The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-08-29
CHAPTER vi.
How a Great Fortune was Made Out Of Bread
Crusts


as IT was one that could not fail to delight the
children, she was given tea-Clotb to hem, and
was asked to join them to hear the following
true tale:-
PeTe ChapellIer, who picked out of cutters what
he could find, and sold the articles he found
there-old iron nails, and such things that no
one owns, but which he could sell for few
pence. Being ashamed OF this employment
for Father Chapellier had been soldier, and
took pride in himself for having served his
country, he had only resorted to It to keep him
self rom starving-an opportunity one day oc-
CURED of his entering wholesale rag-gatner-
ing business, and becoming rag-sorter. Ihls
was one step in advance, so he thought oe-
cause here he could be private, and was not
obliged to 20 into the streets. But alas Tor the
poor man, the smell from the rags and bones was
so dreadful that he was nearly poisoned, ana
was obliged to 60 to the hospital Ofcourse after
this he did not wish ogo back, and fortunately,
while sick he made the acquaintance of a man
who promised to find him place with poultry
Nov what do you suppose he had to do :"
"Why, kill the ducks and fowls, to be sure"
was KeZiah's ready answer.
"Oh, no, not to kill them, but to keep pigeons
aliven
Here my little Allen reached up his glowing
cheek TO mine.
t'Tell me quick, mamma-quick quick"
''He had to fill his mouth with grain or peas,
and push them with his mouth into the young
pigeons throat tor they would not eat but
"
fat quickly enough to please their owner, and
the poor Chapellier, after little practice, had
to feed from two 10 three hundred pigeons an
hour, and or this labor he was paid Is. Sd:
day. OF course this did not satisfy him, so he
lett, and then took to Graduating prejudice
about pOultry-lt may be called decept1on-to
earn his bread.
when freshly killed, are brilliant and black, at
least some of them are, but they turn OF
leaden hue as they get stale. Now Chapellier
pCndered over this, and invented varnish
which, when used, kept the color OF the stale
birds as fresh as the newly killed ones. This
deception succeeded; the cooks and others
bought second days poultry for first DAYS
freshly killed, without finding out their mistake;
therefore the poultry was none the worse. As
enormous quantities of poultry are sold in the
French markets, our rag-gatherer made a great
deal of money by his invention. The taste of
wealth made HIM only the more ambitious. He
sold his secret ior forty pounds 10 a man who
has since made his fortune, and Chapellier began
to look about for some trade in which he could
be sole master He went to his old employer,
| the rag-merchant, and endeavored to enter into
| partnership with MIN, but the man asked f2OOO,
and this our schemcr could not obtain. AS he was
| standing in the warehouse the rag-gatherers
| came in, and he was struck by the number of
pieces OF bread they brought, which they could
| not sell to the rag-gatherer, and which had
| been given to them out of pure charity; this, he
observed, they carefully gathered up to take
| away He asked them what they did with it,
and ascertained that they sold them to private
people Tor feeding rabbits and chickens. This
was hint enough to man determined to make
his fortune. What these beggars and rag
| gatherers did in a small way he determined to
do in a large one, and the very day that the
| bright idea struck him, he hired a large room
IN cheap neighborhood, and close by shed,
where he could place his donkey and cart, which
| he purchased on the same day. He then went
to the different colleges and Schools and offered
to buy all their waste bread, which these peo-
pie had been IN the habit of giving to the first
beggar, or which they threw among their dust
HIS success with them was very great; so much
as to induce him to monopoliZe all the waste
bread of the taVerns and cook shop in Paris
and he paid the rag-eatherers to bring all they
could gather from private houses to him."
'Do you think the servants sold the waste
bread, maam, TO these men? because if they
did, | dare say they made lots more pieces thar
the misses knowed of; for these pieces OF breaC
do worrit a girl so, COS she can't eat 'em ALL"
1t was very evident KeZiah had been think
ing what she should do with the odd CORNERS
and scraps which she dared not throw away.
"No, they did not sell them; the men were too
cunning TO pay for what they knew could bt
cot for nothing; so the servants did not benefit
whatever the beggars might the master anC
mistress were the sufferers by these men beinl
permitted to come near the servants. Blu
listen 10 the story without further interruption
AS soon as Chapeiier had accumulated a sutfi
cient number of pieces OF bread, he appeared
one morning in one OF the most central market
OF Paris surrounded by number of bags full
of bread, and several empty baskets. Rount
his hat was placarded, 'BRRAD-CRUSTS FOR SALE.
Numbers of the Partisan workmen keep pet
OF some kind, either dogs for amusement, o
, rabbits, or fowls for eating; and as Chapellie
sold his crusts at Sd. the basketful, for thi
sum many OF these creatures could be fed for
week; SO he soon had numerous customers. A
the end of a month this clever man had double
t the f40 capital with which he commenced, an
which he had obtained by selling his secret q
. painting chickens legs. Four months after h
| had commenced the business he had no longe
9 a donkey and cart, but three horses and thre
t carts, collecting bread from very wide district
| and thus he soon accumulated q large fortune
I then sold his business, and retired iuto priVat
: lite.
a ''Chapeller was miserable without emplo,
n ment; alter time he quilted his country homo
I returned TO his old haunts and invented a ne
Y industry, for the man who had bought his bus
q ness, was, from small inattentions and a FRI
y quent waste of time, losing his trade. Il
V France, bread-crumbs are sold either white c
r brown, ready the one for frying, the othe
d when baked pounded, and sifted, tor siftin
a over fish and outlets. 1t was as manufacture
K of bread-crumbs that Chapellier next establishe
/; himself. He sold quart piled up with ii
d crumbs for siXpence; this was cheaper than an
1t one else could do, and the waste pieces fro
n this process he disposed of to dog-fanciers al
l. others.
o sThe man sold his bread-crumbs so cheap
It that his business rapidly increased; he had vel
], soon to employ wagons and horses, and then Il
< a trihe he bought back his old business fro
rs his successor, who was idle and unthrfty.
% the bread there were always two kinds, goo
h and Indifferent; the best he selected to NAL
Y. baked crusts for soup, which is so much eatC
IN in Paris We toast bread and cut ii in smf
Ne SQUARES but there ii is cut in larger and thick
ID pieces. So ChapellieI set up ovens, which it
l. said are never cool, and which employ a nuI
lg ber of men, women, and children, in the man
III facture, though the oreau Is only the was