Historical and commercial sketches of Washington and environs: our capital city, "the Paris of America"; its prominent places and people .. Its improvements, progress and enterprise .. . rythe experiment of manufacturing, and theexperiment has proved a success and hasnow become firmly established, as one ofthe necessaiy industries of the city. Capt. David Smith, a native of Massa-chusetts, a man of much travel and ob-servation, seeing the high prices of ice intropical countries was led to study thetheory of ice making and refrigeration,and while in California and at the Ha-waiian Islands, inve
Historical and commercial sketches of Washington and environs: our capital city, "the Paris of America"; its prominent places and people .. Its improvements, progress and enterprise .. . rythe experiment of manufacturing, and theexperiment has proved a success and hasnow become firmly established, as one ofthe necessaiy industries of the city. Capt. David Smith, a native of Massa-chusetts, a man of much travel and ob-servation, seeing the high prices of ice intropical countries was led to study thetheory of ice making and refrigeration,and while in California and at the Ha-waiian Islands, invented his present sys-tem, and put it into practical operationin both places with satisfactory a view of enlarging his business, hehas veiy greatly improved his apparatusand associated with himself men of largecapital, and formed a co-partnership underthe name of Liude, Smith & Co., withhead-quarters in New York, and factoryin Philadelphia, where they are buildingmachines of all sizes, and putting themup in different sections of the country, 82 WASHINGTON CITY, THE SMITH TRANSPARENT ICE MANUFACTURING COMPANY,3327, 3329 and 3331 Water Street, West Washington, D.
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