Evening Star Newspaper, August 1, 1937, Page 38

D—8 MECHANIGAL ICE TATHER' HONORED Florida Pays Tribute to‘ Doctor Who Discovered Process in 1851. BY JESSIE FANT EVANS, With the commercial ice manufac- | turing industry now rated as ninth in | size in the United States, it is interest- ing to note that in the Smithsonian Museum here is the original model with | some of is minor parts lacking of the | first United States patented “appa- | ratus for the mechanical production | of ice, the previous patents being non- workable." | This patent, No. 8,080 in the United States Patent Office files, was granted HE SUNDAY % STAR, WASHINGTON He Manufactured Ice With This D. C, AUGUST 1, 1937—PART TWO his sitting room and committed hari- G kari. Countess Nogi, kneeling beside »uest Speaker him, joined in this act of loyalty to their emperor.” Dr. Charles Lathrop Pack, who died June 14, was the last surviving mem- ber of the American trio of stamp col- lectors who were responsible in large part for the present popularity of the philatelic hobby. The others were Charles Hind of Utica, N. Y., and Col. | E. H. R. Green of Terrell, Tex, and, New York City. Stamp enthusiasts who previously had been “ashamed” to confess their interest in philately | followed their lead in boldly announc- ing themselves. \ A member of the American Phila- telic Society for many years, Dr. Pack exhibited his stamps for public in- spection on numerous occasions. He was honorary president of the Tipex international show at Grand Central Palace, New York, last year. His phila- telic honors included the Tapling, Crawford, Lindenburg and Collectors’ Club medals and honorary member- ship in the Royal Philatelic Society nY( London and in many American stamp resented. It {s, however, correctly | in his collection. and there il be & depicted in the Crown Colony issues. Aymposium of opinions on stamp de- signs and printing. Visitors welcorae, The annual semi-postal stamps of Austria will show portraits of famous| The sixth auction of the Pidelity | Stamp Co., under the direction of Mr, | Ewell, will be held at the Hotel Carl- It is extremely unlikely that Cong 'O, Friday evening at 8. Catalogues gress will do anything about the 2A7¢ ‘mm]ah'\r‘ at Room 410, Bond illustrations law durirg the current BUIling, and the public is weicome to Seaiion participate in the bidding. ‘physlcmns and surgeons. G TG 5 The Philatelic Luncheon Group will According to George B, Sloane, writ- | o€, " L€ TTRIC0n Croun Wil ing in Stamps Magazine for July 31, | hhd 4 e Territory stamp was Karl B. Pauly, | 104 to artend el & contributor Lo the Ohio State Jour- | nal, who nearly two years ago urged such a “commemorative” to advertise Marietta, | i | | | i | | For a classic error in stamp design- ing consult the tennis racket in the 6-cent denomination of the Philip- | pines Far Eastern Games series of 1934. David H. Burr “Although credit is generally given to the Co- | lumbian series of 1893 as the first issue of commemoratives, this is not true to Dr. John Gorrie of the Southland clubs. == 01 ratives, this is not tru in 1851 | Now, 86 years afterward, by procla- | mation of the Governor of Florida, | this State, with its “Ice Memorial | week.” will honor the memory and the | achievements in the fields of medicine | of her adopted son, who came to prac- tice medicine in her midst one year after his graduation from a Northern medical school in 1834 Today, two public monuments like- wise aftest his pioneer efforts in the mechanical ice-making field. One is 1 Statuary Hall in the Capitol here. | It was erected hy the State of Florida accordance with the act of Con- gress of July 17, 1864, which permits to be piaced there “statues of two dis- tinguished citizens from each State.” It portrays Dr. Gorrie in the dual capacity of a man of executive forth- rizhtness and force as well as the hysician with the envisioning eye ch beheld and perfected a project which he hoped to air-condition hospitals where he was treating his malana fever patients. The other, the gift A the Southern Ice Exchange, i= at Apalachiola. Fla. where this Charleston born and bred physician came to identify himself with this community not only in the practice of medicine but as the inventor of a machine for making ice—a feat that had not hitherto been successfully achieved in the United States Apalachinla. in the vear 1834, when Dr. Gorrie decided to establish himself | here in the practice of medicine, was, | are told. “an important seaport and the outlet for all the cotton grown in the Chattahochee Valley in Geor- §ia and Alabama.’ i the we Prevalence of Fever B Roth of the De- of Pharmacology and Ther- 1e of the Medical Schoonl of the George Washir n University, savs in ative rescarch pamphlet John Inventor Ice and Refrigeration,” believed the greatest arowth of Apalachiola was the prevalence of fever there in mmer. Being exceedingly public- &nirited as well as a physician of the modern investizative type, Dr. Gorrie gave much time and attention to how he mizht more successfully care | for his fever cases during the baf- fing Summer months. Finally he became convinced that the exces- sive heat was the chief obstacle that he had to combat with his patients | and that the way to overcome it was to devise some means of air- | the rooms of his fever pa- | n Apalachiola’s hospitals. e workmg out of this problem, tion of some kind of an ice- was inevitably the ¢ A cooling and air e ice necessary | s It is thought in on that Dr. Gdrrie under the es which il Adver- 1844 on the diseases and treatment or conditioning points out that i New entitled, Artificial Dr. Go to sorrie eool tient i process sct a in malarial Gol and D the 1 Journal 1-55, The of Malaria and the Prevention nf Tts Morbid Agency.” is of current interest as well in connection with the modern movement toward air con- | ditioning sick rooms and hospitals.” | medical paper written about ago. Dr. Gorrie not only in detail upon the method he Rdvocates for his plan but merions the invention of a machine for manu- f: ne ice with explanations in tails as to the principles involved and the method of its construction. In 1854 Dr. Gorrie also put out & 13-page pamphlet entitled, “Dr. Gor- 1e's Apparatus for the Artificial Pro- tion of Ice in Tropical Countries.” Herein, he specifically describes his ice-making apparatus evidently with | the idea of its commercial utilization | and availability to the public at large. | Went to New Orleans. | Several years later so great was his absorption and belief in the effi- | cacy and possibilities of him ice-mak- | ing machine that he abandoned his practice of medicine in Apalachiola and went to New Orleans with the belief that he would there be snuccess- ful in obtaining the funds necessary for the perfection of his patent and | its sales exploitation The drawing of his ice-machine patent, which he took out under Pat- ent No. 8.080 in the name of Dr. John Gorrie of New Orleans, may still be seen with seven other views in the | records of the Patent Office files here. | Despite its apparent merits, ill luck zeems to have accompanied his efforts to bring his patent into practical use. A man from Boston, to whom he sold | | in Orlesns Medica for t a- trre ! Dr. John Gorrie, as represented by the sculptor n model ice maker as it exists today in Smithsonian Museum. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph E. § RY JAM WALDO FAWCETT. The Northwest Territory “commemo- rative” might have been a truly beau- tiful stamp. Designs were prepared which were much more definitely at- tractive. But some unknown hand, I anonymous, preferred the con- fused and unlovely composition with which the Nation. including an un- determined number of collectors, now is familiar, In justice to Post Office Department officials, it should be mentioned that they deplore the approved design as much as any outside critic. A similar observation mayv be registered in be- | half of the artists of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. who. perforce, were obliged to stultify their genius. 1 President Roosevelt, personally chose the design for the Constitution “com- memorative,” to be issued September 15. As previously announced, the central vignette will show a repro- duction of a painting by Junius Brutus Stearns (1810-1885)—the Constitu- tional Convention in the act of sign- ing the official copy of the Constitution, currently enshrined in the Library of Congress. Curiously, the Chief Executive’s de- cision was reached without regard to the ownership of the original painting Only after the selection had been made was the proprietor consulted. He gave his consent, however. immediately. For purposes of record, his name is Clar- ence Dillon, New York banker, head of the firm of Dillon, Read & Co. Spokesmen for the philatelic frater- nity. by the way. have petitioned the Post Office Department to stipulate that the Constitution stamp should be printed on flat-bed presses rather than ratary. Thiz request was filed in the interest of a more satizfactory produet. It was illustrated by citation of the two varieties of the Mother's day “com- | memorative” of 1934—one of which is clear and bright; the other conspicu- | ously muddy. | The forthcoming Alaska territorial stamp probably will show