The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-05-02
FORTUNE is MADE
FROM ESKIMO PIE
WEEKLY ROYALTY $4,000. IN
VENTOR NOW HAS LEGAL
BATTLE WITH IMITATORS.

ROYALTIES amounting to probably
$4,000 week are being paid by the
manufacturers of Eskimo pie" the
little oblong block of ice cream COW
cred with chocolate, to its inventor,
&c. K. Nelson, son of the village con-
fectioner of Onawa, Ia, and associates
have backed him in the marketing of
a product which went begging tor al
most four years, says the New YORK
Times. Probably no innovation OF re-
cent years designed to meet the cray
ings of sweet tooth has met with
such instantaneous success IN New
York, Chicago and other cities. =.
The consumption OF ESKIMO PIE
since it was placed on the market last
January has encouraged its sponsors
to believe that the gross income from
ROYALTIES may amount to l,5OO,OUO III
the next II months. The chocolate
covered cake of ice cream is being sold
by the millions every day, and COM
pany has been organized by Russell
Slower, of Chicago, to issue licenses
for its manufacture.
Although the royalties represent on
ly a small fraction of the price, at the.
rate of 5 cents a dozen cakes, the total
is one of the biggest incomes ever
received from a similar product At
the present time checkers are employ
ed in ice cream manufacturing plants
operating under the Nelson license to
check the exact number of Eskimo
pies" made and sold each day.
Combining Hot and Cold.
C. K. Nelson, the young man who
r Al RI
feat of coating bar of ice cream with
hot chocolate, was brought up and
educated in the little town OF Onawa,
where his father operated an ice
cream establishment After Nelson
got through school his father put HIM
in charge of the plant, where he gam
ed a knowledge of ice cream manu-.
facture. Nelson conceived the idea OF
dipping ice cream in chocolate and he
worked on the plan with varying sue
cess for several years. His main dlttl-
cultv arose from the fact that the
chocolate would not stick to the cream
The elder Nelson turned his ice cream
plant over to another man and failure
resulted.
With little else but an idea to sell
Nelson set out to find capital to per-
feet his Eskimo pie" scheme. He went
from town to town and met with con-
slant rebuffs. "Cover ice cream with
hot chocolate? RidiculousP said the
men before whom he laid his plan for
new CONNECTION. Finally he reached
Omaha, where he met Russell Slower,
then connected with the Graham Ice
Cream Company, of that city.
Slower recognized possibilities in
Nelson's idea. He had been superin-
tendent of big chocolate factory in
Chicago and he saw a way in which
it was possible to supply what Nelson
lacked, namely, method to make the
chocolate stick to the ice cream.
Success Comes at Last.
The experiments were resumed up
on large scale, with the result that
Eskimo pie" is enjoying an enormous
sale throughout the middle west, and
its fame is spreading to both coasts.
The process of manufacturing rs
kimo pie" is apparently simple. Brick
ice cream is cut into Oblong bars and
dipped in chocolate which has been
heated to lis degrees and allowed to
cool to 90 degrees the proper heat tor
dipping. 1t would seem that hot chloe
| olate must cause ice cream to melt
and run" before it could be placed in
the hardening room. This, however, is
not the case. The ice cream causes the
chocolate to harden The bar is then
wrapped in foil and placed in hard
ening room where it remains until
ready to be marketed Its inventor
saws that it is possible to leave a bar
| exposed in a warm room Tor as long
as 80 minutes before it will melt.