Evening star., 1924-05-30
CONNECTION MAKERS
INVENT SYMPHONIES
Manufacture of Rare DeGcacies to
Please Palate Seemingly Is
Chief Concern.
TRADE HAS BUSY SEASON
Drop in Price of Sugar Great Aid
to Industry.
BY j. c. ROYLE.

Especial Dispatch to The Star.
! NEW YORK, May 3O.-Purveyors to
The sweet tooth of the American
people are engaged in one of the bus
lest seasons they have ever expert
enced
Ihey are lnventing new symphonies
In confections TO please the palate.
Just as musical symphony appeals
to the ear, only instead of utilizing
the eight notes of the musical scale
they utilize the primary fiavors or
tastes. Jus innumerable varia-
tions of tone, note and pitch are de-
Veloped, and as the artist produces
scores of shades and tints from the
. primary colors, SO the confectioners
are producing every degree of bitter
ness. sweetness. sourness and salt
ness, to attract the $1,000. 900, 600
which will be spent for candy this
year.
"NatIonaI Field" Develops.
Formerly the manufacture of candy
\was largely a local enterprise in each
community Then some of the larger
producers invaded what they call the
manufacturer in his own market with
the aid of advertising and quantity
production. This competition has now
placed the smaller manufacturers on
their mettle. and they are preparing
this summer to battle vigorously for
possession of their own territories.
They are seeking to achieve this
by developing products of sufficient
novelty to increase incentive TO buy
on the part of the public fronts at
. present are narrow. ACCORDING 10 the
l majority of manufacturers costs OF
some raw materials have fallen ana
prices of candy have remained talrly
stable, but the increased margin OF
profit which this would Indicate mas
been swallowed up by additional
overhead and labor expense, the max
ers claim. Within certain nmlts, tnes
say, the slight advance or decredst ees.
in the prices of candy mas niue eAee'
on the amount consumed.
One vital aid to the confectionery
business which has developed thls
wear is the drop in the price OF sueai'
Two BiIIion Pounds In Prospect.
The manufacturers expect to make
we'll over 2.000,000,00o pounds OF
candy before December 81. 1 niH az, VIZ tba
REQUIRE about 8 per cent OF an tIe
sugar consumed in the United Slates.
II is estimated that about 80 per cent
of the sugar consumed is man Hul a., az
tured into some pIouu.l' $50
remaining 20 per cent goes INTO
. homes in the powdered or granuIated
kshape At present sugar prices are
advantageous for the puyer. raw
sugar is down to a low point anu
MANY, we'll informed dealers predict
that the Cuban crop will be in excess
of 100000 tons. The European out
put Of beet sugar is expected 70 De
we'll over a million tons larger than
II was last year
.pIantings of sugar beets in the in
termountain states and in Michigan
and Ohio have been heavy and a
large crop is anticipated. The crit,
cal dry situation which mas eHis.so
has been relieved by soaking rains.
assuring a good stand of beets in all
that region. 1t is to be noted that
beet sugar normally is quoted 40 or
"a cent lower than the cane product.
Foresee Stable Sugar Market.
The sugar market in Louisiana Is
being marked at present by failure
of the summer demand to develop and
declines in prices of raws and refined
product. The price of refined dropped
30 cents a hundred pounds in New
Orleans this week. All these factors
tend to indicate that the price of
sugar, one of the chief constituents
of candy, will remain fairly stable for
some little time to come.
This, members of the National Con-
fectioners' Association feel, means
that the three thousand or more es-
adjustments devoted to the manu-
facture of candy at wholesale will be
actively operated, with approximately
I 90 900 workers on their pay rolls. 1t
is estimated that the combined whole
sale and retail candy business fur
nishes employment to not less than
400 900 persons at present. The in
dustry, however, has gotten well
away from hand production. In
creased consumption demanded guam
tity output, and machinery to assure
production has almost disappeared