Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-05-06

grain. Don't you believe them. The
coffee as u comes from the plantation,
the simon-purc genuine article. II Of
ten far diftcrrnt from that which goes
away ON the ships. have visited here
In lilo enormous establishments which
make a business ~ painting coffee and
dressing u IN for the markets. In
kouth Africa. for Instance, the people
want black coffee beans. II seems that
the coffee they have been buying N ~
that color. The BAGS that come from
the plantation aru Allied with olive
green beans. They arc turned into a
great min ana rolled round and round
In contact with colorcd powder. J ~
what Il IL. the Lord only knows. but
when the beans come out they nrc na
black ~ any coffce that can he grown
In Africa. Other grades are given u
tingc " yellow by the use of other
colors. and others ARE vanished In dlf-
fercnt shades Of green. Some Of the
coioring stun N unhealthy and the men
use gloves when they handle u. In
one Portuguese house saw them color.
Ing 10000 bass for the Cape of uond
Hope. and In another they wer" color.
INK coffee for the Argentine market.
although I am told that the most of the
coffee sent 10 tho United States goes
there In itH natural color.
And what N the natural color OF coz
fecY That I saw on the plantations
ana the most Of that which comes TO
lilo n ~ u rich olive green. u grows
slightly yellow us II becomes older. aud
the older the coffee Ia the better coffee
Il makes.
IN THE COFFEE FACTORIES OF
RIO.
These big coffee factories arr inter-
cating places, Some OF them are nH
full of machinery as Minneapolis
flour mill, You walk under network
Of moving belts through room after
room filled with machines for dressing
the berries 10 suit the Different tastes
81 the world, Each market seems To
have Its peculiar desires, Tn. der.
mans, for inHtencc. demand that the
huaiSa be- on the beans when they ar
rive In Hamburg, The Germans pre-.
for 10 10 tho Smelling themselves. and
the coffee IN sold ~ washed coffee.
bringing much higher price.
Other countries want their coffee
polished. II Ia shined up NJ you shine
silver, being brushed by III, most lv-
llcnte machines. which do not inJuro
the grains. The coffee which goes 10
the United States Is sold much ms II
comes from the plantation. II II pass
ed through the aeparutorn ana graded,
hut so FAR believe there n no demand
In our country for polished cofiee or
Tor any othoi than that OF the natural
color, A great deal of our coffee n
bought by the great roasting compan.
les. II h shipped directly 10 the roast
ms mills In New York and Chicago,
and tho average man does not see u
until II II handed out TO him by hts
grocer In fancy packages az no much a
piece.
~ THE EXPLOITING SECTION.
T'hore IL no buster place In the world
than the coffee exporting section of
Rio de JAneiro. Thurc are great ware
houses near the whnrycn which are
illled with coffee and into which coffee
IL being brought by the thousands Of
haEH The streets OF this section are
narrow and dirty They are nllod with
wagons and cars loaded with coffee.
You can hardly get through the
streets There are scores Of half-nakod
men trotting from the cars 10 the ware
houses with great bags on their heads
and scores ~ negro women down on
their knees sweeping up tho coffee out
NJ the cobblratunc streets where II has
dropped In order that they may wash
II and sell II again. Each OF these
street cleaners has u selve. In which
she puts the coffee beans as she picks
thom ~, shaking out the dirt as she
works. | am told that many ~ the
women make q good living by gather
ing those stray coffee beans.
stop moment and watch the men
as they unload the coffee, Every bag
In tested before n IN taken Into the
warehouse. The tester has "A little tin
pipe na big rs a broomHtick, with n
sharp point on the end. lie labs ihla
into a bag and In II brings out hand
ful of coffee. a glance AZ the beans
samples. and. " not. the rest NJ the
tells whether they are according To
load iR carefully watched,
Notice how the men carry the great
bags ON their heads. Each bag weighs
lag pounds, but they stand straight NJ
under Thorn and walk on as hrisSly Ms
though they were carrying feathers.
BAGoING THE COFFEE.
But let us follow them Into the ware
house. The car load which Is now. being
handled II IN all sorts OF bags Of cof-
fee piled on each side from the fioor
to the ceiling and come into hal.