Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1881-01-20
Something Abont Glucose.

ship of certain shares of the Buffalo
Grape Sugar Company, it was shown
that the profits of the business now
amountto about 81, 100000 a year upon
capital Of 100000. The fact that
enormous quantities of grape sugar, or
glucose, is sold, and that the business
has at least doubled every year for the
last five years, until at present all the
starch factories turn out more or less Of
the product; that several vast establish
ments are building for the purpose of
manufacturing glucose, one in Detroit
and one in ChicGgO and that the adul-
terations in which glucose is used are
now recognized among merchants, in.
duced a reporter to inquire into the his
tory and extent of the glucose business.
Sugar merchants who mix glucose with
their sugar are careful about giving
facts and figures, but all admitted that
its use was widespread and increasing
every day.
In 1867 German chemist named
GoeSling arrived in New York with a
secret process Of producing sirup from
corn at small cost, about twenty gallons
of sirup being obtained from one bushel
of corn. The corn was first made into
starch, which, after treatment with sui.
phuric acid was run through mar
ble-dust in order to extract the acid,
after which il was purified with
boneblack and boiled to any desired
consistency. DR.. Goesling interested
some New York capitalists and sugar
merchants in his process and sold the
patents to a company called the Union
Sugar Company for half million dol
lars. The Union Sugar Company had
been organized especially to make the
new kind of sugar, and Immediately
erected works and began business.
Prosperity was too much for DIR. Goes
ling, who died before the first batch of
sirup was turned out. No one thought
at that time of making solid glucOse
the sirup was all that the Union Sugar
Company intended to produce. When
the first barrels of the new sirup were
produced the appearance was excellent,
and the stockholders congratulated
themselves upon having possession of a
gold mine. Unfortunately the new pro-
duct had defects, the chief among which
was that it would not "stand, -" as the
sirup men say; it solidifed and candied,
becoming solid, waxy mass which was
unstable. Dr. Goesling had apparently |
forgotten to tell the company his method |
of making the sirup "stand." He had |
known some method of doing this, but
his secret died with him. After several
Intellectual and costly attempts to solve
the difficulty the Union Sugar Company
gave up business, having lost about ST.
100000, and sold the product of candied
sirup on hand to the Tribune Association
at two dollars a barrel, for the purpose
Of making ink rollers.
When DR.. Goesling sold his patents
to the New York company, Buffalo
company had already bought from
Goesling the right to use his process in
Buffalo. The Buffalo company met
with the same difficulty which the Union
Sugar Company experienced--their
product candied. But instead of giving
up the manufacture they went to work
to find out to what use the candied glu-
cose could be put. In the first place it
was found that the glucose sirup, if mixed
with low-grade black molasses, made an
excellent golden sirup, which, while not
so sweet as refined Cuba sirup, was as
good in appearance and sold as well.
As glucose sirup could be produced for
half the cost of sugar sirup, the saving
by mixing the two was enor
nous. In the next place, If glucose
ai,,,,,, yyroc ollO,ryo1 tO no,,Jvy ny,J LorJop
it was found that it could be ground
up and mixed with low-grade dark
brown sugars, the mixture having the
appearance and qualities of refined light
brown sugar, with the exception that it
was not so sweet as refined sugar. From
small beginnings the business of the
Buffalo company grew to Importance.
The glucose could be produced from
corn at the rate of thirty pounds of glu-
]ose, worth three and half cents a
pound, from one bushel of corn, beside j
which the refuse from each bushel of
corn brought six cents when sold as
itock food. One of the witnesses in the
uit mentioned in the beginning of this t
lrticle testified that he mixed from
welve to twenty per centum of glucose y
With his cane sugar, selling the mixture
Vt q good profit under the name of !
new process sugars" He sold more
han 200 barrels day of this sugar. \
Upon referring to several Wall Street I
ugar merchants the reporter found that
While the use of glucose in vast quanti-
les was admitted, the mixers, as they I
re called to distinguish them from sug-
+ refners, are not anxious to have much
ght thrown upon the business. The
efuers are not mixers. They sell sug- '
r only, just as the Buffalo company sells
lucose only. The mixers buy of both >,
nd mix it to suit themselves. Several v
rms do this sort of business exclusively,
alling the product "new process a
lgars." a
Having been told that glucose in sug- +,
r had a bad effect upon the health Of ri
10 consumer, and that therefore it was n n
'orse than a mere assault upon the Il
ocket, the reporter next sought out g.
rofessor Chandler, of the Board of a, 81
,ealth, who secuted the notion that II
IucQse in sugar was unhealthy. awe e.
ltglucose with every mouthful we take; @ =,
very bit of starchy food we take turns =, ~
Ito glucose. There is glucose in every II
nit and certain quantity in the best tr
sugars. Because saccharine particles n,
70 found in diabetes, people Jump to h,
Ia Oonplu sion that r. Ia or1i1oOen A rain -