The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-10-10
Local Sketches.
vERDER's STEAM BAKERY.


Rutland boasts among the many of her
important commercial and manufacturing
enterprises, one of the best steam bakeries
in New England. Although its goods are
sent throughout the length and breadth of
this and adjoining States and to distant
parts of the country, the amount of business
done by the establishment is known to but
few, and but little idea prevails in regard
to the Importance of such business TO our
own town. We are apt to think but little
Of the baker if we only get our bread, pro-
vided it is good and wholesome, for his
traffic is done quietly and without trouble /;
he deals mainly in the necessaries of life,
and so we look upon him only as a neccs-
sary unit of the one great whole. But
should the baker stop baking-should Yer
der's Bakery stop running, we would at
once find how important it was, to many
of us at least, that his business should
thrive and his oven continue to be in ac-
tive operation Next TO the kind of food
generally denominated bread, in general
use, is the cracker the cheapest article of
diet that can well be found in this country,
and in the manufacture Of this particular
article, Vertlers Bakery takes the lead of
any establishment in New England.
Mr. Daniel Verder, from whom the
bakery originally tool. its name, came TO
Rutland in 1858 and opened small
bakery on West street, near the corner of
Main, where, with the assistance of his
sons and three or four men, machine Of
horse power, he was enabled to turn out
from ten to twelve barrels OF crackers per
day. He staid there two years, when
he removed to a building which then
stood on the present site of the town
hall and in 1867 he extended his bust
ness by the erection of building on
Merchants row, where Spraguc & Kings
ley's block now stands, running two shops
until the year 1868, when the fires in that
locality swept both establishments away
and left him none.
In September, 1869, he again commenced
business by the erection of brick block
Wales streets, the present quarters of the
firm, for the express purpose of steam
bakery. This block is 45xG5 feet, three
stories high, and the best adapted for
the purpose of any bakery in the state
1t has storehouse in the rear 20x30 feet
for the storage of flour. In October,
1872, Mr. Nerdcr purchased one of John
Raincy's patent ovens, costing $4,000,
which is by far the greatest improvement
invented in the business This has the
capacity of baking one hundred barrels
OF crackers per hour, with the same num-
Der of workmen as was needed with the
old fashioned oven that baked only half
that amount. The heating is from fur
mace underneath, so arranged as
to give an even temperature
throughout the oven. The process of baking
as shown at this bakery, is at once novel
and worthy of notice. First, the preparing
the dough for the crackers is done the night
before, and at about six o'clock the baking
commences. The dough is placed in
trough and, as it is passed through it is
cut in proper shape for crackers by me-
chanical means Then certain number
are placed upon one of the shelves of the
oven, the oven being built in the shape of a
large water-wheel, made TO Teyolyc with
out disturbing the position of the contents,
the inside of the oven being IS feet high
and IA feet square. There are eight of
these shelves, and the contents of one is
baked and taken out with the single revo-
luton of the whole This process is con-
tinued until one o'clock when the result of
the days baking is packed by the men in
readiness for shipping.
In January last. Mr. Daniel Verder re-
tired from the business, and the bakery is
now owned and controlled by Messrs. II.
l.. Verder, son of d. Verder, and T. j.
Lyon, under the firm name Of II. l.. Ncrder
" Co. These gentlemen are continuing in
the prosperity and enterprise iii the business
as marked out for them by their prede-
cessor.
The firm employ ten men in and about
the establishment, seven of these being en-
gagged in the baking room, in which Mr..
Geo. III. Nerder, a brother of the senior
partner, is the foreman Their business is
mostly crackers, transacted entirely by or
der, although they bake certain amount
of bread and cake for the retail trade of
the village. The crackers manufactured
by them are known everywhere as "Ner-
der's Excelsior Rutland Crackers" and
their trade in that particular article is very
extensive, taking in a large trade at Schc-
nectady, Troy, Lansinburgh and other
prominent places of New York, and De
troit, Mich, while they also supply almost
the entire trade on the lines of railroads
running from Rutland to Troy, Bcnning-
ton, Whitehall and Port Henry. They
keep some 500 or 600 barrels OF flour in
store from Chicago and Cleveland
The above gives in brief few facts CON
corning this Rutland enterprise which is
steadily growing in patronage and prospect
ty and is public benefit to our village.
The firm are men of acknowledged bust
ness qualities which fit them for perfect
discharge of their duty to their customers
and continued success in their business.
ST.. ALBAHs BUTTER MARKEr. On Tues
day, owing to the storm, the offerings were
limited. Common to fair 30 to 25c me-
1iunn IN uoo1 OK IN on for fall ,,,oIo