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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-07
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Washington, Braddock and soonst

Buy a Lot at Kensington.
See large advt. Page 10 to-day.
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e2 30 Chenille Table Covers for 95c.
JOHN P. KNABLE Co.
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KENsNGToN-Large adv't, third page.
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Do You Eat?

Do you do the buying? Ifso, it behooves
you to consider that you may have to eat
for some time YET
But there is no, certainty that this
chance will last for any great length of
time. twill if the goods now in stock
hold out, which is hardly likely, when
quoted at the following figures:
1 will give with all regular orders of ten
(G1nN 1o1l o,,J ~.
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NIPPLES, blackheads, red, rough, chapped, and
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To Whom ItMay Concern.

KENsINGToN-Large adv't, third page.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-07-26

their beer is not treated with any salicylic acid
or deleterious substances that are sometimes
used with bottled beer to keep it clear and
lively. The president of the National Capital
Brewing Company says that any person with
proper interest In the matter might take the
keys of the entire establishment at any time,
go throughit thoroughly and If he found any
thing at all used in the making of their beer
that was not pure and wholesome the COM
pany would give him $1,000.
Although an immense amount of beer
probably half the quantity consumed In Wash
ington-is sold in bottles, and large number
OF people rather like 1t from the glass, still it
is generally agreed that beer drawn from the
wood is more apt to be pure and wholesome
than the bottled article. The National Capt.
tai Brewing Company does not bottle. 1t
serves its customers fresh every day with beer
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-07-26

As handsome and imposing business edi-
flee as can be found in Washington stands in
the midst Of spacious grounds on the south
side Of d street southeast, between Thirteenth
and Fourteenth streets The building is fresh
from the hands Of the architect and workmen,
and its beautiful proportions and ornate de-
sign strike the eye at once and elicits an i'm
mediate inquiry as to the uses of the structure.
The massive edifice is the new home of the
National Capital Brewing Company, re-
markably successful Washington enterprise,
whose business has grown to astonishing pro-
portions in a comparatively short space of
time. The building was finished about
month ago, but the brewing company is al
ready well settled in 1t and its business is
going forward in the new quarters with
smoothness and celebrity that shows the skill
full executive management which controls it
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-07-26

people of Washington will know just what
sort of home the National Capital Brewing
Company has and how the favorlte beverage
of the people is made the company has re-
solved to give grand public reception at the
brewery on Tuesday next, July %, from 8 to
8 p. m. BY that time the institution will be
complete in every detail and all its depart
ments will be running on the basis which it is
hoped to maintain for many years to come.
The guests of the company will be taken over
the building from basement to roof and the
methods of beer-making shown and explained
to them by the officers and employees. It is
needless to say that all corners will be invited
to test the beer as frequently as they desire.
In addition there will be an abundant lunch
con provided, consisting of all seasonable
delicacies, so that none of the guests need go
away either hungry or thirsty.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-07-26

prise. Few people realize the amount of busi-
ness done here. Washington seems separated
the minds eye from anything like a COM
mercial city, and 1t has been but few years
ago since many of the wealthiest class of resi-
dents would make their quarterly visits to
New York or Philadelphia to do their buying.
But this is all changed now, and here in the
literary, scientific and artistic centre of the
country there is nothing in the mercantile line
which cannot be as readily and as reasonably
obtained as in any city of the East.
Business has not increased IN any larger pro-
portion than the city's population has demand
ed, and there is room for still greater increase
The time is not far distant when every street
from Ninth to Fifteenth streets and from
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-07-26

Inc offices OF the company are located in
handsomely fitted up suite of rooms on the
main floor in th northwest corner of the build
Ing. Adjoining the offices is the ice machine
room, containing an ice machine with a re-
1rlgeratlng capacity of fifty tons and an
elghty-horse-power steam engine, used for
grinding and MASKING malt and for general
holsting purposes. On thesecond floor is an
immense refrigerating room and separated
from 1t by an iron door is room for cleaning
and automatically weighing malt, and ar
ranged on the principle of grain-ele-
vator is store-room for malt with capacity
OF 10000 tons. On the third floor is
a great copper kettle holding 300 barrels
of new boiling beer. The fourth floor is
used for hot and cold water tanks and above
is tank for fire purposes After boiling
in the kettle for seven hours the beer is pump
ed up, strained and left to cool in big fiat
tank under the roof, where a cool current
OF air blows constantly. To the rear and on
the fourth floor is a big store room and a
patent cooler. The beer from the tanks
above runs down over coils and is cooled to
40 degrees. This and the rooms below are all
7ox94 feet and feel like a cold DAY in mid
winter. On the floor below is the fermenting
room, and here the beer stays for two weeks
In sixty-fiye tubs, each holding seventy
barrels.
After the beer is through fermenting it is
piped below into vats of 240 barrel capacity,
and here it stays in the rest-casks for three
or four months, beer four months old
being about the best On the floor below
little new beer is added to give the necessary
foam, and after being given about three weeks
to clarity it is sent by air pressure into the
filling room, where it Is run into barrels and
Kegs ready TO be loaded onto the wagons.
The National Capital Brewing Company is a
combination of the firms of Albert Garry,
Robert Portner and the Robert Portner Brew
ing Company, the latter selling out the Wash
ington branch of the business. The capital
stock OF the company is $500, 600. all paid up.
The officers of the company are Albert Garry.
president; @. A. Strangmann, secretary and
treasurer Directors: Albert Garry, Robert
Portner, John L. Vogt, John d. Bartlett,
Charles Garry, G. A. strangmann, and Frank
T. Madigan.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-07-26
and has made it one of the big successes of
the day in Washington.

