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Refrigerator Cars

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Parent Issue
Day
20
Month
June
Year
1842
Copyright
Public Domain
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The Boston Travcllor, after announcing the arrival of 3000 wild pigeous froto Michigan adds: We understand tluit the Western rai] road ir about preparing relïigeraior carp, in which fresh beef, porie, veal, poultry, pigeons, veni- son, Wild gaine, and oí her freh meat can, by a moderate quantity of ice, be kept in perfect order in the heat of snmmer; and in which (in winter) they can be képt from frëezinc - thereby, in either case, adiling much' to the value of the article when carried tö market. These refrigerator cars wil) be used, for the likc advantngeous purpose, to carry eggs,butter, lard, fresh fish, oyster.s, lobstors, vegetables, clieese, jeinóns, orange?, strawberries, and all hernes, and fruits, and roots, - being a mot'e of trnnsportation of great value for uico dclicacies wluch bear a goud price. ]t rmy be asked, " wlmt is a refrigerator nar?" ]t is simply a common car, witii a hole ut the bottoni,wh:ch yon can stop by a sponge, that sponge allowing the water lo iirop down, while ir. iöipeccs the air coming np into tho car. Then you have four inches of powdered chnrcoal on tlie sidea and top aud bottom of tliecar, qompnctly betweeö the twn boards which ibrm each of the sides, as wcll as iho top and bo-tcm . Jf it be said that it will be difficult to maka co large a refrigerator as an cight wheel will be, we need only reply that the ice houses at Fresh Pond are. in fact, large refrigerctors, nnd that sooie ofíhem are larye enougli to contuin 8000 tons of ice, and have kept ice from riioking fora wholü ycar, and longertoo. En sending a cargó of ico to Calcutta, we 6O arrange the hold in the ship as to make it, virtunlly, a large refrigerator: and we do ihis so efiicicntly, thnt croaying the equator twice on her passage, and bcing fora long timo in the warm water and nndertheburning sunbatween the tropic?, t?he vet wasles scarcelj any of her cargo. Barrels of apples, kept cool in tibie refrigcralor, arrive in Calcutia,from Bostojj, in the most perfect order, and cornmand a grcat price.

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