The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-12-20
A MAMMOTH BEER REFEiGEKA-
TOR.
AahauSnr-B Busch Brewing Co.. Of Sta
Louis, San Antonio Enter
prise.
How the Beer Is Handled and Kept
Cool and Delicious.

The track Of the |. & u. N. runs up and
past the front of the immense establishment,
where by the construction of skidS connecting
the car with an ante-room in the building, a
car can be unloaded of its contents of beer
and accompanying ice in remarkably quick
time. From the ante-room the beer is after
wards transferred to the cool vault, which
again is divided by lattice partitions into sepa-
rate departments, to each of which only the
driver of the corresponding wagon holds the
key making him directly responsible for each
key of beer contained therein. The cool vault
is sufficiently large to hold sixteen car loads of
beer, of two hundred and twenty-five kegs
each, in winter shipments, while the quanti-
ty is less in summer, owing to larger space
taken up by ice packing
The construction of the building is, throughout
on the most modern and scientifically ap-
proved plan; the innermost walls surround
ing and composing the vault proper are Of
double thickness OF lumber, two feet apart,
the open space between which is filled with
packing composed OF coke and other kindred
ingredients to form compact, impregnable
surrounding to the cool chamber. The cell
ing is equally protected from ingress of warm
air by firm tongue and grove one and
quarter inch thick flooring, surmounted by
several feet thickness of well cemented pack
ing of sawdust. The vault has OF the two
longitudinal sides canal or air passage con-
Meeting with the ends and loft, through and
from which, by means of the ventilator any
remaining warm air can escape.
The means by which the cooling is accom-
plished are Of the latest improved methods,
consisting Of a complete ice machine, made
by the Boyle Ice Machine Company, of
Chicago, and capable of producing, if used
for that specific purpose, one ton Of ice per
day during ten working hours. The cool air
produced by this machine is conducted into
and runs through the vault by means Of
iron pipes, the complete length
of which in lineoal measure would make a
length of eighteen and a half miles in a space
measure Of 40 feet by TO- and. the visitor armed
with a lantern and getting use to the Egyp-
ton Darkness upon looking up notices inumer-
able strings OF these p pes about twelve inches
below the ceallng covered with an incrusta-
ton of white frost and ice, thus reducing the
temperature to the low figure of $40 Fahren-
helt, in the atmosphere of which one soon
feels the disasreeable fact of being thinley
clad, the beer as it is thus treated remains
in the same state Of temperature from the
time it leaves the Brewery until it reaches the
consumer. The amount Of Anheuser Beer
in San Antonio has been as much
q
Sunday one hundGed and seventy five kegs of
~ gallon each have been used. A cemen-
ted underground ClStem is now in course of
which will be the finest of the
kind ever made and will cost when complete
nearly thousand dollars, for The purpose of
gathering up the surplus water and to keep the
independent OF the water works.
Paul Wagner who is The agent here and has
complete charge OF the Anheuser Bush interests
informed the writer OF TINS sketch that it
takes three wagons fran 4 j. m. to Sp. m. to
supply the fast increasing demand OF the malt
beverage. Good comfortable quarters for the
drivers and other employees; stalks for some
twenty horses and mulcs; tool house, wagon
and carriage sheds, fodder house, shed for
empty kegs as they are brought back, and all
mechanical paraphernalia necessary to run the
Who'll. successfully make it complete. 1t COW
ers nearly. with all outhouscs, a whole block
Of ground and is surrounded with a high
board fence. Almost 49, 900 feet Of lumber
we're used in the erection of all the houses as
they now are, and was furnished by that solid
firm Of Ed Stevens & Sons, dealers in lumber,
sash, blinds and all merchsnCiize used in the
construction of modern houses.
Nothing SO Nice?
There is nothing so nice and captivating
and SO becoming gentleman as nice fitting
suit. And to be able to secure this object is
question well worth knowing. Messrs. Cohen
x K oengheim, the merchant tailors, on Main
plaza, have established an envious reputation
in turning out the most tasty and elegant fit
imp suits. They also carry a full line of
ready made clothing, of all the latest styles
and pa terms, as well as a large stock of fur