The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-10-25
WICHITA HAS A
CRACKER FACTORY
New Concern viii Employ
100 People from Start.
TO OPEN THIS WEEK
Firm Title Is Bryan Bros
Cracker and Candy Co.
TO OPEN THIS WEEK

The Bryan Bros. Cracker and Candy
company, with a capital stock of 5000
has just finished installing machinery on
the second floor OF its building, in the
second block on South Market street.
for the operating of a big cracker fac
tory. The concern will employ 100 per-
sons.
II was intended to open the factory for
business Monday morning, but owing TO
the non-arrival OF several small but i'm
portant pieces of machinery necessary
to the completion of the plant it is ex-
pected now that the factory will not be
ready for business before next Wednes-
day or Thursday morning.
The cracker factory installed by The
Bryan people is said TO be, the largest in
dependent concern of its kind in the
United States. 1t will have the capacity
for making daily $40 boxes or crackers,
each weighing more than twenty pounds
When everything is in running order the
plant will be operated day and night.
o. l. Miles, who has probably had as
much or more experience in the cracker
business as any one in This country. or
any other. VIII have direct charge Of
the new business. He is also stock
holder in the company. He came TO
Wichita from Kansas City, where be had
charge OF the National Biscuit company's
factory.
He has had charge of all the work of
purchasing and installing the machinery
no far nd jc a nn-tO
date and as complete as it can be made.
The factory occupies the entire second
floor OF the building used by the COM
pany. One hundred people viii be EN-
ployed the year around for day work
alone. If the plant is operated nights,
similar force viii be added for that
work, making in ali about 200 people for
the one plant. With the 100 employees or
the candy factory operated on the other
floors of the company, the Bryan Bros.
will have a force of 800 people in their
employ. or more than are employed by
any other one concern in the city.
The advertising. labels and boxes for
the different brands of crackers, cakes,
etc, which the company will manufac-
Iure, are out and everything is In readi-
ness for the packing OF a big supply of
the goods when the factory commences
operations.
For installing the cracker plant it was
necessary that an addition be erected for
. large oven. The oven contains twelve
apartments which revolve as the dough
is placed on each shelf TO bake. By the
time each shelf has been filled the first
one is again at hand and the contents
ready for taking out. 1t requires twelve
minutes 10 fill and revolve the different
shelves and the contents of each are
then ready TO eat.
Immediately upon the opeLing of the
factory for business work will commence
on another building for second oven.
When it is finished the plant will have
a capacity for the making of just two
times as much goods as it has now.
The Bryan Bros. who are the principal
stockholders in the candy and cracker
business, are well known in Wichita and
are elassed among The most up-to-date
and enterprising business men of the
city. Each is young, but what either
may lack in years he has made up in
experience. They have conducted a
candy business in Wichita for many
years and have occupied their present
quarters in the tive-story building on /.
South Market street for nearly ten years. .
The company was Incorporated. other (
taken in and a charter applied /
for under the Bryan Bros. Candy Co..
about six months ago. About two weeks .
ago the title OF the firm was changed To /
that of TIE Bryan Bros. Cracker and I
Candy company.
The stockholders OF the company COM
pose some OF the best known business
men In The city. ". r. Tucker and 8.
3. Amidon are two persons Interested in
I and Mr.. Amidon, I'm addition to holding
stock in the concern. is attorney for the