The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-08-04

my boer have no time ~ go around attend
ing 10 customers-that il, spending money IN
drink to get custom and treating to keep tno
customers ! already have. The money lu.cli IL
not 40 much OF an item to me ~ tho loss 81 timc
involved in spending Il. Yet " Is very con
siderable sum mat brewer - cNp , ',h 10
brewers were making use OF my not going ABOUT
To inJuro mo. lnstigated by them. my custom
crs would growl and say. You ncvcr come to
scn mo and spend any money in my house, but
there ARE So and SO'-colletors OF other brew
cries and the brewers themselves. you under
stand who come In every two or three weeks
and spend five or ten dollars ut time Then
found in addition To that. my competitors were
not keeping up the prizes OF beer. IA had been
agreed upon among us. at IS per barrel. hut were
making special contracts. giving from Two 10 aS
high as ten per cent Discount on to get my Gus
toners away Then got disgustcd and sad,
will give my beer at 81 per barrel will hunt
no custom. bcR for none. squander money Tor
none, spend not dollar to keep any. II my
collectors stand u treat whom they. are going
about. that Is all right. II | am out am likely
TO drop in on one OF my customers. mere anu
matter Of friendship. not OF business. and must
BE- distinctly understood in that light. sell my
beer on its merits. for its actual vnlue, rs any
Judge of leer may Determine for himself and
don't consider that the man who gives me ms
money for my, beer does to me any more OF
a favor than do to him in giving him my
beer for HIS money. l know that my beer
is honest. I use two and half bushels. or
n half pounds OF hops to the barrel. | viii
nike my oath that don't use any grape sugar.
that have not employed any glucose tor oyer
No brewer needs 10. TO make good beer at the
prices of mutt and hops now Thcytry to run my
beer down. for they don't like my selling ut ",
and charge on ms what they do themselves. III
YOU could only get ut the books OF the glucose
and grape. sugar denels You would mo
that what | tell you is true commenced
my present system last winter. and
although | have made. no effort Tor custom
beyond the reduction Of my price, now brew
nearly three hundred barrels a week more than
did when resolved upon this course. with
that | have lost nothing financially by the
change. and have gained in other ways. Seven
dollars is not my bottom price. allow three per
one treat besides. As to whether the seller can
afford 90 sell Tor three cents a glass or not
have no opinion 10 express. II is not my bust;
ness 70 have an opinion on the subject, ana
would DO me no good If had. All know IL
that II had customer who was trying to sell
for three cents glass would not seek 70 stop
him by cutting III his supply Of beer us know
that some have done. All that have to do is 10
nuke good beer sell it and get the money Tor
il. and then he who buys IT may sell 1t again at
any prc" he pleases. or may give IL away II he
likes that is none OF my concern so long as he
The sole representative Of the Williamshurgh
Brewing Company who could bc found nj their
brewery wa- '.Ii assistant treasurer He denied
tho truth 81 tho story OF their beer having been
sold for 81 from the wagon Tor cahh; said that
he did not believe IL had ever been sold for less
than - with perhaps live per cont discount
Beyond TINT he did not know anything about
the business. wlint It cost the company t. make
beer. what its dividends were. what materials
cost. tho value Of the property. or anything else
Yet. IL he had ilrmly- rooted conviction. it was
that good herr could not be- made lor s1-not at
least hy TINT company. As To- whether the COM
pnny would stop supplying PAYNE customer
simply because h. sold his beer for less than
five cents, Il glass. he could not say. rs no such
question had eyer arisen for adjudication 80 far
rs h" knew: hut he hardly thought the company
would care straw SO long as is price was paid.
what the retailers chose TO sell for.
There wis really very little irving 10 get
brewery His employer was ut Rockaway.
The reporter found In athin, shabby dressed
man, in a small saloon on M,s"rolc street. an
Interested person on thu opposite sde Of the
our work j. oVercrowded, pretty much like
everything rlS" H. in tn" big cities. suppose /,
hut MS an knowh how todo and have To -trug
XII along at II a. | best can Ny wife and my
girl-turnrd thirteen years-and myself all
work. ana together W" manage Ia keep tho pot
boiling and a roo over our ads not much
moro though. \ little lager seems sort of neccs-
slry To- rs. and Il DOES seem high priced besides
everything os". | ramc To this country from
England Turing the war. and tried To list in the
army, hut they wouldn't have me because they
said wasn't sound. The price Of the lager biz
ia" glass then was Just tn" same ~ II d, now.
lly wages wnr- five times what they are now
The thing isn't unyWhcr" even. Mostly w. got
ny IN" l"nt AMI that way II comes ,h"hp'r 70
u-. ior IN" harkr"rer gives ~ good measure.
hui b'cr isn't 50 good out of the pitcher ~ u Is
right from the keg. and sometimes | Ike To-
come IN AMI get glass, In" hN" cents -e"In-
n deal too much for it. Two cents seems Moth
Ing 10 good many suppose. imt see. ike
u glass with my PIPE after my dinner. while |
rest a bit and come in here Ia look At the paper
then want a glass IN ia" evening after supper
b"for" go To- work 10y the lamplcht That's
only tive Ia the day. but tn" difference between
thr"r and tive cent- On each ~ them max NJ
together th" p'4"" of a loaf Of broad and bread
Is NOT ~ plenty and sure in my house that ran
AFFORD 'hnt. 80 ihE" "a sup out ni the wife =
pitcher IN tl" evening II any Is len from dinner.
Il pretty Hat; hut 90" best AN do. There ar"
thousands and thousands Ike M" may Zee not
Iuff' -l ifnpr a. am. but hard enough driven