Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-01-12
yx1xNp's SUGAR FACTORY.

= 4 am to be paid t9O, 900 for the next
Rpesiment,' laughed tho professor. Il
- going TO have q great big machine,
nd I VIII make things hum, tell you.
"a - We can mako tho box as big as
- weut TO- and they all laughed. They
1xeqd on that way for an hour or two,
<nnd lenxned Just how they refined tho
1gnI by 'electricity.' The professor had
&tt}e box OF . machine In his room by
Fl 46cA be purified refined sugar In small
ontit3ss. This he put into his machine
~ ground out, the company thinking
Wae tho raw sugar they had sent,
~ Mn: Friend had simply let that no
nhsd through the sink. I remember
- professor said:
why, I don't care II they box me up
8n4 nail me into my machine and pile In
e 41r raw sugar behind me. have tho
ned sugar In there, and MI have to
y = % toes II out to them through the
here seems to have been some dissat-
Actiop after that with the dressmaker,
ZAom they invited to 60 elsewhere, and
lIa Baillie retorted that II they were
u6ng to do any moro sugar refining they
q Would better Keep tho register shut.
Now II transpiress that stcpfather How.
&ogd, who has carried on tho scheme with
~ daughter Miss Friend since the pro-
DBor's death, divided his time between
I - "refinery" and street preaching. On
ssk days no would devote himself to
81 - former, and on Sundays he would
31ng psalms and preach In South
= Gpoklyn, or from the steps Of the city
~ In New York. Meanwhile his
entiac son-in-law kept stable in New
kcgk with twenty-seven horses in It.
ee Il 10 said that his coupe bills outside
Z ~ use OF his stables We're usually
20 per month. He regarded brandy
- only beverage for gentleman and o
olentist, and would only drink tho best.
= y died In stirring times; times fitting To
I'D the life Of one who had lived at such
= rapid ,'ace; tho time Of his death being
mnltaneous with the great blizzard ON
- Atlantic coast last spring.
And yet among the other mysteries
onnected with this celebrated Electric
Car company, there Is . mystery about
I'd 10 90 about with Friend in New
egk declares that the death was very
len and surprising to him; that ho
sd several times during tho illness,
~ that be was told the professor was
- ~ 10 80 him. He says that he saw q
= carxied sway from Friends house on
1oap s3ckety bob sleigh. On the front
- vQge two men, while two others sat
- bog smoking. One Of these men,
tnyS. wns Howard. This was Friends
UAL Then the question arose In tho
uvers mind. WAS the professor dead
lkag allT
Ara Friends death Mr.. Howard, who
~ peen meek and lowly, and dressed
shabby apparel as he preached the
o1pel from the city hall steps, blazed out
great style. The police were notified
~ there were suspicious circumstances
nnected with the funeral, and looked
10the matter, but nothing came Of It.
y Friend went to Milan, Mich, the
- and furniture In New York were
-, and Mr. and Mrs. Howard went to
q the Madison Avenue hotel in New
F ia: also transspiffed that Professor
nd played the sugar refining game
= the Chicagoans in 1850. He kept his
eBst till $4,000 had been paid In for
nree, and then put of inQuirers by
wing them beautiful samples Of re-
~ sugar made from glucose. At last
- shareholders became impatient and
cioua They kicked in the door Of
Sannery. and found nothing there
machips practically worthless.
I'D In Jan Tor the term '' Of one my
he president and treasurer OF
Qo6io Refining company saw. how.
0at the professor was an injured
md only remained In jail one night
onnwhile the crash has como, and a
number Of duped shareholders
Joge In the aggregate perhape a
-. s@Cspital = timid," but there
elways people who have II who viii
20 my scheme bllndly II 1t Is put
- them attractively. That the stock
- bogus affair should have sold at
pA! hundred per cent premium; that
e!sstS should have been gulled, u
lanly matter Of surprise. /