Complete Text (Part 10)

hide, How gracious those dews of solace that over my senses fall At the clink of the ice in the pitcher the boy brings up the hall! Oh! is it the gaudy ballet with features I cannot name, That kindles in virile bosoms that slow but devouring flame? Or is it the midnight supper eaten before we retire, That presently by combustion setteth us all afire? Or is it the cheery magnum?—nay, I'll not chide the cup That makes the meekest mortal anxious to whoop things up. Yet, what the cause, relief comes when we call, Relief with that rapturous clinkety-clink, that clinketh alike for all. I've dreamt of the fiery furnace that was one vast bulk of fame, And that I was Abed-nego, a-wallowing in that same. And I've dreamt I was a crater possessed of a mad desire To vomit molten lava and to snort big gobs of fire. I've dreamt I was Roman candles and rockets that fizzled and screamed— In short, I ha dreamed; But all the red-hot fancies were scattered quicker than wink When the spirit within the pitcher went tapping its clinkcty- clink, Boy, why so slow in coming with that gracious saving cup? Oh! haste thee to the succor of the man who is burning up. See how the ice bobs up and down as if it wildly strove To reach its grace to the wretch who feels like a red-hot kitchen stove. The piteous clinks it clinks methinks should thrill you through and through— An erring soul is wanting drink, and he wants it p. d. q. And lo! the honest pitcher, too, feels in so dire a fret, That its pallid form is presently bedewed with a chilly sweat. dreamt the cussedest dreams that ever a mortal May blessings be showered upon the man who first devised this drink, That happens along at 5 a. M. with its rapturous clinkety-clink. I never have felt the cooling flood go sizzling down my throat But what I vowed to hymn a hymn to that clinkety-clink devote. So now in the prime of my manhood, I polish this lyric gem, For the uses of all good fellows who are thirsty at 5 a. .— But ’specially for those fellows who have the pleasing thrall Of the clink of the ice in the pitcher the boy brings up the hall. —Eugene Field. A STUDENT OF PANKIND. “Yes,” said the man with the yellow diamonds, “ there is a heap more chance for graft inthe ice business than there is in selling coal.” “Why?” asked the man with the straw colored vest. “Cause the ice business comes in hot weather, when the people are tov lazy to kick about the prices you stick them for.” THE KNOWING KID. Teacuer—'‘ When water becomes ice, what is the great change that takes place?” Pupi.— The change in price."—Detroit Tribune. ——W. A. Geise and Wm. Nichols have gone into the ice business at Champaign, Ill. —The McNabb Ice Co., Salem, Ohio, was opened to the public June 20, when a large number of citizens were present. Hees root beer and a special grade of iced tea were furnished visitors free, and the opening was a grand success. The com- pany then sent out their wagons giving away ice from house to house in 3o-pound blocks every other day for a weck to permit the public to inspect and test the ice, after which their solicitor was sent out, and his success in obtaining permanent customers is the best evidence that the plan was astccess, The plant has adaily capacity of twenty-five tons, all of which will be sold. Several neighboring towns have contracted for ice,while the sur- plus product has been sold for the scason to Allegheny dealers. . ICE .. AN JULY, 1 [Written for 1K AND REFRIGERATION! THE WORLD'S FAIR. WORLD'S FAIR GROUNDS SOME ANSOKP LION TOR MAKING PLANT ON THE DESCRIPTION OF THE PANELION WORLD'S PAIK E\IINITS. have on prior occasions illustrated and de- W scribed the exhibits of ice making and refrigerat- ing machinery made at the World's Fair by the Hercules Tron Works (at the cold storage house), the Fred. W. Wolf Co. (Waukesha Mineral Springs Co.'s cooling plant) and the De Co. (ice railway on Midway Plaisance), all of which are now in full operation, and may be seen at any time by our readers and all others interested. La Vergne Refrigerating Machine There has also becn completed, since our last issue, an ice making plant on the absorption system, by Messrs. Henderson, Thoens & Gerdes, of New Orleans, La., which will interest the trade. Their pavil- ion is located in the rear of the ery hall, somewhat east of the center line of that plant. a simple structure in the Queen Anne style, without walls of any kind, the ice tank (16X16 feet, containing 100 200-lb.ice cans) boiler house of Mac! The pavilion is producing eight tons of ice daily, and all of the machinery being located in the open air, though covered by roof, as will be seen by the picture herewith. The machinery consists of retort, exchanger, heater, am- monia pump, cooler, condenser, absorber and rectifier, of which the absorber, cooler and water cooler are in the open air, while the condenser and rectifier are enclosed in a tank. The plant is complete with all necessary D .:. REFRIGERATION .:. 