Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-06-29
ATTHE T DIsPENsARY.
The Big Thanks the Bottling and
Sealing Machines an d
Other Apparatus.

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Sealing Machines an d
Other Apparatus.
Columbia Journal.
Much has been said about the
State Dispensary through the
newspapers during the last thirty
days, but 1T has been in such a
;desultory and disconnected way
that the public has had a poor
idea of the actual working of that
now famous institution of South
Carolina.
A Journal reporter was granted
the freedom of the Dispensary
building yesterday. He saw the
full force at work bottling the
poison which is to be dispensed by
State authorities to the citizens of
this grand and glorious old Com
monwealth.
Itwas abusy scene, and, to the
thoughtful, au intensely interest
ling one.
Everything is now in smooth
working order. There is a working
force in the bottling aud shipping
department of nineteen men, thir-
teen boys, seven women, and seven
girls, white, and four negro men,
making a total of fifty people, be-
sides two foremen. They were all
busy while the reporter was there
and appeared to be doing a great
deal of work. Their work may be
better told of in description OF
the process of preparing the
Liquors for distribution.
The Dispensary is fitted up with
three large tanks, capable of
holding forty barrels of liquor
each; two large tanks for the pur-
pose of washing bottles, a twelve
horse Tozier engine, with boiler
to suit, a steam corking machine
as we'll as a hand corking machine,
two eight-bottle and two six-bottle
filters, and an elevator to transport
the liquors from one floor to the
other, basides other minor
equipments necessary to the busi-
ness.
The basement floor is used to
store empty bottles, casks, etc., for
the purpose of bottle washing. On
the second, or main floor, the big
tanks are located, and it is there
that the general work of bottling,
packing, etc., is done. The third
floor is used to store anything that
lis convenient.
The liquor is sent to the third
floor, where it is emptied into a
trough, six barrels at a time. The
fluids are then conducted by means
of pipes to the big tanks on the
second, or main floor. Around
these tanks the filters are situated,
with the sealing basins near by.
|fAll four Of the Hing machines are
run mosttof the time, each filler
being operated by a boy. AS he
fills a rack of bottles, tits removed
by trackman and placed at a
sealing stand, where one young
girl dips the mouth Of the bottle
in a pot of liquid sealing wax,
pushing it to another who stands
near her ready to place the seal of
the State Dispenser upon it.
Thence it is trucked to a table
near by, where it is labelled by
another young woman. From this
table it is trucked to the wrappers
men and boys who occupy low
stools or sit upon the foor-who
stick the bottle in a ready pre-
pared felt wrapper. Thence it is
passed to the packers, who make
it ready for shipment by packing
it in barrels, using cotton seed
hulls as packing instead of straw
or sawdast, which is ordinarily
used. It is then ready for the
shipping clerk.
The working force is distributed
as follows: One cooper, five filters,
three corkers, two truckmen, four
wrappers. and four packers, all
white, four negro men being used
for general work.
Col. F. M. Nixon is general