Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-04-02
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Cc,t per gallon for best S4,oO
Sixty drinks at Is cents 9,Oo

Cost per gallon for pest S4,oO
Sixty drinks at Is cents $40
Profit $3.50
This is 100 per cent of the cost. II II
be adulterated by the addition OF one
sixth, the return will be $10, so, and the
profit Sc, or 1873 per cent. The profit:
of the poor quality may be estimated
as follows:
Cost per gallon for best $500
Fifty drinks at ten cents 5,U
Profit 200
| This is about e6 rcr cent. 1t may be
adulterated, however, by the addition
of one-fifth of its quantity. This will
swell the profit to So, or 100 per cent.
BRANDY.
Cost per gallon for best $500
Ninety drinks at 40 cents $500
Profit 24,OO
This is 200 per cent of the cost. The
poorest brandy can be purchased at s.
per gallon, but reckoning at the price
of fair average grade, we may state
as follows:
Cost per gallon SI.OO
+, Seventy drinks at 25 cents 17,6O
Profit 1850
This is 15O per cent of the cost.
| SHERRY.
OF wines other than champaign, sher-
nv stands first on the list in point OF
quality sold. Port is next in.populari-
ty. Sherry costs from 81 to SIS per
gallon. About 100 per cent is made on
the better and 15O and 200 per cent on
| the poorer qualities.
CHAMPAGNE.
Cost per basket Tin currency $2S,UO
Twelve quarts at 81 100 : 4o,W
Profit 1000
/ This is ~ per cent of the cost. A
basket of pints costs on the average
9O,25 in currency, but the receipts
from it are the same as from quarts.
'Well,' he said, there ought to be
sixty-three gallons in hogshead, but
there is, in fact, only about fitty-seven.
Come down cellar
The visitor followed into large, dark
vault that was filled with hogsheads,
some in tiers and others empty and
piled over Bnd above each other.
Feel of that cask. Now of this one.
The writer tipped the two empty
casks pointed out, successively on their
edges. One was a little larger and a
great deal heavier than the other.
This heavy one.' said the saloon
keeper, is an American hogshead. No.
tsee ihe thickness of the slaves. 1t will
-~tx ifty-seven gallons. This
hold -. - ~ne Is an imported
mailer and Lighter - ~fv-
English hogshead, and will hoiu s....
three gallons. Now, it's trick of the
trade with American brewers to save
cooperage by buying up these imported
English hogshead, but in order not to
be obliged to sell sixty-three gallons in
hogshead, they take out one stave and
then re-head and re-hoop it. So you
see that we cannot count ON more thar
fifty-seven gallons in hogshead of
American ale.'
How many drinks would that give?' |
There would be 456 pints in each
hogshead, and taking three-quarters of |
a pint as the average drink in places
where they sell it at five cents a glass,
there would result just 6OS drinks
Cheap ale then may be reckoned as
follows:
Cost per hogshead $500
ooo glasses at cents 1910
Proht 1910
This is little over 100 per cent.
OF the better ale only about half
pint commonly fills the glasses used.
Its profit may be calculated thus:
Cost per hogshead $1,000
912 glasses at 40 cents 9I.OO
Profit 7l,O0
The price of stock ale is about $25 a
hogshead, Using the same figures in
other respects as in the last calculation,
the profit is found to be &C, 20, or go per
cent of the cost.
CoMPARATIvETA TABLE OFCONsUMPTION.
The following estimates of the pro-
portionate amounts of the different Ii
Iuors consumed were made by one of
he most experienced of our wholesale
lealers.
In N. York city-spirituous liquors:
Per Cent
Whisky go
brandy 10
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NUN, oC D <
Fancy mixed drinks s.................. 20