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from 40 to 60 per cent, says the /owrna/. There are eight packing establishments here, in which over $16,000,000 is invested, and between 6,000 and g,ooo men are em- ployed, according as the time of the year and supply and demand make the pace. Packers and dressed meat men purchased at the stock yards during the year $48,- 500,000 worth of raw material upon which to operate,and it is estimated thatthe value of the same when ready for market made the grand aggregate of $64,000,000. At present the largest packing house in the world is situated at Kansas City. For the year closing June 1, packers and dressed meat men used 78,834 head of cattle, 54,- 700 calves, 1,927,826 hogs, 249.783 sheep. It is anote- worthy fact that very few at present of the medium weight class of cattle are sent on from Kansas City in first hands, but are taken out by local dressed meat men. The sheep coming here that are fitfor the butcher are about all sold to local packers, and the same is true with reference to hogs to a greater extent than ever before. PACKING HOUSE NOTES. —Armour & Co.'s beef refrigerator at Scranton, Pa., was burned June 26: loss, $15,000; insured. —It is announced that the Fort Worth (Tex.) packing house will start up for business un or about July 1. —The new Armour cooler, at Glens Falls, N. Y., has been finished. The cooler is 25Xso fect in size, and the’ ice room holds 160 tons. The Armour ice house, at Wilkinsburg, Pa., has been torn down for removal to Altoona, where the new icing station has been crected. —The Whittaker packing houses in St. Louis and Wichita, Kan., are in financial difficulties, owing, it is said, to a disagree: ment between the owners, aud the plants have been attached by creditors, —Swift & Co., Kansas City, shut down the hog depart- ment June 16, owing to scarcity and high price of hogs. The other packing houses in the city have reduced the number of their hog department employes. ——An effort is being made to organize a butchers’ associa- tion for the purpose of building slaughter and packing houses, ete., at Knoxville, Tenn. Charter has been applied for. W. B. French, J. M. Kirby, K. M. Plumlee and others are interested. — Messrs. Nelson Morris & Co. have plans completed for a new cooler at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. The building will be in the shape of the letter L, 116 fect 3 inches deep by 20 feet wide, with an L of 35 feet, which will be used as an office. The build: ing will be two stories high. RAILWAY REFRIGERATION NOTES. ——Mr. Canda, of New York, is having five refrigerator cars built at Huntington, W. Va., from his own models, which when finished will be tested on the Southern Pacific railroad. ——A joint circular has been issucd by the American Re- frigerator Transit Co., the Santa Fe Fruit and Refrigerator line. the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Co., the Missouri Pacific,the Missouri, Kansas & Texas, the Mobile & Ohio, the Cairo Short Line, the St. Louis & San Francisco and the St. Louis South- western Cotton Belt announcing that on and after May 24, and until October 1, icing charges will be made on shipments in re- frigerator cars in addition to regular tariff rates from St. Louis as follows: To Memphis, $8 per_car; Van Buren, Little Rock, Fort Smith, Pine Bluff, Camden, Sto per ear; Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana_points, $15; Birmingham, Selma, Montgomery, $15 per car. This will not apply on shipments of packing house products and beer, as those shippers furnish their own ice. —The American Rolling Stock Co. has been incorporated at Omaha, Neb. South Omaha will be headquarters of the cor- poration, and the capital stock is fixed at $500,000, divided into shares of $100 each, which is to be fully paid in when the certifi- cates are’ issu Business was begun June 1, 1893, to con- tinue for thirty years. The incorporators are Michael Cudahy, H. L. Kreider, W. M. Keenan, Jolin Forbes and John S. Knox. It is stated that the enterprise is entirely distinct and apart from the Cudahy Packing Co., although that’ corporation is heavily interested in it, The company will opcrate all kinds of cars, furnishing refrigerator cars to packing companies and stock cars to live stock shippers. It is further designed to obviate the trouble that the packing company has experienced by the rail- roads’ loading’ their ciaply care