Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-23
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Five soda fountains with ice cream
attachments within a block or so or
each other in the central part of the
city take a ton of chopped ice every
day to keep things cool. When you
consider that a hundred pound lump
lasts the average household n while,
some idea of the amount of ice that
is required for a soda and ice cream
place is had. Hotels, of course, take
much more. but they use it for pur-
poses of maintenance while the ices
that is used in the soda and ice cream
places is all chopped up, necessitating
an extra handling and it is turned
over a few times before it disappears.
One establishment alone takes $50
pounds of ice that has to be chopped
up every twenty-four hours. Anoth-
err takes 500 pounds. Now when you
consider hat about all that the ice
is used for is to pack the freezers,
keep some of the bottles cool and
other drinks iced Il to be measured
to the extent of a couple of table
spoonfuls into a glass that is a big
amount of ice TO be used. Further
more, the ~chopping process is a pretty
! laDOrlOuS one ana eaCn bucket or
freezer that is carried in filled with
ice cut up into bits, spreading a delic-
iously cooling air about represents
some sweating. In fact, the whole
business of serving ice cream, mixing
drinks and selling the connections
that come under the head of sodas
and which are knocking out the bev-
erage of Gambrinus, Rex, for summer
use and driving the high ball and the
rickey and the fiz into the discard in
heated terms, is growing more and
more important. You n l can re-
member when they used to take n
bucket of ice into a drugstore for its
soda fountain in the morning and that
thirty or forty pounds lasted all day.
Now from five to ten times hat much
is required. And the tonnage figures
given above are for less than half a
dozen places in the Third and Market
section only. Think of how much
ice must be used in the numerous
fountains and ice cream places scat
tered over the rest of Harrisburg. Be-
fore o enc it you lave a couple of
ice wagons running on soda and ice
cream supplies lone. OF course, we
make a lot of ice in Harrisburg, but
every day you can see cars brought in
to the city on every railroad from the
big icehouses in Lebanon, Cumberland,
York and other counties. And a lot
of it goes to the soda fountains.
Postmaster Frank C. Sites was talk
ing about rural free delivery yesterday
afternoon. We've got five routes out
of Harrisburg. all serving people on
routes out of here and it's speedy SER
vice, too" said the boss of the stamp
counter. These men all have motors
and the other day the man who
serves the route from Maclay street
station out around Linglestown road
to Linglestown was back in town and
at my office before 1880. He had
- cleared up thai big route in one morn
! from the eastern end of the city and
down around Oberlin. The routes are
all growing in number of people along
them, too"
The stir caused by the movement
to get signers for the jitney amend
ment under the, clause of the Clark
act, which the legislators used to call
the II and r" for short, has resulted
in q good many people more than or
"a binary being about the courthouse. In
,r fact, it looks like quarter sessions
n week. The courthouse is getting ia
n be quite a point of interest again be-
tween the Injunction cases n the
referendum operation. Traffic on the
elevators, we are informed by the n1er
'e at the cables, is getting close TO the
point where some regulations will be
AZ required. It's all right to have a limit
on numbers, but the operatives com
~ plain tina those who ride do not eX-
ercise good Judgment in h they
smoke.
Where do the butterflies come from
that hover about the Offices in the
= business section in the mornings
One mar remarked that he had found
two great big handsome butterflies ir
"a his office one day u the statement
" called forth similar statements from
9 others. Another man said that he hat
> seen a big yellow n in he post
,. office. The answer appears to be tina,
!e the insects are carried in by the wine
when young or in the egg stage anc
re are Matched out. Possibly they come
from the Capitol or Riverside parks.
sn The manner in which passengers or
express trains jump from the car:
10 here and hustle up the steps at UnioI
station to head for the soda foun
NJ tains is worth watching. They go il
E. by shoals and take everything from
ice cream to buttermilk and orang,
Ia phosphate, only so it is cool.
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