The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-09-07
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NEW BREWERY IN SIGHT
The Money Necessary Said
to Be Nearly AL
Subscribed.

Those OF the saloon keepers in this city
would be impossible to establish an inde-
pendent brewery here may rest assured
that before very long two new independ-
erf breweries vii be started, one in tilis
city ana one in New York. The New York
concern is already under way, and the
prospects for one here within a few
weeks are very bright. More than 100000
have been subscribed for it by New York
ers and the money is now in
the hands of a trust company
in New York The money will
be held until s150,o00 has been sub
scribed when the work of building will
begin in earnest. The committee in
charge Of the project, which is composed
OF few Jersey City men, will so to
New York this afternoon to look at sew
eral sites. This information is given by
one of those closely connected with the
movement.
Probably the news that a movement is
on foot to purchase a brewery in this,
city will please the majority of retail
project is to force the breweries that are
in the pool to the wall by underseiling
them. A member of the committee who
is looking after the details of the new
movement said to a News reporter this
morning that a new brewery will cer-
tainly be started here. Just how much
has been subscribed for it, he said
II cannot tell you just yet, but
you may say that the brewery
will be under way long before
the New York brewery Is erected. We
have looked at several brewery sites in
this city and I am almost certain that
the old brewing building at the top of
the hill, at First street and Hoboken ave-
nue., will be bought, This building was
formerly occupied by the Roemelt &
Leicht Company and has a storage capac-
ity of some 5000 barrels The vault is
cut into the solid rock. We can fit this
building up for very little money in COM
parison to what 1t would cost to erect a
new one.
ssYes, we can save nearly $4,000 by put
ting machinery in there which is capable
Of producing some $4,000 barrels of bear
yearly. We can furnish a good quality
of beer at a very reasonable price, and
make money We can greatly undersell
the breweries that are NOW in pool, and
we will not charge the additional 81 a
barrel If our plant can turn out 80, 900
barrels of beer annually our profit Will pc
that many dollars although we gre2tiy
undersel the other firms. Even il the ad-
6litionaI war tax is taken off we can sell
as cheaDly as the rest, but the firm Will
be a strictly independent one.
The speaker then went on to say that
he had Investigated the process of brew
ing beer and found that enormous proHtS
are realized in spite Of the fact that the
brewers claim that the days of big profits
are things of the past. Even counting
in the wear and tear on horses, wagons
out that one firm can make big money
and not charge the retailers the war tax.
He further said that a meeting for the
purpose of deciding upon the selection OF
a building would be held today, but that
he was sure the place he had spoken or
would be purchased.
The speaker was quite enthusiastic over
the project and said that the new firm
in this city would be well supplied with
funds to set up men in business and that
beer will be sold to any who wish to
buy. The New York firm and that in this
city viii be distinct
Those behind the new firms have often
said that success was assured, and that
they could not fail to come out on top OF
the heap. The information will double
less greatly surprise the brewers who
are in the pool, for the mater was Kept
very quiet, it not even being spokenof
at the Liquor Dealers meeting in Union
Hill. yesterday. for fear that it would get
TO the breweries.
ssT'hose at the head of the established
firms have often spoken disparogingly of
the movement to start a new and inde-
pendent firm to fight them, said one con-
nected in the movement, ''but they will
find out that we are deadly in earnest
this time