The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-12-07

sold to small dealers in the neighbor- hood, who sort and wash them, and
 turn them over to the wholesale deal
 CTS. The yard of one bottle shop ex-
 hibited a most bewildering variety. The cleansing is almost always done by hand after which the bottles are sorted and stored. One dealer keeps in his warehouse the enormous number of 5000,O00 bottles, shipping his stock to
 from various states in this country, and even acrossfthe Atlantic.
 Beer bottles and other registered
 bottles were once handled freely in the
 junk trade, and sold from the dumps
 to their original owners, or to any one else who cared to buy them. But
 through the agency of the Bottlers and
 Manufacturers Association of New
 York and similar organizations else
 where, laws have been passed making
 it a crime to deal in labelled and regis
 tered bittles. How important the bot
 ting interest is may be seen from re-
 cent report giving the capital invested
 in it as about $50,000, ,000; while the an-
 nual loss in bottles, in spite of all ef-
 forts to prevent it, amounts to nearly
 $4,000,G00. For some years the New
 York Association has had a contract
 with a member of the bottling trade for
 the recovery from the dumps of bottles
 belonging to its members. He arranges
 with the lessees of each dump for the collection of registered bottles, for which he pays a small price, afterwards wash ing and sorting them, and finally dellv- ering them at the exchange building Of the association, whence they are dis tributed to the members. The con- tractor receives fixed price for all bot ties accepted from him, the monthly cost to the association rising of late to nearly $1,0O0. The dump lessees get on- ly a small part of this sum-
 A portion of this money, also is paid for the recovery of bottles from the Brooklyn dumps in addition to the col lections made there for the Brooklyn and Long Island Association. More than 900 bottles are annually col- lected for these two associations. These figures do not cover all the registered bottles which the ecow -trimmers are prohibited from selling. There are many bottlers not members of any asso- citation, whose bottles are lawfully registered, and who make individual ar with the association con- tractor for the recovery of their proper ty from the dumps. This contractor has in his establishment more than 200 for holding the bottles of as many different bittlers of this class. The collections of this class of registered bottles are estimated by per sons acquainted with the trade as to at least 0,000 bottles an nually. Besides the two chief associa- tions named, there are in New York an association of mineral water manu- lecturers, whose members recover some bottles, and a federation of millkbot- Hers, who annual recoveries of bottles rom the dumps amount according to l former contractor, to about 100000
 About two-thirds of the registered bottles recovered by the association contractor are soda bottles; next come ager- beer bottles, amounting to less han one-quarter; while siphons, quarts, | md weiss beer bottles make up the re- nainder. Even the rubber stoppers on ,eer bottles are cleaned and used again, | ven when they come from the dumps. l low thoroughly the dumps are search | d will appear from the fact that even 1 broken glass has it's market value. l n the form of broken bottles and win low-glass more than 300 bags of this l material are collected each week, com handing a price of 10 cents a bag or yer $1.500 a year.-New York Evening 'oSt