The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-06-27
LEASE OF The BREWERIES.
PEER WILL NOT GO UP IN PRICE,
SAYS PRESIDENT GUCKENHEIMER.

The Combine VIII Go Into Eject
Next Tuesdny-Winter Brewing
Company VIII Sell Out Its Beer
and Plant VIII Then shut Down.
Georgia Brewery VIII Run During
the summer bat All Beer Will BE
Delivered by savannah Brewery.
MIR. Guckenheimer Says Beer Has
Been Sold Below Cost and SOme-
thing Had to Be Done.
The leases of the Winter Brewing
Company and the Georgia Brewing As
sociation were signed yesterday morn
ing On July l they will become ef-
fective, and the three brewery plants
of Savannah will be under the manage
1nent of the Savannah Brewing Com
panv.
The control of the three breweries by
the Savannah Brewing Company is to
continue ten years. The leases will
run for that period. The Savannah
Brewing Company and the Georgia
Brewing Association .oiat:y leased the
Winter Brewing Companys plant, and
the Savannah Brewing company LEASED
from the Georgia Association its plant,
business and good will and its rights
and interests in the Winter Brewing
Company. The arrangement is prac-
tically as announced in the Morning
News day or two ago,
President y. S. Guckanheimer of the
Savannah brewing Company was seen
yesterday about the deal lie said that
the Winter Brewing Company will be
allowed time in which 10 dispose of its
present stock, while the beer of the
Georgia Brewing Association will be
disposed of by the Savannah Brewing
Company. The Savannah Company will
not take charge of the Winter Brewing
Company's plant until after its stock
Of beer has been sold.
I'VE are not prepared to say what
we will do with the Winter plant"
said Mr.. Guckenheimer. while all
the beer will be delivered by the Sa-
vaunah Brewing Company, the plant of
the Georgia Brewing Association will
not be shut down this summer. Tor
the next sixty days, at all events, it
will continue in operation. AS to the
future, l can only say that we will be
governed by circumstances.
This arrangement, or some other
was absolutely necessary on account
of the unsatisfactory condition of the
beer business in Savannah for the last
six or eight months Beer has been
sold below the cost of production,
the prices of material being away up.
Coal has cost more, feed has cost more
and machinery and repairs have cost
more. Notwithstanding this, beer has
been sold cheaper than in any other
city in the South. The price in Sa-
vannah with or without competition,
has always been as low as that in any
Southern city. The Savannah Brewing
Company now pledges itself that prices
of beer, as well as of ice, will at no
time be excessive, or even high, while
ii is in business. There will be no
advance in the present price of either
beer or ice.
THE brewing companies, like any
other business organizations, are en-
titled to fair remuneration upon their
investments, and this could not be Sc
cured by a continuance of the three
separate breweries. The looked-for re-
Enumeration win not be secured by an
increase in price, but through economi-
cal savings in the conduct of the busi-
ness. The policy of the Savannah
Brewing Company has always been
most liberal, and it's treatment Of it's
friends will in no wise be changed.
1T is distinctively a home organizatio
and 1t would be folly for it to pursue
any other course. The excellent quail
ity of the beer now made by the Sa-
vannah Brewing Company will be
maintained and, If possible, improved.
Some increase in the force of the
Savannah Brewing Company will be
made necessary by the increased bust
ness it will have after July 1. In TAX
ing on new men the present employees
of the Winter Brewing Company and
the Georgia Brewing Association will
be given the first consideration"
Mr.. Guckenheimer would not give out
the terms upon which the leases were
made, it having been agreed among
those interested that this information
would be withheld. He said, however,
that the three companies will each be
benefited, and that better returns Upon
their investments can be secured by
the arrangement that has been made.