Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-12-17

First-class helpers get $50 month and second
class not more than s20. The most Of these
men lodge in the brewery and they have the
right to drink from six to eight quarts Of beer
q day, while master brewers can drink much
as twenty quarts or can give or sell this amount
TO their friends. The taxation on beer ia one Of
the great resources of the German revenue and
everything connected with beer pays tax. The
brewers pay in proportion to the amount they
make, and mills cannot be run until the amount
Of malt which is to be crushed is written down
and sent to the government. Here in north
Germany the tax amounts to IS cents per hum
dred pounds on malt and less the other
articles which enter into tho making of the
beer, but in Austria Hungary the beer ia taxed
when 10 Is In the cooler. and the laws provide
that the beer can be diluted to q certain extent
After It has been measured for taxation.
WEISS BEER
The queerest beer l have ever seen is the
famous Berlin product, known az Weiss bier
or white beer, and / shall not forget my first
experience withit. man connected with our
consulate asked me if would not have glass
and he took me into white beer saloon. The
drinking hall was a large room, which was COM
paratiyely empty at the time / entered as it
was in the morning. 1t was filled with tables
and chairs, and We sat down and ordered a
couple Of glasses of white beer. moment
later the waiter brought them. Each glass was
big enough for q bsby's bath tub and there
seemed to be fully two quarts of beer in it. 1t
was the color of golden strip and the foam
which ran over the top was as white as snow.
Each glass was about eight inches in diameter
and l am sure that the contents of mine
would have filed the crown OF my plug
hat / had to take my two hands
TO lift the glass to my mouth and / can't say
that liked the beer as well as our lager or the
Bavarian product. The white beer is largely
foam and il Is not uncommon for the Germans
70 drink four quarts of it ut sitting 1t ia not
30 heavy rs the Bavarian beer and great deal
Of IL can be drunken without intoxication. 1t
Is shipped from here all over Germany and
quite a good deal Of ii Is exported to the United
States.
BEER RKsrAURASTs.
A large number of the beer restaurants here
have girls for walters, and, as with the bar
maids OF London, the prettier the girl the
easier she gets an engagement. There is one
noted beer cellar known as the Elysseum which
has about twenty i've girls in its employ, rang
ing In age from sixteen to twenty-five. These
girls are very pretty. and YOU go in and order q
glass OF beer or something to eat, and the
maiden who brings il expects to sit down and
chat With you, and she will not at all object il
you ask her to drink or eat with you. / have
taken several meals at the Elysseum and
asked one Of the girls the other night as TO how
she liked her position. She told me she did not
Ike 1t very well. but she could not help herself
said she: II have to drink with any man who
ASKS me because II means an extra sale for the
house, and this drinking and eating at all
hours Of the day disarranges my di-
gesuve apparatus that IL takes away my sppe-
lite, IL used to be they kept US here till
long after ~ O'Clock, but the laws now provide
That We shall close At IL, and IL is not SO bad.