a reproduc- tien of Emanuel Leutze's universally celebrated painting representing Sec- retary of State William H. Seward engaged in signing the treaty with Russia March 30, 1867 | 1t is understood that the stamp for | Puerto Rico will depict the admin- | istration building at San Juan. St. Thomas Harbor, it is expected, | will be the subject of the Virgin Is- lands stamp. | The Virginia Dare “commemorative’ should be a handsome stamp, but the a half interest with the idea that| Yankee might further its utilization, died almost immediately after their agree- ment was made. Further efforts to obtain funds or popular interest were fruittess. Finally, ill, discouraged and | practically penniless he returned from New Orleans to Apalachiola, where he was later buried, “agreeably to his expressed wishes in the beach ceme- | tery upon the beach of the beautiful | Bayv of Apalachiola,” June 18, 1855.| A little over a quarter of a century later his remains were reinterred in! rest today. It is said that the fargous botanist- | physician, Dr. Alvan Wentworth | ingenuity and salesmanship —— | Chapman, who also came to make EDUCATIONAL. | Apalachiola his home, once said to his | Statuary Hall of the Capitol, and his mith, and Mrs. Manning. design ix marred by the initials “U. S. " interrwined in a monogram which too closely resembles the dollar sign to be in good taste. Oniy 2.000.000 copies of the souve- nir sheet printing of the 10-cent Parks stamp. scheduled to be issued for the convention of the Societv of Philatelic Americans at Asheville August have been ordered Secretary of the Interior Ickes fa- vors designs showing native arts and crafts for the proposed Indian series Dr. Ellis Haworth, former president of the Washington Philatelic Society it planning & trip abroad immediately after the closing of Catholic Univer- | sity Summer School, in which he has been teaching. Ralph E. Smith, associated with Alden H Whitney in the Stamp Mart since 1935. is returning to his former home in Omaha. He leaves Washing- ton today. Friends testified to their aflection and respect for him by giv- ing him an engraved silver plate as & souvenir of his stay in the Capital The presentation was made at a luncheon at the Hotel Harrington on Tuesday. Among those in attendance were Mrs. Catherine 1. Manning Philip Simms Warren, Albert F. Kunze, John R. Ewell, Gerard Ten Eyck Beeckman, Robert A Truax Col. B. B. Wilcox. Daniel Reichgut, Mrs. Grace L. McKnight, Mrs J n G. Nichols, R. E. Mullen, O. F. Beeder. Mrs. W. F. Hoppe, Mr. and Mrs Whitney and Mrs. Smith Herman Boeorselski will spend his Summer holiday at Jogein: Bridge, Nova Scotia. He expects to return to Washington in September, Charles R. Goetz, a non-resident member of the Washington Philatelic Society, died suddenly in New York | on Friday, July 23. He was the pro- prietor of the EIk Stamp Co., Brook- lyn, for many years, and more recently had been asociated with the Scott Stamp & Coin Co. Add to the list of active local junior —_— : STAMPS. Potomac Book & Art Shop STAMPS FOR COLLECTOR! ELBE LINE OF OF PHILATELIC Trriies NATIONAL G St NW. STAMP MART 1313 F 8t 37 STAMP ALBUMS N.W.. Rm. 411, Dist, Stock Books. Catalogues. New S Rinxle Stamps Phiiatelic Supolies. ' Call and see HARRY'E. MASON, 918 F N.W. 20-Year-Old Collection Will_Sell Cheap. Adams 5493 STAMPS—COINS—AUTOGRAPHS Bought and Sold HOBBY SHOP 716 13th St N.W. Distriet 123 SCOTT'S 1938 STANDARD CATALOG Will _be released Sept. 20. The new price is £3. To collector remittance before A ) 1 0 post paid. furnish 1 (T . Aet now to get d Live rinting. ‘oreizn Ap) for our vals, sk fo ences essential. CULLEN’S STAMP SHOP G St Met. BRIT | the Municipal Cemetery, where they WHITNEY’S STAMP MART | 402 12th St. Albany, . Commemorative Hal * At original issue price. Attractively de. c<igned. Commemorate granting of city charter by Gov. Thomas Dongan in 1686 Althouch "these coins already command & premium. the Official Committee offers 8 limited supply at original issue price of _Met. 6593 26, | stamp collectors the name of Hugh ! L. Weaver, Friendship Heights, Md. | The Souvenir Issues Association | has been organized for the service of philatelists interested in miniature sheets. Dr. Charles H. Evans is presi- dent; Henry L. Logan, vice president: Charles T. Schmitt, treasurer, and ! | Franklin R. Burns, jr.; James H. Reel | and Elliott M. Walton, directors, In- | quiries may be addressed to R. L. | Cullum, secretary, 26 Hamilton road, | Glen Ridge, N. J Oswood D. Yopp. 516 West Thirty- | ninth street. Savannah, Ga, will service covers for special flights from | 32 towns during George Airmail week, | beginning