The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-01-13

am 10 De pau c-OtDDO Tor the next
experiment laughed the professor. 4
am going 10 have a great big machine,
and ! will make things hum, tell you.
You see we can make the box as big as
we want TO-, and they all laughed. They
talked on that way for an hour or two,
and / learned Just how they refined the
sugar by electricity The professor had
little box of a machine in his room bv
which he purified refined sugar in small
quantities. This he put into his machine
and ground out, the company thinking
it was the raw sugar they had sent,
when Mrs Friend had simpl " let that he
mashed through the sink. / remember
the professor said:
why, don't care If they box me up
and nail me into my machine and pile in
their raw sugar behind me. / have the
refined sugar in there, and all have TO
do is to toss it out to them through the
/ tunnels ,"
There seems to have been some dissat-
isfaction after that with the dressmaker.
whom they invited to 60 elsewhere, and
Mrs. Baltic retorted that if they were
going to do any more sugar refining they
would better keep the register shut
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Now 10 transpires that stepfather How /
ard who has carried on tho scheme with /
his daughter Miss Friend since the pro- /
fessor's death, divided his time between /.
the refinery and street preaching. On .
week days he would devote himself TO .
the former, and on Sundays he would .
sing psalms and preach in South .
Brooklyn, or from the steps Of the city
hall IN New York Meanwhile his /
scientific s0n-in-law kept a stable in New
York with twenty-seven horses in it,
Yet It IS said that his coupe bills outside
the use Of his stables were usually
$3.50 per month. He regarded brandy
the only beverage for a gentleman and a
scientist and would only drink the best.
He died il stirring times; times fitting 10
end the life Of one who had lived at such
a rapid pace; the time of his death being
Simultaneous with the great blizzard on
the Atlantic coast last spring.
And yet among the other mysteries
connected with this celebrated Electric
Sugar company, there is a mystery about
this death Of the professor. a man who
used 20 90 about with Friend in New
York declares that the death was very
sudden and surprising 10 him; that no
called several times during the illness,
but that he was told the professor was
too i'll to see him. He says that he sawa
box carried away from Friends house on
d cheap rickety bob sleigh. On the front e
seat were two men, while two others sat
on the box smoking. One Of these men, q
he says, was Howard. This was Friends {
funeral. Then the question arose in the
Observers mind, Was the professor dead a
after all:'
After Friends death Mr.. Howard. who s
had been meek and lowly, and dressed @
IN shabby apparel as he preached the
Gospel from the city hall steps, blazed out
n great style. The police were notified a
hat there were suspicious circumstances n
connected with the funeral, and looked a
nto the matter but nothing came Of il.
ilrs. Friend went to Milan, Mich, the Il
lOrses and furniture In New York were q
old, and Mr.. and Mrs. Howard went 10 d
i've at the Madison Avenue hotel in New
FORK city. -. 81,
1t has also transpired that Professor .,
friend played the sugar refining game n
n the Chicagoans in 1880. lie kept his
ecret till $4,000 had been paid in for
hares, and then put off inquirers by "a
howing them beautiful samples Of re- a,
ned sugar made from glucose. At last =
no shareholders became impatient and
lsptious. They kicked IN the door Of ii
le refinery" and found nothing there "
1T a machine practically worthless. =.
or this episode the professor took up u
8 abode in jail for the term Of one
sar. The president and treasurer of 81
e Electric Refining company say. how a.
'er, that tho professor was an injured Pr
an, and only remained in jail one night tn
Meanwhile the crash has come, and a
rye number Of duped shareholders pl
I'VE lost in the aggregate perhaps a su
illion. Capital is timidn but there US
c always people who have it who will tn
into any scheme blindly if it is put b,
forc them attractively. That the stock
this bogus affair should have sold at Al
yeral hundred per cent. premium: that a. a.
he street should have been glllled. is ~
rtainlY matter OF surprise. ~,