29 rich liquor coming ont of the exchanger on its way to the retort. The machine, in fact, works almost entirely from the exhaust steam from) the ammonia pump, the difference in temperature of the rich liquor entering the retort and the poor hquor leaving the retort being only 10?, which are supplied by direct steam, while the bal- The ing water for this plant has been found to be only twenty- ool- ance of the work is done by the exhaust steam: one gallons per minute. The machine is very compact, the whole pavilion and contents occupying but very little ground space: and as the only absorption machine on the ground it will be found to be of special interest to all our readers who visit the Fair. SOME OTHER EXHIBITS. The Frick Co, of Waynesboro, I chinery hall (Col. O, 301 an rr-ton “ Eelipse " refriger- have in Ma- gauges, extra heavy pipes and fittings and endless coils in ice tank. This plant,which is in actual daily operation, making ice from condensed water and also from common lake water, is a new type of absorption machine recently patented by the manufacturers. Its special fea- tures are the following: (1) The liquefied ammonia is anhydrous, no water going over into the condenser and the refrigerator. This is effected by the use of two condensers. The gas coming from the retort passes through the first condenser, which is kept at a temperature below 212°, but above a temperature at which the gas would liquefy. Therefore any steam contained in the will condense in the first condenser and fall as water into a receiver or trap, whence it is discharged through a cooling coil into the receiver of the absorber. The ammonia gas, then free from steam, passes from the receiver or trap, into the second condenser, where it is finally liquefied. (2) Low pressure in the absorber and refrigerator which is obtained by the new form of absorber; and (3) the use of the exhaust steam to heat the already partly heated WORLD'S FAIR—ICE MAKING PAVILION OF THOENS & GERDES, ating machine on exhibition. The exhibit is not under n exact duplicate of two that are in operation in the Hotel S: New York city Just to the north cf Frick is a t50-ton De La Vergne double-acting refrigerating machine; and in the model of the Bartholomay brewery in Agricultural hall (west gallery) is a miniature model of the same company's machines working in that plant. An interesting feature of the Krupp gun exhibit, lo- cated southeast of the Agricultural building, is the re- frigeration of the building by brine circulation, a car bonic acid yas machine being employed as the refrigera- tor. Inthe foundry at Essen, the conditions of manu- facture require cooling of the air of the plant, and the system there employed is reproduced on a smaller scale at the eahibit at Chicago. The n plan is the use of brine circulating coils, which are massed as a fountain, HENDERS power, but the machine is avo: 30 «. ICE .. AND .. REFRIGERATION .-. JULY, 1893. and when the pipes have become frosted a jet of water is turned on, and the “fountain” becomes a frozen cas- cade. The pavilion at the Fair is provided with two such fountains, one in the southwest and the other in the northeast corner of the large room. The basins are fourteen feet in diameter and elevated six feet above the floor. The coil rises twelve feet high from the center of the basin, and the water jet issues from the top: of it. The fountain in the southwest corner of the room was started in an imperfect manner on June 27. The jet of water was not playing, but a man was spraying the coil with water from a hose, and it was all frozen over a snowy white. The reduction of temperature noted was very appreciable to visitors in its vicinity by its refresh- ing coolness. Both fountains were expected to be in complete operation on June 29. The Deane Steam Pump Co., of Holyoke, Mass., have seventeen of their machines on exhibition at the World’s Fair, and all but one are in actual operation on work in the several departments. One of the ma- chines, forming a part of the United States patent office exhibit, is a section of their boiler feed pump. It shows the construction of the interior of the pump and the working of the Deane patent valve motion. They have two duplex pumps, each with 74-inch steam cylin- ders, 41-inch water plungers and 1o-inch stroke in the main boiler room furnishing feed waters for boilers. In the Machinery building there are two Deane air and cir- culating pumps, with 16-inch steam cylinders, 16-inch vacuum cylinders and 16-inch water cylinder and 18-inch stroke, each in connection with a Wainwright surface condenser, on a 2134 and 37X22 Westinghouse com- pound engine. In the Western Dummy Railroad Co.’s power house there is a Deane patent independent con- densing apparatus on a 13 and 23X22 McIntosh & Sey- mour compound engine. The condensing apparatus consists of a vacuum pump with 8-inch steam cylinder, 12-inch vacuum cylinder and 12-inch stroke with a jet condenser. All of the pumping machinery in the ice and cold storage building on the Fair grounds is fur- nished by the Deane Steam Pump Co. There are seven duplex pumps, pumping brine and water, of the follow- ing dimensions: Four with 6-inch steam cylinders, 5%-inch water plungers and 6-inch stroke; two with 10- inch steam cylinders, 10-inch water plungers and r1o- inch stroke; one with g-inch steam cylinders, 814- inch water plungers and ro-inch stroke. There are two 1o—6—10 duplex and two 7%4—4—10 duplex double plunger pumps feeding boilers. The double plunger pumps are furnishing water to boilers which carry a steam pressure of 300 pounds. The head- quarters of the Deane company are in the ice building, which is near the main entrance on the right-hand side. Mr. Charles Howard is manager of the Chicago office and warerooms of the Deane Steam Pump Co., at 226 and 228 Lake street, and Mr. F. S. Scott is the engineer in charge of the pumps of the company on the Fair grounds. A fine exhibit in the line of specialties in steam goods is that of the Penberthy Injector Co., of Detroit, Mich. They are located in Sec. 25, Machinery hall, where their exhibit is housed under a handsome pagoda decorated in delicate shades of blue and terra cotta. A railing made of Penberthy injectors, and safety crank pin oilers, arranged in unique design