August 9. Envelopes must hear 6-cent airmail postage and 1 cent for each is required to cover forward- | ing expense. Closing date Tuesday. Dr. Haworth has been appointed | | chairman of a committee to arrange an exhibition for the Washington | Philatelic Society during the coming season. With him will serve Charles | H. Vaughan, Mr. Ewell, Mr. Kunze | and Mrs. Manning. | It also has been announced that Judge David D. Caldwell has been | named chairman of a committee to prepare a program for the celebration of the centennial of the postage stamp. in May, 1940. His associates are Mr. Warren. Mr. Beeckman, Willlam C Bond and Miss Irene M. Pistorio. Ernest A Kehr. stamp editor of the New York World Telegram. is phila- [ telic_adviser for the National Stamp Exhibition. to be held under the aus- pices of the New York Museum of Science and Industry, R. C. A. Build- ing, 30 Rockefeller plaza, Radio City, October 2 to 10. Washington collec- tors desiring to exhibit are invited to | communicate with him promptly. | Random House, Inc. amnounces | publication of “Lost Covers.” a phila- telic romance. by Edna Turpin. The book is lavishly illustrated by Victor Perard. It also contains reproduc- tions of rare Confederate stamps lent by August Dietz, publisher of Stamp [and Cover Collectors' Review, Rich- | mond. Don Grieve, stamp editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, writes: “A hero of the Russo-Japanese war, Gen Maresuke Nogi. is pictured on a low- | value of the new Japanese pictorial ! set which is the result of the increased postal rates recently put into effect “In the war with China. 1894, Gen. Nogi commanded a brigade at Port Arthur. Ten years later he led the army Japan sent to recapture thi§ fortress {rom the Russians. Thousands of Japanese, including Nogi's two sons | died in the siege. Every morning the roll of killed and wounded was brought to the commander's mud hut near the front lines. and he read the names of the®friends he | had trained. When the war ended, Nogi did not join in the victory | rejoicing. ‘It has cost us too dearly,’ | he said. “Back in Tokio in 1905, Nogi had honors heaped upon him. He was raised from baron to count. When Emperor Meiji died in September {1912, Nogi was a prominent mourner. | The artillery boomed a salute over | Tokio as the imperial funeral cortege left the palace, and at that moment, | | Nogi knelt on the matting floor of | For the Man or “HARD ON Comprehensive specialized collections | The Centennial Exposition in Phila- | Etchers. , Pederal art projects of recent | books of travel which he has | George Washington, although Kame- | hameha moved in a smaller sphere | “He lived by a rigid code and clung | to his old religion. but placed no | obstacles in the paths of Christian missionaries. He was quick to adopt new and progressive methods and en- | couraged foreigners who taught his of the stamps of Canada and Victoria were his most notable philatelic treas- ures. A monograph on the Victorid is- sues from his pen was published in 1923, John Taylor Arms, one of the mem- bers of the jury to pass on designs | submitted in the Treasury Depart- | PEODIe ment's national stamp competition. 1 | “He built a flect of 40 sailing vessels president of the American Society of [ ANd carried on an extensive trade He was born in Washington | AMONE the Pacific islands, also with and is represented in the permanent | (0 Americans and Europeans, who Collection of the Library of Congress. | CAme’ in_ constantly increasing num- £ | bers.” The design selected for the Ha- Hoover Bros. announce the publica- | __ tion of their Official Catalogue of “21an el T die Descle United States Double Line Electro | S!4tUe of Kamehameha, which stands Precancels, Universal Styles 14, 15 0¢for® the Judiciary Building in and 16, Honolulu, India soon will bring out a deco- AY France, enezuela, Ecuador and rative King Grorge VI series, Honduras will issue “commemoratives' to celebrate the sesquicentennial of | the Constitution of the United States Before collectors rise in their wrath Against such exploitation it would be well for them to remember that the governments represented were solicited to do exactly what they are doing. The Southern Rhodesia coronation stamps are selling in London at ap- proximately $5 a set. Experts _ have discovered many errors in the Official List of United | States Postage Stamps, issued by the Government Printing Office for the Post Office Department, but the nec- essary corrections already are being made in anticipation of & new edition Manteo, N. C., where the Virginia | Dare stamp is to go on sale August 18, is named for a friendly