The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-06-01

and Javas and the very best special.
ties of Rios
"What do you mean by Govern
ment Javas?"
"Why, the Dutch government
holds four public auction sales of
coffee at Batavia, in the island of
Java, during each year, and the
coffee is sold in piculs or bags weigh
ing 1856 pounds. At these sales the
coffee is classified according to the
locality where it is raised, and we
wholesalers buy it as interior or
Ankola, or Aver Bangles, or Man.
| deling, and on each of these occa-
sions from 10000 to $4,000 piculs
are disposed of. This system makes
the Dutch government responsible
for the quality of the coffee, and the
title Government Java is therefore
a good and significant one. Java
coffee improves on the voyage. l
can show you samples of some which
were shipped as green as SO many
aquamarine stones, and when we re-
ceived them the berries were of gol-
den color and had ripened beauti-
fully. That enhanced the value three
cents pound"
''How do you get your Java here?
Do you own the ships that bring it
to this port?"
"No; and isn't it dreadful COM
mentary upon our system that though
the consumption is SO large of Java
it all comes to us in Dutch, Swedish,
Norwegian or English sailing vessels?
There is not single American YES
sci engaged in transporting Java
coffee this country. Ceylon coffee
we don't use, for the bad kind is not
worth having and the good kind is
monopolized by the English, and
very costly it is. What Mocha we
use comes to us through English
sources. Our flag is hardly known
in eastern waters today. l may tell
you that we who are in the business
have not very high opinion of
Mocha. Some people are crazy
'aCouI 1t, but we think that matlcf~
of pure sentiment, and believe that
Mocha obtained its reputation by be-
ing the first coffee brought to Europe.
1t has all the appearance of being a
wild berry, and our experts say that
it cannot be distinguished from the
wild coffee of Hayti. This, no doubt.
is awful heresy, but that's the way
coffee men look at it. In the north
western states now, where there
seems to be singular appreciation
of really good coffee, there is no de-
mand for Mocha"
(which do you prefer?''
Gas general thing 1 like the
flavor OF Java, which is very pleasing
and full Of aroma and is soft and
smooth to the palate, leaving no after
taste in the mouth. Rios are strong
and coarse and bitter, and leave a
somewhat muddy after taste, which
no doubt comes from the Brazilian
coffee plantations being on low lands.
Costa Rica is fine in favor and ex-
cellent in aroma, but it leaves an acid
flavor in the mouth. The Guatemala
cofees are very superior and are
making their way among connois-
seurs. They are about on par with
the Laguayra coffee from the neigh.
borhood of Caracas. There is a
grade of Laguayra which comes from
the neighborhood of Puerto Cabello
and is by no means so fine. The
great expectation of Venezuelan cof-
fee, however, is from the Maracaibo
region and this is full of aroma but
rougher than Caracas, and it leaves
somewhat of a disagreeable after
taste, at least some does, that pro-
badly which is raised upon low lands5
You may lay this down as a law, that
the higher the elevation at which
coffee is grown, the finer 1t is in every
way"
(Which is the coffee that is grown
at the highest elevation!'
81 should not wonder if the high
est coffee plantations were found to
be on the slopes Of the Himalayas in
India, but that very fine grade of
English coffee does not come to us.
We have, however, some grown in
the neighborhood of Bogota in Ecua-
dor at an elevation of 5000 feet
above the level of the sea, and it is
exquisite to look at, exquisite. to
smell and exquisite to drink. The
berries are bright green, transparent
and waxy, and of remarkable unifor-
NIFTY of size. Some of this coffee
goes down a river near Bogota and
comes to Panama by sea, but some
of it is packed on the backs of buros
or small hardy donkeys, not mulesl
and is carried over the mountains by
land to Panama. Each burro carries
two bags weighing fifty pounds each,
and pursues its path through awfully
precipituous roads with cheerfulness
and diligence. l was down in that
part of the world, and it seemed to
me that the donkey was far ahead of
the mule for mountain work. Tile
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