The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-09-25

Six years ago there was no brewery
or ice factory, in Cape Girardeau.
There had been three breWeries hers
casper Uhlis, Ferd Hanny's aud
Fritz Henninger's-at one time, but
they were all shut down at that date
and st. Louis beer alone was handled.
Like the woollen mill and other man
~ufacturiBg enterprises of Cape Cirar-
deau they had all failed.
To establish the new Cape Girardeau
brewery a stock company was organ
lied with-a capital of s23. 500 and was
incorporated on November Is, 1891,
by Adolph Ruediger, ST., Frank w.
Feuerbacher aud Louis F. Kioster-
mann as the Cape Brewery and Ice
Company. The plant was entirely
renovated with the latest improved
machinery for brewing aud the ice
plant was also reftted for operations.
Mr.. Ruediger was made president of
the company. He was also the mana
lger OF the brewery and on his shrewd
head and broad shoulders developed
the main responsibility of bearing the
brunt of .the var waged re~lentlessly
against this home industry BY the
millionaire brewing firms ST. Louis.
Cincinnati and Milwaukee.
For a while the prospect looked
gloomy. Everything was against the
local brewery. Our citizens were
difhdent about patronizing its product
or purchasing its stock. The grit and
energy of the incorporates, aided by
the managers skill, finally prevailed.
Little byelittle the enterprise grew in
favor. To-day it controls practically
the entire local market. besides ship
ping large quantities of beer to other
inent citizens n among its stock
holders.
Until the present year. the brewery
Rnediger, ST., but that responsibility
has recently heen transferred to his
son, Elr. Adolph Ruediger, Jr., who
has provej his fitness forthe position
by graduating from the American
Brewing Academy, of Chicago, one
of the best in the world:
The growing demand for ice has led
to the invention of machines for its
manufacture in countries where the
home supply is insufficient. The arti-
fetal refrigeration of water is the
problem TO be solved. The required
low temperature is produced at the
Cape ice plant by vofatizing, that is
e~yaporating. amonia- The original
plant of the Cape Brewery and
Ice Co., has been more than
doubled in capacity within the past
two months and now produces from
to fourteen tons a day. rs
there are SEQ cans,each With a capac-
ity of 300 pounds, the output can be
increased whenever necessary. The
process of congelation is simple.
Water, which has been distilled to
kill the germs, is run through the re-
boiler through cooling pipes and
through a charcoal filter into the cold
storage tank. From this the cans are
automatically filled by means Of a
fiity-foot hose. These cans are next
plunged into tanks containing brine.
Around the interior surface of each
tank are cooled pipes containing con-
densed ammoniafrom tbecompressor.
1t is the evaporationof this compress
ed ammonia that causes the requisite
low temperatore and turns the distiil-
ed water in the cans into Ice. Brine
is used to float the cans because it re.
mains liquid at q lower temperature
than the freezing point OF water.
The most suggestive sfaet connected
with the Cape Brewery & Ice Company
that il has succeeded where others had
failed. This shows that the success
of an enterpriselargely depends onits
management. ~Itssuccess also demon
strates that the reason why Cape Cir
ardean has not other factories is not
because OF It's lack Of facilities but
because of its lack of the rightkind of
men to undertake and carry on such.
enterprises.
BAUER GROCER co.