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DOUGHNUT HOLE INVENTED BV SEAMAN“Old Salt” Tells How Discovery Was - Made and Stomacti of Earth Saved.BOSTON, April a.—The man who invented the hole In the doughnut lias been found. He la Captain Hanson Gregory, at present an Inmate in Sailors’ Snug Harbor at Quincy, Maaa. Doughnut cutters have made fortunes for men; millions eat doughnuts for breakfast and feel satisfied. Doctors do not nasal) the doughnut. And all of this owes Its being to Captain Gregory, who made the doughnut a safe, sane and hygienic food.It's a long story, mates; but as the 86-year-old chap relates It, its only too short. Outside the fact that Captain Gregory Is a bit hard of hearing, he's as sound as new timber. He’s a product of Maine; and so Maine can lay claim to the discoverer of.the hole in the doughnut, along with the discoverer of new ways to evade the I prohibition laws. But Captain Gregory's discovery Is of real use In the world; millions have risen, and more shall rise up,-and call him blessed.'Bout '47 Was tho Date.It was way back—oh, I don't know lust what year—let me see-born In '33, shipped when I was 33— well, I guess It was about '47, when I was 16, that I was aboard ship and discovered the hole which was later to revolutionize the doughnut Industry.I Qrst shipped aboard the iBaac Acliorn, three-masted schooner. Capt. Rhodes, In tho lime trade. Later I joined other crews and other captains, and It was on one of these cruises that I was making doughnuts.Now In them days we used to cut the doughnuts Into diamond shapes and also Into long strips bent In half and then twisted. 1 don't think we called them doughnuts then —they was lust Tried cakes' and 'twisters.'Well, sir, they used to fry all right around the edges, but when you had the edges done the insides was all raw dough. And the twisters used to sop up all the grease just where I hey bent and they were tough on digestion, too.Pretty d d tough, too! pro-Tanely agreed one of the dozen of pipe smokers who were all eyes and ears, taking In their comrade's review.With a glance at the perfcrvld Interrupter, the discoverer continued:Well, I says to myself, “Why wouldn't a space Inside solve the difficulty? 1 thought at first I'd take one of the strips and roll It around, then I got an Inspiration, a great Inspiration.I took the cover off tho ship's tin pepper box, and—1 cut Into tho middle of that doughnut the first hole ever seen by mortal eyes!Were you pleased?Was Columbus pleased? Well, sir, them doughnuts was the finest I ever 1 tasted. No moro indigestion—no more greasy sinkers—but lust well-done, frlcd-tbrough doughnuts.“That cruise over. I wont home to my old mother and father In Camden, Me., where I was born . My father, Hanson Gregory. Sr., lived to be 93, and my mother lived to be 79. She was a pretty old lady then. .1 saw her making doughnuts in tho kitchen—I can see her now, and as fine a woman as over lived, was my mother.Taught Trick to Mother.I says to her: ‘Lot me make some doughnuts for you.' She says all right, so 1 made her one or two and then showed her how.She then made several panfuls and sent them down to Rockland, lust outside Camden. Everybody was delighted and they never made doughnuts any other way except tho way 1 showed my mother.Well, I never took out a patent on it; 1 don't suppose any ono can patent anything he discovers; I don't suppose Peary could patent the north pole or Columbus patent the North Polo or Columbus patent America. But I thought I'd get out a doughnut cutter —but Bomcbody got in ahead of me.Hole “Cut Out, ills Joke.Of course a hole ain't so much; but It's the best part of the doughnut— you'd think so if you had evor tasted the doughnuts wo used to eat In '31. Of course, lots of people joke about tho hole In the doughnut. I’ve got a joke myself: Whenever anybody says tome: 'Where’s tho hole In tho doughnut?' I always answer: 'It's been cut out!' and tho old chap laughed loud and long at his little sally, while the rest Joined In.So there he sits—In the Snug Harbor by the sen. And whenever there's doughnuts on the day's fare, Capt Gregory takes a personal pride In trying to do what nobody's succeeded In doing yet—In trying to find the hole In the doughnut And whenever the old salts rally about It, he alwayB springs his little loko:The hole's been cut out. I guess? to the delight of the whole Bhlpful.
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Clarksburg, West Virginia, US
Sun, Apr 02, 1916
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