Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, October 22, 1914, Page 2

PAGE TWO Florida to Draw Large Crowds This Winter The State VWHave More Visitors This Winter Than Ever Before Is The Prediction “Florida can be assured of the greatest tourist season in her history this winter,” was the statement by E. T. King, who has returned to Jacksonville, after an extended visit in the east. Mr. King states that the gen- eral feeling among the Florida winter sojourners with whom he has come in contact while in the east is that hundreds will come to Florida this winter who have formerly gone to California, The reason stated is that Florida has been given a substantial ad- vertising in the north in the past two years on account of the cli- matic conditions, which, coupled with the much less expense for the trip, has taken a firm hold on the new traveler who has insist- THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAKFLAND, FLA., OCT. e ———————————————————————— state against the fase claim of ing or asking for reward Dr. time- Gorrie gave to the members of other. This protest is 2 ! 1 g ly as well as emphatic. his profession his discoveries During his life time Dr. Gor-.concerning the methods and rie did not make any great pre- means of cooling air in the tensions as an inventor, nor did rooms of fever patients. i he have capital with which to' Next he began experimenting exploit his ice-making machine. upon the plans and dreams and But the fact that he did discover hopes that ice might be artifici- the process, make the machine,!ally manufactured. In the year and have it patented cannot be 1850 he produced a small model {questioned. Outside of Florida, ice-makink machine with which however, his name was scarcelylhc made ice. On May 6, 1851, known before the statue was he was granted Fatent No. 8,080 iplaced in Statuary Hall. So by the Patent Office in Wash- jmodest and unpretentious was, ington, where there were filed Dr. Gorrie that very few facts,descriptive statements, detailed have been obtainable concerning spcifications and drawings of the his youth and young manhocd. machine. Thus it is officially {He was born in Charleston, known that Dr. Gorrie did make South Carolina, October 3, 1803, an ice-making machine, and did !and died at Apachicola, Florida, receive a patent for it for a pe- June 16, 18355. The Civil War riod extending until May6,1865. caused the loss of Dr. Gorrie’s John Sharon, now in his eigh- {entire library and manuscripts, tieth vear and still living at including the drawings and the Quincy, Florida, verifies the working model of his ice-making statement of Captain W hiteside, machine. » " that ice was manufactured pub- Thus, the inventor having licly in the Mansion House, at' died before having opportunity * Apalachicola, in 1830, by Dr. to exploit his discovery, and his Gorrie, in the presence of a num- {library having been scattered so per of reliable witnesses. 'tlmt his heirs were without data, That summer there | P was a’ 22, 1914 CBRINLEY ] fust received, a co line of 10 a=d 12 10 te 14 inc The Brinley Plow BOPLIOPO DN SO PO G U BN S 308 DK back. MODEL Phone No. 340 5 3 DHBQH QK 2O & S & 3 @ on: is sold with a guarantee of satisfaciion er your mozy PO POPIAT PO HOPOFIIIORC T SPGB IOPO & PLOWS [ BRiNiT | PR mplete wee Orange Plows h Regular Turning Ploy, is built especially for Florida soils. Eg HARDWARE (i, C. E. TODD, My, CHROSOE 05020104 . . as well as without money, the ed that this state is the real place|jce-making machine was, for a for the winter visitor. AN . tlong time, forgotten. Mr. King states that Balti-| Captain George Whiteside, a more especially is talking Flor- . A close personal friend of Dr. ida, and that many visitors from| Gorrie, read a sketch of the life that city will be new comers this|,,q work of the inventor, at winter. o 5 Charleston, during the spring of The lateness of the.open.mg of 1897, and the Exchinge caused the exposition in California and 4 4 a monument to Dr. Gofrie ko the‘undcmrahle \\:cntlger just pre-|},o crected and unveiled at Char- ceding the opening is given as b .3S|leston, April 30, 1900. another reason for the migration dearth of ice from the lakes of the North, the sailing vessels' having disposed of their pro- ducts for good prices in Mary-| land, Virginia and Carolina- cit- cotton buyer of Providence, lished the Tallahassian, I Rhode Island; Joseph Hanserd, two old timers were Presen Reminiscences ies; and Florida was practically o | : : . i oo Copan Wi 2, Sy, St | Of QM Davs I [ie s o e o says that one of the guests of |, .