New-York tribune., 1919-10-28
Community Council
Women Shown How
Cold Storage Works
Representatives of 10000
Taken Through Plants
i'll Movement to Dissipate
Ideas About Operation

Community Council leaders, repre-
senting $4,000 women in greater New
York, shivered IN topcoats and furs
yesterday as they explored the largest
cold storage plants in the city. The
expedition was the second in series
arranged by Herschel H. Jones, di-
rector Of the New York City Office of
the State Division of Food and Mar
kets. The object is to dissipate some
of the prevailing ideas about the
operation of cold storage plants and
give the Community Council women an
idea how things are run, so they may
diffuse the information among other
members of the eighty councils.
The first trip was to the Merchants
refrigerator Company, Sixteenth Street
and Tenth Avenue, where butter, eggs,
dried fruits. figs, nuts and meat were
seen in storage. The visitors we're
taken from floor to floor with a stead
lily falling temperature that stopped at
y degrees below zero.
1t was a new experience for MANY
Of the women
Il never realized that wicked cold
storage plants could be so interes ting"
laughed one of them.
The development Of cold storage and
the problems of its operation were de-
scribed by Frank Horne, formerly head
Of the cold storage division Of the
United States Food Administration and
now head of the committee working in
connection with Congress in the draft
ing of q nationa! cold storage law.
He told of the old-fashioned methods
OF picking, and outlined the advances
In scientific operation Of the last twen-
ty-tve years. The theory that cold
storage houses we're cornerng food
products is fallacious, Mr.. Horne said.
Treatment of Fish Demonstrated
The party next proceeded to the
Brooklyn Bridge Freezing Company
plant, where the processes OF sorting
and washing fish, placing them in pans,
putting them into the freezing temper
ature, covering them with glaze OF ice
and storing them in the regular cold
storage rooms, we're viewed.
"The chief outcome Of the lnves.iga-
ton" Mrs. c. c. Rumsey said. "is
demonstration of the need OF more colo
storage plants in the city for prescry-
ing perlshable food. The average person
loses sight Of the fact tnat to get com.
Ailouie e'eS WHICH are produced OILY al
certain seasons OF the year il is neces-
sary to store them during seasons of
plenty against the time when there is
no production. Cold storage plants are
Invaluable institutions What VIC really
need is municipal cold storage plants
conducted il conjune ton With terminal
Mrs. Bernard L. Pollal.. C the
Council Of jewish Women and presi-
dent Of the League of Women Work
ers, advocated a1 amendment % exist
ing legislation to place cold storage
plants under controi OF the State Divi-
sion Of Foocs and Markets.
ln the party were: Mrs. Bernard f.
pollah. Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Gilman,
Mrs. Nanny Strauss. Mrs. II. Stanton
Blatch, Mss May Van Arsdale, Miss
isabelle Lord, Miss Sadie American,
Mrs. Helen Hartley Jenkins, Mrs. Ella
O'Gorman Stanton. Miss Anna Hickey
Mrs. T. Shorteil, Mrs. J. Gilmore Dray-
ton, Mrs. +. l.. Crawford, Miss Mildred
Taylor, Mrs. Henrietta Speek- Seeley,
Miss Jane Pincus, Miss Anna B. Cowles,
Mrs. James Fitzsimmons, Mrs. c. D.
Griffith, Mrs. c. T. Benedict. Mrs. Stan
ley NJ. lsaacs, Miss Mary Hickey, Mrs
+. Il. Halsey, Miss Hermina Lynx, Mrs
Morris Cooper, Mrs. H. L. Lonsdale
lsadore Segsil, Ernest Leo and Herschel
H. 1Ones