Newark Evening Star And Newark Advertiser

Defends Paper Boxes.

To the Editor of the Evening Star:

I note in your evening edition that you write about short measures. I do not question in the majority of cases it holds good, but in reference to ice cream boxes it does not follow, for the reason that while it is true that ice cream boxes used to hold from one to two ounces short in water the confectioners invariably filled the boxes to the very limit of capacity-so full, in fact, it was impossible to close the boxes and was the principal cause of doing away with the tape handles, because they were in the way on account of overfilling the boxes. I have had over twenty years' experience in the folding box business and I do not believe that even 1 per cent. of the retail ice cream dealers gave less than a full quart and the majority gave over a quart. For the last two seasons, however, the boxes are made on the new standard, holding thirty-two ounces for quarts, sixteen ounces for pints and eight ounces for half-pints; according to law, but I very much doubt if the consumers get any more than they used to, as the boxes are not now so often overfilled. The old sizes were used for over twenty years, to my knowledge, and were figured standard sizes for ice cream, and I think it was just, as the people got their full measure even if the boxes were a little short in water capacity. It has made a great deal of trouble for dealers, as a long explanation is in order in many cases to explain why the "Ice cream man" doesn't fill the boxes like he used to.

H. A. LEWINE,
President Keystone Folding Box Company, of Newark, N. J.