The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 17, 1899, Page 30

T o, \ = e s Ve i ) m that of extract- To g ugar ssary to orate the > to produce be done on t sugar out of could not b manipulation s all done. for es and miles ready to har- st tops a t as green as 2 they were some we: ago, which indi- he cate that they are ready to be made into sugar. First a man with a plow comes along and turns a furrow that throws the inas bee day of the four months’ season to p the workmen and buy fuel to supply t Ppower, To bhandle and extract the sugar from beots is a long and tedious t DILE OF PEETS TIHAT CIoUlD CADS e HE—rCcTORY 1E& beets out where they can be reached. Into it In a steady stream. The be- To pull them out of the ground, except ginning of this is at the big bins. At where they are very small, would re- the bottom of each of these is a con- quire strength of a mule coupled duit with a stream of water running with a d Then another man through it. When the beets are dumped comes a long knife that into the bins they fall upon a bottom looks like a machete and cuts off the of heavy boards laid in position loosely green tops at a point just above the over the w ‘When the bins are sugar-bearing section. Then the beets full the boards at each end are lifted are thrown into a wagon and hauled to out and the beets allowed to fall into the factory. First they are weighed the stream of water beneath. They are and then dumped into the eceiving now started on the journey through the bine. Some beets from a distance come factory and nothing can stop them ex- to the factory in freight cars. These cept some derangement of the ma- are run up onte a platform and with a chinery. hydraulic pump ‘the entlre car is turned ‘Beets_are composed of about 95 per over and the contents dumped into the cent water and 5 per cent fibrine. In receiving bins. They are now ready the tiny cells of the flber the sugar for the trip through the factory to come exists in a free stats. The first thing out in the form of brown sugar all to do is to open these cells and let the ready for the refiner. sugar get out. It is necessary, in order to keep the ‘When the beets reach the corner of factory running, that the beets flow the factory where the work begins they QUADRVPLE~ EFFECT CONPENS! NVT are seized by elevating screws and raised to the washing tanks, where by a pro- cess of scrubbing and scouring every particle of foreign matter is removed from the outsides. The beets then find their way into great buckets that hoist them skyward into the big distributing boxes. From here they drop down into the cutters, where by razor-like knives they are cut into the thinnest kind of stringy slices. Then comes a bath in the diffusion tanks. This is always at a gentle temperature and absorbs nearly all of the sugar out of the beet slices. The fiber is now of no use In sugar making and a straining process removes it out of the building to & place where it can be converted into cattle food. The rest of the sugar making process consists of removing the very fine par- ticles of vegetable fiber, evaporating the water and causing crystallization. i ) The first of these is accomplished mixing the fluid with m of carbonization then takes place and most of purities are precipitated, doubly through the fllter presses that takes out the finest kind of fiber. cess is repeated the fluid remaining is practically only after it ws pure sugar and water. Then comes the duit from concentration of this juice. This is accomplished in great closed pans or evaporators heated by steam sugary chamber to another, ting thicker and thicker. right point is reached it is drawn off into the crystallization begins. several ti vacuum-pan. > it is tanks. ut to make r fluld is put 3 This pro- nes until 1e bin. passes from one returni 11 the time get- and again heating When the th THIS WOMAN, WHO HAS BEEN A FEARLESS TRAINER OF LIONS FOR TEN YEARS, TELLS HOW [T IS DONE HAVE been asked to tell how I am specimens of his kind now In captivity. training Wallace. My answer is: I He s a forest-bred animal, untamed save am training him as I have trained all by the mere fact of captivity, which has the other lions whose education—or, by no means broken his spirit, and he s rather, subjuga 1 have taken in vears old, which In a hand during the n ears that as arrived at his I bave been c as a lion- majority and is fully worthy of his title as monarch of the beasts. lew to gain- To tell the truth, Wallace is by far the is lfking hardest experiment that I have yet s respect and obedlence. attempted, for he has so far known no lace, as every one who has visited living creature superior to himself. the Chutes knowr, is one of the finest Any lion-tamer knows that it is far Qallacs in fbls Cages better, both as regards personal safery and educational results, to begin tha training of a lion while he is yet a very young cub. My Prince, who s second to go that I am on a level with him, and I no performing lion in the world, I brought get up on this and talk to him and give up, as one might say, on a bottle. I him meat and milk. He has already cuddled and petted him and carried him grown accustomed to my near presence about with me and fairly loved him Into and will come to me when I call him. doing what I wanted him to do. After another week I hope to be able to At the present time I am trying to %6t enter his cage, but it {s necessary to be upon good terms with Wallace. I Vislt slow about this, as he may be of the him every morning and feed him with treacherous kind, in which case I am far my own hands. There is a platform built better off outside. svesoossesMaking Friends With Jeer Fierce Pct&.... : Once I succeed in being admitted I shall g0 in daily, armed with a small iron rod and a light plece of board wide enough to form a kind of shield for my body. Then I shall put him through the regu- lar course of instruction. I shall make him jump the bars by driving him around the cage and standing directly in his way when he wants to pass. He has either got to jump me or the bars in order to go by, and the bars are lower, 80 he jumps them, Of course all lions are llable to strike out and snap at you;— ) 1t 18 your business to watch, interpose the bit of board, jump back, and then—punish them. The rules for lion-taming may be con- First make your sub- ject famillar with your presence; sec- ond, make him or her understand that you Intend to be obeyed—that you see &fter I had thought him tame enough to everything, know everything, and The first sign of we: mental or physical, ruins you wi densed into two: powerful. The lion is treacherous and be is—when I wonder you make } enter his ca traditions w in the ju he will? Kearning s First JTrick the vacuum-pan the syrup is allowed to flow below into the centrifugal ma- whirled around at nt to two miles a min- s drop of uncrystal- out through the 1ished product be- aches this condition eighteen hours started through the But all the sugar has not been taken e fluid. The second and third main. These are taken out by the syrup to the vacuum-pan it and putt ugh a granulation machine. yields tha second grade of sugar, A This intricate repetition of the process ylields the third apparatus allows the fluld to be boiled grade. The product is now put in sacks at & very low temperature, so that and sent to the refinery to come out in When crystals the form of purs white oubes and piles of the proper size can be taken from of snowy whiteness. he feels that the time has come—as swift and as sure as death. You may beat him a little to make him obedient; you may beat him just one stroke too much and m desperate, He cares for but revenge. ed the other night that Wallace, . suddenly remembered the h are a part of his heritage. I thought he met me—eye L:ce’y.: —and then sprang at me as his ancestors Spring at their helpless prey.