434 State Horticultural Society. 



I 

 LIQUID AIK FOE EEFEIGEEATOR SEEVICE. 



The Fay Fruit Company, of Los Angeles, has made arrangements 

 with Charles E. Tripler to use his process and appliances for the manu- 

 facture and employment of liquid air. The particular end in view is 

 to equip the refrigerator cars of the company so that liquid air can take 

 the place of ice. Since the company ships east yearly over 2,000 car 

 loads of citrus fruit, vegetables, dried fruits and nuts, and the great bulk 

 of its shipments must be made in refrigerated cars, this one phase of the 

 matter is highly important. The plant which wull be installed for 

 liquefying air will also supply magic substance for use in every other 

 conceivable way. F. B. Fay and his associates of the Fay Fruit Com- 

 pany are believed to have "got in on the ground floor" of a very impor- 

 tant enterprise whose consequences will be far-reaching. 



Mr. Tripler has broken a record and demonstrated the possibility of 

 using liquid air for refrigerating cars in which perishable goods are 

 shipped by sending liquid air from I^ew York to Chicago — a distance of 

 1,000 miles. Liquid air can be made nowadays at an expense of from 

 ten to twenty cents a gallon. A three-gallon receptacle in an ordinary 

 cold-storage room will last a week and do the work of a ton of ice, the 

 air costing, however, not more than 60 cents. 



Mr. Tripler's devices make it possible to regulate the temperature 

 produced by liquid air. The inside of the refrigerator cars equipped 

 with his appliances can be kept automatically at an equable temperature. 

 It will probably be necessary to fill the liquid air reservoirs at two or 

 three points on the journey across the continent, just as it is necessary 

 to fill the ice tanks under the present system, so this will necessitate the 

 construction of factories at some such poiuts as Las Yegas and Kansas 

 City. 



The superiority of liquid air refrigeration is based on many reasons. 

 For one thing, it will reduce greatly freight on fruits. Five tons are now 

 necessary for each car. This occupies about one-sixth of the ear space. 

 The liquid air refrigerating apparatus will, it is said, take up very little 

 room, and weigh but a trifle in comparison, although 50 gallons are used 

 at a time. Consequently each car can cai-ry much more fi'uit than 



