Telegram-herald., 1891-08-20
OVER BIG SEA WATER
Continued from First page

City street ears are Of the iingling,
ossiileflng variety when plagued TIE
citizens Of GraHd Rapids ten years
ago The seats are oi hard wood
the hardest wood ever sat upon, nc
eoFdiRg 10 Alderman Mills and that
gentleman Is wen fortified lie a seden-
taFy way. The pKopelii1s power oi
two cars patronized by the visitors
were teams OF dyspeptlc looking mules,
one pair white and the other OF
color aot down in the dictionary.
! The horses looked as II they were long
I on mileage and short on feed. 'Isie
sidew aIks are very bad. The material
of most of them Is wood and the stone
I " alks are OF decidedly inferior char
acteT. The elevation varies fsom TWO
inches TO os many fret above tao curb
tine ana the transition from the high
/ 10 the low levels IL SO abrupt that
were the residents OF the city addicted
TO any other beverage than Milwaukee
| beer, the town would become hope
/ iessly bankrupt from damage suits
\ brought against IL on account OF de-
/ tectiye side ewa alks. \ period OF transi-
| tton is now upon the city; its rickety
horse cars are rapidly giving way
| ~ improved electric cars and side
| walks are sure TO follow the caravan
| of improvements that is now passing
| through. The streets are torn up
nearly as much as in Grand Rapids,
! bet IL is for their everlasting better
ment. and the people have too much
sense TO raise howl about the tenn
| porary Inconvenience.
AT noon the travellers gathered at
/ the hotel again and there found a
string OF carriages halt a mile long
and a crowd Of Milwaukee officials,
mildly Indignant because word had
not been sent OF our intended visit
! They inf .cted a pleasing punishment
by iamIaing at least four weeks u
| entertainment into the next eight
| hours and II would be impossible 10
convince one OF The entertained that
they did not admirably succeed.
The carriages were filled with vis-
| ftors and city officials and Mr.. O'Del
| of the Sentinel and the telegram
Herald man were drifted together by
the law. of natural affinity. The drive
| was through Grand-ave-, with its
beautiful lawn midway in the street
and its palatlal mansions on either
hand. The Schandean, Plankinton,
j
beautiful homes are located on this
boulevard. Then by long detour
| the party arrived at that wonder OF
the world, the great Pabst brewery.
| Captain Pabst was right on deck and
he gave the visitors a most hearty
welcome. The captaia is big fellow
over six feet in height, OF athletic
build and straight as an Indian. His
| complexion Is ruddy, his big blue eyes
/ are frank and bold and his ringing,
! CHEEKY voice charms all who meet him.
| That he is n princely entertainer is
known to all the West and he made
the Grand Rapids people feel ut home
| in an instant. Two boxes OF choice
Hayanas were distributed by atten-
dants while he was shaking hands
| with all the visitors and then he
| led thR way acro5s the street to an
other building. The crowd was seat
| ed at the tables in large cool room
and beer of the choicest brand and
IN unlimited quantities was set before
| them. The Telegram Herald man
| stopped counting when he got to the
| seventeenth glass, but they kept CON-
ing thicker and faster. One would
| have sworn that the aldermen were
| mere hollow shells after seeing their
| capacity put TO such a test, but no
one seemed to feel any Ill effects from
| their frequent potations. Douglass
| made @, great hit with the captain
| and his music was the delight OF all.
| While listening to it, the glasses some
| how became empty, seeing which the
| Baron of the Schloss grabbed up an
| armful OF them, had them rcplenished
! and set them before the visitors him
| self. A number of one armed men are
| kept on q salary! to serve as guides
| for visitors. 1t would take n volume
| to tell all that was seen in this man,
moth concern which covers six blocks
with lofty buildings.
The visitor stands aghast at the stu
| pcndous bulk OF everything about the
| place. He secs the vast brewing watts
with 800 barrels OF malt liquor boil
| Ing In each. The vats themselves are
| polished copper, and in the top OF each
| burns an electric light to enabla the
| brewers to watch the progress OF the
work. The brew is drawn off, sent
| through filters, then over the bright
| copper cooling pipes which are fille1
with a chemical freezing compoun..,
| and then IL goes TO the vast storage
| tanks to be kept from four to six
months before it is really for the bar
rels and bottles. \ series of powerful
engines, resplendent with polished steel
and bra g, furni h pOwer or the pumps
and supply the ice machine with sulf-
! cient power - make COO tons OF
ice n day. A walk through one OF the
cellars where 900 storage watts are To-
Gated. some OF them containing over
1900 barrels. Is bewilderinG. and the
iron pipes encrusted with frost two
inches thick lower the temperature
something near the freezing point
Alderman Frost nearly fell down
n stairway while trying to compute
the number Of iags contained In this
vast ocean OF beer. The bottling de-
partment II tho busiest scene Of all
Here 500 employees. mostly Cirls, arc
washing bottles, ii ling them wi h be
corking. wiring. labelling. cappiag and
packing them in barrels, crates and
eases. and so rapidly is it done that n
man would have hnrd work TO chaee
n bottle around Tho room and wit
ness all the operations. Everything
Is done by machinery and the en-
ployes are merely operatives. IL is n
hopeless task endeavoriag 10 describe
II oil in any article OF reasonable
| length.
The carriages then drove to the city
! pumping station where pure water
tom Lake Michigan is forced through
| fhe mains by cOllosal engines. Close
- the bank of the lake Ia the mouth
| IL the aew water tunnel. perpen-
dicular shat, ten feet I'm diameter has
I b..,-, .u~k - n dopsh cf TX feet and