The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-03-01
COFFEE BY THE CAR LOAD
CUrFEE FOR MORNING, NOON
AND NIGHT.
COFFEE ROASTED IN CASESzGALORE
Coffee Cracked and Uncracked- Coffee
Strong and Coffee Weak--Coffee.
Coffee, Coffee, Coolies
of Coffee.

Il could have sold the penitentiary
that lot of cuffee and made a fair profit
myself and saved the State just three
hundred and twenty dollars" said Il
prominent Raleigh grOceryman yester-
day.
He was referring to the recent pur-
chase by the penitentiary of ear load
of coffee, as printed exclusively in Sun
days News and Observer.
THAT was a coffee transaction from
away back" remarked another Raleigh
dealer, "and is another instance Of how
these new smart alecks, like Wihbish
and Mewborne, ignore the North Caro-
lima tax-paying dealers and go out of
IT, State and get picked up by outside
dealers.
Bought it, why of course they
bought it, said another groceryman land
unless the shippers of their own accord
let them out of the shipment the State
will have it to pay for and in go days
there is not grocery merchant in RAJ
eigh who knows his business that would
give 212 cents a pound for it; for every
well informed groceryman knows that
even the best quality of roasted coffee
rapidly depreciates in strength and in
value when it is kept ON hand longer
than a month or So" One Raleigh deal
er exhibited to a News and Observer
reporter a sample of what is known as
crack grain roasted coffee, which he said
the penitentiary people admitted was
superior to the coffee bought by them
1t is what is known as the screenings
from around big coffee roasting estab-
lishment-broken grains chop, &C., sift-
ed from the coffee.
But the penitentiary, has got it by
the cart load, Wimbish, the new buyer
did the great order act and ordered
coffee like the old fellow ordered candle
moulds-by the gross instead of by the
dozen. 1t is said that dealer wrote
the penitentiary offering $50 c. of
crack grain coffee at 615 cents per
pounds and thinking it a borgain VIM
bish sat down and ordered
the whole caboodle. The cof-
fee came, it came in hurry-One
pounds. Wimbish could perhaps have
bought a single case from any dealer
in ltaleigh, who handles it, for less than
the price paid, but he thought perhaps
that he could beat a Raleigh or North
Carolina grocery merchant all-to-holler-
buying coffee and die would just show
them trick or two that during all their
years of experience they had failed to
catch on to. Now he is wondering how
in the Inauguration he can turn loose
that car load of cracked coffee. 1t would
take 1,200 convicts over year to drink
it if each convict should drink three
cups a day. If they should be given cOf-
fee only at breakfast and supper it
would take year and half to drink it,
and if it was made like the ordinary
boarding house coffee it would be the
end of the Mewborne- Wimbish admins
tration before the last of the great cOf-
fee purchase was be consumed. 1t
would take a pot holding over one
hundred and fifty thousand gallons to
boil it in. 1t would take a grist mill
grinding at the rate of ten bushel a day
over month to grind it, and it would
take over fifty barrels Of sugar to sweet
en- IT,
One gentleman said yesterday that he
felt like going and asking Jno. r.
Smiths pardon for all that he had ever
said about him.