The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-03-11
FORTUNES By BEER
There Are Beer-Princes and
One Beer-PrincesS.
SOME STARTLING FIGURES
Which Give an Idea of the
Amount Consumed.

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startling picture Of the wealth and power
OF the brewing kings of the city and OF
its one brewery queen.
The humble beginnings Of these mil
Honaires, the way they drifted into the
brewing business. and the magic growth
of their wealth make tale as dazzling
as those told in fairy books.
James Everard is q Dublin boy who
talks OF Ireland with a touch of pride.
He was six years old when he came to
New York, and he became IN turn brick
layer, a stage hand, and a policeman.
He was a man CT fair wealth when in
1876 his agent bought at a real estate sale
the brewery OF Thomas Whitney.
Everard did nor know what 10 do with
the brewery and consulted Sheridan
Shook, then prominent Tammany poll
ticisn
keep right on brewing beer" said he.
Everard did Soon wagons appeared on
the streets lettered: "Eyerard & Shook,
Brewers"
Where's your brewery shook?" asked
a Tammany politician one day.
Il don't know. I've never Tteen there.
Jim Everard is running things" he re-
ahed
George Ehret came from Germany in
1851 He had no money and started TO
work in A. HupfePs brewery on small
salary. He was an expert brewer and
soon became foreman. In 1856 he estab-
lished what has since been known as the
Hell Gate Brewery, and is now worth
| SI5,ge0,00
Jacob Ruppert's father owned the old
Turtle Bay Brewery, a small establish
ment in which he started as a brewery
hand In 1866 he sold it for S300,00O and
| started another on larger scale. Rup-
pert is now worth s10,o00O00.
! Peter DoeIger worked himself up from
/ the vaults of a brewery. He opened
| saloon and then went into business for
himself In twenty-five years he has
made Ss0d0-o00 by catering to the growing
/ taste for malt beverages
New Y0rk's brewery frfncess. Mrs.
Josephine Schnnid, found herself eight
Years ago, on the death of her husband,
in control OF property worth 5000 900.
Mrs. Schnid decided to continue the bus
mess.
There were 100000 barrels Of beer
brewed in New York last year. There is
a round profit for the brewer Of 81 on
each barrel sold. So $4,000 is divided
annually between the brewers. big and
little
Each quarter barrel Of beer or q small
keg, averages 100 glasses. There are 400
glasses in a barrel
In the 7O00, 600 barrels of beer used last
year Of New Yorks brew there were o.
500, 100000 glasses. Take the average
breadth Of ponies, glasses and 'schoon-
ers' as three inches, and it viii be seen
that if all the beer brewed in New York
in one year was placed in glasses and
the glasses placed side by side the line
of beers would extend about 1873. 900 miles
Placed on the equator they would ex-
tend around the earth four and a half
times
AT five cents a glass, New York's beer
sells for $1i000Oo00 a year.
If the beer were poured into a schooner
as big as the biggest sky-scraper in New
York it would fill it nearly six times.
The Park Row building is used for this
computation 1t is on a plot Of ground
lot feet by l53 feet. and IS S9e feet in
height, not counting the towers The
building therefore contains sos. 92s cubic
feet The T0Go000 barrels contain nearly
y GO cubic feet.
Or again, one years product OF beer
would Ill a schooner $50 feet high-the
Brooklyn Bridge from pier to pier is L595
feet
Some OF the hands in the brewerfes
drink, on an average. eighty glasses Of
beer a day. and keep it up for years.
If a man were to live a very long life
h. - Erfr an
brewed IN New York in one year hs
would have 10 pour down 2.se1. 500
glasses. Even at eighty glasses q dav
It would take him, working 500 days in the
year aud allowing him 10 so 10 church
or Sundays, 55.eoooo0 working days or rs
655 years TO complete his task
The millionaire brewers Of New York
parJake Of but little Of their own BRO
duct. They are ali housed in magnificent
mansions, ard live alongside the homes
OF the Earderoilts. Gerrys and other
families Of social and financial fame.
New York's brewing princess. Mrs. JOS
ephiue Schmi3. lives II a large mansion
a. the corner OF Sixty-second street and
Fifth avenue. Mrs Schulid owns moro
saloons than any other woman in Amer
lea She IS about Gfty years q age. hut
does not appear 10 be o.',- thirty-:zve-
Two days il the week arc devoted %
looking after her business interests.
Mrs SchUid's investments cover over
sixty sa5ocr corners. some Of tie best n
the city Ee- residence on FTfrh avenue
IS below that Of Col John Jac7o Axtcr
and above rhae II Commodore Gerry.
The Rupert properties are nov io5kzi
AFTER By Jacob Prr7u4~- = re - ,,-f,-
lhirrT-two years = age. BUS OF his
shoulders have been placed 5f7 burdens
I SIae0.ae e family wealth ycu7z
Ru77e-t * a club man Re has 4 steam
yacht. The AlbaJross ard n The race
tracks ths RUPERT eol0rs have sesa car
red 20 victory frequently 5,lrin- the past
lew years Re owns la-Ee stock szlui
rear Pougakeepsts-
his fastest runner Is Ajax. the winner
O. many purses a. IRE .z-ze .rsrxs- Hs
also owns san Domingo. van3-a. Caro-
Ina and Sig Trick
George Ea-et- although ssx-v-tvo years
e age stan spends his -I11e looking AFTER
he brewing - oee-. re has ~ late
yea-s adopted every tHlprcTez1ent IL beer
making He was GRE = tie zrse nez %
adopt The artificial making ct ice.
james Eve-a-i, TIE Ir.sh-bo-1 E7za-r
b1y who started lsee In his 13ua-rv as
q brick layer. lives n the Osborne uz7- ]
son az NJ. So F8fth avenue.
&c rye g Cla1ssa- TIE p-s<s-t ra~E
Commissions. * o-e q me best b-e< -
n the U1irea States. His aths- sent
him = Europe II 81 70 make eIsse
study q ne great English aa4 Ge-aa4a (