Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1866-02-22
GRAND OPENING of u MAET-
MOTIF DESTEE.LEEsY.
The Nodei ES.ab,i5sa.ne emf o. the
west.
IFs,m III, Cairaso Evening Journal

rom th3 Caic1so Evening Journal
Yesterday, about sI hundred Of our best known
business mea al public of-ials attended ban
quet given by The well-knswn firm OF Bennett.
Pieers < Co., who. IN their Characteristic manner
celebrated the opening Of their mammoth and
elegantly equipped di.tillsry buildings, Nos 81
aad 33 Michigan Avenue.
The feast Was worth, Of the plsce and the occs-
sion-an occasion OF no litle moment 10 business
circles. Four story palaces are no. of mushroom
growth. springinS up in night They are the
product and resllt Of study, enterprise, genius,
commercial capacity anl mcaus. They the
monuments that larse-he.rted and unm;serly
cree. to the god OF commerce snd themselves.
earning the proud distinction OF having achieved
one OF the greatest tr;gnp,ls that mark tho arthest
extreme from savage and barbaric life.
And thas viewing il. the well known and long
established house of Bennett Pictcrs & Co, keep
ing step to the music Of civilization and progress.
wheeled into line Yesterday, and exhibited TO hun
dredS OF admiring spectators n mammoth and mod
e. dis,illery and mandatory of highuines, etc.
Dis,iling in this country, rs generally carried
on,is divided into two classes. First comes the
highwine distiller who disiils highwines from corn
and f1ttens cattle with the slop. In the second
class is the rectiyIng dstil er, who buys the high
wines from the Grst distIllsr, runs them over IN
his copper stills. purhss them an IN .kes there
from alcohol, spirits. gins. wniskies etc |. is, Of
course for the interest of the first disier to buy
grains often used 10 produce highwines.-
Bennett Pietsrs x Co.'S dislillery is an entirely
different institution from the two above named
Here the alcohol, spirits, gins and whistles are
made direc. from the very best grain that can bo
obtained. Their lofts are full of wheat rye, bar
ley, matted barley, etc. Their gins made di
rect from the matted barley and rye, in precisely
the they are made in Holland
The whiskies are made in the same manner
they nsed to be made ia Kentucky and Pennsyl-
vania. only on a larger scale.
Dstillers from all parts of the country have been
here to examine this model dis.llery, and all pro-
nounce il the most perfect establishment ever con-
ceivcd. Eighty horse power Of steam ia used, two
engines and five steam pumps. The workmanship
of the copper stills, columns, etc, is most perfect.
The mile, mash tubs, fermentng and condensing
vsts, and all the "thousand and one fixtures here
used are the most complete ever invented. The
building is OF solid stone and brick, five stories
high with basement. For the few weeks the es-
tablishment has been in operation the taxes paid
to the Government already amount 10 over siIty
thousand dollars.
THE STORE AND "RED JACKET" BIT
TIERS MANDATORY.
An alley, fifteen feet wide. divides the distillery
from the store. The store is so feet wide by 100
feet long, and is built of solid stone and brick,
with marble front. The two upper stories are us
ed for the manufacture of the celebrated RED
Jacket Bitters." Here immense tiers OF herbs,
roots baks etc, astonish the eve OF the observer.
Twenty-Five immense macerdtng watts are here
| seen. The second floor is the bottling ro9m.--
This looks like perfect bee hive of hands. label
| ing, washing, filling and casing. The bottlirg and
washing machine is perfect Yankee institution.
One must see it, it is almost impossible to de-
scribe il. Hot steam is used. Eighteen bottles
are washed with tubes almost in an instant, and
filed in like manner. Eight hundred cases, of
one dozen bottles each, be turned out here
every day. six cent Government revenue
tonishing amount of three hundred dollars per day
being used up in stamps in this room, and this
amount is daily on the increase.
The fret floor is used entirely for the counting
room Offices, and for shipping and receiving. The
suit of Offices is the finest and most convenient We
have seen.
The basement is divided into q bonded ware
house and a native wine cellar. The bonded
warehouse gives The advantage Of placing goods
it can lie and improve by age, the tax not being re-
aured until the goods are taken out
The whole establishment from cellar to attic 10
heated bv steam. Steam coils wind around the
walls on every floor.
An sierator platform worked by steam travels
from story to story, carrying goods froru the base
ment and bonded warehouse 10 the loft, and rice
persa.
The employes Of the establishment number from
seventy five to eighty. consisting Of book keepers,
travelling agents. clerks, distiers, millers, engi-
nsers, fremen, eoopers, bottlers, teamsters, etc
etc.
The institution was planned 6y Mr.. Bennett
Peters, and was erected and completed uns or his
direct sur ervision. The entire cost of buildings,
machinery. fixtures. ETC., amounts 20 little over
one hundred and fifty thousand doLsrs.