The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-10-07
CHIEF OF BUREAU OF CHEMIS.
TRY HAS RETURNED FROM
TOUR OF EUROPE.
Made Personal Investigation of Can
ming Factories, Breweries and Other
Spirit Producing Establishments.

Harvey w. Wiley, chief of the bureau
of chemistry of the department of ag-
| riculture, has returned from Europe
He has been visiting canning establish
ments, breweries, and wine and spirits
producing establishments in Great
Britain, Germany and France in the
interest of the food inspection service
of the United States, with view Of
learning their methods in the use of
preservatives, or coloring. matters, or
anything else that may be of service in
the inspection of imported food mate
rails.
Yes said Mr.. Wiley to your core
spondent, Il mad quite a successful
ficulties in gaining admission to the
different establishments. People were
quite pleasant and, fully understand
ing my mission, they displayed G., er-
ally much readiness to show and ex-
L
cannot give out any details of the re-
suits of my trip, but they will appear
later in my report to Secretary Will
son.
I'm France I made a careful exam
ination of the handling and packing
of sardines and champignons and truf-
files, and gained a thorough knowledge
of the whole process. I also paid
much affection to the treatment of peas
and other green vegetables in France
with copper for coloring.
Il went through the Gironde and
Cognac districts of France. France is
producing enormous quantities of
wine, principally clarets, and also
ships large quantities of brandy. There
is a rigid government supervision of
the brandy industry, and since this law
went into effect, when they leave the
bonded warehouses, French brandies
are generally pure.
What astonished me very much
was the remarkable increase of beer
consumption in France, in spite of
the abundance of cheap wines. When
1 was in Paris twenty-se seven years ago,
a great many people in the Boulevard
cafes and in the tabarets drink alb
sinthe, a drink which aside from It's
strong alcoholic properties, is very in
furious to the health. Now, the Pari-
sian often drinks beer, not only of do
nestle manufacture, but also imported
from Germany, and he orders 'un boo
with a nonchalance which does not in
the least betray any aversion to its
German origin. In the northern prov
inces beer takes very frequently the
place of wine, and it almost seems as
if beer were becoming the popular
drink in some parts of France. This
remarkable change in the drink habits
of the French people, especially in the
abandonment of the vile, poisonous alb
sinthe, will, unquestionably, prove to
be of great benefit to the French.
In Scotland and Ireland, I visited
the great distilleries and in England
the great breweries. In England some
brands of beer, ale, stout, ETC., are made
entirely of barley. malt and hops, and
others of matted and unmalted grains
and sometimes brewing sugars. The
use in part of unmalted cereals pro-
duces, it is said, a beer of lighter color,
which Americans seem to affect. Amer
lean brewers say that unmalted ce-
reals produce a smaller quality of alco-
1 cannot say 1 have never examined
this point
and the Moselle, wine is consumed In
large quantities. In Northern Ger
rough, and especially in Pomerania,
rough, and especially in Pomerania
where there is a very poor peasanrry,
there is much complaint of the in
crease of the use of spirits but in
middle and South Germany people
drink beer generally, which is the
popular drink in Germany.
THE German beer garden is a typ
ical institution. Every city has one
or more of them, according to it's
SIZE On summer evenings and Sun
day afternoons there is generally good
concert music in these gardens, rend-
cred by an orchestra or military band
They are visited by multitudes of peo-
pie, with very little distinction Of sta
ton. The people are all neatly dressed,
sit at tables-men, women and children.
families usually grouped togetner-an1
sip their beer, listen to the music and
chat in the intervals. Although every
body, regardless of sex, and almost re-
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