Morning journal and courier., 1886-12-28
and even then he looked longingly at the copper as the party turned away

l and even then he looked longingly at the | copper as the party turned away.
 Through a narrow passageway past a curi-
 ous machine which husked almonds and l blanched them at the rate of ten thousand
 a minute, and through 8 swinging door into
 fairyland. At four long tables sat forty ] girls, and every one of the forty was young
 and pretty, and every one of them wore a
 natty little apron and bewitching little
 white null cap. It fairly took the dudes l breath away. Each girl was armed with a plated spoon with a long handle, and in l front of each stood tiny gas stove sur mounted by tiny copper kettle. The ket- tle shone brightly and so did the faces of the girls as they glanced up from their work. Each little can was about half full of colored paste. One girl had green paste colored with plstachio nuts; the next paste of 8 vio- let hue; and besides there were crushed strawberry paste, seal brown paste, sky blue paste, yellow paste and paste of every other imaginable shade. The walls of this grotto of the sirens were literally composed of can- dy. Tier after tier of shelves were there, heaped as high as one could reach with tin slabs containing rows of parti- -celored bon bons.
 Another room, more pretty girls, more bonbons. Again another room containing three enormous vats, copper as usual. Into each vat protruded an air pipe like the one seen in the marshmallow room. These caul- drons, however, were supported on an in- cline of forty five degrees, and so arranged that they revolved at great speed. Within each, hopping about literally like peas on a griddle, were one hundred and twenty five pounds of sugared almonds Think of it.
 Next the cream room. Here stood huge vessels filled with paste of all favors-rasp- berry, strawberry, chocolate, vanilla, pista- chic, goodness knows what else. These pastes serve for the various sorts of fine con- fectionery There were also buckets of "crystal," a compound of sugar used for glazing. In this room men were shoveling with wooden trowels recklessly as if it wasn't good to eat and if young men were not alive to pay one dollar pound for it.
 Another large room, and this time fifty girls, positively prettier, if that were possi- ble, than the first two galaxies. Each girl was armed with queer little two -pronged fork, and before each was a kettle of choco- late and tin plate full of creams of vari- ous colors and shapes. The girls took the creams upon their little forks, soused them in the chocolate stew, twisted them about in it, hshed them out again, and placed them on long tin slabs to dry. There were many more interesting sights in the candy factory. In the packing department more girls, pret- ty of course, wrapped the bonbons in paper and the chocolates in foil, and slowed them away in neat boxes. Then there was store keepers room, which smelled like a grocer's shop with all the red herrings and soap and other ill smelling things relegated to the front sidewalk. In capacious cellars beneath the building were stored away in bins twelve thousand bottles of fruit extracts, and these only represented the supply for one year. Then too there were the engine room and the carpenters shop, and the chocolate stor- ing rooms and large marble slabs for cooling taffy, and one hundred and one useful and interesting appliances