The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-26

New Workers Who Drink 100 Glasses
of Lager Every Day.
From he New YORK You'd.

! Liebig, the great German chemist, says
that an ounce of rye bread contains more
nourishment than a gallon of beer" while
in other parts of mis- writings he makes
| additional derogatory remarks regarding
at amber fluid which daily Stakes tue thirst
of hundreds of thousands. The baron was
among the first to attack the Teuton's
| national beverage, and since the opening
guns were frel students of science and
medicine at home and abroad have poured
volleys of adverse a gument into the ranks
Of the beer drinkers, and en- Favored by
theoretical demonstration to show that the
most baleful effects accompany anything
like steady devotion to the popular extract
Of malt and hops The opinions Of the
lea ned gentle men have been well utilized
by the laborers in the prohibition vineyard
and upon one of those sedately prln ed
dodgers which the agents of that party
paste alo rural by-Nays and railway
lines, appears the terse statement: Beer
| is poIso ="
In the face of this painful fact it can be
| truthtuIy said that there a hundreds of
men IN this city alone who daily dispose of
from forty t. sixty glasses of this same
| poison" and yet, like Oliver Twist, yearn
f!r more. They are the employees of The
| big b eweries.
The stories of the beer drinking capabili-
ties OF taese men are the principal shot IN
| the locker Of the adherent of Book and
| FuSner. Whe the tenperal agitator
| prese. is him with tract which Informs
MIN hat physical and Jiritual perdiuon
Turk In each fam topped schooner, or
wen his physician ellis HIM that a stiAence
| from beer IS necessary to the attainment of
! ma he nd dc
them 60 to.
Beer hurt anybody" he exclaims, mon
sense-why, there are men in the b eve les
no simply live on 1t, drink 100 FL ,sses
day and don't feel it at all" Then he
Lunches out into the standard tales of the
b.ewe man's capacity 1t = as i / search of
a verificatio of these legends that a Yong
man Went forth one sunny afternoon last
week and made round of the big brewing
| ho lse of Ne y YORK.
The first establishment visited by TIE
reporter was Fred Opperman's Turte Bay
Br9 Hery, Il Easl 'rty-ffth street. Mana
ger Piatl very courteously took the reporter
over the building and gave him the
sought for information The EMPLOYEES
bar was situated III a cool archway dicecCly
be ind the office. Upon it stood a keg. the
contents of winch we rapidly served out
| TO the thirsty workme by bent and
grizzled old fellow, who, as soon as the
keg was empty, replaced 1t with a fresh
one.
by conf here, said Mr. Plati, ''our
men can have all tie beer that uuey can
comfortably drink. The free barrel is
called the 'sjernenwirth,' aud the same
n me is given to the man who attends to 1t.
| Inc 'Sternenwlrth' mas one of the easiest
positions in place, as be has nothing t.
do except serve the men and &C sonally
help himself: the average number OF
glasses drunk by our people du ing the
day is seventy-tive apiece, each glasi hold
ing half pint, in addition to which each
man puts away three solid meals. 1t
would seem, according to the established
laws OF hyge e, that DYSPEPSIA aid
| oCner evils atCen la It upon sucn an enor-
NOUS abso ption of liquids and solids would
soon be productive OF all varieties of illness.
but sucn is 1t the case. These ea know
only one kild of sickness, and that is rheu-
matism. Tney never get intoxicated, and
during the SIX years that have bee in M
Opperman's employ have met with olly
one case In which it was necessary to dis
cha ge man for drunxe mess. 1t is the
| custom with soma Vers to issue to each
empIoye certai nu nber of tickets, which
they Tan change at the house bar for pint
glasses, but we place no restriction upon
our men, firstly, because they never abuse
our confidence and drink to excess, and
secondly, as every emp oye can get all the
| beer he va It's, tickets or tickets, it would
be enc )uraging dishonesty to limit them.
1.-The surroundings il which they work
ara very trying to the health and hence the
rheumatism that | spoke of. After workin ?
in the washing room at temperature of
fully 90 degrees it is frequently required Of
them to go to the king room, the iced
vaults where the beer is cooled and drawn
4 oH, anu there the mercury only registe RS
30 degrees and 40 gress. The only clange
in their dress which they make when they
go to the vaults is to put on the light
Jumper that's usually lett off when they're
working outsi le, and as they are often wet
or perspiring when they enter the
lower temperature rhe lmausm is
Liable to eventually result. Every
| thing considered, the biewervm IN.
despite the amount of beer that he SD SEES
Of and tn hlrdneSs of his work, is one of
the most beautiful persons h It you'll meet
in days walk The greater part of them
| st to old age, too. While our rank and
we have few brilliant stars in the d ink
ing line>who consider 100 glasses per diem
10 be only ordinary exercise. There are
six of them, and their aggregate weight
comes pretty close to 1880 pounds. The
first of these, Fore nan Martin Storz, tips
the sc lie, at PCS, Driver Adolph Hi eel ac-
KIN Wledge, to3l5 q ID Brewer Jos KeStel-
highest one of the lot is Fritz Roller, who
is mere phantom of 200. The fifth, Kas-
park uyer, driver, is a gia 1t of feet g.
while the sixth and asst, collector named
Is Iatz Herr, is our champion.
mr.. Herr is the man who elevateS the
alance TO the 80 pound mark, and despite
his ability to punish the contents of an
en- ire keg at one sitting, has never yet
bee knO WI to become intnxicate l. Mr..
Herr has been known to look through the
bottom of his beer glass l25 consecutive
times, and it is the belief of his friends that
mis- p Sslbllties ia this liue ha I'VE not yet been
fully developed. As the regula ion q arter
barrel, or key, contains SIS glasses, it can be
seen that Mr. Herr uld be equal to one
and one-third. But while Mr.. Herr pre-
serves his laurels uutarnished ia our es-
Enlistment, he is obliged to doff hem to
the champion of all the champions, an
attacne tn kress Company, who runs a
little place called the Hole-in- the Wall on
Flfty-fourth street. His name is Fred
Fanrbach. and when 1T comes to drinking
beer there's nobody on earth that can tou h
him. If You want e sea wo lder 20 a I'd
see him" The reporter went.
The Hole-iuIt le-Wall was soon discovered
and with it Nv Fahrba n. AS remarked
before, the day was bright and pleasant,
and Mr. Fahrbach succumblng to its SOM
nolent iuflLencs, had placid, fallen asleep
In Chair be ea n his vine and fig tree. 1t
was after ard lie rned that he, like Ma
pOIeOn cOuld losa himseif in sin har "a r