The Louisiana planter and sugar manufacturer Volume 43 - Softcover

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ...find that the International Sugar Journal, apparently editorially, has an article favoring the manufacture of saccharin in England. The International Sugar Journal's article is 'based upon some quotations from the London Times toujt apparently the editor of the International Sugar Journal assumes the opinions expressed In the article without any qualification. Coal oil sugar in England is about as bad a move as Rockefeller parraflne butter in America, If not decidedly worse, hecause of the intensity of Its effects and the ease with which its use can be surreptitiously had. Moses O. Wanzor. Another link in the chain that binds the present to the past in the sugar trade in New York is broken in the death of Mr. Moses G. Wanzor, the senior member of the firm of M. G. Wanzor & Co., which occurred on Sunday, September 19th. Mr. Wanzor, familiarly known as "Mose" Wanzor, was directly identified with the sugar trade of New York during the last fifty years. It was our pleasure to know Mose Wanzor when he was In the employ of the old sugar brokerage firm of Burdick, Frisbie & Co., whose office then was, we believe, at 105 Wall Street, New York. Messrs. Burdick & Frisbie were old new Haven sea captains, identified with the sugar trade all their lives. They became sugar brokers in New York and did considerable business with the receivers of sugar from the British West Indies. Among these receivers was Armstrong & Co. that afterwards included John E. Searles, the distinguished member of the Sugar Trust, as one of its members. As the seniors of this firm 'became somewhat elderly 'Mr. Samuel Burdick, the son of Capt. Burdick, came to the front as quite a prominent 'broker. Mr. Samuel Burdick was a friend of Senator Aldrich and it was from the la...