One of the successful "specialty industries" of this year has been that devoted to the manufacture and sale of electric refrigerators. Already about 200,000 of these are employed in this country, and the old-fashioned iceman is preparing to follow the cab-driver and sperm whaler into oblivion. Most electric refrigerators still are located in ice-cream plants; not until quite recently have the smaller sizes suited for household use been extensively made or sold. The "ice interests," if such there be, have not yet expressed an opinion upon this new and formidable electrical rival. But...
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