Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-03-22
CITY ITEMS.
I've GLASSES for Five Cents.

I've Glasses for Five Cents.
NEW AND POTENT DANGER TO HEALTH.
From the Sunday Herald
The growing popularity of lager beer as bev-
erage among all the classes Of American popu-
lation, while an excellent thing in itself (as it
supersedes strong drink on one side and ice
water on the other, has had its natural result.
The keen competition among the many who
have gone into the business has resulted Of late
"a cutting OF prices by some dealers to a figure
that commands attention. Experts say that
the local market is flooded with cheap imita-
lions of lager beer which contain matters very
noxious to health, and people who are not on
poisoned by what should be a wholesome and
refreshing ,sas drink. Among the ingredients thus
4sea are glucose, or grape sugar, and the pro
are expensive. The terrible increase of fatal
kidney disease is said to be largely due to these
delicate "reans act Try badly on the
checked by the caution of purchasers or public
authority the evil will go on increasing.
In an interview with several parties largely
interested In the trade 1t was learned that some
brands OF beer are now offered at what would
be the actual cost of manufacture if honestly
made leaving nothing for the expense of hand.
ling, botting, delivery, incidentals thus result
ing In an actual loss to the brewer, unless he is
ficient to cover these expenses 1t is offered at
prices which would enable retailers to sell two
glasses for FIVE cents and make the same profit
they formerly did on one glass; Evidently the
purchaser must be wronged in one or both of
two ways. He is paying an exorbitant profit to
the retailer, or he Is drinking stuff that is unfit
for human beings
This business is suicidal" said one of those
interviewed ITO all who engage in it. 1t not only
cuts off the legitimate profit Of honest brewers,
but it will tend to excite prejudice against
lager beer, which will be felt most severely by
those who sell the cheap and the bad beer in
Guiding both restaurants and grocers. The
remedy is in the hands of the public and the
trade. 1t consists in avoiding all cheap and
suspicious beers. however attractive to the eve
and palate, (since this may be due to artful
doctOring.o and stick to the standard brands,
which have lowered neither price nor QUALITY
This Cheap beer will prove the most expensive
in the end, first to those who drink it, and then
to those who sell it. They ought to take warn
ing in time"
We Will Continue to Sell
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