The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-09-19
sPRECKEl;s DISCOVERY.
The Sugar King Makes Building Bioski of
Sugar.

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crowding the electric magician pretty
hard In his bid for novel discoveries be.
sides astonishing tie World BY his fight
with the all powerful sugar trust. This
time Mr. spreckels has evolved some.
thing which, if all that is claimed for it
be true, will revolutionize the building
trade, or at least, that portion Of it where
marble and the more costly fine stones
are used.
King Spreckles has made the wonder
full discovery that he can make sugar
hard enough to take the place Of marble.
1t will wash, unlike many of the state.
ments of his friends the sugar trust, and
has been tested to remarkable degree.
So says MIR. spreckels.
Mr.. spreckles, besides commanding
worldwide admiration for his gigantic
operations is also secretive, and this
wonderful discovery only leaked out
through that happy fesling engendered
by hearty dinner; consenial fellowship
and bracing sea air, for it was told in
mid.oeean, where the salty breezes could
not take it up and watt it to the four
corners Of the earth. Nevertheless the
secrets no longer d secret. Like most
wonderful discoveries it came out by
accident during the course of Experiments
necessitated by the demands of trade.
THE PRELIMINARY EXPERIMENTS.
For many years Mr.. Spreckels was
troubled by the bad condition his sugar
was in when itreached Central America
and Mexico and tho constantly recurring
demand for hard sugar, and he. kept
busily at work trying to perfect pro.
cess by which his loaf sugar could be
carried without reaching his consignees
in the damaged condition, aud at last
he reached the solution Of the problem,
aud blocks of sugar have been going
there which you couldn't break with an
axe; harder than marble, purer than the
finest Italian product and whittier than
any stone ever quarried. But King
spreckles kept his secret as though it
were buried In the archives of state OF
trusts.
On the voyage over on the Fulda the
conversation turned on the question of
the proposed new annex to the White
House. DR.. George o. Davis, an attor-
ney, of Washington, D. c., and the
sugar king, who are intimate friends,
were the center of g group of interested
listeners to political dissertation on
Office holders and Office seekers as the
points at issue. 1T was pointed out that
Congress never appropriated enough to
complete any structure, and that it cost
like sixty to import marble to complete
any building Of the size and character OF
the White House. To which all present
agreed, but one gentlemen, turning to
Mr.. spreckles, said jokingly:
"Now, if We could only make it out of
sugar, Mr.. spreckels."
SIT certainly can be done," said the
golden State Cresus, soberly nodding bis
head to emphasize his remark.
"No, you don't mean it 2" said the as.
tonished group, breathleasly.
Il certainly do," was Mr.. spreckels'
reply, still more mystefiously.
"Tell us about il" urged the gentlemen
in single breath.
he TELLS OF his DISCOVERY.
The sugar king then told him of his
discovery, expatiated upon the wonders
of the new substitute, told them that he
could make blocks of hardened sugar, as
adamantine as marble, as pure as ala.
baster and as white as the linen in their
shirt fronts, and, more wonderful than
all, so cheap that in course of time its
value would be as low q, that of brick
philadelphia brick, at that"
He drew, jokingly, vivid picture Of
a city of such sweetness as never even
Babylonia's king ever dreamed of, and
painted the difference between Philadel.
phia, the city of red, and spreckelsonia,
the city of milk white purity. His lis
teners were spell-bound. Rarely had
such food for ocean gossip been furnished
to ennuied travellers.
In wonder tone they discussed the
matter even when they had Handed, afte,
exhausting all the possibilities contained
in the wonderful discovery, bade an
afectionate adieu to the sugar magician
as he started for this city, and went
home to dream Of palaces of saccharine
formation-of bedroom and sugar cane
of fairy tales and sugar midas, who turn
cities of brick, stone and mortar into
chemical stone.
Enjoying his surprise party, Mr.
Spreckles came to Philadelphia and hied
him to the rocky and other fastnesse'
which guard the Wisaahickom Inn from
the Dragon of the Demon. There re-
porter found him last evening, genial
ruddy and, better than all, communica
tive. When told the reporters errano
he sGid:
"Yes, it's true. I can make out O
sugar stone harder than the finest mar
BILE; it will wash with soap and water
and is as white as driven snow. Yes
and cheap, much cheaper than MARBLE
Here Mr. spreckels recited the story O.
the mention ofhis discovery to his fellow
passengers.
CHEAP HOUSES OF SUGAR.
ri said also, 'Why go the expense O.
importing italian marble and foreign
labor when you can make just as gooi
marble, cheaper and better than the i'm
ported article, grown on American soil
or rather. of the products of American