Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-01-15
THE BROTHERS.

John and Charles Arbuckle came to
New York from Pittsburgh about fifteen
wears ago. John is the elder brother and is
sixty wears of age, married. ard, like his
bachelor brother in the now famous SUIT,
he lives in Brooklyn. 1t is now gene
rally understood that John Arbuckls
would have given one hundred thousand
dollars rather than that his firm should
have ACQUIRED the disaoreeable notOriety
of this suit. The family is of Pennsyl-
vania Dutch origin. The two brothers
commenced bueiness some thirty years
ago as wholesale grOcers in Pittsburgh.
They were close, never spent & penny
more than was necessary, simply
saved what they acquired i'll trade, and
withont any marked business capacity
grew wealthy. In time they bought a
patent from one Carruthers for roasting
coffee in an improved manner, intro
ducing the white of eggs and perhaps a
dash Of gum arabic into the rooster,
which gave the bean a polished coating,
and not only improved its general APP
pearance, but prevented the aroma from
escaping. In this simple patent, as IA
SO many other cases, lay large fortune.
The brothers removed TO New York,
built & big roasting -miu at the foot Of
Catharine street, IN Brooklyn, aud now
they are worth together three millions,
while the Arbuckle family possess some
four or five millions.
The roasting company Is q stock cor
poration composed of Mr.. and Mrs John
Arhuckle, Charles Arbuckle, James Jar
Wis. formerly an oflice-bOy for coffee
broker, Joshua StOman, and few Old
EMPLOYEES who received one or two
shares on the formation of the company.
The two brothers however. form u So
eond concern engaged IN the mi ortation
and sale OF coffee, and IN a single year
have received from Rio and Santos,
the great Brazilian marts, more than
100, 000010 pounds of coffee. At the
mill in Brooklyn fully half million
bags of 1870 pounds each are roasted an
nuslly. Whole cargoes OF Brazilian
COFFEE are unloaded at their wharf, a
single steamer unloading from thirty to
forty thousand bags, amounting IN some
eases 10 more than 5,OG0, 900 POUNDS Of
this berry, the use of which, two centu-
ries ago, WAS considered as dlsgracetul
IS the immodcrate use OF liquor Is to-
dry.
The Arbuckles are really the largest
coffee merchants in the world. None OF
the large houses of London, Havre,
Amsterdam, Hamburg, or Rio dc Janoiro
approach them in the magnitude OF their
transactions, and they have achieved
their commercial prominence simply by
frugalitY and strict attention to bust
ness. They have a mill and large
warehouse in Brooklyn and branch
houses III Rio and Santos. They
are naturally power IN the specu-
latlve market, as well as IN
the strictly legitimate branch OF
the business. Their success in the
roasting OF coffee, however, is creating
competition. There are three roasting
establishments in Chicago; the Thur
bers have entered that branch OF the
trade and another firm is about to do so
on n large scale with the advantage OF
improved paterts AS usual. the inyen-
tor has derived little profit from his in
yention, ard Carruthers, who heaped
millions into the Golfers of close-hsted
Pennsylvania Dutchmen, was obliged to
forrn a connection with another house to
better his financial prospects.
So much for the millionaire who
roasted coffee only 10 be roasted himself
in the red-hot arms OF the legal Moloch,
whose MS and KS" were little too