Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-12-02
Sight Seeing.


''As you are Sightseeing you ought to
| see the Anheuser-Busch brewery,
which is one of the largest establish
ments of the kind in the United States,
| if not in the world A young man
sitting at the table said, Il ain going
/ up to the city in the morning and will
show you around"
So the next morning we took the
| electric car and were soon there. for
it does not take long to go a few miles.
As we left the car right at the An
| heuser establishment we went into the
reception room which is nicely fitted
up with the most costly seats with
| crimson and gold cushions and backs
to the seats. The walls of the room
were covered with handsome paint
| ings, and lying open on the desk was
large register where all visitors
were expected TO register their names
and places of residence. As we enter
ed the Office we saw quite a number
Of ladies and gentleman seated around
the room. Soon the floor walker
came and saw how many there were
of u.s. / think there were nine ladies
and seven gentlemen. A fine, hand
somely dressed young man came and
said, s'follow me-" First he took us
through the office where all of the
book keepers were and then into a
round room where were fine paintings
and the statute of the organization of
this establishment, and all around the
room way up was a row of heads OF
moose, caribou, elk, deer, and all
kinds of animals heads that wear
horns, and such a collection of horns |
never saw. Next we went through
the carriage rooms where were car
riages of all sorts with tires like a bi-
cycle, and such a fine collection you
would not see except at the fair, and
over on one side was the harness room
with glass doors, and plated harness of
all sorts to fit each kind of carriage.
At every room were men and women
sweeping or wiping down the things
under their care. Not bit of dirt
was to be seen, and at every door we
saw notices in gilt frames, Gentle
men, please do not expectorate- on the
floor
After We had been shown all that
was to be seen IN this great building
we were taken across the street to an
other great building through a great
archway to the wagon room where all
of the great wagons were kept, and
such lot, all made just alike and all
painted just alike. | do not know
how many their were, for most all of
the teams were out on the street at
work | only saw two or three in che
shed and few of the horses that be-
long to each wagon. But saw good
many of the teams at work in different
parts of the city and St. Louis doesn't
own any finer horses than | saw at
that stable. Every pair was just as
near like as it was possible to get. |
saw that big team of four blacks that
stood out In the streets last year dur
ing the cyclone and finer team l new
er saw. l thought | had seen fine
horses before, but nothing to be com
pared to this time. | don't think this
team does any work, only stands
around for show, as did not see them
at work at all, only standing all alone
at different places at different times.
After we had seen the horses we were
taken through the great ware rooms
where we saw hundreds and thousands
of boxes of bottles, and farther along
great logs like those | saw at the bas-
ket factory last year; farther along we
saw one of these great logs in a lathe
that cut off thin strip of wood not
thicker than coarse packing paper.
Then sheets of wood we're cut into
widths just as wide as a beer bottle is
high. These sheets are to wrap the
bottles in before they were packed for
shipment.
Next we were shown through a long
room. First. we saw a machine for
washing bottles. At one side of the
machine was a large tub of water
where one man put the empty bottles
and two other men, one on each side
of the machine, stuck the bottles, that
we're partly full of water, on rods that
just fit the neck of the bottle, four on
each side. AT movement of lever
the machines went back and forward
as fast as you could count which made
the water fairly foam. In a minute
the machine was stopped and the bot
ties removed aud the rods refilled.
Then the bottles were then taken into
the filling room. Here we saw long
row of men and boys. some seated,
some standing. At one place we saw
four pipes come out of the back of
what looked like a side board. A man
stood there and as fast as he could
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