The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1896-09-24
THE REBATES ON BOTTLES.
The state Paying High Prices for
Inferior GOods-St. Julian Yates
Getting His Share.


Getting His Share.
News and Courier, 10th inst.
While tho dispensary investigation
was going merrily on in Columbia last
night there was a. gentleman in
Charleston who mad stories to tell
wherein alleged bad management was
made clear. Just where this inform;.-
tion came from is best, for business
reasons, to be withheld, but the facts
are all on file and if necessary can be
produced on very short notice.
1t has long been u matter Of specula-
tion why the dispensary should pay
more for bottles than was previously
done. Early in the spring it was stated
that the dispcnsary needed ten or
more carloads OF TASKS and bottles to
be packed during the summer season
while tho glass factories were closed.
Complete specifications and samples OF
bottles and skeleton packing cases,
such as are row used, were given to
responsible parties, with instructions
to quote the price on green bottles Of
certain weights and in carload lots to
be delivered in Columbia. The posi-
tive assurance was given that the
green ware, which had been extensive
ly used at the dspensory, was more
satisfactory than the flint ware, also IN
use Mr.. Scruggs and Mr.. CASTOR arc
both on record as having complained
to several parties about the Indifferent
ware boing furnished by u house in
Indiana.
Acting on this certain responsible
house in New York submitted spcciii-
quality than the dispensary has been
OSipU thn Nav rpontinr nf no
present board Of control bids were re-
ccivcd according to these specifications
at the following prices Half pint
TASKS, 9 ounces in weight at 81 l5 per
gross pint tlasks, l6 ounces, &3 80 per
gross; quarts, ~ ounces, Sc Is per
gross. These were the weights de-
sired by the board. The board at the
same time called to the attention of
tho manufacturers that the bottles
they had been using weighed much
less, although the first contract made
with them specified the above weights
Here is what the dispensary people re-
ccived: Half pints, s ounces. Car
load after carload of these good wore
sent. The prices paid were: Half
pintS - 80, pints $3 So quarts ST.
The attention of the board was
called to this shortage in the weight
The New York house offered to furnish
these weights of the finest quality Of
green ware at 81 10 for half pints S3 IS
Tor pints and So Is for quarts. 1t was
somewhat strange that after the dis
pcnsary had used hundreds OF cases of
the green ware from some OF the best
glass manufacturers in tho country
that they should suddenly discover the
necessity Of paying SO much higher
prices Tor Hint ware at So 30 for half
nj nd f.,,,
quarts. Sixty cars at this price are
said to have been ordered from parties
IN Baltimore, and ten cars from the
house in Indiana. This is quite an in
crease over tho estimated ten that
were wanted for summer DO .tling. 1t
has been said that the style OF packing
which is in wooden skeleton cases
makes this difference in the cost, but
this is not the only reason for such uD
advance, as is proved by the fact that
the bids made for the green ware
called for the same packing, and the
prices were for delivery in Columbia.
While bottles and corks are a very
small part OF the purchases of the dis
pcnsary compared with whiskcy and
beer, IL is Il matter OF general interest
all the same why they should pay more
for corks than they could have gotten
them direct from the manufacturers
for. 1t has been said repeatedly that
during the first year OF the dispensary
something over $4,000 was spent for
corks. At that time corks were sold
in large quantities by the various
leading cork manufacturers at dis
count OF so and 100 per cent. from the
list price. Quotations werc given the
dispcrsary people at these prices, but
it seems that they preferred to buy at
- per cent. discount from the list.
This woulc make a difference Of many
hundred dollars in d lite matter Of
corks. Some people who keep track
OF such matters say this was done to
accommodate few friends in Cinciu-
NATL
The bottom of the whole business
is that the dispensary decided to get
Hint ware and it might be well to state
just here that the flint ware was pur-
chased from the Pennsylvania Glass
Company, OF Anderson. Ind. and that
MIR. j. ST. Julian Yates acted as their
agent in making the sale.