New-York tribune., 1910-07-24

much it may place you under obligations by
furnishing you with the opportunity 10 dis
play your remarkably eQuable temper and
your really phenomenal self-reStraint
But even those are not the only short
comings that can be urged against the old
timer. Note. in the illustration, the little
vent in the centre OF the small cap piece,
a disk of tin that is fitted into its cover
That is left TO permit the escape OF the air
which is heated and expanded by the pas
sage of the soldering iron around the
periphery of the closing cap That little
vent, the last thing 10 be soldered, IS a
mischiefmaker, for. besides letting the bits
of metal down into the cans contents. 1t
permits the escape of much Il IS desirable
to retain
sanitary can has been welcomed by the
salmon packer. With the oldrime can. 10
prevent the less OF the enriching oil as far
as possible, he had TO lay loose piece OF
tin between the vent and the FISH before
soldering. Then too, as ne employs China
men, and that labor is growing ever scarcer
and higher. the great wage saving of me-
chanica! sealing has proved quite boon
Nor is the sa lrlon packer singular in ex-
tending an eager welcome 10 tie innoVa-
ton. Open at one end. quite from wall 10
wall, the sanitary particularly COM
mends itself 20 California, which grows
large fruits: for these no longer have 70 be
squeezed through a small opening, as IN
the oldtinle can. which mutilsted them with
its sharp edges The whole fruit is now
neatly laid in and is open to the packer $
INSPECTION a. all times. Besides. ii saves
two-thirds the wage expense. where, as II
this case and in that Of tomato canning.
hand labor is employed. The tomato. be-
ing largely water. made in the old can
rather sloppy mess. since its cells were
broken in the act of cutting 10 into bits
small enough to be jauned through the
little opening in the cover.
Fruit packers have had always two other
serious troubles with the old package; not
only would fruits be scorchtd. but the
sugar used in the syrup that is poured
upoa them would be carhoniZed II In con-
tact with the tin heated by the hot solder
ing iron This carbcniZed sugar takes the
shape Of the little black specks distributed
throughout the contents OF the can. ana
with which every one is familiar, Now. the
fruit packers. notably the Hawaii. Banana,
FLORIDA and Porto Rico pineapple can
nerfes use the sanitary. which. being seated
mechanically. is not subject 10 these faults
TO prevent the scorching OF their product,
so common with the Older can. the con
denssd and evaporated milk concerns nave
also oretty generally adopted the sanitary,
And that excellent food product. the cod
hsh may now be popuiarized An enter
stage now puts IL. deliciously fresh. on the
market in place of the salt product oo-
iected 20 by 50 many not TO tne new
EnElsnd1 manner born" The big Maine
soncern doing this could not possibly nave
done II with the oidtime can.
The extent to which this receptacie has
won out may be gathered from state
r,.nt that 25 per cent OF all the canned
nacked in this sanitary can. introduced
here some ten wears ago. And the aston
fshirg rate at which IT is gaining IN pnouc
FaV,,r msy be estimated from the fact tnat
,be aforementioned errrns ny--w''icll. ny
tbo wav has .bs exclusive vSe fC~ tFts
.o,r.~v ffa rfsv AS v10rhiTsr-- N1r
.,asinc- ths - rjtar't-uii turr out three
hundred millions this year. 100 per cent.
n is said more than IL manufactured last
wear Several things besides those al
ready mentioned contribute TO this remark