Indian. chief of the Hatteras Tribe, who was bap- tised a Christian two davs after the birth of “the first child born of Eng- | From London it is reported that lish parents in America.” | the orb in the design of the British - | coronation stamps is defectively rep- Rockwell Kent. famous artist and | td almost. equally celebrated writer, has lent his ald to the campaign for “more attractive and better-printed postage stamps” 1In a letter to Post- master General Farley, he s: “The commemorative stamps which the Post Office Department has in recent vears been issuing are an offer.se 10 the eves of everybody in any degree sensitive to esthetic values in design The recent 3-cent stamp commemorat- ing the ordinance of 1787 is probably the ugliest and most thoroughly of- fensive postage stamp that has ever been issued by any governmen! “More than any other printed mat- ter. postage stamps carry to the world at large an impression of :he level of American culture in at least one of the arts. A great many thou- sands of Americans know that the art of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing is disgracefully misrepre- sentative of that taste which the vears have done so much to cultivate Mr. Kent is a member of the In- ternational Society of Sculptor: Painters and Engravers. and the Na- tional Institute of Arts and Letters He is represented in the Metropelian Museum. New York; the Art Institute, Chicago, and other galleries, and the author of “Wilderness.” “Voyvag- ing.” “N bv E." “Salamina” and other us- trated with his own hand. Editor ' of Creative Art magazine, he likewise contributes regularly to the standard literary periodicals. His design for the bookplate of the rare book division of the Library of Congress was re- produced in The Star recently. Samuel Wilder King. delegate of Hawaii in Congress, has issued the following statement with reference to the forthcoming Hawaii Territory stamp: “Kamehameha I ix properly known as the ‘George Washington of Hawali' He was the first king to bring these islands under one rule, and his dynasty continued for 100 years until the tefritory as a sovereign nation became & part of the United Stales 40 years ago “Soldier and lawmaker, the narra- tion of Kamehameha's life and ex- Pploits is an epic no less than the lives | of Alexander the Great. Napoleon #nd Woman Who Is GLASSES” We Suggest These Durable (| | Refer- | | delphia in 1876 had been honored | with the issue of a special 3-cent stamped -envelope, which appeared in two dies and two colors.” It isn't only shoes that we know thoroughly. 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Ave. N Coronation two were passing by Dr. Gorrie's grave, “Gray, there is the grave of the | | man whom we all recognize as the | superior of us all In 1866, after the conclusion of the Civil War, the first important ice fac- | fory in the United States was estab- |lished in New Orleans, where Dr.|S thweat Afriea. | Gorrie had once vainly sought support | Sowretn, Rhodesia, i el 1 for his ice-making machine patent. Other single seis. Crown Colonies and Then in the 1870s the idea of that i aounieayt iR Southern physician, Dr. Gorrie, for 2 cooling the rooms of fever-stricken | g, sli"'L‘Eu S STAMP sggp patients in a Florida hospital were e i S applied in modified form to the trans- || # | portation systems of the world with UC:OSS.IS.ARN;:E';éS(SZIRLAlH"O’N | the carrying of fresh meats and the | preserving of fruits and vegetables in || At all Stamp Dealers, price 25¢, or from publisher 28¢, postpaid. C. M. transit to distant markets by means of iced refrigeration. Farquhar, P. 0. Box 4325-A, Wash. ington, D. C. Today, through the improvements | FIDELITY STAMP CO. that have come about in air-cooled o1 will be held Fri- Austion Sale of U. 8 ny e Crown Colonies, Dominions (without ) 10 11 values . cars, the select products of orchards | = and truck gardens are transported a continent’s length without spoiling. As a result of this far cry from that plan of Dr. Gorrie's, even the most modest-salaried citizen of the United States is enabled to have his daily table supplied all the year around with a changing menu of fresh fruits and vegetables, ' ’ John R. Ewell, Auctioneer Lots on Display at Owr Store, 420 Evening Star Bwilding. _Met. 9014 | ® Purchase them on Is Delightfully | Complete Glasses *1.49 —This beautiful new frame has every new fea- ture to assure long and comfortable wear . . . and is complete with white single-vision lenses ... Frame in either white or pink gold-filled. your regular Charge Account or our Convenient Budget Plan. 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