The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-07-17
LAW FOR BOTTLERS.
Penalty for Stealing or Defacing Any
Marked Bottles.

Penalty for Stealing or Defacing Any
Marked Bottles.
Says the Hartford Courant: The
bottle which holds the soda water, root
beer, ginger ale, lager beer or other
cooling drinks for the summer Is the
vehicle for the transmission OF the
drinks to you from the bother, and
that is ALL 1t does not belong to you
to keep for other purposes and, what
is more, you cannot buy it or the DOT
tiers, and If you have made deposit
say of ten cents, for each bottle' the
deposit is by no means a purchase
price, but a guarantee that you VIII
return the bottle to the retailer aller
you have empted it of its original con-
tents. This has been SO for some years,
but there has been no law to enforce
the property rights Of the bother.
The general assembly, at its last ses-
sion. passed a law which covers the
point exactly and hereafter when
bottle having the trade mark or regis
tered description, made public by the
bother, gets into your possession !.
means that if you do not return II
when you have made yourself cool by
drinking it's contents of aerated anu
favored moisture, you have mace
yourself liable for fifty cents penalty
for it's detention and for second Of
tense Of like nature to a penalty OF 81
And if you should happen to have de-
tanned one dozen bottles that means
fifty cents for each bottle or 81 Tor
each bottle for the repetition of like
offense A Jail sentence may also DC
imposed. This looks a little severe at
first hand, but it serves not only as a
protection to the property of the bot
tier, but also as a proectlon 10 Inc
consumers of such drinks, and they
are numbered by the millions through
out the country.
The possibility of purchasing bottles
for ND homemade drinks, like pool
beer is in nowise interfered with by
the law but the bottles must be Wha'
are technically known as blanks
that is, without any trade marx OF
registered popularity. The law appleS
TO bottles with all devices for stop
pers the siphon stopper, the spring
rubber cork in it's many forms and the
/ ordinary CUM
The law, after this provision OF re-
gistration, makes it penalty Tor any
one to deface or obliterate the deVlc'
upon the bottles or siphons, or to rem
with any Of the compounds which TN
nronrietors have a right o fill them, O
IA b,lv or sell such bottles, the penalt.
TO he fifty cents for each bottle ana
for each bottle for the repetition OF TN
offense. or by imprisonment for thlrt.
DAVIS All other Violations of the law ar
punished by the same penalty ant
thew include the violation OF detentlol
Of the bottles without the consent 0
the proprietor. The law has sectlol
which provides that the requiring
giving or accepting OF any sum
money as deposit for security 10
the safe keeping and return OF any po'
tie. box or siphon shall not be deeme
or constitute a sale of, such proper!
either optional or otherwise, in an
nroceedng under his act unless sue
written consent as aforesaid be given.
This is lust he point that has given
much trouble, the deposit of money D
the consumer having been considere
by him as an option on the ownershi
If the bottle and by the proprlete
sinply as a guarantee for its return