The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-08-05
New Patented Process for Pre-
pairing Macaroni Has Been
Secured by Company.
ADDITlONTO PLANT PLANNED
Company also Importing Olive
Oil and Bottling for Retail
Trade as Well as Increasing
Their Wholesale Business.

.. & j. Marinaro have under way
plans for the expansion OF their business
interests which will make the jefferson
Macaroni factory In Reynoldsville one
OF the largest and most important cereal
food plants in the United States. The
local plant has been success from the
start and paid such handsome dividends
to the owners that in three years time
they have gained the courage, exper-
ience and capital to warrant extension
Of their business to an extent and along
lines never dreamed of at the begin
ming.
The Marinaros are two OF the bold
est and most successful business men
in the state. They started at the
bottom and in series of ventures, in
cluding mercantile business, banking,
mining and manufacturing, have ac-
cumulated fortune of considerable
size. They have gradually narrowed
their operations and now have centered
their whole attention on the two most
profitable: the manufacture of macaroni
and production Of coal OF the latter
we speak elsewhere. Their macaroni
plant is located in Reynoldsville and
any growth the plant may have will
benefit directly the local community,
Three additions have been MADE to
the original factory building. In the
near future another large building will
be erected near the present one to
accommodate new lines OF business. 1t
Is proposed to make the plant an i'm
mense wholesale distributing center,
for various lines OF food products, be-
sides introducing a number OF new
brands Of noodle preparations and plac-
ing themon the market in totally new
and patented form. The company has
<carried on Wholesale agency for flour
for several years and has probably dis
tributed more carloads of this cereal
in the last few years than any house in
the western part Of the state outside Of
Pittsburgh. This branch Of the busi-
ness will be continued
For several years the factory has
supplied the local trade with olive oil,
acting simply as an agent. Mr.. Marin
aro is now arranging with Italian
manufacturers of the oil in Europe to
ship him larger consignments of the
oil in bulk and it will be bottled and
prepared for trade in the factory at
Reynoldsville. The oil will be sold in
two grades, the Jefferson" and
''Marinaro" brands, and will be equal
in all respects to the costly product
OF the European houses. This delicacy
is rapidly growing in favor in America
for cooking purposes and the field for
its sale is national. In Europe its use
is universal and predictions are made
that it will soon be so in America as
we'll.
In the past the factory has sold most
Of its macaroni in bulk. The manage
ment is now placing on the market
several brands of egg noodles neatly
and tastefully boxed, in the style OF
the breakfast foods, and it is the pur-
pose of the company to prepare these
boxed noodles in richer and more
nutritious manner than can now be
obtained. AS Mr.. Marinaro sums it
up. "Where the other factories use one
egg to each box, we will use two."
Perhaps the most important of all
the plans, and the one which will bring
the most notoriety and financial profit
to the Jefferson Macaroni factory, is
the proposed introduction OF totally
new form Of cooked macaroni. Recent
ly patent rights in the United States
were taken out on system OF prepar-
ing this food at the factory which rem
ders unnecessary the usual cooking in
the home and insures TO the buyer all
the rich and delicious flavor macaroni
possesses when properly prepared.
When the stupendous popularity Of
so-called prepared breakfast foods now
on the market is recalled, it will be
seen what immense possibilities lie
in this new product-a food ct for q
king morning, noon or night. Prac-
tically the only objection to macaroni
is that so few Americans know how
to cook 1t properly to bring out its full
flavor. The new preparation will solve