San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-08-06
The Other Side.

the Express, headed plain State.
ments," and coming from the Local
breweries, has attracted my atten.
ton. The statements are these, but
the facts are subverted, to great de-
gree:
1t is true that the st. Louis brew
cries inaugurated the practice of Civ
ing away ice with each keg of beer
sold.
When the local breweries first put
their beer upon the market, upon
whom did they depend to introduce ii
to the public? The beer and saloon
men, of course. The st. Louis brew
cries Immediately reduced their price
from s.. 80 to $3.50 per keg. The prin-
cipal saloon men, feeling pride in
their home Industries, agreed to stand
by the local breweries, and tor nearly
two years paid them So per keg, while
Lemps and Anheuser were selling
their beer at $3.50. Then the st.
| Louis breweries, of their own accord
and without the solicitations of the
saloon men, began giving ice free with
each keg of beer purchased, and yet
the great majority of the patrons of
our home breweries stood by them
but some began to waver, as the diff
| ference of fifty cents on each key, and
free ice besides, enabled the small
beer saloons, that took advantage of
it, to increase the size of their glasses
materially.
The local breweries saw and felt
this, and they, too, voluntarily began
the custom of giving away ice to their
customers.
The rivalry between the two local
breweries has been lively and verging
upon bitterness. Each has struggled
to supplant the other, and both have
labored to destroy the trade of the st.
Louis and other foreign breweries
Each local brewery has assisted in
starting beer saloons, going bonds,
and even paying licenses, in order to
promote the sale of their respective
beers. They or their agents have in
duCed men to have constructed large
ice boxes. promising in most instances
to furnish the ice necessary to keep
the beer cool, free of cost; and in some
instances even furnishing the ice box
itself.
This has been going on for the past
two years. The consequence has been
that the consumer has been getting
about twice as much beer for nickel,
as he will probably get when the beer
sellers have to pay for their ice.
However, ali went well, the season
opened, everything moved on as
usual, ice free, ETC., until the Alamo
Brewing and Ice cOmpany's plant
came under the control of Messrs.
Kampmann and Tendick.
Then these two gentlemen, one the
principal owner of the San Antonio
Brewing Co.'S. plant, the other hold
ing controlling interest in the Lone
Star Brewing Co., discover that they
are losing money in their business,
and Immediately in the hottest month
of the year, when the local ice fac
tories find it impossibletO supply the
demand, these gentlemen, formerly
bitter business rivals, enter into an
agreement with their quandrOm foes,
the st. Louis breweries, and say to
the beer and saloon men: Rustic
for your ice" that is, they say, "we
hereby notify you that in five days
we will neither give nor sell you any
ice.n Now what does this indicate. 1t
fOreshadOws all ice and beer trust,
nothing more, nothing less. Why?
Because nearly all the ice manufac-
featured in this city is controlled by
J. ;. Lockwood, H. D. Kampmann
and Tendick. Kampmann and Ten
dick control the Alamo ice factory,
and are getting ready to manufacture
ice, and Lockwood runs the Crystal
ice factory, while the San Antonio ice
factory will probably be compelled to
join the trust.
Now, go little further. Kamp-
mann controls the Lone Star brewery,
Tendick the San Antonio Brewing
Co., thus you see Kampmann, Lock-
wood and Tendick actually can con-
troll the ice and beer supply of the city
of San Antonio, and if this move
ment succeeds, next season ice and
beer may advance somewhat in price.
At any rate we will all be at the
mercy of this syndicate.
The communication referred to in
the Express goes further and quotes
the collapse of the alamo Ice and
Brewing Co.." as being caused by
the giving away of ice. These gentle
men know better than that. Tha t
company failed simply because there
was not room for three large brew
cries in this city. The supply was
greater than the demand, and the
Lone Star and City breweries shed no
though they would now have the pub
lie believe that free ice did it, and
that they were sorry, and only en-
deavoring to protect themselves from
like fate etc.
The article referred to goes on to
say that it costs a great deal to make
hnnr an1 icn anI that EInn