The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-08-16
LIQUOR DEALERS BREWERY
Protective League Will Buy a
Building and Make Beer.

The committee appointed by the Liquor
Dealers Protective League, of the State
Of New Jersey, cosisting of Thomas B.
Crotty, chairman; Gus. yogel, of New
ark; Philip Treist, Paterson; Henry Van
Derweryke, Gutenberg; NJ. Gebhart, Ho-
boken; J. Lachner, Weehawken; julius
Cohen. Union Hill: William E. Throne.
Bayonne, and August Kohl, Orange, for
the purpose of selecting a suitable spot
for the erection Of a brewery, to do away
with the extra dollar of war tax on each
keg of beer, held a meeting Sunday after
noon at Thirteenth and Henderson
streets. The scheme to build vas aballd-
oned, the purchase of a brewery ready
for use being though more advisable. A
subcommittee of three was therefor APP
pointed by the chairman to select a
brewery and make a report to the Com
mittee of the Whole.
The subcommittee has made great pro-
gress so far, and has already inspected
two buildings, one of which will more
than likely be selected within the next
ten days, and articles of Incorporation
will be formed. The place selected will
not be made public until the next meeting,
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Thirteenth and Henderson streets. The
brewery will be located in Hudson
county.
It's quite evident that the Lembeck &
Betz Brewery of this city is doing little
worrying over the newssthat q new brew
ing company is being incorporated to do
business in Jersey City, and which is to
fight the breweries which are in a pool.
Mr.. Henry Lembeck, the senior member
Of the firm, was out of town when sought
this morning, but his son had something
to say which indicated thai the new
brewery was not feared. He said
I'VE will wait until the so-called new
company receives its papers of incorpora-
ton and when we see that it has the
cash up, ready to do business, we will
then act. 1t may be a huge bluff to try
and scare the brewers"
AZ prominent Greenville liquor dealer,
who is in a position to talk about the
proposed new brewery, said last evening
that he did not believe the new brewery,
if organized, could sell beer for $5.25 a
barrel, as had been stated. THE ma
jority of the saloon keepers" he said,
do not. own w cents worth of fixtures
in their places of business, they being
mortgaged very heavily to the breweries.
Now the question is, if any saloon keep
ers want to change over and buy beer
from the new concern, the mortgaged
stock and fixtures will be taken away
from them.
ssThe new brewery, in order to serve
them with beer will have to reft their
places for them. and in almost every
case that costs from $500 to 81 1000. This
strain on their treasury I don't believe
they could stand for any length of time,
and consequently the firm would go to
the wall. The price OF beer is now 81 a
barrel, and how the price can be re
duced to S5.25. when the war tax is $1.S5,
/ cannot understand. Then again, if a
man is doing a fair business and wants
To change over, his customers would not
think much of him when they saw his
place of business being cleared of its fix
lures and others put in. The war tax
is hard, / admit, and very few feel it
more than I, but I would not change to
buy the cheaper beer for many reasons.