and has made it one of the big successes of
the day in Washington.
The new brewery is admirably located both
to show Its architectural fine points as well as
for the purposes for which 1t was designed.
1t covers a superficial area 94x136 feet in ex-
tent and 1t is FIVE stories in height, though
owing to the loftiness of the stories between
joists the building is as high as many of seven
or eight stories. Adjoining the main building
are several smaller ones for various purposes,
such as engine house, cooper shops, and
stables.
The National Capital Brewery, which was
formed by the consolidation of two older and
smaller concerns, has interested in it a num-
Der of well-known citizens of Washington,
and all the officers of the company are resi-
dents of this city. 1t is and was intended to
be purely local enterprise, and the great aim
of those who are directing it is to make
quality of beer which shall be especially ac-
ceptable to Washington people. Recent re-
ports of the Commissioner of Internal Reve-
nue. show that every year beer is becoming
more and more the great American drink, as it
is consumed in steadily increasing quantities
as our brewers learn the tastes OF the public
and use only healthful and nutritious ingre-
dents in the manufacture. The proprietors
of the National Capital Brewery are we'll
aware of these facts and they set out with the
determination to make a beer that would not
only prove agreeable to the educated palates
OF the Washington public, but which the most
careful chemical analysis would show to be
quite free from all injurious substances
That they have achieved their aims is pretty
clearly shown by the immense quantities of
the grateful and cooling beverage which is
daily consumed by the people of Washington.
The National Capital Brewery is capable of
making every year 100000 barrels of beer
which experts pronounce as good as any
of the famous makes of the great St. Louis,
Cincinnati or Milwaukee breweries. To make
a good quality of beer for local use SO that 1t
can be drawn from wood and not adulterated
with any chemicals whatever in order to make
of it a "beer that keeps well'' is the purpose
OF the National Brewing Company. They
do not make beer for shipment and hence
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-07-26

on g street may be seen the workmen busily
engaged on an elegant struct&re to be occupi-
ed by the Ohio National Bank, and on the
square beyond the large wholesale and retail
store of Messrs. Barber d Ross, opposite to
which Mr. B. ii. Warder is erecting an at
traetiye building to be used as stores and flats.
Other property along G street has changed
hands within the past year or two and a
number OF valuable business blocks are
promised in the near future. OF these
probably one of the most important will be
the new Palais Royal, which is to occupy the
northeast corner of Eleventh and G streets.
The wonderfully short period in which these
changes have occurred leads an occasional
visitor to the Capital to expressions of sur
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-07-26

Pennsylvania to New York avenues win be
converted as thoroughly into business chan
nels as Seventh street is now and Fourteenth
street is rapidly becoming. Business along
Seventh street is as old and as active as on the
Avenue, and it would surprise many an old
citizen to see the amount of business now be-
ing done on Fourteenth street from Rhode
Island avenue to Boundary street. Fourteenth
street will be the mart to supply all that fine
stretch of suburban country lying to the North
OF the city. 1t needs no more promising flu
ture.
When all of these facts are thoroughly con
sidered it needs no expert to tell that Wash
ington is conseVatiyely the most convenient
and economical city in the country.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-07-26

