HOUSE AND GARDEN 
54 
February, 1912 
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' SUPPLEE HARDWARE COMPANY ... * 
P. 0 , IJox 1582 , ^ I’llll AULI l’HI\ 
Home of F. H. Shelton, Media, Pa. 
The large house without its own cooling-plant is as 
incomplete as it would be without electric lighting. 
Mr. F. H. Shelton, whose beautiful residence is 
shown at the left, and hundreds of other well-known 
families, a few of which are mentioned below, 
would not think of depending on the ice-man. Now 
there is no muss or bother or disappointment, and 
the food is kept fresh and cool and dry. Their 
homes, in town and country, are equipped with a 
HOUSEHOLD 
REFRIGERATING 
and ICE-MAKING PLANT 
This system does not rely on ice. It 
simply cools the air, keeping it dry, at 
an always even temperature. The 
food does not lose flavor or change 
appearance. 
With the Brunswick you do not keep the food in a 
heavy, moist atmosphere (which cannot help but be laden 
with germs), but in pure, dry, sweet air. 
Very little time is required to 
put the Brunswick into work. 
Your butler can devote a few 
moments a day towards starting 
and stopping it. It is sim¬ 
plicity itself, and is unusually 
compact. 
We invite your attention 
—and will be glad to send full 
information by mail, or have 
our representative call, as you 
desire. Every Brunswick is 
made to fit the requirements 
of each user, and it is guaran¬ 
teed to give results. 
Brunswick Refrigerating Company 
New Brunswick New Jersey 
A few of the Representa¬ 
tive Brunswick 
Users 
Mrs. E. H. Harriman 
P. A. Rockefeller 
J. P. Morgan, Jr. 
G. G. Frelinghuysen 
James B. Clews 
Mrs. Wm. Thaw, Jr. 
Gage E. Tarbell 
Hon. Whitelaw Reid 
Refrigeration in Large Houses 
ert stayed home for the next two days to 
help with the path and the rest of the 
posts. After that the framework went 
up rapidly. They got a carpenter for two 
days, to help with some of the harder 
work, such as fitting doors, sash bars, ven¬ 
tilators. 
They had bought several bundles of 
newspapers and tacked these up several 
thick, over the part of the barn which 
was to furnish their back wall. Over this 
they had laid ply roofing paper, which 
made a smooth, neat and very cold-proof 
wall. The front wall, which was three 
feet high, was boarded up half way, given 
a double layer of tar paper and then 
boarded again on the outside. Between 
this and the eave-plate, which they had 
had cut out just as they wanted it, twelve 
of the small window frames were fitted, 
each held in place with a couple of short 
leather straps, at the top, and a wooden 
“button” at the bottom, so that they might 
be opened for ventilation. These frames 
were used also on the ends, and above 
them sash bars that they had sawed out 
themselves, since for use in this position 
no “drip” groove was required, as it was 
in the roof bars. For the ends of the 
house they managed to get from the con¬ 
tractor 50 lights of second hand 12 x 14 
inch glass, and the bars for it were put 
in 14 inches apart. 
The sides of the walk that had to be dug 
down two feet deep were boarded up with 
some old oak boards, tough as iron, that 
they got from Squire Hunderson in ex¬ 
change for more green lumber. The con¬ 
tractor also had taken as pay for his glass, 
tar-paper, roofing paper, etc., 2x4 and 
4x6 chestnut planks; but as he used a 
good deal more of these than the mate¬ 
rials bought from him amounted to, the 
bookkeeping department had recorded this 
as a cash purchase. 
The sash bars were supported in the 
middle by an inch pipe, running horizon¬ 
tally, and inch and a half upright pipes, 
set in concrete. The sash bars for the 
roof were set ten inches apart for the 
8 X 10 glass, and 12 for the 10 x 12. The 
frames for the five ventilators cost $1.50 
each, unpainted and imglazed. 
Saturday night saw the framework 
completed, and excitement ran high. Rob¬ 
ert and Raffles went to Priestly that night, 
for the once-a-week shopping expedition, 
and smuggled home, wrapped carefully in 
a blanket, a small keg, which was depos¬ 
ited behind the kitchen stove after the 
family had retired. 
Sunday was a beautiful day—“the first 
breath of spring.” The last streaks and 
patches of snow shrank visibly from the 
brown hillsides. It was an ideal day for 
a long drive, and everything was made 
ready. But when leaving time came, no 
Raffles or Robert put in an appearance, 
and a hunt for them proved fruitless. So 
Mr. Mantell, his wife and Helen went 
alone. They had a journey which gave 
them more genuine pleasure than any 
mud-splattering auto ride they had ever 
taken, for now every farm, every field. 
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