The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-04
PROF. WILEY
 ON DRINKS
SHOWS HOUSE COMMITTEE HOW
 WHISKEY IS MADE.
Chief of the Chemistry Bureau Teaches How to Distinguish the Real Thing from Machine Oil-
 Lectures on Adulterants.

Washington Post.
 pr. Harvey w. Wiley, Chief of the Bureau of Chemistry. yesterday in ex- pIaining blended whIskey, made drinks for the much interested members of the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
 What is commonly known as blend ed'' whiskey, Dr. Wiley says. is not whiskey at all. He says a blended" whiskey would be the blending of two whiskies but that most of the so-called blended whislSey is nothing more nor less than alcohol. water, caramel or burnt sugar. and navoring extracts.
 The lust for straight" whiskey is not passing; fad with pr. Wiley, who, as the Government chemist, has ana lyzed several thousand specimens. He said when he was elected a member of the House Committee of the Cosmos Club he found that only ''blended' whislxies could be obtained there.
 q succeeded in getting some en years old" Dr. Wiley told the com | mittee .'The first man who took a drink of 1t declared that it was adul- l terated goods, but within a week every ! man in the club was adding water to | dilute 1t. I recently secured for the club a cask of Scotch whiskey, made | in 1891. and paid i2 shillings and 6 ! pence d kdllOfly NAAA biiC 0oNJ ] in the United States, brought it up | to about $4.2 % a gallon It Is mighty | fine stun, too."
 Draws . Few Comparisons. | Dr. Wiley made a plea for the bot | tied in bond" whiskies in preference | to those which are not. He said the Government fixed the standard. and said | 1t should consist of 50 per cent. alcohol l and 50 per cent. water, while in bulk goods the proof" might be as low as SO per cent.
 "Blended whiskies. compared with | straight whiskies. are like the forms used by dresmakers on which to dis play gowns compared with real girls, Dr. Wiley said.
 Dr. wiiey's -tipple talks" are much appreciated by members of the com mittees before which he appears, foi sooner or later the subject always get around to whiskies and the difference between bottled in bond" and the open
 stock stuf.
 T made trip of inspection to New Orleans a short while ago. Dr. Vile! said. land was much interested in | distiIler making spirits out of mo
 lasses. I was interested because
 knew it would open up new field fo
 the sugar producers of the country. Al
 ter some dificulty I was permitted t
 go through the distillery and foun | that It was making spifts- AlteF III
 trip through the distillery I went t
 the rectifer's warehouse where the en
 tire product of this distillery was sen'
 Of course, they would not allow me |
 go inside but my friend of the distil
 lery took me to a storage room.
 "'That cask.' he said. pointing to tn barrel. was sent down here from tn
 distillery this morning
 T looked as it and found it was la beIed: Pure Bourbon Whiskey. Guar anteed Fourteen Years Old
 "A glass was drawn from the casl
 and 1t had the color and aroma of ol
 whiskey. I thought that was brett
 fast work in making spirits age . twelve hours into whiskey aged foui = teen years, all within five hours. Dr. Wiley said that he was going . even beat that record before the com r mittee. He had a lot of glass tube
 graduates. and other aparatus used