and sendin them cecond destination before they are returned to thcir starting point. ——Mr. Sickles, representing A. S. Cook & Co., of Florida, early in June was at Fort Valley, Ga., fitting up some E. T., V. & G. railroad cars, with his cen! vault, which he promises will revolutionize fruit refrigeration. Heretofore refrigerator cars have only been fixed with ice vaults either on top or at cach end, holding trom three and one-half to five tons of ice to the car, and leaving the greater amount of the fruit in the car far- thest from the ice. “In end icers the fruit in the center of the car was twelve feet from the ice,” says this inventor. “With the Sickles device the car will carry — six tons of ice, which is so distributed that nota single crate of fruit is more than thirty inches from the ice, which,it is claimed, will cause peaches to be carried to market in much better con- dition than it is possible to carry it in end and top icers. _ This center ice vault is put in the center of the car, with sufficient ventilation to start a current of air, and as the cars are provided with small trap doors, the hot air can be allowed to escape, and the temperature of the car reduced rapidly to 40° while it is a hard matter to reduce end and top icers lower than 47 with all the ice they can pack in. This de- vice is pronounced the best yet seen by fruit shippers, and they think they will yet their fruit to market in better condition than it was ever known to be carried before.” The fruit business is rapidly increasing in southern Georgia, and in consequence, while last year there were only three refrigerator car companies secking tlits traffic, this year there are seven different refrig- crator car lines’ there! already, ‘vand more expected." Henee fruit shippers are not liable to want for refrigerator carsthis sea- son. The melon crop of Georgia started north about June 1, The first car load was shipped from Albany, Ga., to Cincinnati,while now they are coming north ty all the big markets, from Boston to St. Paul, Melon growers say the crop will be unusually large and that the melons will be of good quality. About 10,000 acres are planted to melons in southwest Georgia alone. An idea of the size of the shipments can be gained when it is stated that the Georgia Central Railroad Co. expects to ship 3,000 car loads. The Chicazo demand, it is expected, will be very large, and the growers anticipate realizing good prices for the fruit. ICE... AND. Weis —— We append below the most important new patents relating to the i age and kindred trades that have been issued from the e, ice making, refrigerating, cold stor- patent office during the past month, reported expressly for Ick AND REERIGER VION. REFRIGERATOR. No. 498,400. Charles C. Lockstaedt, Chicago, Ill. 18, 1891. Serial No. 415,456. Patented May 30, 1893. model.) Claim.—1, A refrigerator having outer and inner walls, an interposed layer of bibulous material, open- ings or perforations in the inner side walls, and openings or perforations in the outer wall, whereby moisture absorbed by said bibuious layer through openings or perforations in the inner side walls can evaporate through said openings or perfora- tions in the outer wall, substantially as described. 2. A refrigerator having outer and inner walls, an interposed layer of bibulous taterial, openings or perforations in the up- per portion only of the inner side walls, and openings or Filed December (No perforations in the outer wall, whereby moisture absorbed by said bibulous layer through openings or perforations in the inner side walls can evaporate through said openings or perforations in the outer wall, substantially as described, FILTER. No. 498,544. Charles C. Froelich, Pottstown, and William Lorey and Henry Guenther, Philadelphia, Pa. Filed July 11, 1892. Serial No. 439,577. Patented May 30, 1893. iNo model.) Claim. 1. A filter consisting of a tank having a screw with a continuous thread rising from the bottom thereof, spiders with hubs adjustable on said screw, and arms with rims integral therewith, said arms having por- tions of reduced height, screens between said spiders, said tank having an inlet below the lowest spider, said parts being combined substantially as described. 