Hutchinson gazette., 1897-07-29
KEEN RIVALRY.
Steamboats, from Chicago to Manhattan
Beach Offer Great inducements.
IMMENSE BREWING COMBINE
Secret Operations In Progress to Consoli-
date the Large Beer Properties Out
side the English Syndicate in
to single Trust

CHICAGO, July 2S.-Two rival lines
of steamboats, plying between Chicago
and Manhattan beach, not only carried
passenger freight over the lS-mile
round-trip course, but gnve them beer,
cigars and sandwiches without limit,
furnished bathing suits at the beach
and provided rooms in which the
bathers could make their toilets The
25-cent rate recently agreed upon was
cut by Manager Powers to 10 cents.
Manager Newman announced that he
would carry passengers to the beach
and back for one cent. So great was
the crowd yesterday morning that pro-
moters of the Newman line contemplate
ed restoring the original fare, when the
Chief Justice Waite, with streams of
smoke pouring from her smokestaclls
and six tugs in tandem fashion to as
sist her through the water turned ont
of the harbor and headed for the Van
Buren, street pier. High up on the
hurricane deck and resembling main
sail of schooner was huge sign with
| the announcement: Free ride to Man
haitian beach. Get off the earth and
come on the water. You don't
need to swallow the lake. Booze,
booze, booze; all you want, free, free,
free" Manager Newman hastily en-
ployed dozen deckhands to improvise
banner, and this is what appeared
above the smokestack of the Ivanhoe
in large, rough lettering; Bathing
suits and rooms at the beach free.
Men may use cabin to put on costumes
and crack swimmers will be permitted
to dive from the pilot-house Sand
wiches, cigars, beer, ginger ale, root
beer and castor oil, all free" The
spirit of rivalry approached close to
the boiling point, but the presence of
policemen kept the wrangling cappers
from fighting More interesting de-
velopments are promised, when, it is
asserted, money will be offered pas
sengers who have not made up their
minds which line they will favor.
An Immense Brewing Combine.
NEW YORK, July 2s.-Further details
of the proposed combination of brew
cry interests have been obtained here.
Sixty-one breweries and malthouses in
Philadelphia, with an aggregate an
nual output of 1000, 600 barrels of beer,
have been approached by the Pennsyl-
vania Brewing Co., which is the nucleus
of the new industrial trust 1t is
learned that most of these concerns
have entered the combination. The
options were secured by j. p Persch,
of Philadelphia, acting for the capital
lists interested in the scheme. Options
on breweries in Pittsburgh, Pa, Roch-
ester, n. Y, and Detroit, Mich, have
also been obtained. The full extent
Of the new trusts project is so lit
tie known that nobody will
undertake an estimate of the
amount of capital the consolida-
tion will require. For the territory
in which operations now are known
to be in progress not less than $780,
0O9. 900 will be needed, and the annual
product will be more than twice as
great as the output of the English
syndicate's great properties, which is
nearly 6, 900, 900 barrels. The new syn
dicates work in New York has been
conducted with the greatest secrecy.
The consummation of the scheme is
said to depend upon the decision. soon
to be made, of the Pabst Brewing Co.
and the Anheuser-B Busch Co. of St
Louis. These are the largest proper
ties outside of the English syndicate
and are held to be necessary to the
success of any project to unite the
American breweries into u single trust.