Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-18
MAGIC ELEMENT
in BREAD MAKING
Yeast, an Important Factor in
Bread Making, Produced
in Great Quantities

Into the baking industry comes a
question, stupendous in proportions,
yet to the average layman, a question
of minor import. 1t is that of the
yeast used in the manufacture of the
finished, brown -crusted product.
The Standard Baking Company has
just closed a contract for an enormous
quantity of Fleischmann's Yeast to be
used in their handsome new plant just
opened.
The immense Fleischmann yeast
plant turns out 160 tons or 100000
pounds of yeast daily. 1t means
about 100000 pounds of yeast q
year in 500 working days, or about
one pound of yeast to every man. wo-
man and child in the United States
The familiar 2-cent cake which the
housewife uses is cut by wires in spe-
cially devised machines for that pur-
| pose at the agencies of the company.
| The yeast for bakers is run through
from hopper and cut into print but
ter size of pound packages. The
wrapping now Is done by machines
specially made for that purpose.
The 1900 vehicles that deliver the
fresh yeast to bakers, grocery stores,
etc, all over America, are as accurate
almost as the sun in the times of their
daily rounds for deliveries.
The sale of yeast is another story.
1t is enough to say that compressed
yeast has revolutionized baking meth
DDS the world over. 1t might be added
now that fresh yeast is shipped from
the great plant daily, by express and
| refrigeration line, and is put into
these carriers right at the factory
door. 1t thus reaches the baker and
grocer with all its strength and
| freshness unimpaired. AS big as it is
and Wnnderfl1l hOfh in frt1alitNr nd
quantity of its output, the Peekskill,
n. Y, factories of the Fleischmann
Company are not the only plants in
which this concern produces yeast.
The company has immense yeast
plants also in Cincinnati, Ohio; SOM
ner, Wash; San Francisco, Calf, and
Montreal, Canada.
The controlling mind of this
stupendious business is julius Fleisch-
mann, president of the Fleischmann
Company. He and the directors
of his concern maintained in
their high state the traditions and the
policy of Charles Fleischmann, the
founder of the concern. It seems to
be just one big business family.
Everyone loves the head and con-
trolling forces of the house, and the
controlling heads love the big family
of employees. 1t is the pride of the
men that they can feel safe in their
do is to give faithful service for a low
ing recompense.
The salaries and wages are in
creased yearly and those worn out in
the service retire upon living pension
from the generosity of the corpora
tion. One proud employe has been
with the Fleischmann concern for A
years. He looks hale, hearty and
happy, and one of the most enthusias-
tic endorsers of the paternal attitude
chosen by the great corporation.
The younger Mr.. Fleischmann has
learned the numerous details of the
business literally from the ground up,
when, as a member of the working
force, he shoveled coal and did chores
about the place just as any other
laborer would have done. In his face
is reflected the embodiment of honest.
virtuous, vigorous human character
of the same quality that was the
foundation of the Fleischmann bust
ness
George B. Lester is the vice-presi-
dent of this gigantic organization. He
is one of those quiet, Industrious
silent forces that have been felt in
the operating and building of this
enterprise, of which America or any
other country should feel proud. Mr..
Lester has had the experience which
is necessary to a man in his position.
When he comes among the great army
of employees of the plant, there is a
smile of welcome and no feeling of
covering. Like all of the other big
men in the Fleischmann wheel OF
control, he is an open book and moves
with an even hand in every depart
ment of this vast industry.
a visit to the Yeast Plant at Peeks-
kill is a privilege and an education.
Tt is pity that every housewife and
every man in the United States could
not pass through the intricate details
of this perfect factory and see how it
is made and what comes to them for
use in their kitchens and in their
daily lives.
The mind can hardly conceive the
proportions and extent of this vast
enterprise that has grown up and eX-
panded and been perfected year by