2. A filter having a tank with screens and filtering material between the same, and diaphragms adapted to retain said screens and compress said material, in com- bination with a screw rising from the bottom of the tank of the filter, passing through the screens and dia- phragms and the end of the tank, and a nut which is fitted on the upper end of the screw and tightens against said lid, said parts being combined substantially as de- scribed. REFRIGERATION .-. 37 REFRIGERATOR. No. 498,612. Henry C. Heardsley, New Duluth, assignor to Charl Hurd, Duluth, Minn. Filed Apri 21,1892. Scr.al No. 430,064. Patented May 30, 1893. (No model. Chaim Ina refrigerator an upper drip pipe leading from the ice receptacle, in Combination with a separate lower pipe C leading out from the refrigerator, and an independent cast glass trap, adapted to con: nect the said pipes and detachable at will therefrom without remov- ing either of the pipes, sub- stantially as described, 2. Ina refrigerator, the trap D cast in glass and. provided with the threaded necks @, @’, in combination with the perlerated screw caps 2 and /, the glass tube A/ secured in the lower neck of the trap by the cap 7, the rub- her gasket G secured on the up- per neck by the cap /, and the drip pipe fitting closely said gas ket, substantially as described. 3. Ina refrigerator, the glass. trap ) provided with threaded L necks ¢, /’, incombination with the screw caps # and /. the wide rubber gasket G, the drip pipe # closely fitting said gasket, the glass tube // provided with flange 4, whereby it is secured in the neck d@ by the cap /, and the lower or outlet: pipe C fitting upon the projecting end of the tube //, substantially as described. APPARATUS FOR DISTILLING WATER. No. 497,742. Winslow Allderdice, Warren, Ohio, assignor to Will- iam H. Allderdice, Washington, D, C, Filed November 4, 1892. Serial No. 451,019. Patented May 16, 1893. (No model. ) Claim. 1. [nan apparatus for distilling water, the combination of a main casing, provided with an annular condensing tank in the lower part thercof, a boiler in the upper part of said casing and a condensing coil leading from said) boiler through said ‘annular tank, a pipe opening into sai condensing tank near the base thereof for supplying water thereto, an over- flow pipe opening upward to the at- mosphere and connected to the upper part of said coudensing tank and a ‘feed pipe connecting the upper part of said tank with said boiler te rminating below the level of the overflow opening and means for heating said boiler, substantially as and for the purposes described REFRIGERATING APPARATUS. No. 500,088. Martin Wanner, Denver, Colo., assignor of eleven- twentieths to William B. Crittenden and John M. Millman, same place. Filed December 8, 1892. Serial No. 454.459. Patented June 20, 1893. . No model. | Claim 1. The combination ina refrigerating appa tatus, of a reservoir containing the refrigerating material, receptacles for the said material, connect- ed with the reservoir and in which the mate- rial may be exposed to the actionofa vacuum, more or less perfect, a pipe connecting the said receptacle with the device which pro- duces the vacuum, said vacuum produc: ing device, and an overflow for said res- ervoir located below said receptacle, substan: the junction of said pipe with ually as set forth, 38 ICE. AND .*, REFRIGERATION «. JULY, 1993. MILK COOLER. Partner Wanted. No. 499,840. Charles L. Kneeland, Lansing, Mich. Filed Septem- Ina large and centrally located city.” He must haye {rar $000 vo 10000 ts ber 29, 1892. Serial No. 447,306. Patented June 20, 1893. (No put into business. Write for particulars to“ W. BB.” care Ick AND RE- model.) FRIGERATION, 177 La Salle st., Chicago. Claim.—1. The combination with the casing, of the water tank therein having a glass front, the ice chamber above the bottom of the tank and con- nected to said tank, and a grating be- tween the ice and water chambers. 2. The combination with the cas- ing, the water tank therein,and the cans mounted upon the bottom of said tank, of the elastic bands secured to the casing and drawn around thecans, and provided with hooks engaging with the tops of the cans. 3. The combination with the cas- ing, the water tank, and the cans mounted upon the bottom of said tank, of the ice chamber connected to the water tank, and the grating separating them. CATA REFRIGERATING APPARATUS. Martin Wanner, Denver, Colo., assignor of one-half to William B. Crittenden and John M. Millman, Bucyrus, Ohio. Filed December 8, 1892. Serial No. 454,458. (No model.) Claim.