Daily Republican., 1880-02-17

heason-The stOch holders and
a Number Of Inylted Gentlemen
Visit the works.
There are but .wo beet sugar manu-
factories on the Atlantic coast Of the
United States. One Of them Ia located
: at Portland, Maine; the other at River.
side, Delaware, three miles from VIII
mipgton on the Delaware river. This
manu- factory In Maine has run two sea.
sons the Riverside mandatory only
one season as an experiment.
The Maine mandatory works up
about two hundred tons OF beets pei
day and the Riverside worked about
twenty-five tons per day. Both have
been 30 successful that the stockholders
feel encouraged and intend to enlarge
the capacity Of each.
As the Riverside manufaetsry Ia a
Delaware and therefore local enter
prise, 1T concerns Dslawareans the most
and it is right and proper that they
should know the results of the win
ter's experiments. The Delaware beet
manufacturing Co., is incorporated and
the following named gentlemen are Off
GERS of the company:
President-Heo. &. Lobdell.
Sscretary--Geo. w. Stone.
Treas.-Alfred D. Warner.
Business Manager-Lea Pusey.
Having erected building at River.
side on the Delaware handy to water
and rail communication, the dimen-
sions Of which were given in the
REPUBLICAN last fall and placed within
it the necessary machinery for the
manufacture of beet sugar it but re-
mained tor them to procure sufficient
quantity of bests and proceed with
their experiments.
Mr.. Lea Pusey had for several years
been training seveTal farmers in the
State in the raising Of the beet, until
last year by careful calculations he ex-
pected that enough beets would bs rails
ed to begin with or at least to make an
experiment with. Offering $4 a ton
for beets delivered at the railroad sta
tions, between 1000 and 5000 tons were
sent by rail to the works AMI about
the first Of January operations were
commenced.
The season for the manufacture of
beet sugar usually closes about the lst
of February, but owing to certain chan
ges rendered necessary as the expert
neuts progressed the season at River
side extended up until yesterday upon
which occasion large number of the
friends Of the enterprise as already no.
ted, met ut the works, to wit the opera
tion by which sugar was made from beet.
Notable amongst those interested and
present were: Lea Pusey, George W.
Stone, Samuel M. Pusey, Jacob Pusey,
Alfred d. Warner, George W. Bush,
George Richardson, Job II. Jackson,
Edward Darlington, James L. Dsvou,
J. T. Hsald, Thomas Worrall, Lewis
Thompson, Edward Bringhurst, James
W. Ware, W. Jones, John Jones, W.
M. Candy, David Counell, George Ca
pelle, James Bradford, Ashton Rich
ardson, Joseph Richardson, Thomas
Bellah, Allen Gawthrop, Allen Speak
man, DR.. John Cameron, Robert At&in-
son, James II. Johns and possibly one
or two others. The local press was
represented by Bertolette of the sew
cry Evening"" Taylor of the Gazette"
and Hersey of the Republican"
Arriving at the works in the 2.30 p.
IN. train from Wilmington, the party
and spread through every por-
lion of the building watching with in
terest the complicated machinery which
took big, raw, unwashed beets into the
hopper and in an hour or so turned the
pulp out into a waiting car on side
track and extracted juice from which
the sugar was crystallzed into huge
copper vessels on wheels in another
part OF the building. During the past
winter part of the beets for the want
OF storing capacity were ricked and
covered over with clay outside the
building and on the occasion of our
visit We found number of men engag-
ed in uncovering the last of them.
As each beet was picked up by one
hand a cutlas in the other whacked off
the top aud the beets thus beheaded
were thrown into large hand barrows
and wheeled into the basement of the
building and barrow and beets were
placed on the platform of an elevator
and raised to the second story. Here
they were thrown through the floor in
to hopper from which they were pas
sed into long cylindrical washer
where they were rumbled and tumbled
around until all the dirt was washed
off. After being washed the cylinder
threw them out into an endless chain
elevator which carried them to the Sc
cond story where they were thrown in
to another hopper containing revolv-
ing shaft full of sharp knives which
out and sliced tho beets into strips or
ribbons.
As the latter were thrown from this
machine they fell in 10 another endless {
,hain elevator, which carried them to !
,he third story where they were thrown q
nto dozen Of defensive batteries, @
when a stream OF hot water being turn t
ID on, the saccharine juice is extracted. +
The pulp of the beet is thrown out of i
he batteries to the second floor, where '
t is put through a press whi,h '
ieparates it from 80 much water. By /
his time the pulp has fallen to the v
basement floor again where it is SHOW. v
lied into hand -barrows and wheeled e
nut and tilted into car and from t
hence it is taken away and fed to the d
'attle on the surrounding farms. The
uice extracted from the pulp is forced
through hose to large defeating tank
where it is cleansed from all impurities
~ means of lime and carbonic acid gas.
After having been put through this o
the juice is conveyed into a .
aree mont Juice which serves merelyi