, 1876-03-05
A Great Industry Finds Its Home
in the Place Cut Out for
1t by Destiny,
Chicago Now Possesses the BIGGEST
and Best Starch Mandatory
in the World.
Old Ideas Discarded, and New Methods
Carried Forward to Grand
Results.
Entertaining Facts Of Vital Interest 10 the Trade
and the General Public.

The absurdity Of producing staple eoods-ar
tlcles Of universal consumption-lu the West
and then sending them East to be tranamnter
into other standard forms and reshippcd Wee
again, grows yearly more apparent Vester1
businessmen and the general Western public art
learning the costly folly Of the thug, We hay,
long since ceased to look abroad for most of tht
mutifarious articles made from lumber. becaust
J wo have manufactures right bore at hou{
that eau supply our demands, and ever
export their goods. Chicago furniture hou SO,
I enabled to buy its lumber of nil kinds chcape,
than it can be procured anywhere else under the
SUM- IL today engaged in furnishing half dozen
| new hotels III Ihsladolphia. Grain is no longer
carried from here to distant cities to be meta-
| moIphosed into alcohol, but Chicago has its own
dlstlllertes to utilize the cereals that grow At it's
! very door. THIS city packs mear for half the
worlds Use instead of driving tho cattle through
ITS streets EN- route to the abbaors Of some burg
| Il thousand miles away.
! Right III tho same line, there nov comes an.
other practical utilization of Western natural
products. Ine day Of t1uEdling corn through
Chicago to Oswego aud Lon. Island there to be
made into starch and the starch wheeled back
here agaln for Western CONSUMPTION. is uast,
1t il etate Of affairs that
OUGHT MEIER TO HAVE EXISTED
alter this enormous coru-growing country be-
came Inrge enough to lave METROPOLIS
o'bs, o1 its Evil 9"n. u,;.5, hut' like many an
after it should have been e1tirpated this ono has
continued to wax stronger year By yeaz It's con-
qucror has appeared, however and from this time
henceforward sta,ch will be made in the most
fitting place on the globe for iss nfauufacture
Yet this announcement interesting NJ it. IT, car
r'es but small proportionato idea OF the import
auce OF the great undertaking by which the old
order OF things has been done away With
Starch Is not only to be manufactured here,
night IN the heart Of tho corn-gro*n1g land, but
the very beginning than has ever been turned
ont Of any establishment il, Christepdom,
Ihe Chicago Starch Works are vital f4ct
The massive brick structure at the corner OF
Clark aud Twelfth Streets with it's spacious ssea
OF 3i5 By 275 teet, has been stocked with ma-
ch,nery, and that machinery is NOW IN operation,
l.r,ducns daily quality Of starch al superior
to the old grades 10 Tong in the market ~ the
great puls'ng Cbicaso Of to-day is supe5icr TO
the ha'nlets which woros:rugghng lnto existence
along the Atlantic coast $40 years ago.
Tho process by which the starch is noade is
worthy alike the progressive senlns OF the age
and Of the magnitude Of the new manufac-
tory To meekly follow in the ruts OF
those who have preceded Elm elsewhere IN
the ma4ufaeture OF starch, Was not the
sort OF thing to suit the energetic
Judgment of. alr. T. E. spaids, President OF th5
Works, and the nlan whoso good sense and truo
Western force has called tho establishment into
lasting life aud action. For years patient ana
their results, he saw that the article 80 long in
the market as standard WAS realiy
M1SEEABl.Y WEAK AND IMPURE.
That the correct place 10 mako perfect
article WAS in the centre Of the eorn-producin.:
country was uext made evident to him. but he
SAW that this was not enough. His keen pe.cep-
tions aud active mind solved the causes Of the
weakness Of starch as commonly made, aud he
has overturned all the antique ideas Of the trade
in this respect as completely az Calico over
turned the venerable but preposterous theories
once in vogue concerning the solar system.
FERMENTATION,
which rots and enfcebles the starch hopelesslv.
ii now thing OF the pest. Mr. Spaids' fertile
brain has evolved new methods Of separating
the gluten from the starch, aud Of finishing the
process by modes that give an immeaaurably
smoother article. Ho has devised and discoy-
cred ways Of securing tho full potsncy Of the
starch in every kernel Of corn. Soute of these
modes he has protected By lettera patent; others
he holds aa too precious to even be intruated to
tho care Of the Commissioner Of Pateuts, pre- |
ferfiug to keep them safely stored ia his own |
mind. He has discarded fermentation entirely, |
and experts who have critically tested his starch
ayoW that it is
THE ONLY PURE ARTICLE
ever made, and that it must always prove clean, ]
smooth. and altogether acceptable.
The TRIBUNE believes that dealers throughout |
the country will be prompt to appreciate tile un-
varying excellence OF spaids' Chicago Starch.
to pay. in addition to tue cost of
double transportation rates.
The trade, also. is never SLOW to learn tho ad- |
ran,ages which accrue from handling superior
articie. Every package Of starch from the Chi
.ago Works contains full weight,-uot half
sound, or q pound. Of starch and box united,
nut half q pound, or pound, OF starch without
ho box. Full weight is en- honest novelty in
tarch-seling sure to bring its own speedy re-
ynrd
red by the public and. tho dealers is that the
,roduct Of the ch1cago Starch Works has a
FIXED MATHEMATICAL SUPERIORITY
ver the tlimsy stuff which has 80 long been i'm
,osed upon the world By Eastern makers. The
tarch made elsewhere has weakness when |
ompared to the spaids starch. which is sus-
eptible Of definite proof. Every 1000 bushels ,
L corn used in making ordinary starch produces
ully 2 tons more than can be obtained by the
'h1cago process. In other words. L. 0oD bushels
tarch BY the superb process Of 3fr: Spaidz,
Or that quantity OF corn makes but about
5 tons of Chicago starch to over I
tons Of any other kind, The vital starch ,
rnciplo Of the 1,0U0 bushels is compressed into
ome Is tons in tho ono caae IN the other it is
.luted to make d couple Of tous more. Some {
leu can make gallon of milk fill 2~galion
IN, but We haro yet to hear Of the family which
refers watered lacteais to the genuine at the
ama price.
This process Of AIR. Spaids' gives condemned +
cbness to tho Chicago starch, which must place '
lender Of its klnd,-th king starch Of the I
orld. Il
Perhaps shrewd tradesmen, good at figures,
i'll wish us to tell how the Chicago Starch
Torks ia going to prove paying institution if
is obliged to use corn so larishy. 1t Is pleas =,
1ty easy nattor to answer them. -
First good article must become popular.
eople will not be long in finding ont that the I,
me money which has been buying short Il
eight dilulion OF starch in the past, will now
" full weight of what VIC may call concentrated
sepce of starch. "
Second, the fact, already noted, that tho 81
arch ia made right here at the cheapest and o.
lndiest corn depot in the world, aids III equal te
ing the cost. There is no long distance freight
o for corn one way, and starch the other, to
paid By the Chicago Works, and go it ls al st
ost aa profitable to condcnse LOCO bushels OF re
IN into Is tons here, Us to weaken 1T ont into bt
tons anywhere else. This fact Joined to the -;
wing OF expense by Alr. Spaids remarkable r
scoTeries and inventions, cheapens the cost OF
apufacture in Chicago amazingly. IN
There are innumeIab!e minor reaaoDs Why the :
at can bo protitably accomplished, but We de- =,
e to dwell onIr Oh -
THE CHIEF ONE OF ALL.
The Chicago Starch WORKS stars8 into life
1T, weli-ordered institution, with experience, 10