The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-11-13
PIONEER CHEWING GUM MAN
u. r. nEEMAN, WHO MADE NIL.
LIONS FROM BUSINESS. HERE.
He IL stlll . Large ssockhoIder-
Hew Lss6s fortuaes Were Msde
Practically without Any Capital.

DR., r. Il Beeman. who In said to he
directly responsible for tho recent enor-
NOUS increase OF the gum chewing habit
In the United States. is at the Rainier
Bceman. who was formerly an old school
physician. claims tho credit OF having
been the first manufacturer to combine
certain medicines with chewing gum and
make the combination paiatable.
I'VE manufactured three tons of chew
Ing gum every working day OF the year
for yearly ten years up to the time we
ago. and now they make nearly four tons
Of It," said DIR. Beeman last night.
He talked freely regarding his business
as II Was carried on before II was alb
sorbed by the chewing gum trust. or COM
bine. He Is now interested only as a
stockhoider. he and his partners having
sold out for Sl.50o0oo In cash and turned
over besides about 100000 worth OF raw
material The combine IL under the name
of the American Chicle Company. IL Is
a New Jersey corporation. with "A capital
stock of $9.0O0.0O0. and besides buying out
DR.. Beeman. u controls tho product OF
most OF the chewing gum factories In the
United States.
Or. Beernan modestiy claims to be the
oldest member OF the gum chewing fra
ternity.
II used TO prepare certain drugs for
sale before started in the gum busi-
n@ss," said DIR. Beeman last evening.
fWhen l found the happy result OF COM
Dining one OF these medicines and gum
and got my company I'm fun running or
der. We used TO pay out from sisooo to
y1SO. 900 a year for advertising alone. We
started with comparatively nothing
had with mo as partners man named
Worthlngton and on. named Nichols. also
a Young woman She left the business
wtth ufS.00e. One party put In tlo.Ne Ia
start with, but drew IL out again In about
ala months time, so. financially speaking.
our start was made on nothing.
The gum we use Is known as gum
chicie. ana comes from Mexico. X Is =
species OF rubber, containing, however. but
ID per cent ef rubber 1t was originally
brought into this country With the idea
az making rubber goods OF II. but the per-
centage OF rubber was 50 smah that X
.sThe clerks IN rubber stores soon COM
msnced chewing IL. finding " agreeable
even without sugar or nsyering ! came
to my preeonesiyea IDEAS OF comeinins
chewing gum and medicinal substances
after our business became established
va used on an average %a.ea pounds Of
gum Shiele. i.so.ooe pounds Of sugar, s."sl
mounts sf oil 81 winteTgrven, @@9 pounds
az tlnfoil ana 1000 pounds OF pepsin an
s.rnsse ingredients proiseea one billion
tablets OF gum. put up IN packages % hvs
tablets each. making Nsa.asaop packages.
each done up I'm ,infotl and printed wrap
fss-rhat was our product when we sold
ont To-day the business, ! UNDERSIGNED,
mas Increased fuliy g per cent We era-
s,laved about 80 women and enc man for
he uork The combine has not reduced
ne working force. but on the contrary.
mas Increased II. for today. instead OF -,
thew require 80 giris 20 put up the gum
zach one Of the companies IA the COM
nine IL run Independently, and the COM
Ssns Is merely one Of capital and not
OF labor or product