The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-08-14
FALL OFF IN GIN 1MPoRrAr1ovs.
Gin Manufacture Growing in This Country
Has Gin Medicinal Properties?

Gin Manufacture Growing in This Country
Has Gin Medicinal Properties?
The United States has In abundance every
essential requisite for the manufacture Of gin
and only one deficiency in the line OF making
such manufacture profitable and popular-a
dearth Of gin drinkers. Americans. unlike
Englishmen and Hollanders two nationaIlties
from which largely. and. in New York city. origi-
nally the American population descended), do
not like gin. They have no taste for it. They
do not favor It as a stimulaut. They are skep-
teal as to its medicinal advantages. They pre-
fer. usually. some other alcoholic beverage-if
drinkers.
Until q few years ago. indeed. the manufac-
ture OF gin had been confined to Holland and
England. but Of late years its manufacture has
been more extensively introduced hero. While
some American distillers claim to produce a
purer. finer and better grade of gin than any
imported, they have as yet failed to produce,
even by means OF the Holland process" so
called. an article equal to 1t. But that they
have made some headwav Is clear from the
Custom House figures. which show how Of late
years there has been, in the importations Of
HOLLAND gin. IA decided decrease. The i'm
portations. indeed. continue to grow less
year by year. The reasons assigned are
the increased demand for domestic gin,
the difference in price occasioned by
the duty. and the growing inclination
to substitute a cheaper for a dearer article.
The receipts Of Holland gin at the port OF New
York for 1901 were $4,000 gallons In wood
and 5000 dozen gallons in glass. In 1895 the
imports in wood had decreased 80 per cent. a
loss only partly made up by the slight gain in
WHICH has been going on almost for centuries
on the +" rum question " is a question Of the use
of or abstentton from the use of the beverage
rum The gin question is OF quite another
sort. Is gin a drink. or a medicinc2 Has 1t
r rsal an medicinal aIansa P iS4 edFttIIet,e9prs y ! t hbe u ssiIsrs only GyE
Gin can an hardly be- oyorestImSfed'' T ffss'e oil q
juniper Is one Of tho most powerful OF all
prescribed by physicians IN cases where other
The. Juniper tree Is twenty feet high, Il grows
In Italy and Switzerland, and In tho latter
country gin had rs origin, It was grst named
abbreviation gin" In Holland. however, and
in England the mapgtaet1Ee Of gin has been
time successfully compelling,
A mae mSsk Rf IS pssp al Of % %aitod barley y a srd%P eys
meal, IN the proportion OF one-third barley and
tt S9pa4atar @ Sf i6 Etth t SftsI pI% mias % w cofS w st :
is added, and, when the heat Is, reduced to so,
or one hall, the whole Is run into the ferment-
i ndae Sf'' r %@,Se Ioa, .ssPpte'sd Rf1'9 sns Ss sS Snd II i
two days is complete. although nearly one-third
tt3tMigpSiI Is the a"s small Sp1Ii'I propoTtion 'of yeast sst" sm.
ployed. The mash is distilled and Rfterward
redistilled with the addition OF juniper berries
and salt sometimes hops are added. The ina
product Is run of into large underground ciS,
terms lined with porcelain tiles. whore II can be
kept Indefinitely. II Is drawn OF, as required
into casks which have been previously treated
to retain the c~olorless water appearance OF cir
and it's peculiar smoky flavor. One reason
probably, why gin has not been popular In thii
country Is that the taste for II seems limited 4
moist humid. foEgy localities. where the at