The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-08-08

hlhSell HeH VI MS own callDre.
Lieutenant Thomas w. Hewlett
who originated the preservin pro
cesses, is young man of exceptional
ability. For some years he has beef
connected with one of the govern
ment laboratories in Florida, and ha!
carried on his experiments until very
. recently merely as an interesting
study, 1t is only since his release
from the service that he has serious
y considered entering the manufac
Griag game on big scale. He has
oeen chosen as first president OF
the SubTropical Fruit Products Com
pany.
The name OF George Eustis Robert.
son, second vice-president of the Sub.
Tropical Fruit Products, is known
tGvorably throuhout the financial cir
clcs of the North and East. For ten
years Mr.. Robertson has been con-
nected in a responsible capacity with
The Northern Trust Company of Chi
cago, and has also served the Univer-
sity of Chicago as it's business man.
ager. Mr.. Robertson, after spending
some days in the main Office of the
Sub-Tropical Fruit Products Com
pany, in Tampa, has just left for st.
Louis and other northern cities,
where he will interest his fiends in
financing the big Florida concern,
with which he has cast his lot. His
connection with the Sub-Tropical
Fruit Products Company will assure
its fnacial standing in the estimation
of Northern capitalists, and is an as
set of untold value to the concern.
Putnam Drew, advertising manager
of the Sub-Tropical Fruit Products
Company, is one of the most success
full publicity men in the country. For
some years he has been connected
with big motor truck plant as pub.
licity manager, and was formerly as
sistant advertising manager of the
New York Times.
Another Of the really big men who
have entered Florida's newest indus
try is Aaron Floyd, who during the
war period has been in charge of the
construction department of the Y. M.
c. A., and has had the handling of
millions of dollars during the con-
struction period, and later in the dis
position of the properties acquired by
his organization during the course of
its beneficent war work.
The citrus Dy-products samples
which have been prepared and placed
on exhibition in the Tampa Offices of
the company are said to form the fin
est collection of the kind ever put un-
der glass in the state. An attractive
show window has been fitted up in
the Sub-Tropical Fruit Products Com
pany's home office in the big Hills
borough Hotel Building on Twiggs
street, in Tampa, and the display con.
tains several hundred glasses of the
jellies, marmalades, and other pro.
ducts which the company is to manu-.
facture. The fruit growers who have
become interested in the new Tampa
company are unanimous in their be-
lief that the development of the cit
rus by-product manufacture in Flori.
da will be one Of the biggest boosts
industrially which the state could re.
ceive. BY furnishing a market for
the culls and inferior fruits the new
industry, they say, will enable the
growers to operate at a much greater [
profit than heretofore. In the cen. q
trail points where the plants are to be q,
operated the weekly pay roll turned {
loose will amount to considerable. Z
Many employees will necessarily be S
used in the various branches of the \
citrus by-products manufacturing in.
dustry-from the field men who har.
vest the drops and Gull fruit, down to 4
the motor and rail lines and through
the plants until the finished product ;
in attractive glass containers is pack !
ed in boxes and loaded for shipment
to all parts of the country. I;
For years there has been a con-
stantly growing demand for the util- 1
ization of inferior fruits, which cauld !
not be marketed under the old meth
DDS of handling. For years also the :;
entire country has been growing more !:
and more fond of oranges, grapefruit 1
and all other varieties of citrus fruits. 4
With this nationwide demand for :,
more fruit, the production of culls has !:
Of necessity increased by leaps and ;