that has reached. its prime in the immense
cooling rooms of the brewery. f. Fl. Finley
d Son, the bottlers, however, have a contract
with the company for 10000 barrels year of
their pale extra beer, and this they bottle and
serve to customers in Washington. They get
their beer early every morning, as needed, so
that people who buy the bottled variety of the
National Capital Company's beer are using
beer that left the huge casks at the brewery
that very day. J.F. Hermann 81 Son, William
ID. Brinkley and James I'll. Bailey also
act as agents for the company. A HER
AID reporter, accompanied by Mr.. Al
bert Carry, president of the brewing COM
pany, recently made complete inspection Of
the buildings of the brewery, spending several
hours seeing how beer is manufactured from
the time 1t comes in in the form of malt and
the raw materials until 1t leaves the build
ing clear, cool, foaming beverage inclosed
in stout kegs and casks. How much beer
leaves the building may be judged when the
statement is made that the company uses
10000 kegs and barrels of all sizes simply In
supplying the Washington trade Nine huge
wagons and thirty big horses are used steadily
in carrying beer from the brewery to the con-
sumers.
brewery as rather untidy and uninviting
place, but II those who have this idea will do
as HERALD reporter and several other news
paper men did the other day they will revise
their Impressions, at least as far as the Ma
tional Capital Brewery is concerned. That
institution is model of neatness throughout.
1t is as clean from cellar TO garret as the
kitchen of the traditional New England
housewife The concreted floors wouldn't
soil the daintiest handkerchief, and every
turn and corner OF the iron stairways were
free from any vestige of dust or dirt. The
visitors were admitted freely to every
room and department of the building,
and as already stated every one interested in
the subject can have the same privilege,
which is the best proof that this company has
nothing to conceal from the public. There
is an abundance of clear, cool, running water
In all parts of the building.
To make sure that large number Of the
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-07-26
The weeks building PERMITS.

There was considerable decrease in the
number of building permits issued for the
week ending on Friday. The total number
was only eighteen, embracing twenty-six
buildings OF this the county had tue larg-
est number, ten, 30 cost $1S,7O0 the north
east six, costing SIS, 500; the northwest five
costing $4,000; the southeast four, costing
$4,000, and the southwest one, to cost $500
making the total amount $79, GEO.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-07-26
13 TO 20,
A LOOK TO THE FUTURE.
FACTORS THAT MAY AFFECT REAL
ESTATE FOR THE NEXT YEAR.

Why the Coming Presidential Election
VIII Cause Less Disturbance to Busi-
ness in Washington Than Ever Be-
fore-The Civil Service Law.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-07-26
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL BREWERY.
IT Is CoNDucTE

ENTERPRISE WHICH CAN
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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-25
PEOPLE COMING AND GOING.

Jacob Bauer, of Terre Haute, and Adolf
Convert, of Chicago, were in the city few
days ago looking for site 150 feet square on
which to build factory. After consulting
various real estate men they failed to find
what they wanted in the two cities. They
registered at the Anderson.
J. V. Thompson, Uniontown banker,
stopped at the Seventh Avenue last evening.
iron mill in his town as he has little faith in
the people who are trying to straighten out
the affairs of the defunct plant.
J.. L. Barclay, the Chicago agent of the
Westinghouse Electric Company; ex-Mayor
George w.. Allen, of st. Louis, and j. B.
town Flood Commission, are at the Du-
Quesne.
Rev. Fathers Wall and Gallagher will
start to-day for trip through Europe and
the Holy Land, and they will probably secure
an audience with the Pope before returning
home.
ii. G. Huston and wife, of Connellsville,
and Rufus j. Foster, editor of the Colltery
Journal, of Scranton, are stopping at the
Monongahela House.
The Robert Emmett Literary Society, of
Homestead, will hold a reunion and picnic
at Kenney's Grove Saturday, June q.
John M. Watson, of New Castle, and j.
P. Hughart, of Grand Rapids, are stopping
at the Anderson.
James Cochran, a millionaire coke opera
tor of Dawson, and wife, are registered at
the st. Charles.
John A. Dewey, of Painesville, and E. F.
Latham, of Butler, are among the guests at
the Schlosser.
f. NJ. Munsell, President of the National
Alliance Insurance Company, is at the Gen.
tral Hotel.
Alfred Kafne, chief clerk at the Central
Hotel, will sail for Europe July L
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-25
STRATEGIC HUMBUG.

