, 1873-05-18
: SUGAR-REF|NING,

g.. From Me Ne,o 1-oa AElsdom OF 1t.
Do you wish to know all about the sugar when
you eat every day-hoW it is made in filth, shoy-
eled in dirt, and how it is finally purified till
it ia white and immacu1ate7 -
New York has thirty five out OF the fifty rugar-
re6nerics in the United states-the other re-
fneries being in Boston, Philadelphia, Balti-
more, and st. Louis. The largest sugar-rehnery
in the world Is that OF Constance sey, in Paris.
sey refnes 5000 barrels per day. The next
largest is that Of H-vemeyer j. Elder, OF New
York. They refine 5000 barrels PER day. ..
How does sugar como hera7
Last year the SIS, 769 tons Of sugar shipped to
I this country came mostly from Cuba, Porto Rico,
| Brazil, Maniln, Jamaics, San Domingo, aud Bar
| BADGES It came in hogsheads weighing l,600
| pounds, boxes weighing 450, and bags Weighing
! $50 pounds. a large part Of it came in = black,
dirty, "raw" state, and some called " centrifu-
gal had the water whir1ed out OF it in centri-
fugal machines before it left Cuba, So sugar is
quoted as 'raw" and "centrifugeL" Raw gu-
gar is worth about cents and centrifugal cents
per pound. Cuba sugar is the best sugar, but it
all has to DO cleaned before it is fit for use, and
then the raw sugar WHOLESALERS for about cents
make white lump sugar worth u}z, light yello"
worth 1011, dark yellow worth 81, and syrup
worth 4.
How do they do this ?, -.:...--
This iE what eaw for the Graphic yesterday,
in the largest sugar-refnery in the United
First, the sugar in filthy black bags, hogs
heads covered with mud, and boxes smeared
over with blge-water and filth, was landed at
the Williamsburg docks, where you see those
ned it back to a big copper vat filed with hot
wnter, broke open the boxes, cut open the bags.
and knocked IN the heads Of the hogsheads and
let it al-dirt, mud, sticks, niggers' shoes, old
Sleeveless shirts-yes, let it ali slide into the vat
together. -:
Yes, and more, too. They placed tho filthy
old hogsheads, soiled bags, and dirty boxes into
8 steam vat, steamed and washed OF the dirt
and eugar, and then put it in, too. Then
greasy old Dutch1nan stirred it up occasionally,
expectoratmg tobacco juice here and'theIe, and
scIaping his williamsburg mud into the future
frosting OF our wedding-cake-
Well, the hoghhead slaves, after the sugar and
dirt are worked of, are sent back to Cuba, and
400 hogsheads Of sugar and dirt per day are
pumped, in liquid form, into the fifth story, to
be cleaned and purified.
What! can they. take out filthy cigar-stubs,
dead rats negro babies, bi1ge-watsr, aud every
thing?
witehes' chowder syrup as pure and as colorlesa
and odorless as ice water, and as clean, too. AL
dirt, salts, smells, aud every material obstacle
narent iiunid auear rms out as water trickles
3ronn crVstaI snrfno.
How do thew do It? :
oa1lon oanldrons. viii ete.m-pipo in The boz
E nml' Then. Then bIne itmus ~ psper paper soaked
:; hire c.hh,1e inica1 ia dinped into il to see Il
Il ia sour. Il il is sour. the bIue paper Is |
-. g. -n1 &1nv *fxfxyr nf
1Iaa h;s H. III. ta I'D ~ the acid 1eavea the
sn1sr to attack tha lime. when. like the Kil-, |
sa6, sa6ne ~ cats thav ~ hath entan m. r Ton
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