—1. The combination in a refrigerating apparatus of a reservoir adapted to contain the refriger- No. 500,107. ating material, a receptacle for the said material, con- nected with the reservoir, in which receptacle the ma- terial may be exposed to the action of a current of air, a pipe open to the exterior atmosphere and connecting said receptacle with the device which produces the current of air, and said device, substantially as set forth. WANTED AND FOR ‘SALE ADVERTISEMENTS. (The charge for advertisements in this column is $2 each insertion for seventy words or less, and troenly five cents for each additional fourteen words. No adver- fisements will be inserted unless accompanied by the necessary cash. Parties answering these advertisements must write to the addresses given,as the Publishers decline to furnish any information concerning them.) For Sale. Good second-hand ice machine, in perfect running order. Address “Pp. K.," care ICE AND REFRIGERATION, 177 La Salle st., Chicago. For Sale. Can be loaded 1210n absorption ice making machine in pertect order, and shipped at once. Price B. cars, with New York rate to des- ination "Addrenns¥, BCCONOVER, Loag lranch, No jituation Wanted as Engineer Incither ice factory, cold storage warehouse or brewery; or would take small interest in either. Understand either absorption or compression qystem., Pirstclass reference, Address, ““G.H." 106 Bleventh st, Hobo- ken, N. Situation as Engineer. Engineer wants situation. Familiar with all the details of ice making and refrigeration. Now holding position of chief engineer in ice factory in city on South Atlantic coast, | Want to make a change on family's account: can come at one day's notice. Address, “A. F, A. M.” care of Ice AND REFRIGERATION. Engineer Wanted. A thoroughly practical man for a S-ton compression ice plant in Jamaica, West Indies. Must be able to make repairs and furnish references. None but experienced, sober man need apply, Best board aud lodging here is $25.00 per month; climate healthy, Addrese, stating salary expected, W. J. FRANCKE, Montego Bay, Jamaica, West Indi Second-Hand Ice Machinery for Sale. Two compression machines, one of 12ton refrigerating capacity or Ston ice making, and one of 210 refrigerating capacity or Lo-ton ice making, can be purchased for less than cont. ‘They are guaranteed equal Tenpect to the best new machines now on the market. Address for 'S.W.,” care Ice AND REFRIGERATION, 177 La Sali ago. Position Wanted With some concern either manufacturing or contemplating the manufacture of ice and refrigerating machinery, by young man of several years experi- ence, and thoroughly acquainted with all departments of the business. Can fur of references and bring to the concern some valuable improve- H. A.,” care Ich AND REYRIGERATION, 177 La Salle st., Chicago. The Osborne Steam Engineering Co. ROOMS 714-715, 167 DEARBORN 8T., CHICAGO. ENGINEERS “"steienvpugi sora All who contemplate the construction of a Cold Storage or Ice Plant on the ‘ateat improved asd economical syntem, will consult their interest calling on or corresponding with us. Plans, estimates, specifications and superintendence furnished. “SPECIAL EFFICIENCIES AND ECONOMIES.” Tut GHIGAGO AUTOGRAPHIC REGISTER AND LABOR-SAVING BUSINESS SYSTEM, ENFORCING HONESTY AND ACCURACY. Makes three bills at one writing, two of which are thrown out and one remains In the machine as a record. Write for Catalogue and Price List to 154 Monroe St., Chicago, Ill. THIS SPACE WILL BE OCCUPIED NEXT MONTH BY THE ADVERTISEMENT OF ————_ C. S. SOLOMON & CO. 1o15 Sansom Street, PHILADELPHIA, PA. Well, rather not; it has kept our little “think works” achinery, stand pipes, ness? Ww that for refrigerating are in the front rank. Telephon. West é NUBIAN BONNEL IRONNELL’S NUBIANI Not Chance, But Skill ; busy for many long years. oils, smoke stachs aud all iran wort able, quality guaranteed and NO VILE, ODORS. 7 THE NUBIAN IRON ENAMEL CO. NUBIAN BONNELL’S NUBIAN BONNELL'S NUBIAN BONNELL'S NUBIAN] know don w nd handsome fir 1 a durable NVIGON S. TTANNOG 2 ay Rae oF “i (aan = Ice Making; Retigeraling) Gold Sage Kindred Trades. 4 VOL. V. NO. 2. THE COLD STORAGE FIRE. BURNING OF THE HERCULES IRON WORKS COLD STORAGE HOUSE AT THE WORLD'S COLUMRIAN EXPOSITION -SERIOUS LOSS. OF LIFE AND MONEY. HE burning of the cold storage house at the World's Fair on July to last, was one of the most appalling calamities Chicago has seen in many years, and it will be,