Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-06-25
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.


claim put forth by one of such long experience
and correct business habits as Mr.. John Hecker,
of New York, the INVENTOR of some very extra
o binary machinery for reducing the price Of
sweet and wholssOm bread. Without institu-
ting comparisons, we would simply remark,
that if one may judge from The public prints,
there can be no such thing as competition with
Hecksr's machinery. Indeed, it is already
evident that Mr.. Hecker can sell bread at
less price per pound than is paid by consumers
for the raw material. (See Hecker's advertise
ment in another column 1t must be by
most ingenious arrangement of machinery that
Mr.. Hecker is enabled to accomplish so desi-
rable an object. 1t is an old saying, however,
that I" wonders will never cease" We shall
therefore cease to wonder, and bide our time to
witness these breadmaking operations.
The following extracts from our exchanges
will interest those who have an eye to the pub
lie good and to the success of American enter
prise.
The New York Express, speaking of an at
tack recently made by some of the bakers upon
one Of Mr.. Heckers men, whilst distributing
circulars, says
"No opposition could he more sense.ess aud
uncalled for than that which Is at present mani
testing itself against Mr.. Hecker's inventions {;
for W hilst bakers cannot by hand labor compe te
with his machinery, he has most generosity
made his valuable patents eligible to all upon
the payment of a ercentnge so small that, In
connection with other advantages, ii almost
amounts 20 allowing those who use them to en-
Joy the ben. fit on their own terms"
/. Surely Mr. Hecker has toiled long enough
for the honors aud profits he is now reaping from
his patent bread making machines. Why should
the bakers object to his enjoyment OF them, and
why should they not promptly fall into the rank
| and file wi,, New Haven, Bridgeport. Port Ches-
| ter brooklyn, Williamsburg, Paterson, Jersey
City, and other surrounding cities and towns,
and give to the long oppressed and furnishing
people the benefits of his clean, nutritious, and
cheap bread"
The New York Courier and Euguirer says
Good and cheap bread is staff of life which
John Hecker, of Rutgers street, knows thorough
iy how to make, and on which those who lean
never find themselves disappointed in the sup.
p,rt HeckeI's bread Is, in fact, an institution of
New York known as well to charity as to trade.
His motto is the best bread at the lowest rate,
aud he carries it out to the letter.
The New York Daily Ne,cs says:
% Berdan and his friends have tried the expert
ment In Philadelphia and Baltimore, and not
without success. But ii has been left for Hecker
of New York to devise means for the benefit of
- all the world and the rest Of mankind bread
Oh tue pest quality al the lowest pIlce-tbe In
credibly low price of two and a half cents per
pound "
The New York DAILY Times says
charlottesville are always glad to
chronicle any movement for reducing the price
and improving the quality of those articles whic
are of absolute necessity to all classes Of the
pie. We, therefore, call attention TO the enter
prise of Mr.. Hecker, who is supplying most ex
cellent bread by the pound at halfthe usual price
His establishment i, a decided public benefit"
The st. Louis Morning Herald says:
BREAD MAkING MACHINES We suppose all
men, with much delicacy OF palate or stomac n
will agree that, unless one is sure that the bread
he eats has been manipulated by clean handed
housewife, the less the human d9its come in
contact with the dough out Of which 1t is baked
the better. The famous Mr.. BeIddn made some
but only little, approach to dissolution of this
unpleasant connection b his process the doug IA ,
when mixed, has to be weighed aud rounded up
by hand then left 10 stand until fitted TO be
formed finally into loaves, when it il remoulded
ty hand, and put into boxes or pans Gy hand
the whole process, indeed, being only mod If
cation of the Old system.
- An inventor, Mr.. Hecker, has gone much
farther. Inde, d, IL would seem, that he has &C
comPlished all that can he expected even de-
sired in this direction. IL is said that Hecker's
machine for making bread receives the raw ma
terial as though the wood and iron were endowed
with human Intelligence. Without the slig ht-
est aid by hand, it makes, moulds and forms
the dough into ioaves ready for removal to the
''This machine promises to work ont most
gratifying results to the inhabitants Of cities
The poorer classes will be greatly benefited by
IL, If II is true stated that IL will furnish bread
al nearly half the price AT which IL can be afford
ed under BeTdan's methods. The New York
Commercial iesthes that the bread manufacturer
by Mr. lleckrr is of excellent quality, and is sold
al ticO and "a half cents per pound, while the tx
tensive works in Philhdelph and Baltimore
under the auspices of joint stock company, and
the direction of the enter prising Mr.. BeTd in,
though long before the public have not vet en-
abled that gentleman To sell the quantity of
bread, even though inferior in quality, for less
Il AN four cents per pound.
eve understand that by Mr.. Hecker's process
the intimate mixing Of the fresh mate ials-four,
water and yeast OHiy-is entirely effected by the
machinery without any necessary contact with
the hands
"Mr Hecker has already completed the en-
largeme nj OF his bakeries and the improvement
OF his machinery so as TO be able to work up two
hundred and fifty barrels of flour, and manufac-
tuTe si1ty-two Thousand and five hundred pounds
of bread daily. Such announcements "a these
will, no doubt, attract the attention Of bakers
in St. LOUISE
We learn, upon inquiry, that the cost OF
Hecker's entire system of apparatus, to con-
vert one hundred barrels Of -four per day into
leaves, will not exceed one MOusand dollars,
and that the capacity may be indefinitely in
creased at a proportionate cost On the other
hand, it is stated on reliable authority Der
dams prospectus) that the machinery for car
rying on Mr.. Berdan's operations cannot be
started at less cost than "forty Housaud
dokiarS ~ So that even admitting that he
could sell his bread as cheap as Hecker the
odds are enormous--as Hecker turns out, BY
this calculation daily, a. much bread, with an
outlay of three or four thousand dollars, as
Berdan can with an outlay of forty thousand
dollars.
The RECORD MADE UP, AND THE FINALE OF
The ANrI-ExrRA ALLOWANCE, OR "WHIrrLE
sEY WAR. In an interesting list of acts and
resolutions passed by Congress, and published
in a recent number of the Star, is the following
proper paragraph
"A joint resolution IN regard to carrying the
United states mails from St. Joseph. Missouri
TO Placerville, California. This resolution wn
signed by the officers of the two Houses of Con
gress and presented to the President but not re.
turned by him as approved"
This is as it should be. 1t states fact which
ought always to appear On the journal of leg.