New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-10-03
NETWORK DAILY TRIBUN,T, TUESDAY OCTOBER 8, 1854


! Reading. Cincinnati. TO- Columbus. Cleveland, Chi
lic,,he. DAYTON Toledo, Sandusky, Detroit Chicago
Milwaukee. II: Madison Gutenberg, Dubuque s.
Louis 70. Louisville Madison, Indianapolis, Evans
vile. Nev.Ode>ns Hermann, Mo- Baltimore
: Charleston. Savanna. Newark. T.
/ TIE Nev.Tork breweries produce annually about
s5,CC0 barrels Of lager beers gallons per barrel
From Philadelphia are imported at9ui SOU tFoh
Newark 5000: from Bedford 3 900. finn Reading,
I 500. This shows the amount of consumption in the
CITY Of Ner.York to be c2 500 barrels of 80 eilOs,
each or 100000 gallons. The cos; II production
OF barrel of lager beer, varies from 81 80 TO 81 al
investments nclcded The winter beer is sold st e.
10 Sc 5O the summer or lager beer At s. q 50 per
barrel The price Of the beer, Of coarse, depends
the price Of grain and hops, which are at present
very high. bushel OF matted barley stands now 81
II 70 70 shillirgs while in 1852 il to shillings
oply Hops are sold now at IS 20 50 ceusthe pousd;
At 81 cent. in 1882 Forty barrels Of lager beer
curs 50 bushels Of malt, 90 pounds Of hops, three
gallon, Of Yeast and the necessary water. single
brewing REQUIRES half tun Of Goals The hands in =
German brewery are paid monthly from slO to sa5.
beside. their full board al free use of as much beer
as thew can drink. The season for brewing begins
late in October and closes early in April
The beer is sold at retail from 20 81 cents glass
arpence being paid in the better houses and four
TO Eve cents in cellars and small shops Brewers and
retail sellers thus gain frsm 20 10 100 per cent ca n
According to our account the beer-irinking public
of the City of NewYork spends, by paying for glass
Of beer with FIVE cents or fortyfve cents by the
gallon the enormous sun Of 1888, $50 There srs
about two thousand places in the city, where lager
beer is sold and the more thriving hotels and restau
rants consume about s. goo to $4,000 worth OF beer
in the course OF the year.
LAGER BEER RETAILING IN NEw-YoRx.
We have shown how enormous the consumption OF
lager beer s. II remains now TO answer the ones
ton Who drink these thirty millions seven hundred
and hv thousand gallons of lager beer annually sold
in York BY far the greater portion is consumed
by Germans. II il quite probable that the Germans
consume the thirty millions Of gallons, and leave to
all other nationalites here residing only the $50 oOO
A. we already said, there are about 1000
places where lager beer Is retailed. Let us
take survey Of some Of these localities. But
before We begin ought 10 say word about
the people who keep and those who frequent
them. The number Of c,-deran, professors, military
officers students delegates TO legislative assemblies
LAWYERS Judges and noblemen, who, compelled by
the unfortunate issues of the years sis and - to
leave their fetherand, now try 10 get livelihood in
this City by keeping lager beer saloons and hotels is
almost incredible II may appear strange that gen
tlepen who in their country occupied distinguished
nostion. should condescend to embrace mode Of
living so many grades lower in the scale of society
than that to which they had been accustomed But
rant is omnipotent and nearly all OF those who left
their country to escape dungeon or perhaps an inn
peria bullet or e royal rope have left their property
in the rapacous claws OF their late rulers Most Of
them are ignorant of the English language they are
skilled in no craft by which they could make their
living: and if a man has been unaccustomed to
manual labor for half lifetime, he will hardly he
able TO earn his daily bread by it here at least, not
until he has served a considerable apprenticeship
But they have a large circle of acquantances and
friends who will be glad to them in any situation
where they can make living; and beer-house Is
very easily established. II requires no knowledge
of English, very little money or credit and Il the
new shopkeeper has good paying acquslntances
keeps order in his affairs and makes himself agreeable
TO his customers, he will accumulate more than he
coud do by the severest manual or intellectual labor
We NAV add, that without iron stomach there is
less chance for making money. the keeper OF
beerhouse must be always ready for any amount OF
drinking. and the more friends he has the stronger
should he bis stomach and his head.
Letus look in at q wel-known saloon in William
st. Wefnd a small, middle.aged man listening TO tho
noisy defamation of tall customer who sports enor
nous whiskers and mustaches The tall man appeals
to the compssant host to bear witness TO some reyo
utonsry feat which he asserts that he performed sew
orsl wears AGO. The walls Of the room are adorned
with cheap pictures, the most of them being por-
traits Of revolutionary celebrities, such as Kos
suth Mazzini, Heckor, Blum and others the
furniture is very simple without yestge OF lux
urv Seven or eight deal tables, covered with
English, German and French papers, and the
glasses of the customers present; dozen chairs,
nearly all occupied; one or two smoke-staned look
pgclasses and bar with the ordinary fixtures con
.titute the inventory Behind the bar, or rather
hanging upon it, ia sleepyloOking barkeeper reused
only by call. for beer or payments offered pecu'
larty OF the people il developed in these arrange
ments. German must have time for his hbatIons'
He cannot march up to the bar, pour ont drink,
dash it down without the possibility OF tasting 1t,
toss the money over the counter, and rush
out like an ignited sky.rocket, as the majority
Of Americans do Tables, chars, newspapers,
cigars or pipes and friends are not merely
comfortable additions, but actual essentials 70
his enjoyment. Instead of quarter OF minute
he wants at least quarter of an hour for the proper
enjoyment Of drink. Conversation is smother c.
sential. However teciturn the German may aPpesF
among others let him sit down at one OF these tables
and get his glass Of lager beer, and listening frenu
ard il any one desires 10 know how much talk d hu'
man tongue can reel off in any given PERIOD theh
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