Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-08-04

| anu tho thc tie ' tSttS Makes S,uuu tfNr-
ris a nay--An Acre OF Bottlcs--rabsts
aoo Horses, 1900 Employees, and 100
! Carloads vt Hecr bay atrimony
! Cuts u Figure In These Big Conccrns
! Madison, Wis, Aus, al never drank
Hlass W beer in my l|to, and purpose
| to 50 the rest Of the way peerless; and
as one who feels in no way sympathet-
&c with the business hut regards the
! smoke of n distillcry as the vapor Of
hell ana the fumes ~ Saod beer as cut
on the Same piece. there are natural
! ly things | could describe much more
| Interestingly than n brewery, Never
| theleSs the brewing industry is great
fact and one " the seeming corner
stones Of Wseonsn's prosperity, So
| purpose 10 tell OF what | saw one hYight
Afternoon IN Milwaukee, Nothing that
! pertains 10 man is foreign to these let
| tiers,
There arc eight brewing concerns In
milwaukee, and g,lOO hreweries in the
United states; and the biggest VI them
| Is rahsts, unc-thirtN third of the
whole output ~ his, 1t IS a city in itself
| It's "cream" brick buildings, covered
With dust until they present the APP
pearancc or the qualifications OF an old
world castle, cover seven city blocks,
| Even M ono approaches the plant On
| Ninth street, on Grand avenue, there
are promises Of the business, The nd
Nerttstng rlacards OF oNe announce a
| cHrhoutc pump Witch viii initiate the
beverage 80 that any dealer may easily
clear an extra 81 per barrel Tie pays
for II about 81, In the rahst concern
nro employed 1000 mon women and
| children II viii make nearly 100000
| barrels this Ncar-oNCr 1900 barrels
day. Formerly the revenue duty was
| 81 n harrel; under the nnRley war tax
| htll II Is S. n barrel, 80 that this year
| knClc sam viii have nearly $2,000,O0O,
which win 20 u lonE ways toward build
| ing " hattlcship from this one COM
| pany, In years past the concern has
turned In some ST., 0O0. GOO In revenue du-
| ties aimee 1864, which, 1t Ia calculated,
would pay the salaries OF all presidents
of the nation IN the past CT was raised
| from SIS coo to $4,000 In Grants time
| 1879 and leave n fund TO meet the
presidential roll for iN years to come,
Hrcwrrics Fay Sa,0oO.0O "a Uncle SAM.
This year II IL estimated that Mil
waultcr hrowerics viii turn In $4,000
0e0 for governmental duties, No won-
der that to those who eliminate the eth
Teal element, brewing is n great national
| industry and brewers are philanthropy
lists,
But started to relate the enormous
totals OF this colossal single plant Ii
has stable of the finest, biz horses--
| gray Normans, M a rule--of 400 head.
| The building IL perfectly equipped, It's
| superintendent IL one of the most skilled
| horscmCn In the state, Under him Ia a
| STAFF Of veterinarians and smart negro
! stable boys and drivers, II requires
some seventy great wagons To drag the
| output To the railroad stations and
| beats, for this beer goes Ia South Az
rica and Australia and the islands of
the gen; and from sixty TO 100 carloads
seine days four great trains Of twenty
five cars Cnrh@+afn required to trans
pert the beer to the thirsty trade. and
| the freight hill Is 5000 year The
capital stock Of the company IL $4,000
| 600 The plant has forty distributing
| branches mot saloons. mind Sou--but
vholosalIng dlarIbutnE uentors IN ns
many cities, owned and controlled by
! the home office, under Nnlarled officers.
| paid from the home office, In addition
| there are COO who purchase this beer eN-
| Clusivcly and net as wholesalers, This
IL the Standard on plan, In New York
| city Is an extensive bottllng plant.
| And yet our socialist agltators never
| throw up their hands and never long
to have the brewing magnutes go! The
concern spends $1,000 II day In advcrtis-
ing, md while | NnR there nrtiats came
to submit designs. beautiful and cost
| ~, for some ~ the most ornate and ef~
feCtlvc art Is dedicated to the brcwcrlcs,
The Schlt2 concern is next In size In
| Milwaukee, with an output Of about
two thirds as big or course, each
brand las Ita enthusiastic adherentA
| The Gentleman concern Is smaller one,
| its claim being that the process OF ma
turing the grain is n natural one
| tslowcr) The origin az snme Of these
gr, at brewing enterprises interested
Inc. The plants began In n small way
with aome presumably honest old Ger
man. bringing from the futhcrland tho
honorable traditions OF the craft an1
n skin at It.
Cupid Plays Part. ~
! Marriage with n daughter was the
| step Ia success OF n number OF them,
and attention 10 business and the ca
pncity for executive detail were fol-
lowed by the expanding Of plant and
multiplying OF output. And now the
Milwaukee and ST. Louis brewing fam.
lilies are intermarrying and American
life IL witnessing the evolution OF brew
Ing masters. II not OF moist arstocra.