The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-05-07

ured and sold here Is good.
The amount Of money spent by New
Workers during the holiday for canGy
alone is SO great that 1t seems out of
proportion to the amount donated for
charity until 1t Is remembered that per-
maps one-third or more of all the
candy purchased during the last half
OF December is given away by secu-
lar and religious societies, by Sunday
schools and churches. and that con-
sequently large part OF the sum be-
longs In the charity account.
Three or four New York manufact-
urers get the bulk Of this class of or
ders and they agree that even taking
the population Of the city into account
New York's consumption Of candy ex-
cells that Of any other city. Said one
manufacturer:
New Workers buying for schools,
societies and churches are far more
particular about quality than when
buying for themselves"
He was inclined to think that while
old-time philanthropists paid more at
tention at Christmas to handing out
warm ear muf1ers, mittens and stock
ings than confectionery, up-to-date set
Element and Sunday school workers
show partially for confectionery. He
was certain that this preference has
had lot to do with the fact that
for score or more Of years the candy
business has increased in this city by
leaps and bounds.
Half dozen years ago he himself
was scarcely known. This year, at his
main headquarters, where all large
orders are packed for delivery, twenty
men were kept steadily at work night
and day for ten days before Christmas,
in twelve-hour shifts, fling boxes,
barrels and pals of all sizes with can
dy, many of which were to go out OF
the city.
In the aggregate thousands of tons
OF candy were sent out by this manu-
facturer for the holiday trade and he
is only one Of several similar con-
Germs Recently three or four of the
large department stores of New York
have taken to manufacturing their
own candy, and to add up the figures
furnished by leading candy producers
would indicate that candy is now a
staple article of food in Greater New
York. #
To, find out exactly how much can
dy is consumed during the holidays
by New York and at what cost 1t is
better to avoid candy manufacturers.
Their figures, dealing with millions of
pounds each, are too bewildering. 1t
was a man engaged in philanthropic
work who figured it out something
after this fashion:
In his opinion the candy consumers
at this time of year may roughly be
divided into three classes-the class,
including mostly young people, which
has candy presented to 1t by missions
and regular Sunday schools, kindergar-
tens, sewing schools, industrial schools,
juvenile aid societies. clubs, asylums,
ETC.: the class which buys and hands
around presents OF the higher-priced
varieties of confectionery, and the class
which buys for home consumption,
principally medium grades of candy
There are over 100000 children at
tending the New York public schools
and a host more who 60 to the free
kindergartens and industrial schools.
There is another host between the ages
of "a and IL working in shops and fac
tories. These and the children of we'll
to-do people and the older persons
who share with young folks in the free
distribution at churches, Sunday
schools and elsewhere easily make
1000, 900 persons who may be put down
as averaging two pounds of candy
each.
In striking this average the man
referred to had in mind the large num-
Der of youngsters in the repeater class
who manage to attach themselves to
at least six or eight pounds of candy
between Christmas and New Years at
various places, after the fashion of one
sweet-looking little girl Of who was
able to treat her small friends for
DAYS after the holidays 10 candy given
to her at one and another Christmas
entertainment where she had no bus
mess at all to be.
with an air of confding innocence
the sweet-looking little girl would
present herself at every door and in
every line which led to a candy treat
and asked for her ticket would state
truthfully that she had no ticket. To
turn away such a sweet-looking little
Girl was not easy. She never was
turned away and the result was that
once day for week and sometimes
twice a day her candy collection was
increased by one or two boxes.
Hundreds of other cases with SINH
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