Washington sentinel., 1901-03-16
Haotes

The Kansas City Brewing Co, has
been Incorporated with a capital o.
SISo,ooo. The brewery will have a
$4,000 barrel capacity, and IS to be ready
Iuly I.
AN ordinance has been adopted by
believed. will make it impossible Tor the
''joiDtists" to do business in that city.
The ordinance makes it unlawful to
treat a friend to a drink of liquor 4 a
private house. A man is declared to be
guilty of violating the ordinance If he
is found IN place where liquor is sold.
The ordinance does not require that an
actual sale shall be proved Heavy
fines and imprisonment Of 80 to 10 days
in jail are the penalties Tor violations ot
the ordinance.
"A St. Louis brewery has Just been
awarded the contract for furnishing the
Soldiers Home canteen with a special
brew of beer after April I. Six hundred
thousand beer tickets have just been
received at the home in books, their
value beng S2o. 900.
-ASsemblyman Steelman, of Cum
berland County, wants to make 1t
misdemeanor in New Jersey for one
man to buy another drink of liquor.
He has introdu ced in the Legislature a
bill which prohibits treating Many
members are disposed to vote for the
bill.
They will do this, not because they
are opposed to tippling themselves, but
because they believe that it would be
a good thing for every man to buy his
own whistle wetting material. It is
characteristic Cf the members Of this
Legislature to hold on to their money
1t is known as 1.-THE close isted' Legis
lature. The church people are for it,
and the saloon keepers are against 1t.
1t promises to be one Of the most impor
tant measures OF the session.
The Atlas Brewing Co, of Pitts.
burgh, Pa, was chartered at Harrlsburgh |
with a nominal capital Of 600 Direc. |
tors: Henry Wessing Parkway; John
V. Ebel, Pittsburgh, and Herbert B
Davis, Williamsburg, Pa.
The excise department OF the Rus
sian Ministry of Finance, which has /
charge OF the alcohol monopoly, has OF
late been having trouble with with the /
manufacturers of corks. The latter
to form a trust against the
Government in order to compel it to
accept exorbitant prices This attempt
failed; but the department determined,
in order to avoid similar occurrences, to
open cork factory OF its own. The
results afforded by tests made on a
small scale and under unfavorable cir-
have proved quite satisfac.
tory.
The yearly consumption Of the excise
department is about six billions OF corks;
he Government intends tor the present
o produce two billions. AS some OF
he largest cork factories are situated in
he United States, it is quite possible
hat A merican experience and ingenuity
nay have devised improved machinery
or the production of eorks. in which
.ase the manufacturer ofsuch machinery
would now have good opportunity of
,fierIng his services.
The John Smiths Sons, OF Youngs-
own, o.. have sold to S. Wainwright
nd J. J O'ReillY, OF Pittsburgh. Pa,
heir brewery for $50. .ooo Under the
Id name a company is being organized
nth a capital of $500, 900, and extensive
improvements will be made TO double
ne capacity of the plant,
A brewing company, OF Toledo, o., Z
as secured an injunction restraining 1
tanislaus Grudzlnski, saloon keeper.
om selling other beer but that of the r
laintiff, The claim was that the brew !,
~ started the saloonkeepsr up in ,
usiness on condition that he use their :
eer exclusively. An attempt will be b
ade to dissolve the injunction. q,
-ArraDgeme nts are being perfected
r the construction OF the new bre wing
ant in Kansas City, Mo; George
eyer, of St Louis, one Of the men "
in the new enterprise, is b
perintendipg the work. The buildings F
i'll cost about SG4o,o 900 and work will
sgin in very short time.
The higher tax which is to be levied -,
] grains and hops seriously threatens b,
e brewing industry OF Germany. l
e proposition OF the Bayerischen
opfenbau Vereins is accepted, the
riff on hops will be raised from IA
ark to 100 mark per double hundred -,
eight. Several associations, for in ar
ance the hop growers association in PI
lsace, have'seriouslY protested against 81
is. Another danger threatening the
ewers is the Increased brewing tax.
,veraI associations have been con
antly petItioning for law WI ich pro
bits the use ofsubstitutes, the Minister o.
Finance is reported to favor such a :.
", but he stated that the brewing tax =,
Duld then be increased. =,
"A new brewery is to De established ~
Los Angeles, Cal. 1t will be organized h
der the name OF the FIRED, Helm an
ewing Co., OF Los Angeles" and is pr
at $4,000 Beer, ale and ~
rter are 20 be brewed. ne
One Of the recent inventions tried NJ
the British soldiers IN South Africa pu
called "solid beer" tits Jelly made
I'm malt and hops, from which beer
n be made anywhere and fermented, in
:. 80 -, - av,alie,, beer and IN CO
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