= ° ; it [ 1 s » although § the, Mansion House having said dmnt.\‘ “f, A\palau.lucola, and Fla. JOllma lsmlhave: long' been retired, they John Sharon, proprietor of the Iretain their love of the oot that he would give almost any : amount of money for a little ice fodgs Dop Moliod 0F Wlt B WSS M. to cool his wine at dinner, a In addition.to this tcstimony,:k“na county stopped in Orlando| Both men in their journ Monsieur Rosan, of Paris, of- and more everlasting also, ‘the!(he other day with his old work endeavored to promge Mansion House. Malarial diseases alfounded southward. throughout Florida, and they were virulent in Apachicola, the death rate being very large. During his practice Dr. Gorrie conceived the idea of cooling the air in sick rooms, and began studying diligently with that end in view. For the Commer- cial-Advertiser, of Apachicola, he published eleven articles “On .the Prevention of Malarial Dis- | cases,” in 1844. l This idea having practically obsessed him Dr. Gorrie gradu- ally withdrew from his medical practice and virtually / aban- doned it. His entire time and talents were focussed upon this Dodge, New York cotton buy- idea, and in afew years he mas- ers; Charles Pratt, cotton buyer tered the subject. Without hop- ———————— — The Florida Inventor Of The Ice Machine (By Smith D. Fry in National Monthly.) The first and foremost of all men, in the making of ice, which is the basis of all cold storage, was Dr. John Gorrie, of the State of Florida. In Statuary Hall, in the Cap- itol at Washington, the State of Florida has recently placed a statue of that inventor, and that ‘statue is the protest of a great Qak Chairs, Cane Oak Arm Rockers Best National Spring All Feather Pillow Dresser, Regular Value $15, now 10.00 es, Ox12.....__. Matting Art Squar Complete Bed, 1 1-8 Post, all Cotton Mattress, and Spring ‘We have not the space to mention prices on our entire MONEY it CLEAN fered a wager of a basket of champagne that he would furn- ish ice on the following after- made in the dining room; and the wager was accepted. Monsieur Rosan had seen the ice-making machine and was in- terestered in its promotion. At the designated hour Dr. Gorrie ~appeared with his little working "miodel and produced the ice, in sponsible. They were: Isaac Wright, William Kane, noon, and that the ice would be, the presence of numerous per-! sons then well known and re-| Patient Offipe records, drawings Dr. John Gorrie of Florida, was issued Patent No. 8,050, May 6, 1851. It is always well to give ) and specifications show that to| liriend, Mahlon Gore. Both aredevélopment of Florida angy jveteran newspaper men. Their had high hopes oi the Stae memories went back to the time coming prominent in gy when there were only about ture. Both were sons of fiy twenty newspapers published in ers and thought that they i honor to whom honor is due; and this honor belongs to Dr. John Gorrie, as claimed by the state of Florida. The population of Holland, which is struggling to maintain strict neutrality during the war, is about 6,000,000, and the country is main- taining an army on the field at a cost of roughly $250,000 a wtek. Nugent Cemmings, and D. F R o i 4 0’.-"‘_ g{".‘.u § coma k| || 3 (A R _a:q-' ‘s ol 3 it 5 e 3 ol ‘e e @'k Seat:.. .| $ .85 s v AN\ | od] 1.90 3.28 L15 S, pai 1.88 be2 Eria RO 09 66 rmmaman G will pay you to trade with us. K.| Helland is suffering mostly from the blockade of her ports. Industry is :paralyzed and the trade of the chiaf of Connecticut; W. T. Wood, rorts is diappearing. WEEP SALE| To Make Room for Fall Goods o o 1 lin € FENCING, HARDWARE and BUILDING M R R R R AR e Lakeland Furniture & Hardware Co. all Florida; not a daily in the all about it. 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