Arizona republican., 1909-07-03
Sugar Day Was a Success
From Every Point Of View
TRA|NLOAD OF VISITORS
And Yet Another Large AS
semblage Who Came by
Carriage and Automobile.
Great Event in the Pros
perity Story of the Valley

That the sugar beet industry is a
practical one in this valley Is at last
an acknowledged fact. That the pro-
| duction of sugar beets means good
financial returns to both the pro-
ducer and to the manufacturer of
beet sugar is also proven. The
fact was easily apparent TO the 500
people who took advantage of the
special invitation yesterday afternoon
and visited the monster beet sugar
plant at Glendale and watched the
actual process of making beet sugar.
Not one of the 800 women, mostly
housewives, who went through the
beet sugar factory will ever again
be heard to make the remark that
beet sugar is different from cane
sugar, and that beet sugar cannot be
used in canning.
Three hundred and twenty-five peo-
pie left Phoenix yesterday at 2:10 p.
m to visit the Glendale sugar fac
tory. over 175 others came from
Tempe, Mesa, Alhambra and the sur
rounding country in autos, carriages
and other means of transportation.
Five coaches had been thought suf-
ficient by the Santa Fe officials to
carry all who would desire doing
Glendale's sugar day, but when the
long line of patient, prespiring Phoe-
nicians was seen standing for their
tickets, the santa Fe Immediately had
to do the rustling act and add two
more coaches to the train. The
long line at the window seemed like
great sleeping serpent, dappled
in appearance, reaching away down
to Center street.
Wakeln's gorcery had n private
car for its employee, and thirty-four
out of the thirty-five took the eX-
cursion trip Many were determined
to know all the inside workings of
the beet sugar factory and came pre-
pared with paper, pencil and the eye
burning with the blue light of desire
for knowledge to be applied in the
selling of beet sugar.
Many Of the officials of both the
Santa Fe and the Southern Pacific
were seen on the excursion train.
several of them never having been to
the Glendale factory before.
After several false alarms, in which
the ticket buyers at the Santa Fe
ticket window mistook the switching
of the train for its leaving, the
sugar day excursion rolled out of
Phoenix and on into Glendale, to the
very doors of the sugar factory, in
better time than is usually the case
with the excursion of this time. The
regulation routine events took place
en- route, such as the loOsing of
straw hats and gloves. Many a sweet
Marie was dressed in her white fluffy
fluffies. Roger and Gallets, and blue
hair ribbon, to take the trip with
her John, who, harnessed in a collar
of several times the usual height,
and brand new tight fitting shoes,
made sickening attempts to throw off
self consciousness and appear natural
with the pride of his heart.
Arrived at the beet sugar factory
the first thing to greet the eXcur-
sionist's eyes was Old Glory waving
defiance from the side of the build
ing, Haunting in the breeze a chal
lenge to the sugar world to beat the
Glendale factory in the quality of its
beet sugar. AS the train slowed down
at the very doors of the plant, the
under-hum from the hundreds of
machines at work told that a mighty
achievement had been undertaken and
brought to a successful issue. One
could not help but feel the mighty
strength tied by human skill and
harnessed to do service to the needs
of man.
Every workman, no matter how
humble his task, did everything in
his power to instruct the excursion
ist and point out the operation of
| Of
From the compressor at the main
entrance to the shipping rooms not
a person could be seen the whole
afternoon who had been neglected.
And this means much when it is un-
derstood that 500 people entered the
plant at one time and passed through
en- masse. AS one looked from the
center of the lower floor up to the
skyiights overhead humanity seemed
| like crawling ants amongst the hum
ming machinery on all the four
stories. So un-nerving was the
| under-th throb of the hundreds of sugar
making machines, that when pho
| tographer on the second floor made a
| flashlight, the sharp report and bril-
| liant flash caused over fifteen women
| to scream, one woman nearly fainting.
Every phase of the sugar making
| industry was explained, from the en-
tering of the beets through the
fIume. to the refining and sacking,
not an item was left out, every effort
was made to show the housewife and
| her daughter, as well as the husband
and brother, that sugar is sugar, no
] matter from whence derived; that this