Evening star., 1937-07-18
BY JESSIE FAINT EVANS.

In these days of mechanical re-
| frigeration in our homes as a substi-
tute for the ice box, are you perhaps
Of the opinion that the owner Of an
ice business has passing CONNER
cial proposition upon his hands?
Are your recollections, too, of ice
houses bound up with nondescript
helpers loading blocks OF ice into rick
ETY., horse-draWn conveyances backed
up in front Of tall, unsightly build
ines sometimes surmounted by Pisa
like towers situated In all likelihood
near wharves, railroad sidings or
dumps?
Not only now. but all the year
around, one of Washington's largest
business enterprises, is a modern ice
plant. one of the most up-to-date in
America and one OF our city's largest
! consumers OF electric current as we'll.
With only six candles to the credit
OF its last birthday cake. 1t is located
at Third and M streets northeast,
a square but attractive two-story and
brick building, facing HANDICAPPED
HAoA'S "AeAA "a WILL hS NlOSClH moved
as a putting green.
Backed up in front of its busy load
ing platform are trim, gold-lettered
green trucks and special motor cycle
conveyances. also in a special shade
OF green, which the proprietor of this
twentieth century ice business has
made his own. With system and dis
patch, green uniformed helpers are
supervising the loading of great swiftly
moving blocks OF clear ice that auto
matlcally cut themselves before YOUR
eyes into what might be described as
daily ice box portions.
Neighborhood Harmonixes.
Across the street is a row of small
but spick and span homes. Their
windows and doors. as we'll as their
front steps, are trimmed In the same
shade Of green as that Of the neighbor-
hoods chief industry. Their lawns
also share the conspicuously WE'LL
| cared-for appearance of the company
Inventions by the owner OF this ice
business are considered the most mod
ern and effective to be found the world
over Implications OF them are used
IN Hawaii, South Africa, Mexico and
Australia. On his desk was a letter
from British firm. the Cold Storage
Limited Of Hongkong, China. asking
Tor information about the use of his
patents in connection with their
particular problems. He is also a
frequent contributor to trade journals
in his field as we'll as a speaker be-
fore conventions of ice manufacturers,
He feels developments are possible in
the Ice business today despite the
laudable advance in mechanical ice
making in homes and those business
| enterprises where the keeping of food
and the dispensing OF ICED drinks
are necessity.
Curlously enough the owner had
never seen any more of Washington
than could be viewed from railroad
train passing through its terminal
yards on business elsewhere. when he
determined from reading certain trade
reports in Cleveland, where he had
been associated with an ice manu-
featuring business for 18 years, that
the Capital City offered unusual op-
portunities for an ice manufacturer
The ice plant was pushed through in
exactly 80 days from the time that
ground was broken, 6 years ago this
past March.
IS Tons Of Cubes Daily.
Today the executive, legislative and
judicial branches of the United States
Government subscribe to its ice cube
and crushed ice delivery service. Fiji
teen tons Of ice cubes a day or $4,000
pounds, with an average OF 10 cubes
to a pound are sold daily to Wash