The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-02-07
BIC TRAIN OF GLASS
Over Two Hundred Thousand
Fruit Jars Arrive Here.
1T Is UNPRECEDENTED
Indication of How Great a
Fruit Country This Is,
UNPRECEDENTED

Twenty carloads Of glass jars came IN
on one train yesterday, via the ST. Louis
and San Francisco q shipment probably
never equaled in the west on Ike material
This great shipment Of glass came from
Nuncie, Ind, being preferred by day runs,
and handled with care" as its fragility
deserved
This long train OF twenty cars when
started consisted Of twe1ty-six cars. At
Beaumont six cars were taken out and
sent 10 Arkansas city. The others came
On through &c Wichita
There was in this prodigious shipment
2SS0d0 glass Jars. They were packed
one dozen IN q case and there were a, 600
cases. The whole cargo is ya-Ued az some
thing ike SIS 090.
With this shipment there were twenty
barrels OF fruit jar ru5beTs, each barre.
weighing 300 pounds, the whole Weighing
$3.50 pouHds How tremendous this weight
IS can be realized by anyone taking IN his
hand one Of the slight rubber bands used
n preserving fruit.
The glass jars were consigned 20 the fol
lowing Wichita firms:
Jet & Wood.
Lehman-Higginson Co.
Aylesbury Mercantile company.
Wichita Wholesale Grocery company.
The Arkansas City firm which secured
six carloads was the Raney-Alcon Co. Of
that place
Leaving Muncie simultaneously with the
Wichita train was q shipment of ten cars
for Topeka, which gives an Indication OF
how much greater a fruit country south
ern Kansas IS than that part OF Kansas
lying il the vicinity Of the state capital
AS matter Of fact this great shipment
OF fruit jars Is very me and conclusive
argument Of the superiority OF this sec
ton for fruit. In a. ike area ia the world
there IS IN all probability 20 such record
for the preserving of fruit a. here for last
year Wichita distributed forty cars Of fruit
jars and with this first shipment, this year
the aggregate for southern Kansas and Ok
Iah0ma Will reach fifty cars which Wichita
viii distribute
Herein is given a slight glimpse of how
richly the average Kansau OF these parts
fares. The man who has Jam on his bread
in the morning. peach preserves for dinner
and preserved cherries for his supper is
very near the rule and not the exception.
Il should be remembered. zoo. that this
applies larEe'y 10 southern Kansas and
tho territory adjacent 10 Wichita. for the
orchards IN Oklahoma are scil young and
not Yet productive 10 a maximum.
II brings 10 mind strongly and conctu-
slvely that the greatest fruit section in the
Country finds its center IN Wichita and
that new orchards. new fruit cultures Of
Al kinds are growing into pr55uctiveness
The claim SOFTEN repeate8-that southern
Kansas. and Oklahoma VIII I'm the end be-
come The greatest grape. strawberry. black
barry, peach and apple section on the face
Of the globe in area. and on,y excepting
smau ana extraordinarily favored spots-iu
this immense shipment Of glassware finds
a,roof
The jars received here are Nasons. upon
which the patent has expired. and are
made by Ball Bros, at AIlncie. Ind They
are manufactured wholly by machinery.
and in addition 70 the well-kn0wu paree-
lain lining in the screw lid. ROW have
aluminium, an important Improvement
They ara extraordinarily cheap. as COM
pared with former years.
Every few days some telling. vita. fact
cQmes. ou- 90 prove the worth Of the coun-
try Of which Wichita is the pivot. and this
shipment is one Of them.