Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-06-10
SWEETS OF LIFE.
A Reportorial Chat With a Candy
Man.
Young Ladies and Gentlemen 10 Love the
Largest Buyers-The Busy Season
Sunday Sales-Amount Con-
sumed-Foreign Fruits,

"Did you ever notice the peculisrities of
candy eaters?' said well known manu-
facturer to a SUNDAY REGISTER reporter
last evening.
The reporter confessed that he had NOT,
but remarked that he could tell something
about the idiosyncracies of beer drinkers,
and the maker cfsweets continued:
at amuses me TO see how certain people
persistently choose particular kinds of
candy-maks runs" as it were, on certain
Jars and boxes, passing severely by Others,
regardless Of the fact that they may con-
tain choicer brands or much finer goods.
For instance, -one we'll known so, iety gen
tleman always buys chocolate creams out
of certain box in the case yoHder, al
though that oox contains the poorest grade
of chocolates in the house. He comes in
regularly about
THREE TIMES WEEK
and GETS a pound or so, and although he
has plenty OF money, and have repeated
edly pointed out the inferiority OF his pur.
chases, he persists in his choice. tits not
because they are cheaper, or taste better,
and so the fact remains mystery.
Another business man buys nothing but
sour drops, about three pounds q week
A bewitching little Seventh ward belle viii
have nothing but marsh.marlows, while a
well known newspaper man wants "a pound
OF fine French nixed'-thats seventy
cents, you know-about every other day.
i'Who buys the most candy-I mean what
Glass; asked the man of news.
"Oh, young girls and gentlemen III love
are by far
THE LARGEST rCRCHAsERs,
but young married people-husbands and
wives both-buy a good deal. A young
lady, you know never comes down town
without investing in sweets OF some sort
caramels, mixed tine. or something OF that
kind. 10 appears TO he one of the necessi-
ties of shopping. There is not an afternoon
passes but what a stroll up Market Or
Main street, any time between and )
o'clock, will disclose half dozen couples
of young ladies munching out OF paper of
candy. And then on beau nights the you,g
fellows drop in for a pound box OF Whit
mans or 'Gunther's for their sweethearB,
and make mp quite a large item in our Re.
tail trade.
Young men with matrimony in view
are the best buyers among the male SEX,
then"
YES Business men or bachelors have
but
LITTLE APPETITE FOR SWEETS.
Occasionally merchant will drop in anl
buy pound of tally or some caramels, but
they generally either bolt it all at once a.
if in hurry to get the job oil their hands
or else they put the package in their pocket
nibble at it little, and then forget al
about il and carry il around for days, to be
finally tossed away. The only exception =
a, -, In ora on Satn I'd avaninuc Whaa
they drop in to execute commission for
their wives or daughters, who want candj
for the following day.
~ suppose Saturdays are your dig days.
said the reporter, reaching for a caramel.
"Hes; we generally sell from tive to
three times as much Saturday as on Othe'
days. although Wednesday always exceed
the two days preceding or following, bal
30 many retailers are
KEErIYG OPEN on SUNDAY
Of late that that day promises for such peo-
pie, to take the lead over any other
Doesn't the Sunday opening business
create discord and bad feeling between
those who sell on that day and those who !
don't"
TO certain extent, but not as much /
as would be supposed. OF course
we would prefer to have the Sabbath OBJ.
served all around, but as that seems to be
an impOssihility, we have settled down TO !
regard Sunday sales by some dealers as a
matter Of course, and pay little attention !
to it: We all have our regular customers, !
you know, and a a Sunday closing mer !
chant naturally obtains the patronage OF |
buyers who favor strict observance OF |
The day, guess we come out about even
How did the Sunday sales busin ess
start
"THPOUCU TIE lTNLTANs
When they obtained 4 foothOld in
Wheeling. several years ago, they began
to keep their peanut stands open Sunday /
evenings Then one or two others went into !
business on a larger scale, renting large !
store rooms and, as a matter OF course |
the regular retail trade was soon forced to
follow their example in order to competB ,
with them, and now the trade on that
day has assumed such large proportions
especially during the summer months! !
that it will not be long before every dealer
in the city will be forced TO engage in it,
81 suppose summer is your busiest set-
som suggested the scribbler, sampling
a box Of bon-bOns.
"By no mean. of course we do heavy |
trade from say, May 90 September, but
OUR Bio SEASON
is during the holidays. We dispose OF
IiuIS EpOuS uuNlHB luC piCIculAS
New Years, than during any other two |
months in the year. have sold as much |
as 500 pounds in the last ten days before |
Christmas. The oath of December is gen
orally good for 1000 pounds, outside of tie |
out ,oftown wholesale trade. but the via |
ter months generally are good. while spring |
and autumn are always dull"
"TheAter nights
Are good candy nights, interrupted |
Al L..
A good matinee show, when the ladies tuin !
out strong is sure 10 double our sales TOR !
that day, while negro minstrel troupe or |
"HentL Nantley' crowd is sure TO
MAKE AEUN ~ Pen NUTS,
or bananas. or something like that"
How much candy does Wheeling ami
ally consumer
That's hard to tell but the total must |
be enormous. The trade, especially whole
sale, has grown to immense prcportioasof
late wears. chiefly through the demands .
made upon city manufacturers by retalle-s
in the surrounding country and out the }.
4 o. road. over iUJ tons are annually con-
sume6 in this city and neghhOrinP towns,
most of which is made here, and thor.
sands of boxes are shipped to outside deal
ers, making the trade one Of our leading ,
industries, and adding nOsmall sum 10 the |
total OF the Nail City's business"
Haven't
!oEEGuN FRUITS
proved quite an item to candy men OF la!e
years. asked the reporter, as he thought
fully peeled banana.
Yes, indeed. The sales are four or fire
times as much as a half dozen years a-o.
1t has not been a great many years since
an orange was considered something OF
luxury and pineapples and bananas were