The St. Johns herald., 1900-11-03
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 Docs all of the AmerIcsA-growa champaign go into bottles in Amerie4, and is it sold as what 10 is. or does it pretend to be of French origin9
 What in partieulsr suggests thsa question, says the Chicago Chroaies> is the statement recently made bg visitor to the New York state wine district that whatever may bs said about the wine itself, the ohsApsSns bottle cannot be made in America- A member of one of the leading New York bottle manufacturers said. wksa asked what he thought of this ssaser ment: "For ourselves. we dOnS try to make champagne bottles: beer eos- ties are more in our line. But doEe believe champagne bottles can bs s0s- cessfully made anywhere in this eOozs- try. A champagne bottle is expsceed to be of certain recognized Eree3 color and . certain tapering torHa- We can get the form. Of course. and we can get the color pretty nsarlyS but we cannot get that brilliancy ia the glass which you find in French bottle, combined with s1HcicEs strength" -
 Another manufactures took the ~isso that the question Of ability cr iE- ability to equal the French b0tslss with bottles of American sand ts irR- material. because the supply of soa, ond-hand chsmpagns bottles h fclly equal to the demand.
 From these two statements ik sP- pears that the growers of AnerieaA champagne in Cslifornis. Nov YerE and Ohio must be content with ectties that have already done service la bringing the wine of Rheims to this country. A bottle dealer in New York says. that this is undoubtedly the case. -ssfreH
 "This frm," he said, is the largeAt firm of bottle deaiers In the United States. We ship, even in slack times. from three to four car loads of sec ond-hand champagne bottles wsek- A car load Is from Sso ts 900 grosa-~ This means, of course. about 1so.eo0 bottles a week. or f.soo, 900 bottles a year. ..
 The destination of this mighty army of bottIes?s The dealer begge6stO bs excused from giving particulars Soma of the bottles find their Yay to Cali fornia, but it was gathered that much of the bottling is done inENew York And the much more interesting fEst was elicited that 6 large number ck bottles which come to America ss champagne bottles degenerate to tAs base uses of beer. This is one result of the war with Spain and the rescue of Cuba. Beer is now largely export ed to Cuba in ex-champagne bottlss. which seems to prove the assertion Of the bottlemal1er that there is no de- mand for such bottles st first hand for American-made champagne.
 The enormous numbers quoted bJ the bottle dealer suggests strong rs- factions, melancholy e the total sb- stainer, on the bibulousness of this great city. It must not be assumed. however, that all the 7,60o, 900 annual dead men" shipped by this firm popped their corks within the Hmits of New York city, Many of these come from other cities. But kka greater number lie as the door of New. York, where the janitors and bartenders put them. Besides. Kip ling's description of Fuzzy Wuzzy- Els all 'ot sand and ginger when alive. And 'e's generally shamraIn' whsr s's
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 applies in both points to a bsttle Of champagne. It becomes dead man only to be washed in huge whole sale way by either the dealer or the bottler and filled up again with ''fiz1~ in some mysterious way. So very like " the same bottle is sold full popped. emptied, sold empty. washed and filled again as often ss half dozen times in one year. This is . terrible record of giddy dissipation for the bottle. 1t reconciles decent Amsri- cans to the thought that such bottles cannot be made out of American min erals.