The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-10-01
SfWDUSI.
Profitable Business that has Grown ~
within tue Inst Half Century.


Two large green carts, overlooking with
clean yellow sawdust, stood In front Of MIR.
Thomas Hunts red painted cottage at tO2
Eleventh avenue yesterday, and the proprietor,
VINO bad just finished his dinner and was In .
talkatlve mood. gave this account Of his connec-
ton with the sawdust business. " II has," he
SAID, grown up within the last fifty years, and
have been at work NJ II for over ten years. !
was led into 1t by a Mr.. Robert Jackson, who
spent twenty years in the business and accumu-
lated handsome property. There are about
seventy-iive men engaged entirely in the SAVE
dust business who employ about 100 wagons
These men do nothing else, and 1t is probable
that they average the sale of 100 barrels OF dust
every day. don't doubt that. take II all in all.
New York consumes ON an average 1850 barrels
Of sawdust daily. :
"SIwdust IL used extensively by the great
wholesale dealers in lard and butter for packing
their goods that to re shipped. 1t is IN great
demand in torpedo fac nos, IN furnishing the
Ming In the manufacturing OF dolls, and iu
making the q tent Us pestos walls. 10 Is well
known that ninety ave per cent. OF the stores III
Broadw y use 1t In sweeping their i.oors, aud
ing houses it is almost univer, lily em-
ployed. la smoke houses 10 Is superior to
all other fuel for curing purposes and nearly
all tue sm used hams and beef md ~aIsages mat
We sec IN The markets II ave come from the
thick. heavy. fumes OF asawdtist nre. Sawdust
never burns with Il me, aud even that Of the res
Just smouidrrs,you soe ana IN. kes "a great heavJ
smoke. some times the sIwdust Il mixed WITH
ok wood IN the smoke house. lhe dust Of
Georgia pitch rine Is IN greater demand ia un'
dvrgrlund saloons and IN other subtcrrane1u
quarters than the dust ~ any other wood. Inc
reason II this is, that in those daup and un-
healthy places ioui gases are coi-.taiF gene
rated, ana If something were not used to coun-
terIct them lha Apartment would become unin'
hhbitanle. lac odOr Of the nine 'utralizea
these gases, aud more than th,t It ID
an excellent oil Tor the lung, Oftentimes pre-
venting the taxing aud aiding In the cure Of
IA. IheIe H patent sawiusl that o. preiers
red 10y some custpinets aud discarded hY others.
IL Is obtained bi sitting Tue cOlrse lie tvy CHIP
pings that rass out with tue shavngs from plan
lng mills. rus sp-caed stwdust Is used most
~ for packing purposes.
Our business Is iivenest from Jan. to July 10,
and after that uttc sdwdust - more or less q
drug in The market until after Doe. To- The ex.
planatlon 81 thi- Is N Il the markets are closed
AT noon every Day, and then, too, tue weather ID
drier most OF Tie time than at other seasons
az iin, all busin = Is usually duh during part
lie ~ Of that period.
" rne sawdu dealer procurcs his supply en-
tirely from The saWin! and planning mills. He ID
bound ty astrlct contract that comrels him To
take all the dust that IS made every day. In case
Of failure to comply with these terms BY the
dealer the Proprietor OF the mll is 1T liberty ID
break the contract. On The other mana the lat-
ter guarantees t. the sawdust merchant that ID
~ otusr person shall any OF The dust Of the mill
be Solt.
or 800 o'clock in tlc morning. and sometimes
70 a. far 10 c'lmD'a dam bridge, or far into
brooklyn. II sell a. retail OF course it Is here
and there and everywhere, but at wholesale II
Il always goes by tho Load. We have Ger,
| tain humber Of &c all customers whom We call
Our Northumberland Gus omets, and these men
! are good al thc wear around. But, in case of
great fu-h IN tho wuoIesle buslheii we have
| u drop every one else and attend 90 them. Inc
! prlcrs oi atWdd when 1t ia sod ~ retail vary
considerably accl rdlug to the dultiuF Of deliv-
| ert, ana the amount that Is thhen IA the coursd
OF tue YEAR ihe nIG' iYr the markets Is - cents
barrel, and thi, - the lowest figure at WhicH
month. and are compelled to denver the dust
~ or down several hisut, ot stairs, We o2arge "a