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The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Financial and manufacturing. (search)
ed by buildings, the main building being six stories high and having several acres of floor space. Originally the meats were cooled by placing them in large boxes of chopped ice. This crude method was superseded by using large buildings filled with ice, the lower portions of which were thus made refrigerators. One such was built by Mr. Squire about the year 1881, which held 37,000 tons of ice, and had three or four floors for cooling purposes besides the basement. After the fire of October 5, 1891, which destroyed the hog-house and burned out the interior of this large refrigerator, Mr. Squire adopted the De La Vergne system of artificial refrigeration, and built a large building wherein were located two large machines with a daily ice-melting capacity of 300 tons, and had this large refrigerator building equipped with the piping necessary for carrying on the refrigeration. By means of this change the area for cooling purposes was largely increased, having now a total of nine ac