Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-26
COSTLY WAREHOUSE.
Big Improvements Being Made on
the Iron City Brewing Plant.
RANKS THIRD IN PENNSYLVANIA
Secretary WatchOrn Surprises the Miners
BY Resigning.
LOCAL VIEWS ON STORAGE WARRANTS

Improvements to cost $500 are to be
made on the Iron City Brewing Company's s
establishment.
Contracts have been placed for the erec-
tion of a storehouse, to be built adjoining
the present plant on Liberty avenue and
Thirty-fourth street. The foundation has
already been commenced, and it is
proposed to push the work SO
that the building will be ready for
use by July 1, 1891.
The building will be 125 feet long and 80
feet wide; four stories high, and will have a
capacity for 80, 900 barrels. In connection
with that an ice machine with capacity of
IS tons per day will be put in the building.
The whole improvement will bring the es-
tablishment into third place in point of size
and capacity in the State, and will enable
the firm to handle their large and rapidly
increasing trade more promptly and with
greater satisfaction.
The new addition to the plant will
be constructed of iron and brick.
Otto G. Wolfe, of Philadelphia
designed the building, while William Hill
Ter has the general contract for its erection.
The steam beams to be used are now being
made at Carnegie, Phipps & Co.'S Home
stead works; John A. Hoffman has the con-
tract for the stone work and Steel & Hall
furnish the brick. 1t will require 50,0O0,-
900 of the latter to fill the contract
WINTER WORK TO GO ON.
A novel apparatus is to be used to pre-
vent any stoppage in the work during the
winter months. As soon as the stone work
is completed, it will be covered with large
canvas, which has already been secured.
This will be raised high to permit the
building of the first story. Then
the curtain will be raised again so that the
work on the second may be completed, and
SO on until the top is reached, the sides be-
ing temporarily closed in with boards.
This is a plan frequently pursued with large
buildings IN the East, and the work can be
pushed with almost as great rapidity as in
the summer time.
During the past few days it was reported
that new concern was about TO purchase
the Iron City Brewing Company's plant.
On Saturday, January 10, five well-known
business men will apply for charter for an
intended corporation, to he known as the
Pittsburg Brewing Company.
The stockholders are William H. De-
Wald, agent for Darlington & Co.; Howard
NJ. Bowman, travelling agent; Thomas B.
Booth, the real estate agent; j. P. Fleeger,
bookkeeper, and Frank Joyce. It
is understood that negotistions have been in
progress for several days looking toward the
purchase of plant, as the new concern is
anxious to begin operations without the de-
lays incident to the erection OF a new plant.
When spoken to in regard to the matter,
Mr.. DeWald re used to give any details as
to the intentions of his company. "It is too
soon for US to talk. Our plans have not
taken any definite shape, and we cannot say
anything for the present. I will say, how
ever, that we do not want to build plant if
we can buy one."
NOT IN THE MARKET.
August A. Frauenheim, of the Iron City
Brewing Company, was seen at his office, at
Thirty-fourth streetil He said: 81 know of
NO proposition having been made Tor our
plant, and I know further that it is not tor
sale. The only proposition that was ever
made for the purchase of our brewery was
made by the English syndicate, and it was
rejected. Our company was incorporated
about year ago, with capital Of 81, ,200,-
900, and do not think it would be an easy
matter to buy US out.
''In the first place we could have no OBJ
ject in selling out. The investment is
good one. We have capacity of loo, 900
barrels per year, and are running up to the
limit all the time. Our business this year
will be fully 10000 barrels in excess of
what it was the previous year, and with
about the same number of saloons next
year, we will have fully as great an in
crease"
Mr.. Frauenheim said further that as soon
as the new building now contemplated has
been finished, the present srorehouses will
be remodeled and renovated. He thinks the
Brooks law is all right, and believes more
licenses will be granted next year than were
given out last May.