The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1889-03-01


An Entrance FINALLY E0scted Inso
Grounds Famous Factory At nrooktyns
Where lie Electrified uls pupes and
sugar ~ the name Ttme-The Inner No.
c~sses ps the Establishment AiUsost 1m-
pregn~bl~ with Many Doors ~ Iron nnd
Gnaried Oak Evidences az the Fraud.
NEW YoRK. Feb. 2i.--curious people
have been seeking 10 enter the factory Of
the Electric Sugar Company in Brooklyn
FOR months, but armed meu have stood
guard night and day, and no one Is allowed
70 enter. The factory Is most remark
able structure. II Is a fve-story brick
building. originally intended as ware-
house. and was rented by the Electric
Sugar Company M thu earnest request OF
Prof. Freund. The three lower floors
were open to the directors and stock
holders ~ the company, but the two
upper floors were guarded with vigilance
that was simply extraordinary. Not oven
the pre- sidcnt Of the company could visit
them. and until exposure came no one was
supposed to have passed the first or the
big doors except Prof. Freund, his wife
and Dr.. Howard. The first floor Is now
filed with the original boxes in which
Freund's sugar was shipped into the facto-
ry. and hundreds Of bags Of raw sugar
which he was supposed 10 have electrified
into finest quality Of refined sugar. but
which he simply hid away. are piled up
here. The second floor OF the factory
contained the paper-roon, whore the blue
paper which was to line the barrels when
filled with sugar was kept.
The third fioor ended the territory
which the company was allowed 10 visit.
Here il was that all the demonstrations"
were made. Above the third floor was an
Uncomfortable mystery 70 the company.
When the sugar was pouring through. the
nwe-sfricken stockholders wocld hear
rumblcs and noises on the floors above,
ut they were only told that this was
made by the secret machinery. From
the third floor to the fifth one passes
through door after door OF iron and oak
studded with thick nails, and strong
enough 10 resist an invading army.
There Il door Mt the foot Of the stair
way leading from the third to the fourth
floor. and beside il bell which the di-
rectors Of the company had TO pull when
they wanted 70 see Freund or Howard.
AT the end OF the stairs was massive
door after which, when passed, there was
still third door. which was even stronger
than the other two After passing through
these doors the first OF the secret rooms
Is re ached.
One whole side Il filled with seven so-
called granulators. They are simply
enormous sieyes one above the other.
three in each tier. Much shafting and
machinery Is visible on this floor and all
Of the very highest quality. But u was
the fifth and top floor that Freund used as
his hottest ~ holies. The floor Is divided
into three compartments. One was used
for Freund's private Office, and the third
was the secret room. Frennd's Office was
elegantly fitted mp. The secret room it.
self is a curiosity. II took the company
three weeks To break into the room after
the exposure. and then they selected the
weakest spot and came down from above
There were two doors to this room. each
about two feet thick. lined on the outside
with two thicknesses Of sheet iron, spe-
cially hammered and preparedf for Freu
Inside this come great blocks Of gnarle,
oak laid so that the grain OF no twe
blocks run in the same direction. Their
came transverse bars ~ iron. then more
wood and then another thick sheet Of
iron. Next to this iron was more oak.
then on the inside iron sheetings. The
whole mass was bound together by bolts
rs thick ~ ones wrist and the front Of
the door was all studded with nails which
looked like spikes.
Along the. sides Of the secret room were
I long tables covered with zinc. The tables
were used 10 break the sugar on. In the
center Of the room was a large quartz
(, crshrr. The sugar was thrown into this
! ana crushed. II passed through 70 the
4 floor below. where il was siftcd in the
graunlators and dropped into the tubes,
whence il rushed 10 the stockholders
whenever there was a demonstration
The raw sugar was never used at all
Frennd evidently intended 70 get rid Of i
by washing IL through pipes into the riv-
or. Just as he had doneat his home months
before. II was proudly pointed out toun'
believers that when Freund got raw sugal
the refined product corresponded II
weight exactly with what was given him
A nice little pair Of scales standing At tn
door of the secret room showed how this
marcel was worked Frcund simply
weighed the raw and the refined. ane
knew 10 an ounce how much he had e
shoot down TO his victims below.
The factory has five engines. two dyna
mos TO furnish electric light two boilers
two pumps and one large injector. a
least one hundred aud twenty-five thou
sand dollars 81 the company's money wen
into this factory.