encloses their space, and within this they show the visitor their injector in actual operation. They also have a complete line of sizes on pedestals for inspection, and exhibit full lines of all their other specialties. The exhibit is in charge of their traveling salesman, Mr. W. O. Lee, and their manager, Mr. S. Olin Johnson, who will be pleased to meet all steam users. The Chapman Valve Manufacturing Co. (of Indian Orchard and Boston, Mass.) have, at Col. K, Sec. 28, a very comprehensive showing of valves and gates for water, steam, ammonia, gas, etc., in brass and iron. The company make a specialty of brewers’ and refriger- ating machine work. The Reliance Gauge Co., Cleveland, have practically two exhibits, having equipped twenty-one boilers in the boiler house with their appliances, where they may be seen in operation, while in the Electrical building the exhibit there covers a space twenty-three feet six inches long by fourteen feet deep, on one of the main aisles of the second floor overlooking the floor below. The’ ex- hibit consists of regular stock, and includes all sizes of Reliance columns, finished brass and nickel-plated, while the variety, arrangement and furnishings of the exhibit are such as to make it exceedingly attractive. It is in charge of officers of the company and their traveling salesmen, and visitors are invited to stop there. The Standard Paint Co.’s (New York, etc.) exhibit is buried, so to speak, being the insulating paper used in the cold storage house and in the Fred W. Wolf's Hygeia cooling plant, as well as in the 140 miles of Hygeia pipeline carrying the water from the springs at Waukesha to and through the Fair grounds, which are coated with P. & B. pipe coating compound. The Crosby Steam Gauge Co., Boston, have in Ma- chinery hall (Col. K, Sec. 25) a very complete line of gauges, gates and valves in brass and iron, with hose and hose couplings. The whole exhibit is most beautifully designed and very effective. It is in con- stant charge of an attendant to give information. Inthe boiler plant Messrs. Abendroth & Root, New York, have several of the ‘‘Improved Root” boilers in operation, which are always accessible to visitors. They are at the east end of the battery. They are of large size, and their performance is systematically recorded, while information is accessible to those interested. 'HE ice box is at best a poor contrivance when com- T pared with a refrigerator, being without circulation of air. It has, however, its sphere of usefulness, not alone as a substitute for a refrigerator, but as a recep- tacle for surplus ice—say the double delivery of a Satur- day, for Sunday use in small refrigerators. The ice box is easily made: Take a box, say 36X24X18 inches, made from yellow pine or poplar lumber. Bore from three to five half-inch holes in the bottom of the same for the escape of water from the ice, leaving the box drained and moderately dry. Then putin the bottom of the box about three or four inches of good fresh sawdust or shavings. Put the block of ice on top of same and cover the block on the top and sides with woolen blankets or carpets; with care a block of ice weighing too pounds can be kept in this manner nearly a week. If a smaller box is put within the larger, and the spaces well packed with sawdust or pulverized charcoal, a still better box will be had. JULY, 1993. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. GRATE EXPLOSIONS—STRENGTH OF STORAGE TEMPERATURES AND TRANSMITTED BY BELTS —PR NRINE AND SALOMETERS — MOISTURE —FOWER RVING BUTTER, UThis department of Ion an Revwiorna efit of the trade wenera oper attent an are of yenera Hy ven to much qu (or than of ladisideat intereat.- Bp.) GRATE EXPLOSIONS, To the Editor: We have heard of boiler explosions before this; but some nights ago we were treated to the, at least tu us, quite novel experience of an explosion under the boiler, blowing out the furnace doors and doing quite a little damage besides. In spite of the novelty of the thing we do not care to have it occur again, and should like to know what may have been the cause of the accident, and how future accidents of this kind may be prevented. Tu. L. Answer. Such explosions under the boiler, or grate explosions, as they are called, have been known to happen when the fire was not properly taken care of after quitting time, as, for instance, when the fire is banked on the grate while the damper is left closed and the ash pit doors are left open. Under these conditions inflammatory gases collect in the fire space and above, and, becoming mixed with just the right proportion of air, become explosive and go off in a manner similar to your experience. If in future your fireman banks the fire at night, he should see that the ash pit doors are closed tight and that the damper is left open, and we trust that you will not be troubled again by a similar accident. STRENGTH OF BRINE AND SALOMETERS. To the Editor: Please inform ie how salty brine should be to make ice by using the can system, and what is the best way of measuring the density of brine. J. T.H. Answer.—The first part of your question has been fully answered on page 291 of Vol. 1V of Ick anp Re: FRIGERATION, as follows: ‘In order to givea definite answer to your question you should have stated the low- est temperature which obtains in your freezing tank. Generally speaking the brine must contain sufficient salt to prevent its freezing at the lowest temperature in freez- ing tank, and by referring to the accompanying table you can answer the question yourself on this basis very readily. Percentage of ‘percentage of Degrees on Freezing Sal