TITY. As a class man is proverbially ungrateful. Those com forts which lighten his labors day after day he regards as matters of course and gives not one single thought in grati tude for the enjoyment consequent upon them nor one sin gle reflection upon the care and labor expended in order that he may enjoy them. Little does he think while sipping his ice water after a day of toil under a sun high in heaven and with the thermometer far up in the nineties of the im mense amount of labor expended a few months before in gathering and storing that substance which shall render his water palatable. Now that the hot season is once more upon us it may not be inappropriate to give within the space of a short article a description of the process of gathering the immense crop of ice which is necessary to supply the demands of sweltering humanity in our cities. When we consider that seventy years ago ice in cities was deemed a rare luxury during the summer and it was only within the power of the wealthy to pay the prices demarldedit must be conceded that the increase in its consumption and decrease in price have been wonderful when today rich and poor alike demand it as one of the necessities rather than the luxuries of life. In the city of New York seventy years ag a few tuns satisfied the demand ; for consumption during the present season in this city alone 1000000 tuns have been harvested engaging the energies of six companies with an aggregate capital of $4000000; in its transportation and delivery employing forty barges five steamers three hundred wagons five hundred horses and seven hundred men. Many of the ice houses in which the ice is stored until needed are built of brick with double triple or even qua druple walls the spaces between the walls being filled with sawdust or some like substance. They are from 200 to 400 three and four stories in hight. Airtight doors close each floor. A proper time having arrived for the gathering of an ice crop all is hurry and bustle.
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