Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-06-25
PALMETTO Triples.
PEN PICTURE or BEN. TiLLMAN'S
WHlsKEY-eOTTLlNo HOUSE.
How the Raw "sipeis-stamp" Article IL
Put Int Fiashs-Thc Industry Con-
Quoted in Business Way.
charleston News and Courior.l

The South Carolina dispensary began
operations on Thursday last. says Colum-
bia special 10 the Charleston Ne,cs and
Courier. The Prohbitionists who passed
the law will be delighted 10 see with what
rapidity the thousands OF TASKS are filled
and prepared for market. IL has been n
glorious day for prohibition, and tho
white-ribbon brigade that elories in Our
Brave Ben" closing the bar-rooms IN the
state. But II makes very little difference
who is responsible for the passage OF the
law. who is delighted over its success, or
who s going TO make anything ont OF 1t.
The one thing OF interest Just now IL inc
gigantic-thats the word-buslness upon
which the State has entered. IL was not
until TO-DAY that any one could form even
an approximate idea OF the volume or
business that 1t IS expected will be done
by the dispensary.
There IS no doubt that everything about
the dIspcnsary IS being done IN the most
approved and business-llke way. Although
tho work of bottling only began this
morning the workmen are getting along
very we'll and will soon have the profeS-
sional swing about them. Throw aside
sentiment and politics for just few
minutes and You cannot but think that
the dispensary is business-llke instltu-
ton, ey.sh 1t is the crying shame OF the
age.
THE OPERATIONS.
Let Ia take hurried trip through the
establishment. In the cellar. where there
arc thousands of bottles stored, is tho
washing department. Here ten men and
boys are at work cleaning out TASKS. Seve-
raj hands are rinslng them, Others putting
them over the spout of water. and Others
IN the trucks in which they are taken
away. When q truck is filed with several
hundred TASKS II IS rolled to the elevator
and taken upstairs. They are then rolled
up IN line III front Of the tanks, which hold
$500 gallons of liquor each. Attached 10
each of the tanks are automatic filters.
BOYS take the TASKS out of the trucks
and put them on = tube of the filler; each
has about a dozen. As soon az a flask Is
filed the automatic machine cuts Oh the
supply. The filed bottle is then passed
by hand to u boy. who. with rubber
mallet, knocks cork into the mask.
They are then promptly placed IN hand
crates. in which they are passed to either
OF the two women who attend % the
sealing. Each flask il taken out and the
end dipped INTO pot OF boiling wax. A.
soon as the TASKS are taken out they are
stamped with the official hand-seal. which
bears the words ID. fl. TTaxler, State
Commissioner. Columbia, \. e.
THE LABELLING.
The bottles are then replaced in the
small crates and passed to the women.
who are seated AZ long table aud who do
the labelling. Two women are seated AT a
large marble slab on which they daub the
paste, the labels are rubbed over the SLAB
and sufficient of the paste catches with
which TO stick the label on the TASKS.
They are then turned over TO iaborers. who
stack them away. Az soon Us the paper
wrappers arrive they will be put on the
TASKS. which will bP Immediately packed
in barrels for shipment 10 the county dis
pensers.
THB CHEAPEST "sTUFF."
The dlspensary to-day bottled single
sample Bourbon wniskey. the cheapest
that will be sold The goods when placed
on the market will bear this label: