Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-10-23
ARTIFIOIAL EGGS.

Il ARTfFICIAL EGGS.
H correspondence New York Sun.
41k April parties from Patter-
ri r1nted building on Broad
in this city. They began
5ufacturing business, and
lontly did aiively trade. Bar
~ and boxes were shipped daily
NM York. They .emyloyed
1oQss OF more Of workmen, who
5eticent when question about
I n work. 4 went into the place
4 Qlher day to solicit an adver-
@1inent for the Sunday Call. 1
oxnd the proprietor an educa-
q and refined gentleman. He
t1lted me into his Office, and |
1tstioned him about his bust
k.s. "Well," he replied after a
y ment's hesitation. 81 cant
~ we wish to advertise, nor, in
II. to have our business known,
as it will probably all leak out
ore long, may as well tell
~. We are making artificial
gs by process of my own, on
b khich / have but recently received
4 my patents. Look in the other
hSPom. ALI the eggs you see there
>made in this place. Here is
me. Let me break it open"
He broke it open aud showed me
what appeared to be the inside of
a real egg. "Oh, it's fact.
do " u mean to say that YOU
made that egg without the assis-
tance of henf" / asked.
"Yes," he replied, "and if you
wish / will show you something of
onr process. Come"
He led me through room in
which there was stored boxes
upon boxes of eggs, and into an
ther large cool room in the rear.
Everything was clean and neat
Several styange looking wooden
machines, totally unlike anything |
Ihad ever seen, stood in different |
parts of the room. Six or seven
men were operating the machin-
cry, which moved noiselessly and
with great rapidity. l followed
my conductor to one end of the
department, where there were
three large tanks or watts. One
was filled with O yellow COM
pound, the second with starchy
mixture. and the other was Gov
cred Pointing to these the pro-
prietor said "These contain the
yolk mixtui 70 and the white Of egg.
We empty the vats every day, SO
you can jutde of the extent of the
business elready. Let me show
you one d the machines. You
see they are divided into different
boxes or teoeptacles. The first
and second are the yolk and
white. The next is what We term
the "skin" Machine, and the last
one is the shelter, and drying
trays. This process is the result
Of many yeas of experiment and
Expense. I first conceived the
idea after making a chemical
analysis OF a egg. After long
time I succeeded in making a
very good Imitation of an egg?
then turned my attention to max
ing the machinery, and the result
you see for,ouself. OF course it
would not 10 policy for me to ex-
plain all tie mechanism, but I'll /
give YOU al idea Of the process.
Into the frst machine is put the
yolk mixbre
"Whatis thatp" / asked.
"Well its mixture of Indian
meal, cdn starch, and several
other Ingredients. 1t is poured
into the bpening in q thick. mush
state. ah is formed by the ma
chine inb ball and frozen. In
this condition it passes into the
other bcx. where it is surrounded
by the ihite, which is chemically
the sare as the real egg. This is
also freen, and by peculiar ro-
tary wtion of the machine an
oval shpe is impaired to it. and
it passes into the next receptacle,
wherfit receives the thin filmy
skin After this it has only to go
into he shelter, where it gets its
last Dat in the shape of plaster
OF Pris shell, triAe thicker than
the lenuine article. Then it goes
outlon the drying trays. where
theshell dries at once and the in
sid thaws out gradually. 1t be-
copes, to all appearances. a real
eg.o
how many eggs can you turn
ok in q day"
Swell, as we are running now.
VI turn out l, 900 or SO every
hnr.
Many orders?"
i'Wby, bless your soul, yes
V cannot fill one half OF the
oiers. All we can make now are
tken by two New York wholesale
focers alone. We charge S13
er l 900 for them, and they re-
all at all prices. IL to 80 cents
per dozen. We sell only to the
wholesale houses / suppose
blenty of these eggs are eaten in
Newark as well as in other places.
Col. Zulik, Billy Wright, Honest
llbright, Joe Haines, Judge
ohnson, Judge Henry, and all |