The New York herald., 1870-06-06

Total. s74,500
Representing a. money value exclusive OF ale,
within a radius OF less than sixty miles nom the
City Hall, OF at least $S,0O0745. The breweres in
the city OF Newark are properly included IN the
above tabular statement since probably
rels of it, are sold and consumed in New YORK. From
these figures the
STATISTICS OF BEER CONSUMPTION
In New York and vicinity yield somewhat startling
results The average contents OF barrel are about
sna5a rsy nnn nSSg stWeen II tbryone apa
gallons. This average gives the number OF gallons
manufactured here and in the environs, and also
consumed flor but a small quantity Is exported,
which Is fully made up by beer imported from Phil.
adelphia, several Western cities and also from Ger.
many at the prOdig0us figure OF 28 235 900 gallons.
The population OF the district OF country by
the radius mentioned above, OF sixteen miles nom
the City Hall, may be roughly guessed at about two
and haH million souls, showing that more than
gallon OF beer is manufactured within these limits
to be consumed annually by each man, woman and
child living within them.
But all these are not beer drinkers. One-nalf Of
the population Is female, OF whom hardly one in
Ave hundred or thousand takes an occasional
to the Germans. One-fourth Of the entire popula.
ton are children, VINO, again, cannot be counted
as beer drinkers. or the remainder 626, 900, both
young men and grown people. at least 10000 may
be deducted belonging to either one Of the follow
Whose taste for strong spirits has 50 grown upon
them that they can touch nohlng else; thrd snops,
.rentemen. y who indulge In ..stimulantsn only sat
hOme or at their club, and then nothing bat high
priced article of nominaly foreign Importation VIII
do. These deductions from the total number OF
inhabitant5-and they are believed TO be correct,
and near the truth as 1t is possible to come-eave
a steady. regular, beer drinking population within
the circle Of about thirty.two miles in diameter,
with the City Hall for CENTRE OF 425,000 persons,
with consumption for each OF about sixty gallons
per year. Allowing for errors It Is within the range
Of truth to assert that fifty gallons per year Is the ave-
rage quantnm OF regular beer drnker and for what
one may consume less another swallows the more.
And after al, this Is not so great an average as 1t
may appear at first sight. gallon measures about
raj use by the saloon Keepers, 50 that fifty gallons
per would not even be three such glasses per
day, an allowance of stmulants to which, IN view Of
the very small percentage OF alcoholic properties in
beer, even the most temperate man could hardly OBJ
ject. The amount OF
MONEY SPENT
in retail for beer is also somewhat astounding Re-
ducing the number OF gallons as given above, there
is drank the apparently enormous quantity Of
vicinity described. The price charged by retailers
and the whole, with but very slight exception, IS
dealt out at retail over the cOunters five cents per
| glass, making total amount OF nearly
PwENTY-oNE MILLION DOLLARS,
or to be more precise $2ooSs ooo which 425 900 per-
sons pay out per year for the luxury OF enjoying this
to them paatable refreshment, being an average Tor
| each of nearly fifty dollars year.
! One item OF expenditure which the brewers have,
OF another branch OF productive industry at home is
or this commodity the brewers, for the purpose of
reducing artfcaly the temperature OF their cooling
rooms, cellars and vaults use at the rate Of thirty
Genus WOTJn IOr each DdIrcl Oi DeeT
making total paid annually for ice by the brewers
In the United States Of $1o50,000 and by those OF
New York city and vicinity alone OF $262, $780, And
IN this city the municipal treasury Is prop0rtonaly
| benefited by this trade in the shape Of
| CROTON TAX
| paid by the brewers alone for the water they use,
| which Is said to amount to about eight cents per
barrel footing up the respectable sum OF over 24 900
per year. which, though rather small IN comparison
| with preceding figures the present Department OF
Public works would not ike 10 miss rom among its
| items Of cash receipts.
| has not only not remained behind the East in the
rapid increase Of the manufacture Of beer but has
probably exceeded It, as there are Individual brew
| erles in Cincinnati, in ST. Louis, in Chicago and
Milwaukee which turn out nearly twice the quantity
in barrels Of any single establishment in New York
and Its suburbs Even California has fully kept pace
| with II, and
SAN FRANCISCO
has laid In during the last brewing season, from
October 1859, to May 1S70 stock Of 140 700 barrels
of lager beer OF which 81 205 barrels were manufac
| tured by one establishment alone, known In the
"Golden City' as the Philadelphia brewery.
| CANADA BARLEY.
| All the brewers east OF the Rocky Mountains have
been energetic IN their appeals to Congress for he
abolition Of the import duty on foreign especially
Canada barley, which latter. on account OF the sol
and cooler climate being be tier adapted to its growth
Is considered suerior to tina grown In the United
States for the manufact ure Of beer. or the crop
1859 there was impor ted Of Canada barley to th
country $685. 131 bushels against 69I COS bushels
| In 1858, most OF which Is purchased and used by
brewers In this State. New Jersey and Eastern Penn
sylvania; OF the importation Of 1859 the quantity
sixty per cent Of the whole import. This impora
ton Of Canada barley has rapidly increased, the
receipts at the port Of Osweg0 alone showing tn
following interesting fgures:-