TRADE REVELATIONS.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2258, 24 May 1881, Page 3

TRADE REVELATIONS.

The investigations of the census men have led to the discovery of some queer developments in the manufactories of New York and adjoining cities. The largest single industry in New York ie that of custom made clothes. . The making of paper patterns employs hundreds of hands, and ten large houses are engaged in it, using tons of paper. There are factories for making dried blood, the dummies that milliners use to show dresses on, theatrical armor and jews' harps. The use of adulterating substances is getting to be general. "Castillo soap " is made of grease and terra alba, ax white earth, and which earth is used largely in candy-making. Glucose, which is corn syrup, is used heavily by the sugar refiner. There is a firm engaged in making honey and honey oomb. The honey comb is made by machinery of paraffine wax, and is an exact imitation of the regular thing, except that the bees fashion their cell walls only one-125th of an inch wide, while human artificers have not yet become so deft. The cells are filled with glucose, which is the sweet syrup of common corn, and looks and tastes like honey. The cells, once filled, are closed by smearing a hot iron plate over the wax tops, and the product is sold as the " best clover honey." It is in great demand, and out-sells the regular honoy. Gallons and gallons of the best tomato catsup are made from the tomato skins, which are purchased from the great tomato canning establishments.