Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1907 — The Roman Candle Maker. [ARTICLE]

The Roman Candle Maker.

“The most solitary person in the world during working hours,” says Rene Bache in the Technical World Magazine, “Is the maker of roman candles. He occupies an isolated cell somewhat like that of an old time hermit, save that its precincts are more contracted, and nobody comes near ,him while he is engaged in his patient toll- The wages he gets are high, but not by reason of the loneliness to which he Is condemned. He la paid for the risks he is obliged to take. The quarters occupied by this eremite artisan are a tiny house, which might almost be c&lled a hut, with a floor space not more than six square feet Standing by itself, at least sixty yards from any other structure, the little building is of wood, of the simplest Imaginable architecture. If it were to be blown up, the financial loss would be almost nil, a point of some importance, inasmuch as its diurnal tenant is obliged to use considerable quantities of explosives In the business which engages his attention, for a roman candle is a sort of magazine or repeating gun. with a paper tube for a barrel and balls of fire for projectiles.”