Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-16
! HUGE DISTILLERY
To Be Erected at Once in Bucks
County by Big Liquor Dealers
OF PHILADELPHIA AND NEW YORK.
Over A Hundred Acres to Be Covered by the
Company's Plant.
THE SCHEME Is A COOPERATIVE ONE

SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.1
PHILADELPHIA, Sept 15-Upon the
tract of 103 acres at Eddington, Bucks
county, which has just been purchased from
Mrs. Morris, wealthy PottsviIle widow,
will be erected an enormous distillery for
the production of rye whisky. The plant
will be operated by a new company which
has just been organized with a capital of
S3, 100000, and which will be known as the
Philadelphia Pure Rye Whisky Distilling
Company. Nearly every large liquor
dealer in this city holds stock in the COM
pany.
Despite the fact that the organization of
the company has been accomplished so
quickly, considerable work has already
been done, and the contract for the erection
of the buildings will be awarded at a meet
ing of the Board of Directors tomorrow.
Quite O number of bids have been re-
ceived.
Under the present laws of Pennsylvania
there can be no president of a liquor COM
pany. Angelo Meyers has been elected
Chairman; Henry Van Bell, Secretary, and
James Mcguire, Treasurer. These gentle
men, with Samuel Humphrey and Louis
UlllauS, constitute Tile DOdIu VI biiCSeoie.
The Plant to BE a Mammoth One.
The plant will have capacity of 10000
barrels year. and will probably be in
operation by the first of next May. The
site selected has large frontage on the
river, and work upon a wharf was begun to-
day. At this point the Pennsylvania rail-
road is fully mile from the river, which
will necessitate the building of branch
of n mt
$1,000. Negotiations are now pending
with General Agent Latta for the construc-
tion of the road, but nothing definite has
been decided upon. The liquor men are
wavering between building the road them
selves or allowing the Pennsylvania Rail
road to do it, in which latter case the COM
pany would own the property and make it
unpleasant for any future railroad that
might come that way, particularly the Read
ing.
Said a prominent member of the new
company TODAY: "There are fully 40
of the largest liquor dealers in this city
and New York interested in the enterprise,
which will be one of the largest of its kind.
I suppose those 40 firms represent about
$50, 900, 900. All the subscriptions have
been paid in.
Cannot Fight the Whisky Trust.
"No, we will not be antagonistic to the
Whisky Trust, because the trust does not
make rye whisky. The principal advan-
takes to the stockholders will be in estab-
llshing a home industry, which will enable
us to economize on shipping We can prob
ably secure sufficient grain from the farmers
of Bucks county to keep us going, so we
will not suffer from lack of material. Then,
too, we are going to try some new expert
ments in the manufacture of whisky which
are entirely original, and which, if success
tul, will have a tendency to revolutionize
things"
The stockholders will probably control
the whole production. Each stockholder
will virtually be an agent, and will use
extra efforts to sell the whisky, because he
will reap a decided benefit from it. He
will receivs his selling profits, and the
more he sells the larger his dividends on
his stocks will be. The meeting of the
board will be held at James Maguire's
Office, Third and Noble streets, tomorrow,
and in addition to transacting the regular
business, will award the contract for the
erection of the plant