The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-03-21
TEA AND COFFEE.
Some Startling Statements for the Dew.
otees of These Beverages.
Post Dispatch.l

IPost-Dispatchl
Alfred +. Harbridge, a large tea aud cof-
fee dealer of New York, arrived in the city
yesterday and is at the Southern. To
Pest Dispatch reporter Mr.. Harbridge
said: I'VE, VINO understand the coffee
business, are often abused at the false
impressions under which the public
labor in regard to that berry. There
is always q great demand for Mocha,
which is the highest priced but which any
large grocery store supplies in such guam
titles SIS may be required. l wonder il
those who boast that they drink only
Mocha are aware of the fact that they
never in their lives drank drop of Mocha.
In fact il may be said that, except a few
royal personages, no European nor Amer
lean, who has not visited Turkey, Persia or
Arabia, has ever tasted this coffee. l
know of no natural product which is so
carefully guarded, or which is 50 exclu-
sively used at home. The Arab chiefs of
the coffee-gro1iDg districts get the best Der.
ries, which are carefully chosen; the richer
men buy the second choice, while a third
quality Is used by the common people.
This uses up about half the animal crop.
The q eater part of what is left is sent TO
Persis, while the small residue goes TO
1 Ella Minor, few broken and green ber-
ries finding their way to Constantinople,
Wei u HulCu City DOL q pOulO C&Q De
bought anywhere. On several occasions
Arabian and Persian poientates have sent
presents of his coffee to European m11-
archs, but Vanderbilt himself couli not
buy pound of it west of the Mediterra-
mean. The coffee sold all over Europe aud
America SIS Mocha exceeds a hundrsdfold
in amount the entire Arabian crop. AID
consists principally Of choice Java berries,
although in this country the best varie ties
Of South American coffee often mRsquer-
ade under the name OF Mocha.
GAS regards tea" said Mr.. Harbridge,
1.-THE same state Of sffairs exists, although
there is no particular growth that is
acknowledged as far superior to all others
as in the case OF coffee. The best of the
Chinese tea is used by the Mandarins, who
pay what is equivalent to $40 pound, in
a country where everything is cheap.
After all these have been supplied, the
best of the crop is sent westward, the tea
caravans extending in an almost unbroken
line from China TO Russia. Russia gets
only the fourth or ffth quality, but the
best tea of that country is far superior
TO anything seen IN Western
Europe or America. The Chi.
nese in tbis country drink better
tee than any Americans, as the six CON-
psnies supply them with q very fair quail
ity costing nom 81 to $40 pound. What
is unusually drunk in this country, even
the best, is The poorest and cheapest vsri-
ETY., and would be scorned by the most
wreiched day lsborer of Pekiu or Shanghai.
Neither the Chiuess nor the Russians, the
latter being the greatest lea drinkers IN
Europe, ever put hugsr in their tea, and
cream is regarded by them as an abomina.
tion. Neither Europeans nor Americana
know anything about what Tea and ccIee
really is. ard what they regard IS a grss,
delicscy would be looked npou With SEQ IN
by the poorest Chinese or Arabian"