Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1911-11-09
STRANGE CHEWING
GUM MYSTERY
St. Louis sleuth Discovers
Where the Hundreds Of
Tons Of Circle Are Deposit
ed BY Busy Jaw Wobblers.


81 Louis. Nov. "a slcuth OF this
city has put sherlock Holmes TO
shame In discovering who're the heavy
deposits Of chcwcd gun go To. Says
the 81 Louis Republic
Several thousand pounds ~ The
s;ufi are chewcd In ~. Louis annually
by the folk with the restless Jaws.
They chew II a minute. an hour, all
tlii the saccharine 10 oul OF il aud then
II 10 thrown away. A thousand pounds
a day would not keep the -. Louis
iawsmlths busy
What becomes OF that one thousand
pounds OF good chicle?
What became OF thai one thousand
pounds that was chewed yesterday
and the day bef0re9 II would seem
reasonable TO suppose that We might
be wading ankle deep IN rejected gum
ere now, for ~. Louis gum chewofs
are no new thing and they work as
hard as the gum chewers OF anyb0dy's
town
Several other Malzies threw their
gum away at about the same time and
dug down In their metal handbags or
beaded handbags. or what YER kind
they we're carrying. aud dug out an
other stick Of chewing gum. they
did Il yesterday. they will tomorrow,
and all the time little brown men
down In Central America are scurry.
ing around trying to flnd more chicle.
Maixie must have her gum
This chicle stun comes from Yucca
tan and Campeche. II leaks out OF a
sapllng known as the "zapoie tree In
those far0h parts. and Il n getting
TO be worth almost as much, pound
for pound, as Irish potatoes.
We buy about t1o thousand tons OF
this raw gum every year and the gum
making machines and the Malzies oil
this fair land do the rest This gum
goes somewhere. but just where We
don't know. Into the street. into the
sewers, into the ashpli there ought
to be layer OF chewed gum three
inches deep all over the United States
by this time.
The gum chewers had better get
busy, Greedy men are killing on ths
zapote forests and there Is trouble
ahead for Aaizio aud all her Jaw wab
bling slsierhood. When the azote trees
are all goLe. then what?
No more gum. Not any. for thll
chicle which II the basis Of II MI IA
found nowhere else In the world
There will be famine that will falrl,
disrupt the department stores and
upset the plans OF whole lot OF tao
tories.
The whole trouble seems to be this
The Maizies have been chewing more
and more gum every year. The pool
Mexican VINO owned the gapote trees
found that the price was going ~
very fast and that he could get from
lone 10 two hundred dollars per tof
for this raw material beloved q
Maixies everywhere. 80 he wander
ed out with his machete and tappes
| his trees so fervenily that they BILE,
themselves to death
VIVA; becomes OF this encrmoui
amount of chicleg
The streets ought TO be pretty wei
lcarpeied with H. Il ought to be fairi.
choking tho sewers w this time
There ought TO be regular sandbars o
| Il here and there along the Mississip
Ipi on New York Il would not b.
surprising 10 ind mighty reef OF re-
iected chewing gum, contributed b!
the leEi0ns OF Malxies that foregatho
In Manhattan. Il 10 stated on goOt
authority that there are certain hour
In the morning when a keen ca
placed near the New York asphalt vii
be able TO hear far-reaching roa
that Ia like. and yet unlike. the pound
n 9k4 "a a snu a.
million Malzies OF New York chewing
their morning cud.
Somehow or another the gum van
iahes. There Is Just one hypothesi
that aids In explaining the where
abonts Of these hundreds Of mlllior
OF pounds OF gum that have beef
chewed In the country In the last twi
decades. Anyone who has ever oh
served or studied the habits Of IN,
Jaw wAbbser has noted that IN,
Make Girl has her -cud" one mo
ment and Il is gone the next. Sin
says that she has not swallowed u. I
Is certain that u has not worn out
for u has tremendous power OF resist
lance.
What Is the answers Il Is this:
Examine all the chairs. Examln'
them with the thoroushuess Of
French government agent. Run you
Inland along the edge VI the chair seat
tiai and again ha, what do yoI
Ihnd7
About two and one-haif pounds o
well dessscated chlcie that was u l
rs hard AS d bone and as brittle a
beeswax Seek another chair! Th
result Is the same Look along III
edges OF the tables. along the wlndo'
lodges and along the edge OF the be-
rails. II 10 eyorywhoro. Over III
doors and under The windows you ca
recover pounds ana pounds cf dust
"cuds"
street car seats viii Yield tons OF
~ they are carefully examined. DE
apartment store counters Wlll be rio
mines for The chlcle hunter. The 80