether II Is Of a
,4jnne variety, The old egg showB a slight
HhTinkage from itS shell, Just hs an aged
person shrivels up in his skin
To demonstrate. the cold storage man
& went to a crate dated Aprt l9, 1916. He
extracted theTefrom an esq. the Methuselah
OF his collection. ON December 10, II II
had not come to an untlmely end, this
liethuseah would have had to leave It's
happy home and be put on the market
But the cold storage man iuggled It with
3 perfectly fresh egg. fetched two glasses,
and broke an egg into each
which Is which," he asked triumph
ansly
This IA not intended to he a paean
70 the cold storage egg. but in justice
70 that ancient hen-fruit II must be writ
ten that It could not he told from the
fresh one,
THE DIFFERENCE?
It did not smell and its yolk remained
compact
unsrringly however. the expert knew t.
Its white IS a little cloudy and a little
Eaiery," he said. Also is yolk is not so
hfm as the fresh one But IL Is a whole
some egg. That Is what you cannot get the
people to understand OF course ! would
not advise any one TO serve an eight
months old egg soft boiled 1t might taste
slightly old. but its health value would be
Just the same as that OF a fresh egg, and
Eor all other purposes except that OF soft
polling Il Is Just Ms good and doubt II the
average person could tell the difference"
one thing that angers the cold storage
man above all others is the accusation that
ths storage houses are full and that stun
prices up.
They are not fun. as you can see"-he
extended an arm In the direction OF a
spacious room In which poulty was being
nohsn hsn at an intense frigidty, III we
hlled the rooms the stuff would spoil We
tan use only about nf nttr
Most persons do not understand the law
of supply and demand, which regulates
prices ineNorably," he continued "of
course there have heen corners. and from
We business mans point of view they are
eonhtess legitimate. because law OF busl-
pes Is To get the highest price that 'you
saA for your goods But this does not
eouen the cold storage. because we do not
eNh the products, We merely store them
STORAGE A NECESSITY
me people who howl the most against
stofed food are the ones who 20 down to
Anahue city or other seaside resorts and
al ior turkey In July and August How
could they get Il II II were not for the
storage houses? Would there be enough
ssss % go around in December and Jan
e.iy u some were not put by In the months
fhsn ths supply is greatest5 or course not
ne atmosphere Of the storsrooms is OF
hikh ana dry mountaln-top variety, and
mere Is a marked absence OF odor Even
we rooms set aside for thrty-seYen or
aots varieties OF cheese-ineudlng linn
eafger-the nostrils are not dlsagreeahly-
me hFine pipes, which ehciree the
room. are always solldly 'ncrusted with ice
lleh because OF the intense cold never
Ya Ihe walls are white and the floors
tnmaeulately clean
a, Esrneps even the old egg would not be
sueh bad odor II itB storing place were
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