The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1904-10-15
RANDon NOTES
r,om q Visitor to the Worlds Fair
Something About Anheuser
Busch Brewery.
ra,,orial correspondence.


st. Louis, Mo-, Oct, IL, 1904.
visit to the Worlds Fair without
,.king in the sights of the city Is not
oomplete, and wee versa, and among
,hese may be included the great Anheu-
ser. busch Brewing Plant. This is an
srposition, city in itself. During this
time visitors are invited, and guides
have from the Office every fifteen min
utes with party, taking them through
y Al departments Of the main brewery.
The machinery, massive and numerous,
isawonder q and marvelously clean. One
sess not spot Of grease; the steel, cop
uer and enameled iron parts are all
bright and attractive. Every piece of
machinery has been manufactured ex-
pressly for the Anheuser-Busch Com
many, and its coat OF arms or trade mark
IA in all castings.
Every building constructed Of st. Louis
messed brick, the entire plant covers
territory OF 125 acres, equal to 60 city
blocks, per New Orleans measurement.
The number Of people employed is 5000;
this includes the hands in the company's
own railroad shops, wagon shops, auto
mobile shops, ice plants, electric light
plants, bottling plants, on the delivery
wagons in st. Louis, and in minor de-
partments. These figures we're given
The Echo at the office, and included this
statement: Sales for year 1865, 5000
barrels; sales for year 1903, 1901, 1852
barrels for Bay ST. Louis for
more than one generation. But let us
hope Bay st. Louis will continue to
grow and its population increase so that
this amount of beer would not last more
than one generation. Not that we would
- necessarily that our people become
drinkers to that extent. but the
5I6|ect "beer and It's consumption" is
4 used for comparison. The number OF
bottles of the famous Budweiser beer
sold last year was 100, ,402,500.
Taken as whole, here are some inter-
esting figures concerning the Anheuser-
Busch Brewery of st. Louis, and they
will give the Echo readers an idea of the
4 magnitude of this plant. Capacity is as
A follows;
q Brew house............,.8,6 800 barrels daily
Bottling works. .300, 900 bottles daily
Malt houses ...........9 900 bushels daily
u Ice plants ....................3,30 300 tons daily
Steam power plant. IL, 900 horse power
Electric power plant Al, 200
Stock houses. ..................45 .450, 900 barrels
N lS1 company operate the four largest
switch engines ever built and 1000 OF
tho most modern refrigerator railroad
cars, many of which we see going
through Bay st. Louis over the l.. &c N.
road.
"a When the guide has concluded the
visit he leads the party into we'll
appointed beer hall, and seated at tables
II you are served gratis with all the beer
your capacity will admit Of. Souvenir
memorandum books, leather bound, and
souvenir postal cards, in a series of six,
each illustrating diffelen parts OF the
plant, are given the visitor OF the worlds
largest and most popular brewery, and
thus ends your visit. But the souvenirs
are not necessary. Your visit can never
be forgotten. IL is impressed indelibly
upon your mind.
The Lemp Plant, although not as
large, is as interesting, and what has
Deem said above applies in part to this
brewery.
Another object OF unusual interest are
'ne stock yards, in East st. Louis,
reached by electric car over the great
Eads bridge. You pay five cents car
iafe and iye cents additional, i0 cents
per head, half OF which goes to the Eads
nelrs' The Eads bridge cannot be
bought, no railroad company can lease
hgnt oil way, nor contract in any man
ner 70 run trains over the great struct-
Ore' Every passenger, whether on foot,
on railroad train, on electric car, or on
wagon, pays toll. Here is veritable
bonanza, The bridge connects TWO big
uues-St. Louis and East st. Louis
Ana me commercial intercourse between
1ese tWoimmense metropolitan commu-
lues Is necessarily large. East St
LOUIS located in Illinois, under different
AsS' gives it an entireiy.separate set OF
'AciaiS' schools, and SO forth, and the
Oaaxs are quite numerous.
THE STOCK YARDS
NV located in the extreme north eastern
p~aoh oil the city. There is magnifi-
s'u' Motel located here, structure OF
NNk' tour stories high, covering about
su' square OF ground, and Is patronized
'y ny people who have dealings in
!" VICINITY, men from the West, VINO
uupany their live stock and person
Ny attend to the selling to the commis-
~eichaats (wno are numerous
I'll 70 the one VINO offers the best
NJ NJ inoucenent. These men from the
"''' ana from Texas are ofttimes ac-
panied BY their families, and their
~. I, = never less than one week. We
ss', 1u not ascertain the area OF the stock
A. on the occasion OF our visit, but
no. ssruS at New Orleans, so familiar
n, 'Or less to our readers, arc '.not in
here are located great
NEAT PACKING pr ANrs