Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-13
SODA WATER F1AYoRs.
Whxt the People Drtak-

WhHt the People OTthe.
Written for the Gazette.
Please tell US all ebout your soda water
business said GAZETTE man to the man
who manages the soda water department.
at the Fort Worth Pharmacy Co., and
the reply was: At our fountain in May
and June, lemon and vanilla favors
asked for were about equal, perhaps
lemon leading, and chocolate third,
while ginger, strawberry, pine apple,
raspberry aud sarsRparilla all had friends.
But since the first of July chocolate has
been ahead, being very popular in soda
ice creams. Vanilla is. however, the
king OF flavors, as IN the preparation of a
number of our other tiavors we touch
them with vanilla, adding TO their popu-
larity. Orange clace has been popular
of late, but it is an ice, like sherbet, and
ice cream soda, and should be eaten
slowly; is liable to- produce pain in The
head or the eye when eaten fast. Some
persons have asked us to give them med
icine for these pains, but the pain passes
away while they are talking about it,
and we do not give them any headache
medicine.
We have never known any injury
whatever TO occur from|the use of cold
soda drinks and ices; to the contrary,
they are cooling and refreshing. But
we can well understand how a person
could be made sick, when very warm,
by taking very large guam titles in u short
time, but no such foolish person has been
in our store. Little children prefer
strawberry to all other f1avors, and when
they cannot call the name of it they say
they want it wed (red). Ice cream is
more popular with children over seven
years old than soda water; their growing
bodies seem TO demand frequent nourish-
ment. All of our tiavors are made by
ourselves from best material that can be
had, and are prepared from written or
printed formula, which lies before the
dispenser, just as Doctors prescription
would lie at our dispensing desk. Every
thing is weighed or measured. There
must be no guess work, and an educated
man should do the work.
We shall use during this season about
20 barrels Dryden & Palmer rock candy
syrup (say 1000 gals.). We shall use
about 80 pounds vanilla beans. For the
long rich vanilla bean we pay in New
York seven dollars per pound in ten
pound lots. We shall use five hundred
pounds of Phillips bulk chocolate, which
cost in 100 pound lots 40 cents in New
York. Our rock candy syrup will cost
us $500 this season.
In the month of July the cash received
from our fountain, ice, etc., ETC., was
about $1,000. August will not be quite
so much, there are so many of our GUS
toners out of town, and September will
be as large Us July. Our soda and
fountain business requires the constant |
attention of three men. In cool, damp |
Or rpi 10 las will
half or two thirds, but when the clouds |
pass by and the Thermometer goes up |
then up goes the sales and the fountain |
men go home tired at night. Our last |
new drink is't Iron Tonic, ''tonched with |
and when requested we will |
make q clace or sherbet of same. In the
month of July we used about one and
q half tons of ice or about 900 pounds
daily. 1t requires about 200 pounds daily
to be placed in our fountain over our
syrup cups to keep them very fresh and
pure. We use only fresh fiavors and
syrups and make them each day.
Our soda fountain business is the
largest done in the United States in any
city of less than 80 ZOO inhabitants and
eads us to believe that our population is
over 40 200 people. This article is writ
zen as an advertisement, and partly IN
answer to an expressed desire of great
many of our patrons to know the partiou-
ars of our large soda water business. In
/ large business like ours, where every
hing is bought in large quantities and at
he lowest wholesale or manufacturing
prices, and the best and only the best is
ised. The gross profit is about 100 per
,eGt. and In this estimate, interest on
Investment, wear and tear, store rent,
axes, insurance, salaries of attendants,
'tc. are not included. The net profit is
10 more than ordinarily accrues from
my we'll managed retail business.
FORT WORTH PHARMACY Co.,
Fifth and Main streets.