The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1912. THE REFRIGERATOR.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 67, 14 March 1912, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1912. THE REFRIGERATOR.

The frozen meat produced in .New Zealand and the Australian States at present finds its chief market in Britgjn. ,At is however, pointed out bya writer in the “Manchester Guardian” that French people, though they use so little of it themselves, take a lively, ipterest in “its sale in ,othcir lapels, because it was a' Frenchnianj still alive and active despite his eightyfour, years, who first conceived and made known the idea of refrigerating meat for export. ’ This will he news to many of those actively, concerned in the important industry, and they will be interested to learn that this Frenchman is a silver-haired old man, small of .stature, simple and unpretentious in appearance, but with the air and courteous manners of a past a,ge—“A fine old French gentleman, all of the olden time.” He comes of a good old stock, too, of the “haute Industrie,” upon whom misfortune fell in the disturbed days of French history. He himself is an engineer. It was in 1860 that he first thought out his plan for refrigeration. He worked at it, wrote about it, took out patents for his process during fifteen years and more. Then in 1876 he fitted out a ship called the Refrigatore, especially adapted to bring over the meat. Rut the affair did not find much favour in France. It was in England that the new process was taken in hand. The man to whom all this is originally due has not made his fortune, we are told, but on the contrary, after spending a fortune in perfecting the frozen moat process, lie has not even been decorated in France, though Ids name has frequently been mentioned as eminently worthy of that honour. It is suggested that it will perhaps come to him in his very last days. Rut he takes his lack of means, his modest position, the simple life he leads, with the greatest cheerfulness. And lie goes on working. He is now—at eightyfour—intent on a process which is to render coal unnecessary for the production of power. It depends on compressed air. M. diaries Tellicr’s process is intended to make the use of compressed air universal.