The morning call., 1892-12-18

is considered valuable in London. i have
only the figures for 1888 and 1889 as to the
beer-brewing stock companies here, but at
that time there were 2l1 sucn companies.
and they had $50 0D0, 900 worth of stock d
$4,000 600 wprth of bonds. One Of these CON-
panie> pad dividend OF 40 per cent and Of
the others Ia rye number pald from 8 10 Is
per cent on their capital stock. The most
of the beer is brewed in the winter, and in
Bavaria the best beer is made between Sep
TENDER and the middle OF Anril. / visited
some of the breweres IF Germany and /
find that beer is made here much the same
way it is in the United States. 1t is
against the law TO use anything else
tnan hops, barley and water in making it,
ana the breweries are run murh less eXpen-
sively here than IN America. Even in the
largest establishments the master brewers
do not get more than $1,000 year. and in
the small brewerles they receive from $1,000
to $500 a year. First-claSs helpers get $50
a month, and seeond-class not more than
$50. The most of these men lodge in the
brewery, and they have the right 10 drink
from six 10 eight quarts OF beer day. while
the master bTe ers can drink as much as
tW enty quarts or can give or sell this amount
to their friends. The taxation on beer is
one of the great resources OF the German
revenue, and everything connected with
beer pays tax. The brewers pay in pro-
portion to the amount they make. and mills
cannot be run until the amount of malt
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sent te the Government Here in North
Germany the tax amounts to IS cents per
100 pounds on malt and less on the other
articles which enter into the making of the
beer. but in Austria Hungary the beer is
taxed when II Is in the cooler and the laws
provide that the beer can be diluted to a
certain extent after IL bias been measured
for taxation.
The queerest beer / have ever seen is the
famous Berlin product known as Weiss
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first experience with it. A man connected
with our consulate asked me if / Won not
have a glass and he took me in A white
beer" saloon. The drinking hail was a large
room. which was comparatively empty at
the time 1 entered, as II was In the morn
ing. 1t was flied with tables and chairs,
and we sat dawn and ordered a couple of
glasses of white beer. A moment later the
waiter brought them. Each glass was big
enough for a Daby's bathtub and there
seemed TO be fully Two quarts of beer in it,
1t was the color of golden syrup, and the
foam which ran over the top was as white
as snow. Each glass was about eight inches
in diameter, and / am sure that the con-
tents of mine would have flied the crown
of my plug hat L had to take my two
hands to lift the glass to my mouth. and /
can't say | liked the beer as well as our
lager or the Bayarian product. The white
beer Is largely foam. and ii is not uncOm-
mon for the Germans to drink four quarts
ol IL ~ Il SltilhR II 10 BOk 30 UcdNg as tue
Bavarian beer and great deal Of Ii can be
drunk without intOxicaIiou. 1t is shipped
from here all over Germany. AID quite
good deal OF 1t is exported to the United
States.
A large number of beer-restaurants here
have girls for walters, and. as with the bar
maids of London, the prettier the girl the
easier he gets an engagement There Is
one noted beer-ceilar, known as the Elys-
seam. which has abont twenty-five girls in
re nral.sr Or
These girls are very pretty. and you GU in
and order glass of beer or something TO
eat and the maiden who bT ngs ii expects to
sit down and chat with you, and she will
not at all object If you ask her to drink or
eat with you. ! have taken several meals Mt
the Elysseum, and 1 asked one # the girls
the other night as to bow she liked her posi-
ton. Sue told NE she did not like il very
well, but she could not help herself. Said
she: Il have to drink with any man who
asks me, because it means an extra sale for
the house, and this drinking and eating at
all hours OF the day so disarrangeS my dI-
gestiye apparatus that il takes away my
appetite IL used to bs that they Kept US
here till long after u o'clock, but the laws
now provide that we shall close at II. and it
Is not so bad. Our wages are about a mark
a day. and they are not enough to support
u.s.. There are NUM- ers of otheE places of
this kind In Berlin, of different stages Of
responsibility, and they are largely fire.
Quented by the students and other yenng
men about the town. In some of the bet
ter class restaurants girls are employed as
walters. though the average waiter here is a
man in a Swailow-tail coat. There are
more swallow-tail coats in Europe TO the
square inch than there are to the square
acre over the rest Of the world, and the ma
jOrity If these belong to the walters. Even
the smallest hotels here keep their walters
in full dress and, 10 fact the best dressed
and almost the best looking men you see in
Europe are the walters.
Berlin, by the way. is one of the best
dressed cities in Europe. l don't mean that
The clothes of the people are the best made
They are not. These German women don't
know how to put their clothes on fhem and
a German tailor cuts his coats and panta-