WEDNESDAY, MAY 10. 1950
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE THREE
Ice Man Hath Cometh Far In More Than A Century
Washington, D.C.—Nature has made ice for eons, but not always where and when man wanted it. That put man in the business a century ago—an anniversary noted by commercial icemakers conventioning in New York just as the season's first thin ice collar formed around Central Park lake.
Because man has made ice in ever increasing amounts since the 1840's, the diet of much of the world's population is vastly improved, the National Geographic Society observes. A century ago, fresh meats and dairy products could go but a few hours' journey to market. Seafoods were strictly for seaboard dwellers.
Salinas, California, for example,
uses 4,200 tons of ice daily in the
fruit and vegetable shipping seasons
for cooling produce in transit. Texas
and Florida packers blow shaved
ice through big hoses on to vegetable
baskets which then need no re-icing
en route to such distant points as Boston
and Seattle. Sea harvests from
shrimp to salmon are sand-
wiched in ship holds with generous
layers of crushed ice.
Mechanical home refrigerators, unknown 30 years ago, today provide some 26 million American households with miniature ice plants. Despite the enormous ice-making capacity of these home units, commercial plants today are producing and selling almost twice as much ice as three decades back.
Barely one-third of today's "iceman ice" is used in homes. Another scant third of the 50-odd-millionton total supplies restaurants, stores, hotels, and hospitals. Most of the rest cools food in transportation in refrigerator cars, trucks, and ships.
The cave man stored surplus perishable food briefly in cevern crevices away from the heat of the sun. The farmer developed the springhouse to add precious hours to his fresh milk and butter. Later, cutting and storing winter pond ice for his own use, he began to sell it to townsfolk.
In George Washington's time, ice to cool summer foods and drinks was for the wealthy few in America
95 in Europe. It was laboriously hacked by hand in late winter and stored in inefficient underground icehouses.
The pioneer ice-making machines of the 1850's couldn't produce at a cost as low as that of harvesting and transporting natural ice. Not until the 1880's did ice plants take a firm hold, especially in the smaller cities and towns.
Improved cutters for harvesting ice and better icehouses, built aboveground, came early in the 19th century, not long after the first household icebox patent was issued to Thomas Moore, a Maryland farmer, in 1803. By mid-century, the refrigerator had become a house-bold necessity, and farm icehouses were commonplace.
Mechanical refrigeration now quick-freezes foods, with ice crystals so tiny they do not break food cells as slower freezing does. The process eliminates the last barrier to nation-wide distribution of perishable seafoods, fruits, and vegetables.
By 1890, Maine's potato county, Arroostook, was cutting and storing more than three million tons of ice each winter, largely for shipment south. Other northern areas were in the business, but the peak for traffic in natural ice had arrived.
Refrigerated freight cars made their appearance. Outsized iceboxes for preserving fruits for months after the autumn harvest marked the start of the community cold storage business. Federal projects such as TVA and REA introduce cold storage to remote regions even today.
Greenland's Cape Morris Jessup,
440 miles from the North Pole, is
the northmost known land point
on earth.
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Upstream Includes Articles By Ise
The desperate need for trained students who can "think judiciously and saneily about important economic and social problems" is stressed by Dr. John Ise, in an article appearing in the final issue of Upstream.
The publication will be sold today in the Union building, in front of Watson library, and in Strong rotunda. Dr. Ise's article is entitled "The Sales Problem in Education."
Other articles include a letter by H. J. Laski, leader of the British Labor party who died recently and a story by Henri Peyre, professor of Romance languages at Yale.
Andreas To Represent IFC
At a meeting of the nity council Monday night, Warren Andreas, college sophomore, was elected I.F.C. representative to the All Student Council. The election of officers for the inter-fraternity group was postponed until the next meeting, on Monday, May 15.
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