The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-09-14
MUST WORK AT NIGHT
Bryan Brothers Candy Factory
Crowded for More Time.


Crowded for More Time.
Another big Wichita concern has been
crowded into night work to meet the
demands upon it. Next week Bryan Bros.
Candy company will have their factory
running at night. This was found to
be imperative to satisfy trade. The firm
have also decided to let the general pub
lie have a look into the big establish
ment Yesterday workmen were busy
arranging two comfortable rooms on the
first floor for visitors for the street fair
time and thereafter. 1t is planned to
designate day at frequent intervals as
visiting day.
There are some people in Wichita who
know and some who do not know that
this city has the largest exclusive candy
manufacture west of the Mississippi
river.
This business is simply an illustration
of what thrift, ideas, push and business
sense can produce in Wichita as cen
ratification. This lbig building with its
four stories filled with workers. as busy
as the real bees which swarm through
it, attracted by the accumulated sweet
ness is astonishing TO a visitor.
There are mountains Of buckets, ava
lanches OF cartoons, gorges between
cliffs Of fancy boxes packed with car
amels. marshmallows and bon-bonS all
made here in Wichita. There is an
engine of sixty-horse power boilers fur
nishing enough steam to run the engines
the kettles, the ovens, crystalzers and
great copper pans. knives and all other
complicated machinery. like the great
vacuum kettle, contrivance which cooks
the cream which is the body of the choc-
olate drop; the heater which makes the
marshmallow and the pans which color
and brighten the cinnamon drops; and
the big machine that separates the
goodies from the moulding starch in
which they are formed
Why should a big candy factory thrive
in Wichita? Brains. The Bryan boys
work for their trade They put out nov
elites with value and merit in them.
Their Menthol cough drops are used in
every part of the country, and they
could quit making every other candy and
be busy supplying the market with these
alone. Their foreman Is J. A. Mitchell,
who came from New York. He studies
for novelties all the time, such as fig
sandwiches, a fine confection called
cream cheese and cocoanut tea biscuits.
Some time ago the firm resolved to make
marshmallows. It was big undertake
ing, but they set in to do it and they
are now making an article that cannot
he duplicated in the west or beaten any
where. Not very long ago they decided
to try their hand on rock candy a diff
ficult CONNECTION. Today they l.e turn
ing out the clearest rock candy in this
country. perfect gems of crystalza ton
They make lis varieties of bon bons
They have ordered a new machine to
powder their own sugar. The amount Of
stick candy Of various kinds they turn
out IS beyond belief. Yesterday a mem
Der Of the Eagles staff watched Oscar
Holman, foreman Of the hard candy de-
partment make about a barrel OF stick
candy with a perfect cake walk designed
in the center. He started with a hunk of
sweetness as big as a four-year-old child
and with incredible rapidity Of manipula-
ton turned it into perfectly equi-sized
sticks Of candy with a picture running
through them all.