The suburban citizen., 1901-08-17
AN EXTENSIVE
ESTABLISHMENT.
The Standard Bulterina Factory
al LangdOa
ABOUT TO BEGIN OPERATIONS,
Facts About the Plant Which is the
Largest Private Enterprise
Ever Established Here.
ABOUT TO BEGIN OPERATIONS.

the Inauguration OF the most important
private enterprise ever established in
she District of Columbia, On that day,
in the presence of many distinguished
people the corner stone of the main
building OF the Standard Butterine
Company was laid The event was
notable one because it marked the
beginning OF a new era in industrial al
fairs in the vicinity OF the National
Capital The exercises were witnessed
by more than five hundred people
among whom were many ladies.
On September ? the machinery OF
this mammoth concern will be started
and the people OF Langdon will have
occasion for another and still greater
celebration. After that day nearly 800
wage -earners will go in and out OF the
great buildings which the company
have erected in the village and which
are models OF neatness, security, COM
fort and cleanliness The ground upon
which the factory stands embraces
little more than eight and a quarter
acres. the structures themselves occupy
ing forty odd thousand square feet
The interior arrangement of the build
ings is as perfect as architectural skill
could make it. while the equipment rep
resents the latest Improvements in ma
chinery designed for the production OF
foodstuffs There are spacious and
handsomely furnished offices on the
second floor from which by means OF
system OF telephones, it is possible to
communicate with any department OF
the establishment at a moments notice,
There are large cold-storage rooms on
the ground floor of the main building,
in which a temperature OF from thirty to
forty degrees is maintained, while in an
adjoining building is an ice plant with
capacity equal to the necessities of a
good-sized village Water as clear as
crystal and as pure as it is possible to
obtain it flows from artesian wells
bored by the company One hundred
thousand gallons every ten hours
gushes from the pipes and is conveyed
to any part OF the premises in which it
may be needed. 1t is not the purpose
Of the Suburban Citizen, however to
undertake in this article a detailed de-
scription OF the Standard Butterine
Company works, for to do that would
require the use OF every column OF the
paper 1t will be sufficient to describe
the establishment in a general way
When the manufacturers set about
the establishment OF the factory at
Langdon they determined that no one
should have cause for complaint on the
score of cleanliness and the purity OF
their product and to this end they
filed orders for machinery which han
dies the milk and fats which enter into
the composition without requiring to
be touched by the hands OF the en-
ployees. On one side of the third floor
OF the great main building are tanks in
to which the milk is poured just as it
it received IRON the dairies From
these tanks it is conveyed by pipes to a
large Reid pasteurzng machine, from
which. after being subjected to a high
temperature it is forced out at the top
by means OF paddles which are made to
revolye al, the rate Of two hundred and
forty times a minute. 1t may safely be
said that after passing through the pas
teurizing machine it is absolutely Tree
from germs OF any kind 1t is then
conducted by pipes to tanks on the
floor below, where it undergoes several
processes which prepare it for intrOduc-
ton to the fats and oils which are nan
died ina similar manner on the other side
Of the building. On the opposite OF the
main building the fatty matter is rem
dered in large watts and treated to the
same cleansing methods to which the
milk is subjected. 1t is never touched
by the hands of the employees, but is
passed through pipes from one floor to
another until it reaches the mixing ma
chine, where the milk and the oils are
mixed and begin to look like butter
After leaving this machine the butter
ne-for that is about what it is by this
ime--is conveyed to a large tank on the
Erst floor, where it is immersed in pure
told water and treated by simple meth
DDS to finishing touches which prepare
It for use after it has been cut up by
machinery into one-pound blocks.
AS a further means OF preventing i'm
pure milk from reaching the factory the
company has had built thirty reiriger
ltor cars Of the most improved design
and in these it conveys milk and Other
materials used in the manufacture o
butterine to the factory. When the
product comes from the last machine i
is wrapped in parchment paper anC
boxed for shipment This part OF tn,
work is performed by girls.
The ice plant, which is located in ar
adjoining building, is complete in ever.
particular and would be ample for sup
plying a much larger establishment
The engine-rooms, dynamos and pump
are under the same roof, as are also tn,
massive furnaces which make the steam
for the two 5oo-horse power engines
Between the engine room and the mali
building are the coal bunkers which
are capable of receiving hundred, o
tons Of fuel so tfat in case OF Goa
famine the woriYt Of BE factory woul'
not Be .ntcriered Witb n A switch iron