The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-12-04
Providence Takes Next
Rank to Chicago.
Its Output of OleO Next That
of the Western City.
Cheyalier Parafs Brilliant But Brief
Career Here.

Between 90O, 00) and 1000, 600 pounds
Of oleomargarIne IL the monthly output
OF the three manufactures I'm thia city,
Chicago Is the largest producer OF this
substitute and Providence 10 second on
the list The growth of the business has
been little less than marvellous. In the
early days OF the manufacture OF the oleo
the dairy interests OF the country fought
IT Utterly, and when a tax OF two cents
pound was levied by Congress the dairy
men believed they had given the death
blow 70 the dangerous competitive pro-
duct, bot thev were greatly mis- AIKEN. The
only result OF the imposition OF this tax
was TO increase the cost TO The consumers
who are OF the class that cannot afford
TO ray 30 or-iQ cents-a- pound for Try
butter. The impost In 10 way lesseIed
the demand for the article. On the con-
trary the safes have increased with re-
Inarkab. rapidity until, today, Providence
alone il turning out supply amounting
10 atout 1900 900 Iounds annua ~.
which is consumed r,Ght here In New
Eng and.
The introduction Of oleo in this coun-
try was due 20 man who cut quite a
swaih here In Providence quarter OF
century ago. Chsyalier Alfred paraf, as
he cal ed himself, WAS es brill - sad
successful mouniebank as ever charmed
collars from the pockets OF miliionaires.
lie was a chemist, educated In France,
and master OF the science. be interested
The spraeuee in process FOR the manu-
facturf OF an extract OF madder, and DUR
ing his six mouths sojourn al the City
Hotel be was the most BllIed about man
in town. The sprngues butt laboratory
Tor him at Cranston, TO which he WAS
urlven every morning I'm his own carriage
10y his own coGchIDaD. lie gave sumptu-
Gus tanqueis and spent money like
irioce. A half years trial convinced the
SprIgues that Parat anu his eAtrsct of
msddSr were too expensive playtbings for
them 10 keep about them any longer
SO they gave him his conge and pocketed
loss, said by some TO have amounted to
5000, 600.
Soon afterwnrd Paraf turned up in New
York with a process for rlanufaclurin
oleomargarine This process he bad
stolen, but the monoyed men be in
terested in the scheme didn't know
that, at the outset. They supplied
money lavishly and for nAime Peraf vas
playing the prince In the metropolis.
AT length the stockholders In the oleo-
margarine company learned that the pro-
cess did not belong to Parai, but to an
other individual from whom he had
stolen IL. They summoned the cheyolier
before them and gave him the the alter
native o. getting out al once or going to
jail NJ a swtndler. Pnraf got out and
was next heard OF in Chilli, where he had
induced a number OF capitalists 10 invest
large sums in process by which ne pro-
posed 10 obtain gold from the soil. He
appeared To turn out tho gold ell right,
but IL was eventually discovered that the
gold was put into the crucibles by
Psrafs servant. Francoir. For this piece
of chicanery the chevaiier was sentenced
TO 10 ycars' imprisonment. subsequently,
ha I'm a nNa nh htai aA
n situation in the mint. u was while
there that his career was cut short by a
fatal attack of lung fever. Psraf went to
his grave leaving behind him the repu-
tstion of being the mos. polished and
successful sHiadles- Of his age.
Wife-beating is a pretty common prac-
tice in this city, but in majority OF
dasas the brutes escape punish shmcnt
Though the fear or forgiveness of their
victims, who in rare instances only con-
cent to appear against them. Even when
convicted, the punishment meted out TO
them by no means fits the crime. They
60 to jail, where they are well fed ana
well housed and fare better generally
than the poor creatures they abuse.
There is one man prominent in busi-
ness in this city who doesn't believe the
punishment inflicted on these brutes is
~ MI suIlcItnt lot tus crime. Nr. VIII
lam III. Hall IL a believer in the Delaware
method Of dealing with the wife heater
ana would have the whipping posts re-
vived for their benefit and reform. When
Mr.. Hall represented Cranston in the
General Assembly he embodied his ideas
on the ubject in a bftt providing for the
punishment of wife bsaters by whipping.
The bill didn't pass, but Mr.. Hall made
very strong argument in support OF II.
His warm contenti ion was that the on v
adequate end saiutary way OF Furnishing
man who beat his better half was
through the sensitlveness OF the the Gu
ticla I'm this here uere n ucod N, apv an N,