, 1881-10-09
>CANDY-PULLING.
How the Business Is Managed
upon Large Scale.
Printing Sweet Devices on Lozenges-
! The Mint Drop.


mention OF which calls up more pleasant as
sociations to old and young, than candy The
baby cries for it, schoolboys and schoolgirls
demand it, and-principally In the form of
caranels-itis is alleged to be of the greatest
possible service to young men in their court
ing days, not, of course, for their own proper
use, but as i propltiatory offering to their re-
spectiye divinities- In this particular it
far excels the fascinating but deceit
full ice cream, and has the addi-
tional advantage Of being in sea-
son all the year round Staid fathers
Of families affect to disdain the toothsome
dainty, and are apt to inform their offspring
that candy will spoil their teeth and ruin
their digestions, usually, however, ending
the honily by the production of sundry small
change to keep the children quiet. The
truth is that neither the middle-aged nor the
white haired can forget the joys which candy
brought to them III the long ago, and to all it
is a thing of beauty and JOY forever.
i reporter Of THE TRIBUNE was yesterday
afforded an opportunity OF making tour OF
inspection through one Of tie largest candy
manufactures Of the West, and OF seeing for
himself
. THE DIFFERENT PROCESSES EMPLOYED "
III the conversion Of the pure white sugar
into the manufactured article. Asked wliat
particular department he would first exa1I-
| inc, the scribe decided to begin the review
| where he Degan his personal experience
namely: with stick candy-alld he was leu to
the flour devoted 10 its manufacture. At one
| end of the large room couple OF men we're
! industriously employed shoyeling white
| sugar into large copper boiling pans, each
holding fifty pounds. Side by side with
these were half similar pans Sl IN which
wien sufficiently boiled Is poured upon mar
BILE slabs, fenced III with sHttare pieces of
iron, and there allowed to cool until tit for
handling. The process Of boiling makes 1t OF
| broWnIsh color. and to get TIC OF thls
II Is PULLED"
| 4 man takes o. thirty-pound chunk Of the
stuff, hangs it on a large iron hook ana
! draws it out ut arms length: Then he
| doubles it over the hook and pulls again. re-
| peating the process until the entire mass as,
| su1nes snowy whiteness. 1t Is then dlv!ded
up into pieces Of suitable size and rolled by
| hand on :, wooden table This makes rolls
some ten feet III length--but along comes z
boy with queer-shaped pair OF scissors ana
cuts it into suitable lengths. II only the
childish consumers could. get hold Of that
boy and reason with him, the one-eent stick
Of candy, which is the Juveniles delight,
might be made little longer. But this snpe-
rior being. negtectful OF his opportunities,
goes OH all day ellppng candy a as IL It ms ttls
| Weapon were the shears of the FnteS ana
never once puts his fingers to his mouth:
The question as to how the strlpes, those
famous spiral stripes of delicate pink, got on
to the candy had always plzZed the reporter,
got inside the dumping bothered King ling
George. Aud yet it is simple enough. 0n
the outside Of the cylindrical lump OF Whlle
candy the workman lays longitudinal Strips
OF colored candy prepared IN similar man:
ner. 4 scientific twist is given to the mass;
the workman gets hold of one end OF It, pulls
It out into long. string. which is rolled By
his boy helper, and there is the stick candy nj