The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1885-09-16


oil The /. 4. b. movement, but family temper
ance drinks are getting very popular"
Ihc speaker was a manufacturer of the ar
/ lcles named, and the place a Wilderness Of
bottles aud machinery. ''Ten years ago did
large business, but my customers were ex-
ciuslvely saloons. Now my trade is five times
larger, but nine tcntls Of it are groceries aud
| private families. What is used? Root beer,
sarsaparllla, ginger ale, raspberry, pop, mead,
and plain beer. This is the order Of their pop
ularity They are all made Oh the same basis
havorlng, sugar, carbonic acid gas, and wa
! ter. Root beer favoriug is the extract OF sew
efal roots, aud is made by chemists aud also
by the Shakers. Sassairas is its chief element.
Sarsararilla, as We make 1t, contains no sar-
saparila. The best is favored with the OK
tracts of slssafras, birch and winlergrecn.
Ginger ale is not an ale at all, but a very di-
lutte extract Of Ginger. Raspberry is not made
from the fruit, but from some strong favored
aromatic others. These are far cheaper and
more convenient than the juice of the berry.
Pop is soda water with a few drops of vanilla
~ H. To give II extra gas we usually put in
a little bi-carbouate Of soda. Mead is a rot
beer, To which we give a heavy head Each
manufacturer has lis own way Of doin, this
Some use little gycerine, some glucose,
others gum, and others preparations Of their
own
There is great deal Of competition in our
business. Ii affects ~ ia two WAYS. We have
TO cut down our prices on The one side and in
crease the size of our bottles on the other.
The latter have grown from pints until they
now bold more than an imperial quart That
last LOT Of bottles being filled there hold FIVE
goblcts each. Then :he price has been forced
down until VIC retail Il bottle for ten cents and
give back two cents when the bottle is re-
turned. As bottles cost us only a little more |
than cent each, we'd rather not have them |
We supply families which arc reg
ular customers at seventy cents dozen. and |
to groceries we sell at much lower figures.
This makes pretty cheap drinking, Just about
a cent glass
We have our troubles, however, Occasion
ally our chemical extracts undergo some funny
change, and taste horrible If VIC find il out
in time, we throw them away. If We don't It
spoils lot Of cases and loses us customers,
too, grocers will let the bottles
stand a long time in the sunlight. Raspberry
and pop are affected by sunlight, and their fla.
'or changes to tAat of turpentine These two
thinks should always be kept in the dark
Then We have on hand quiet fight with the
bottled beer and ale men. Their trade is what
sc cut into chiefly. They try to hurt us by
irOpping kerosene on our corks or in our re-
nrn bottles. 1t is very hard to remove kero-
enc from the bottles, and the slightest film
caves a porceptible smell and taste that lasts
or days and even weeks. We get around the
etumed bottles by plunging first into hot I've
nd then washing them. Kerosene on corks,
hough, We can't get around except by keeping
sharp eye on the bottles until they are de-
ivered.
Do temperance folks use our goods much?
trange to say they don't. l guess they make
heir own drinks. Our customers are seldom
!. A. B. l know this from the fact that they
re always returning beer bottles in our cases
hats about all there is to our biz, except
his: When you drink our stuff, take rasp-
cry last Of all. and mead take next to last"
N Y. Sun