The Savannah morning news., 1902-02-23
WILSON'S TRIP SOUTH
ARRANGEMENTS FOR HIS ENTER
TAINMENT NOT YET MADE.
SOME DOUBT ABOUT THE TIME
SECRETARY DOESN'T KNOW HOW
LONG HE'LL BE ABLE TO STAY.

The Secretary, DIR. wylIy and DIR.
Between March and March ~.
Many Requests Made by Cities anG
Towns for Privilege of Their
Entertainment - All Anxious to
Display Their Advantages as su-
gar and Syrup Centcrs-New Ma
chinery, Recently Successfully
Tested, May Solve Problem for
Georgia and Florida.
Definite arrangements for the enter
tainment of Secretary of Agriculture
James Wilson, DR.. H. w. WILLY, chief
of the Department of Chemistry of the
Agricultural Department of the gov
eminent, and DR.. w. C. Stubs, of
New Orleans, who will make a trip
through Georgia and Florida for the
purpose of inspecting the cane sugar
possibilities of these states, have not
been made.
1t has not been possible for Secre-
tary Wilson to say as yet just how
much time he can devote to this trip
or on just what day the start from
Washington will be made. All dates
have therefore been kept open, as it
is obviously impossible for any definite
promises to be made to any of the
numerous towns and cities that have
been urgent in their requests for per-
mission to entertain the party and ex-
hibit to it the possibilities and advant-
ages of their sections.
All that DR.. Wylly has been able to
promise on behalf of himself and his
chief is that the trip will be made and
that they will come sometime between
March and March % stop of
day will be made here and the party
entertained in some typical Southern
fashion; from Savannah the itinerary
to other points where sugar cane has
played in the past or plays in the pres
ent an important or interesting part
will be taken up
Capt. Purse has been the recipient
of very many letters from the boards
of trades and influential citizens of
various towns, all of whom have ex-
pressed themselves as anxious to en-
tertain the party. The visit will, of
course, be of great prospective benefit
to every section of the two states it
reaches. Brunswick wants especially to
show the visitors Hopeton plantation,
where sugar was first produced in this
country, and it is purposed also to en-
terrain them at Jekyl Island.
The visit assumes special Importance
in the light of a test of new refining
machinery recently made in New Or
leans, which is said to have demon
strated satisfactorily that the machin-
cry is practical and will carry out in
every respect the promises made in its
behalf by it's inventor and promoters.
The test of this machinery was made
while Capt. Purse was in New Orleans
last week and was witnessed by him.
He is not willing to say that he was
entirely satisfied with the showing
made, or that, rather, all doubts on
the subject of the machinery's effec-
tiveness were removed from his mind,
but he admitted that he had been very
greatly impressed. If the claims of those
behind the introduction of the machin-
cry are verified by further and more
complete tests, Capt. Purse believes its
introduction will go far towards solving
the problem of making Georgia and
Florida sugar and syrup producing
states of first Importance.
The machinery makes syrup and
sugar both, the latter by the continu
ance of the process and the use of some
few and minor adjuncts to the evapor-
ating plant The syrup and sugar that
it produces can be made of an abso-
lutely fixed grade of purity and this
will solve one of the great objections
to the sale on a large scale of Georgia
syrup and sugar. The first cost of the
machinery and the cost of production
are each but one-fifth of the cost of
the machinery and of sugar production
by the process now in use.
The New Orleans Picayune printed
full account of the test made in that
city and witnessed by a large number
of persons interested in the cultivation
of cane and the manufacture of sugar
and syrup and in the manufacture of
sugar making machinery.