Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-27

has been defeated and captured. 49,,
f. LONDON, Nov. 25.-Soper & Sons. mer!
chants, failed. Liabilities 100000. ......s
LONDON, Nov. 25.-The Marcheste,
handicap was won by-BoswelI.- -
The Railway Carriage works of The
London & Northwestern railroad at Vol
verton, burned. Loss e1O0,OOO. THREE
| hundred persons are out of EMPLOYMENT.
THE CHEWING GUM TRADE.
Il business: RacIed tcsth 1anfets,, byi ia.
i ia FtckIe Tasfes # Childhood. a. : - !
l. Around the corner from Blocker; street
New York, in one of the streets west O.
| broadway, an old sign on dingy house
front bears the inscription, ';Chewing Cur.
| Factory When a reporter of the SD,
started to goi in he found the door loclieE
as though to seclude from intrusive cobser
Walton the processes by which the durable
delicacy is produced. The proprietor him
self responded to the ring of the door bell
and, standing IN the hall talked feeliagly
of the vicissitudes of the chewing gum
trade. s'This may be called the dull! SEA-
son, suppose" he remarked, ;''for. now
| the schools have broken up, and there is
apt to be less call for chewing gun
In the fall, when the children get to their
books again, the dem md viii pick MP, for
chewing gum is a quiet comfort during
school hours. If p lpif brings IN taify or
candy, sticky fingers and smeared books
are the result. and the rustiing of the
paper wrapper may draw the teachers at
| tentien and lead to conGscaticn. Then.
too, chewing gum is economical. a pu-
Pill may slip il in the desk, when called
upon to recite, and when it dries it be-
| comes fresh and crackly again, as when it
was first bought. Butt as I said before,
the demand goes by such, fits and starts
that you can't tell exactly. when it viii
spring up or when it Will die away Chew
ing gum is not such a staple ais, people rsj5I
imagine. We, have to be continually on
| the outlook for novelties in order to make
it go.' ,s..I - 81. ;, "a :.
gum" go NJ -
mo. Natural gum, is almost unheard
of nowadays. There used to be trade in
spruce gum, and I believe there is still. in
New England. Trade chewing gum is,
nearly all parafine wax. There is. one
manufacturer in this city who uses spec.
{
trade name. There is no waste Of sub
stance in either kind. You may chew out
the sugar in it, but the gum itself is unal-
tered. The sweetening constitutes the
only difficulty in chewing gum manufac-
ture. You cannot candy the gum. IF you
should try to boil parapftine wax with
sugar the wax would float to the top while
the. sugar would be burning at the bot
%ov~ IL L. -
pressure. If there is any staple chewing
gum it is what is known as White, Mepn-
tain gum, made in Maine. It is a parafine
wax gum, with its natural white color, but
very sweet and is put up in one uniform
size. Other makers; devise all sorts. Of
novelties. If yon happen to hit the chill
dren's fancy you may have a big rush; but
if style does not take, it is of mouse to
keep it in stock. Better melt it. down and
work it over into different shapes." Z 20
sWhat different shapes do you put chew
ing gum up I'M '::s% i.,:>,:r,g -. ::
:. sEOh, almost every conceivable shape
You know wax is easily nodded. Now, for
the 4th of July trade we make fre+crack-
ers, rockets and torpedoes. * cigar shape
has pretty constant demand. dt'spleasest
the boys. L made. quite az run once on!
babies. OnceaI got out five little pigs in.
a box; and for some weeks I sold them. by
the thousand Strawberries have had
quite run. sl1:so,d about 40 COG of them
in three weeks. Chewing gum made in
very thin, round pieces sold ikeTagic for
awhile underline name: of needles and
pins. We follow up the season in, toys.
For instance, in, the spring we get. out
tops and marbles. We use several colors,
principally white and red, but sometimes
yellow and chocolate. ~ I. AZ - c
,s:Do you supply the shops directly ?', q
: , No; the manufacturers sell to.the iobe,
beers, who supply the retail conf ctiohery.
trade The manufacturers price for chew
ng-guin is from go to Go cents per box
of 100 pieces. The retail priceis a cent
apiece, The demand for chewinggum isF
largely kept up now by the prize package
system, and there is "a house in this city,
that makes a specially Of, that branch Of
the business and almost nonop0lizes it,
They are always on the lookout for. cheap
job-lots Of any thing that can be used 81
prizes, and that constitutes the greatest,
portion of their outlay. The prizes range.
from. a. ring or - doll up to-
a clock or watch. When the prize is -toe
bulky to go in the same packages with the
gum the prizes going to shopkeeper with
an assortment are numbered, and cor
responding numbers are put on slips fold
ed up with the chewing gum. -. -. :;
;. ''The great difficulty about the business p
tAe manufacturer went on, sis, as 7 said
before, the tickle taste of children. It lis
impossible to foretell how any new style
will take. It; is. a hit or miss operation, 81
tell you, sir,,it may seem strange for me to
say 50, but some Of those big houses, down
;town. with large capital and extended trade
don't have to rack their brains in doing
business nearly SO much as we chewing
gum manufacturers have to do. r. 7
- s1.4asi.rs'f: 11d1e Swash ihavineu mis-: afIai
com bed by his mother and he grdiAbled
at Incorporation : IS Why, Ii o on
shoaldnst makesacha fuss, II doh,ti'wiel
my barr Is combed. VA rs Yes. sbit ,kVo,1r 4
hair amt hitched to your HEAD like
nine" = $3.50 rti3 o: .:s.s'is;i7.s 5:;;ss;f:
{ i'55''5 e .-.-.:z12 ~. :.:::. 2,:s.c,r71 "a
/. ;.s "'gWHERE: are: You going my ~ little
man To; school. 9. You learn to
y.,od S's e 81,