The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-11

TO put his hand in his pocket to help any
public project and has worked faithfully
toward building up a city. Although
shrewd enough to see that money thus
spent would come back through the chan
nels of business, he was aCtuated by quite
different motive, this being his home and
feeling consequent pride in the city's
welfare.
The ice cream freezer, which is the sub
ject of an illustration has a capacity of
twenty gallons per hour 1t is worked
with two cans of ten gallons each, and
while one is being frozen the contents of
the other is being mixed. The cream once
frozen is stored in the wholesale depart
ment in large porcelain jars packed in ice
and thus keeps an indefinite time. The
Candy Kitchen ice cream that is retailed is
identical with the wholesale product.
Only four things enter into its manufac-
ture and the consumer may know
exactly all that he is eating
These four things are mainly sweet cream
from EldOradO, Kan, small quantity of
pure sugar, a fractional part of fiavoring
and thirty minutes of freezing These in
gradients fresh, mixed in the foregoing
proportions in scrupulously clean utensils
cannot be very injurious or bad to take.
The ice cream department is Immediately
in the rear of the retail department and
confectionery show room and adJOing it
is the candy factory proper Here all the
machinery and utensils, boilers. stone,
tables, in fact everything ever
called into requisitiOn in candy factory
are to be seen. 1t is one of the must thor
Ough and best equipped factories in the
west. Formerly the main demand was for
cheap CONNECTIONS, but now the demand is
for the finer grades of goods. The same
pure quality of sugar is the main part of
both cheap and expensive goods, and the
main difference in cost comes in the deco
ration and design of the bon bon. In the
finer grades of goods each bon bon is
handled separately, and the additional
cost lies largely in the labor. Probably no
one in the west understands the niceties of
candy making better than Mr.. Spears and
his trade, which extends over the entire
west he has built up on the excellence of
his product. His candies in all grades are
too well known to the trade to need much
comment, and unless they hadd been char
acterized by purity they could never have
stood on the market as they do today.
The machinery of the establishment is
all run by steam and no reference will be
made to it beyond the fact that a complete
set of shafting reaches every part of the
building enabling very few hands TO take
care of all the work The Candy Kitchen
was the first TO introduce the carrying out
cans for the wholesale ice cream trade and
in these it can be taken in any quantities
or any distance. The show rooms in front
are a model of neatneSs and taste and dis
play the goods in the most attractive
shape. The Candy Kitchen drinks are
famous all over the city, especially the
soda water This branch of the business
IS referred to because an item of interest
was found here. Everybody knows that
soda water is about the same necessarily
the world over. II is simply aerated water
or water combined with carbonic acid gas /
The syrups vary a great deal, of course, /
and while the pure syrups are wholesome /
the impure are harmful In spite of these /
facts the soda water in one store may be /
delightful to the taste and its effect Just I
what it should be, while next door, after /
a glass full, the unpleasant sensations of /
dyspepsia are felt and sometimes serious 1
consequences which the physicians could 1
trace directly 10 bad soda water. The 1
whole secret lies in keeping a fountain |
clean. Some of them are SO constructed /
that they can not be thoroughly /
cleaned and are necessarily dangerous !
Some of the soda fountains in the city /
have been in use for several seasons with /
out even one thorough cleaning.
Every child in this city is familiar with
the name of Candy Kitchen, and has a
warm place for it in his heart Yesterday 4
a very small boy was sucking delicious
bon bon while his nurse was making some
trivial purchase at the counter. As the
little man enjoyed his feast and it was
fast disappearing. he seemed to be plunged
into deep thought Mr. Spears could not
resist the temptation of asking him what
he was thinking about, and without mo-
ment's hesitation the little fellow answered
that when he got To be a man he was
thinking thar he would buy a whole candy
kitchen for himself