Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-11-28

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fairly started, the demand is so great that
they are unable to keep any great quantity
of goods in store. The firm expect that at
an early day they will be compelled to en-
large their premises and increase their facili-
ties in order to supply their customers.
The main building is 25xl4o feet and two
stories high. On the lower floor are:
THE OFFICE AND RECEPTION ROOM,
in which are desk, an elegant Halls safe
and telephone. This room is also used as
show room to display samples Of the
goods manufactured.
Passing through door at the rear Of this
room we find ourselves in the
PACKING ROOM,
commodious apartment 25x50 feet, which
will be heated by steam in few days. In
the center is a monster desk-shaped table
around which are number of girls plying
their nimble fingers, packing the delicious
lnorsels into boxes with a dexterrity and
precision astonishing to the beholder, while
on one side are great piles of empty boxes
and on the opposite are ranged piles of the
same, filed, reaching up to the ceiling.
Ascending short fight of steps to the
rear of this department we find ourselves in
the
CRACKER FACTORY PROPER.
amid labyrinth Of wheels, belts and ma
chinery Of every description used in first
class mandatory of this kind.
Through the courtesy Of Mr.. John Rice
the foreman of this department, we were al
lowed to inspect the machinery and watch
the operation of cracker making.
At one end of the room are two immense
kneading troughs, with a capacity of nine
barrels of -four. After undergoing the pro-
cess of kneading in these troughs the dough
is passed into a machine called mixer,
from which it is carried to table and then
passed through the rollers, which spread it
out into a uniform thickness; thence into
another set of finer rollers, in which it is
marked of into the required shape and
printed in artistic fashion. Then it is put
into the pans and transferred to
THE OVEN,
a mammoth concern fourteen feet long and
twenty-five high, inside of which is re-
volving cylinder eighteen feet in circumfer-
ence, containing ten rows of shelves upon
which the pans are placed. When the shelf
upon which the first pans are placed comes
around to the entrance that batch is ready
10 be taken out, and SO on.
The capacity of this department is thirty
seven barrels Of flour per diem. The ma
chinery in this room consists of two sets of
rollers, two mixing machines and two cutters
and printers.
A perfect ssstem prevails in every depart
nent. Each employee understands just what
be is expected 10 do and does it with alac
-ity, SO that the operation of the great con-
,ern is attended with surprising order and
regularity, while an air OF business pervades
he entire establishment. No bossing is
lone and none is needed, because
he employees appear to have a
common object and each labors
to attain it. The capacity of
inished work in this department is 100 bar
els of crackers per day.
Passing down flight Of stairs at the rear
If the cracker room, We find ourselves in
he engine room, in which is beautiful To-
,orse power engine, built by the Erie, Pa,
ngine and boiler company. 1t is beauty
nd works like charm. In the rear Of
his is the boiler room and box factory, |
where boxes of all kinds are made. Re-
urning to the cracker room and ascending |
long fight of stairs, we are ushered into
THE CANDY FACTORY.
Mr.. Gehring informed us that in short |
ime an elevator will be put in to facilitate i
he transmission of goods below, and for the |
Convenience Of the employees in passing from |
he cracker to the candy department. The
andy factory proper is 25x6O feet. j. o.
lgnew, an expert in the manufacture of
andy, is superintendent of this department.
lie was surrounded by a corps OF girls bus
y engaged In shaping the luscious sweets
nd packing them into boxes and buckets.
It one end of the room are two large kettles
, which the sugar and other ingredients
re boiled to the consistency ofa thick paste,
hen the mass is put upon marble-covered
sble to cool. At the proper moment an
perstor carries the mass to large hook
lstened to a post. over which he throws it
nd proceeds to draw it out number of
mes eight or ten feet. Talk about your
INDY pullings! Here is where you can S ee
pulling that would throw all the social
indy pullings into the shade SO far that
icy would be lost sight of.
When the mass is sufficiently mixed by
lie pulling operation, it is carried to another
BILE, upon which stands heater, in front
which it is placed, and around the white
ASS are strung great bands of the other
,lors used in making the sweets; next they
roceed to put head on it," which is to
Jaw one end of the mixed mass to point,
front of the fire. 1t is then drawn out in
ng ropes along the table, and it is surpris-
g to see how neatly the colors mingle in .
is operation. This was making stick t,
ndy. We did not have the pleasure of
itaessing the operation Of making the num-
Gus varieties of fancy drops, handmade
cam and fancy candies, of artistic design,
shioned after all the most inviting fruits of
cry cline, which we found in great
rlety in two large store rooms in the front
this floor, into which we were shown.
As box after box of the delicious sweets :
ere opened for our inspection, memories of
e past came crowding in upon our mind,
hen we would have given a farm to get q
ok full of these beauties to take to our
sdom.
When we entered We expected to be able
describe everything, and give the names
the different sweets, but soon found that 1
would be Is easy to describe and name
cry star in the heavens. Suffice it then to
?, that this establishment turns out all the
lple and fancy goods known to the trade, I
d that they are absolutely unsurpassed for :
rity and beauty of design, and boxed up .
the most attractive manner. The capacity d