The prospect of an assault on the
United States Government for that $780,
100000 to build the Nicaragua Canal is
rendered quite definite by an editorial in
the New York Press. That journal, which
appears to have taken the function of an
organ for the canal scheme, argues for it
on the basis of its strategic importance
Russia, it points out, is spending more
money than the canal will cost for the
Siberian railway, which will not pay run
ming expenses, simply as strategic acquis-
ition. Ergo the Press concludes the Gov
eminent should furnish its credit to build
the Nicaragua canal for the same purpose
To all of which numerous answers are
obvious. In the first place, the purposes of
a military depotism in building strategic
lines of communication are not exactly the
models for a free and pacific republic
with no dreams of conquest or
necessity for repressing popular
uprisings. In the next place, even if we
should take Russia as model of policy,
we might note that the Imperial Govern
ment has not been idiotic or corrupt
enough to build the Siberian railway on a
plan that will permit company of pro-
moters to make all the profits if the enter
prise proves valuable, and saddle the loss
on the Government if it is improbable.
Finally, not even the mad Gar was luna
tic enough to build strategic line of COM
munication throughout a foreign country
the nearest point of which was over
thousand miles from his own territory,
and which was morally certain in case of
war to fall a prey to the strongest naval
power.
The talk about the Nicaragua Canal as
strategic necessityis foolish. This is not
only because within 60 days from the time
when we got into war with naval power
stronger than our own, it would be in the
hands and doing the service of our ene-
mics. 1t is silly also for the reason that
we already possess, to the extent of four
transcontinental lines, exactly what Russia
is building. Russia finds railways neces-
sary to transfer her troops from one part
of the country to another. The United
States have had railways available for that
purpose over % years-and paid COM
pany of promoters immense fortunes for
receiving those railways as a gift
If the Nicaragua Canal Company can
get private capital to build the canal it is
perfectly legitimate enterprise. But
when the proposition points in the direc-
ton of the United States Treasury it is not
permissible. There is greater strategic
importance for the United States in con-
Meeting the lakes with the Ohio river than
in the Nicaragua Canal The Press alleges
as an argument in favor of the latter that
10000, 600 tons of commerce are tributary
to it. The same or great tonnage is
tributary to the Ohio river and Lake Erie
Canal, which can be built for one-fourth
the cost of the Nicaragua The United
States must perfect its internal water CON-
munieations before it throws away any of
its money in building canals for the bene-
fit Of foreign nations.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-25
COUNTY ASSESSMENTS AND TAXES.

The problems and possibilities of county
taxation form the subject of an interesting
local special article. From its details the
leading facts project themselves that with
natural increase from just valuation of
property county revenue will be increased,
while no proportionate enlargement of
county expenditures brings up the pros
pect of reduction of one-half mill In the
county tax rate.
This is gratifying, and the fact that it is
largely due to the growth of manufactur-
ing and residence suburbs is pleasant re-
suit of the city's prosperity. But the fur
ther fact that large gain in the total valu-
alton can be made by bringing to the gen.
eral level the valuations of Ger
tain localities which have here
tofore been successful in securing under
valuations presents a phase of the tax
problem not altogether pleasant to con-
template. 1t is evident that if all property
be valued on an even basis it makes no
difference to the county whether the basis
is the market value, or one-half, or one
quarter of what the land will bring. But
if one section is assessed at one-quarter its
value and another one-half, the latter must
be taxed extra in order to make up what
the former escapes The effort to secure
differentiation, therefore, is an,effort to
put the expense of government on others.
1t is not satisfactory to know that this at
tempt has been successful to an extent
that makes a material difference in the
general tax rate.
1t is certainly public duty to correct all
such inequalities, and as an effective
method for doing so, it may be well to fix
as a basis for assessment the actual market
values. A man who asks 81, 200 an acre
for his land should not be permitted to es-
cape with taxation on the basis of 5000 per
acre. If this basis were adopted the re-
duction of county millage would not be
one sixth, but one-half or two-thirds.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-25
THE VITAL BUSINESS IssuE.

When our people come to fully think
out the economies of water transportation
they viii realize with THE DISPATCH that
it is the biggest and most vital business
issue now before the American public.
We have already shown by column upon
columns of scientific data the immense ad-
vantages to the industries of this region
that would accrue from ship-canal to the
lakes. To show how cheaply freight is
moved on the lakes we may now cite an
official report just published, which gives
the cost of carrying grain from Chicago to
Buffalo over the water at a cent bushel.
The cost of its further carriage from
Buffalo to New York via the Erie Canal was
only fifty-fve cents per ton for the whole
distance. The railroad charges for like
service would be three to seven times as
great.
When it is remembered that the Erie
Canal is but seven feet deep, old-fashioned
and provided with single locks only, and
yet is able to establish such important
economies as against the cheapest railway
service, the reader can have some idea of
the tremendous benefits which would fol-
low ship-canalS with the latest modern
appliances. One of the leading lights of
American engineering estimates that with
ship-canals from the lakes to the ocean,
and from the lakes to the Ohio, and a
moderate improvement of the rivers of
Central States and of the Northwest there
would be an annual saving of not less than
two hundred million dollars upon freight
alone
These figures are not flights of fancy
They are established data fairly COM
putable from such. They will get
lodgment in the public mind. The day
will come when natural and artificial
waterways will be used to the utmost for
transportation purposes. At present the
resources at our disposal in the rivers, and
the opportunities for canals to connect the
latter with the lakes and with the ocean,
lie wasted and unproductive. This can
not much longer continue so.