Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-29
A HOUSE OF WHITE SUGAR.
A Sweet Addition for the Executive
Mansion.
CLAUS sPREckELs' SCHEME.
He Proposes an Uniick able, Unmelt-
able, Sacchariferous Extension
to the White House-Tho
Outlook i'm Ohio.


DIR. George .. CLAWS, an attorney OF this
city, who has recently been to Europe, came
back on the Fulda. Among the passengers
were Mr.. j. b. Farwell, of Chicago; Mr..
McGregor, of the treasury department, and
Clans SprecSels. DIR. CLAWS says that dur
ing the voyage the gentlemen named above
were frequently together, and that Mr..
Spreckles intends to run down tho sugar
trust yet, although he expects that the fight
will be long and difficult one. But 1t
was not SO much the intention of
the Hawaiian sugar king toward the
sugar trust that interested the
gentleman of the party as the scheme he di-
vulged for building an addition to the white
house. Mr.. Spreckels told the coterie that
while experimenting to discover a process
for hardening the sugar beet for export he
recently hit upon device which does the
work so thoroughly as to practically petrify
the saccharine. So hard does 1t become, ac-
cording to Mr. Spreckels' statement, that it
is absolutely insaluble in water and can not
be injured by winds or rains.
Mr.. Spreckcls proposes. to build an addi-
tion to the executive mansion to be con-
structed entirely of this hardened sugar.
He claims that it will be whittier than the
whtest marble, that he will furnish it at
just one-half the cost of marble, and that
after he has completed the work it shall be
carefully examined by a committee of ex-
perts and If one of the committee raises a
single reasonable objection to the material
he will remove the whole of it and restore
the grounds to their original shape without
the cost of one cent to the government.
DR.. CLAWS, at the instance of MIR. Speck-
els, is preparing specifications to submit to
the patent Office in order that he may protect
the hardening process, which he has discov-
cred. The scheme seems to be absurd upon
its face and the idea OF using sugar as build
ing will doubtlessly bring down lots of ridi-
cule upon the heads of the projectors, but
yet that it IS feasible is quite IN the bounds
of probability. The attention of your corre-
spondent was directed to-day to an
article in the Encyclopedia Brittau-
lea in which a process for harden
article explains how gelatne is hardened to
such degree that it can be and is used as
the matrix for engraved plates. So hard
does the substance become under the process
that the raised surface is forced into soft
steel and the design is thereby duplicated as
often as desired. 1t would seem quite pos
sible therefore, if gelatine can oe so hard
ened that there would be no difficulty in
treating sugar in the same manner.
Just how MIR. Spreckels can produce the
hardened sugar so as to sell the blocks at
half the price of marble has not yet been
explained Beet sugar is to be used. the
idea being to make the addition peculiarly
national structure.
@ NOT AFRAID OF CAMPBELL.
Ohio politicians after the announcement
of the nomination OF James Campbell for
governor to-day, were freely discussing the
probabilities, and the drift of opinion among
them was that there will not be half the
harmony in the democratic ranks that was
predicted; in fact, one of the best posted
Thurmanites from Cincinnati said to your
correspondent: Campbell will meet every
the party. In the first place the
Hurd men, who are quite power through
out the state at the polls, if not at the con-
ventlons, will certainly knife Campbell be-
cause of his affiliations with the Randall
wing of the party in the house. Then, TOO,
the friends of Thurman believe chat Jim
mie' has been altogether too friendly with
the republicans of Cincinnati to suit them,
and they will use the knife very freely in
Hamilton comfy" Altogether the pros
poets are better for the election of Foraker,
with Campbell on the democratic ticket,
than they would have been with any other
man whose name was suggested in the con-
vention.
AN OVERWHELMED COURT.
The docket of the supreme court will be
made more voluminous this year than ever
before. Last October when the session of
court began the docket contained ,073 cases.
I his year 1t has not yet been sent to the
printer and daily additions are being
filed. At 2 o'clock this afternoon the
total number was 1,211 cases, and
the chances are now that it Will be five
years Def0re tne laSJ case on inc uOcKeJ is
reached unless congress takes some steps to
relieve the supreme court of the growing
burden. That such steps will be taken seems
to be assured, as efforts in that direction
have been made several times in the past,
but always without success.
NEBRASKA AND IOWA PosTMAsTERs.
Nebraska-Battle Creek, Madison county,
l.. Il. Caras; Doniphan, Hall county, |. @.
McGee; Hazard. Sherman county, j. l..
Cressler; Midvale, Brown county, Mrs. S.
Robinson.
Iowa-Curlew, Palo Alto county, f. d.
Lacey; Boon, Lyon county, John Case; III
woou, Lyon county, ID. q. Carver; Evans,
Mahaska county, Job l.. Davis;
keystone, Benton county, George F. Eau
german; hardwood, Lyon county, II.
O'Shannon; Maxfeld, Bremen county, o. b.
Meyerhoff; Meridcn, Cherokee, county,
James w. Jones; Merrill, Plymouth county,
Fred Aldrich; Paris, Linn county, John G.
Baxter; Itenwlck, Humboldt county, w. 7.
Drenner; Ringgold, R1ggold county, S. +.
Kater; Schaller, Sac county, Arthur III.
Montgomery: Trentham, Lynn county,
Thomas Harrison.
MISCELLANEOUS.
James Ealsin has been appointed store