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


The Railway Carriage works of tn,
London & Northwestern railroad at VOL
verton. burned. Loss 100000. THREE
! hundred persons are out of. employment
THE CHEWING GUM TRADE.
4 business Hacked ieith .fa;rfets,c Or ia
! FicisIe Tastes # Childhood. a. !.
Around the corner from Blocker. street
New York, in one of the streets west O
broadway, al old sign on dingy hous
front bears the inscription, 'iChewing Cur
Factory" When a reporter OF the SUI
started to go in he found the door locke.
as though to seclude from intrusive. obser
! walton the processes by which the durabI
delicacy is produced. The proprietor him
self responded to the ring of the door bell
and, standing III the hall talked feeliagIy
| of the vicissitudes of the chewing gun
| trade. This may be called the dull! SEA
son, I suppose he rem arked, ''for.. nov
the schools have broken up. and thera, i.
apt to be less call for chewing CUR
In the fall, when the children get to their
! books again, the dem md viii pick up, 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 al
tention and lead to conGscation. 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 il
was first bought. But. as said Before,
the demand goes by such fits and starts
that you can't tell exactly when it will
spring up or when it Will die away. Chew
! ing gum is not such staple as, people
imagine. We, have to be continually on
/ the outlook for novelties in order to make
it go.'' .,s..- - -. = -.
| ''Are there many kinds of chewing
gum" =r.....-.ev-.- ---
| mo. Natural gum is almost unheard
OF nowadays. There used to be trade in
spruce gum, and believe there is still in
New England. Trade chewing gum is
nearly all parafiine wax. There is one
manufacturer in this city who uses a spec
les of India rubber. Gum chikley is its
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 parapfine wax with
sugar the wax would float to the top while
the sugar would be burning at the bot
tom. The syrup must be worked in cold by
pressure. If there is any staple chewing
gum it is what is known as White Noun
tain gum, made in Maine. It is paraffne
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 You happen to hit the chill
dren's fancy you may have a big rush; but
if style does not take, it is of no use to
keep it in stock. Better melt it. down and
work it over into different shapes.'' e -;
''What different shapes do you put chew
ing gum up in" % ;-..p:cg O.. :
''Oh, 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. a cigar shape
has pretty constant demand. IT. pleases
the boys. 1 made. quite a run once on
babies. Once@1 got out five little pigs in
box; and for some weeks I sold them by
the thousand Strawberries have had
quite ran. I :so,d about coo of them
in three weeks. Chewing gum made in
very thin, round pieces sold likemagic for
a while 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. - :, -
,':Do you supply the shops directly ?'' :
No; the manufacturers sell to:the, jobe
bers. who supply the retail contradictory
trade. The manufacturers price for chew
ing -guln is from so to 60 cents per box
of 100 pieces. The retail price is a cent
apiece. The demand for chewing gum is
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 monopO!izes it,
| They are always on the lookout for. cheap
iob-lots of anything that can be used s.
prizes, and that constitutes the greatest
portion of their outlay. The prizes range
from a: ring or q - coll up to
a clock or a watch. When the prize is too
bulky to go in the same packages withthe
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. -. $3.50 :;
- ''The great difficulty about the business, y
tae manufacturer went on, sis, as said
before, the tickle taste of children. It is
impossible to foretell how any new style
will take. 1t is. hit or miss operation,
tell you, SIR, may seem strange for me to
say 80, 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. )" - 80 :
f. n.4i's4r f1ao1e was having mis-. ahal
com bed by his mother and he grutnbled
at Incorporation = IS Why, lEtiiaiie. YOU on,
shouldn't make such fuss, r dom iwhen
my hair is cembed. - Is Yes, but lyvour
h:tir amt hitched to your head like
mine" $50 go .; ''-'siiZa, 5i;;zl.e3 :.
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81 "'rWHERE are you going, my little
man 2, "To. school. y 8. You learn to
read q "No.. "To. count p "No !"
What do you do p Il wait for
school to let out ! - ...--,..:. - :.
Truth takes the stamp of the sonl Il