Morning journal and courier., 1880-08-27

4,OOO gross, having slid down from 6,0O0 gross in two years where the annual con- sumption had ranged for eight or ten years. This year 1t is doubtful if LOGO gross will be sold, and for next year possibly the ld-junk dealers may be able to find the bottlers all they require. This secondhand bottle busi- ness is growing into noticeable prominence, especially since the introduction of tonic beer and the utilizing of champagne bottles for serving it. These champagne bottles bring from 35 to 40 cents dozen, and the sales aggregate about twelve thousand dozen this season. The height of the seas on is just be- fore Independence day, when every cellar is secured for it's old champagnes, and the price works up to and above 50 cents dozen Just now the empty bottles are coming in again, and after washing are packed and shipped to cider bottlers, who this fall are likely to want 20, 900 to 30, GOO bottles. The apple crop is large, and cider will be cheap and profitable bottling. The old lager bottles are chiefly sold West. They are collected without refer enee to brands or stamps, are apt to be nick ed and the wire shoppers rusty, hence for the household, into which two-thirds of the New England bottled lager is delivered, these untidy bottles are objectionable. They are packed in hogsheads holding 50 dozen each, and if the wire and rubber shoppers are in workable order, bring 80 cents a dozen. The new bottles with wire stoppers have been selling this summer at $12. S5 gross, "u1Cu lS dDOuG @l.Uf oOZGu 1u1S IS du dU- vance of only $1 95 on the lowest price of last year, and is from four to seven dollars 8 gross less than some other markets have af- forded them this year. The wire fastening and the rubber stopper is the invention of 8 New Yorker, and it pays him a royalty of %. for each one put upon 2 bottle. They cost $6 gross, which year ago was more than the bottles cost. The income from this pat ent is said to be worth $25, ,O00 year.
 Boston leads on the cOnsumntion of radish bottles, which for three or four years back has been annually 10000 gross. Last year these cost $2 gross, but now they are $4.20 gross, and as the market will sustain no ad- vance in the radish when put up, this in creased tax is quite burden to a number of bottlers. Pint pickles and tomato ketchup6 have a limited sale, possibly about 400 cases of ten gross each. The sales of fruit jars from Boston have always been large, but this year the demand is lighter, owing both to scarcity and high prices. Bottles that were obtainable in 1879 at $1.50 gross are now $165O Philadelphia is the leading market for fruit jars, as it is for mineral bottles; of this latter the annual sales are over 5000 gross. New Yorks speciality is demijohns. While Boston uses about 30, GOO year. chief ly in gallon and half gallon sizes, New York will take 300, ,00o in gallons alone every year, and half as many more in half-gallons. Some of the leading makers set the demijohn trade in New York as equal to 700, GOO. The stone jug is rather popular in New England, but they are said to be gradually yielding to the wicker covered glass. The poorest qualities of glass are put into demijohns. If furnace
 is found to have been mixed and melted of too poor character for lager or fruit jars it is turned into demijohns, although the lines furnished patsnt-medicine men are available in the cheapest stock Manufacturers say that eastern New England contains the larg- est buyers of patent medicine bottles The orders of three or four are said to aggregate for each yearly over $2O,00O.
 The old bottle business is quite feature in Boston, and is carried on with all the details of assortment and fluctuations in prices that beset other interests. There are about 23, GOO pint English ale bottles shipped to New York yearly from Boston, that just now are worth He each, while the quarts are saleable only on the reception by Gothamite bottler of spe- cial order, and are held in stock here for 8c each The stone Scotch ale bottles sell large ly West at 1Oc dozen, free on board. '" Rhode Island furnishes a good market for salad and sweet oil bottles, whither they go to be relied with an American imitation of the Spanish article. The largest lots come from New York and Chicago and are worth in ounce 12c and eight ounce 15c Q dozen. New York reaches out for all the old brandy and gin bottles of straight continental make, paying 36c dozen for the former and 60c 8 dozen for the latter. Last fall gin bottles were scarce, and as high as $1. 10 was paid, but the winter consumption of the juniper juice is large, and the bottle augmented and broke the market down to soc. Within two months there has been recovery of 1Oc. Boston is a favorite market for Gothamite bottlers of imitation spirits as it is here that the largest consumption of genuine foreign favorite brands of high cost is said to occur. Until this year, a thousand clarets were considered a good seasons pick up, but this season one has Iral oTo1 hi-,1-C baI have twice as many more when the summer resorts clean up in October. These are now held at 4Oc. a dozen for quarts and 18c to 20c. for pints, according to the style, certain for eign claret brands having peculiarities in 'their bottles which bottle buyers are willing to pay premium for. The flat-bottomed, long necked, thick black glass, ApoHAaris bottle is the only medicinal spring water bottle that has market, and these are collected by the iuuk-dealers, about 300 month, and sent to New York The bulk of these that are C unloaded :" ars said to be returned to the dealers who sell the water. The bottle dealers ship them at 200 dozen. New York picks up about 5000 quart English pickles and about 1000 pint, paying 36c, dozen for the quarts and BOG. for the pints. These go to the chow-chow folks who bottle imitation foreign stuff. Secondhand hasks are sold in dozen lots almost as fast received, and come in regularly from all parts of New England in 30 to 60 in 8 barrel. The bottle people have retailing customers who will take weekly from 75 to 200, while one retailer averages 350a week in the several sizes They pay for half-pints 3oc., for pints 36c., and forsquarts 4Oc. dozen. Ink bottles are collected in countless quantities. None of the dealers will undertake to estimate the number. They clean and sell them at 19c for pints and 24c. dozen for quarts. In pre- scription bottles the secondhand lots aver age about thirty per cent under the cost of new, and are largely sold to lotion, liniment and blueing folks One dealer has now on hand stock of 400 barrels, which will no doubt be marketed during the first half of September.
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