Martinsburg statesman. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1869-1906, 1906-08-31
Have Installed a Pipe Line
From Cumberland News:


The alert and enterprising spirit of
industrial activity and advancement
which charaeterizes the city OF Cum
herland in all of her civic and COM
mercial undertakings finds striking IL
lustration in the pronounced success
which has attended the Cumberland
Brewing Company since the very tn
ception Of that corporation. Inasmueh
as good start is half the race, that
success is not as marvellous as il seems,
for the Cumberland Brewing Com
pany started right. The men entrusted
with its destiny were men trained in
the school Of experience, awake aud
quick to take advantage Of every OPP
portunity to foster the growth of the
infant industry, and they were in no
sense disheartened when confronted
by circumstances and conditions re-
quiring the expenditure OF large sums
of money and the exercise Of keen bus
mess tact.
From the very beginning the brew
cry has been perfect in its appoint
ments and mechanical equipment and
with the advent OF improved machir-
cry the same was promptly installed
regardless of cost, to increase in guam
tity and better in quality, the output
of the plant, which product now en-
joys reputation for excellence aud
purity, second to that of no other
brewery in the east.
Those who have noted the progress
Of the Cumberland Brewing Company
are cognizant Of this fact, than one i'm
provement simply treads upon another
heel, so fast they follow. From daily
output that would scarce .appease the
thirst of a Coney Island picnic to an
animal capacity of some fifty thous-
and barrels, IL as dew drop to a city
reservoir, yet the comparison isneither
inapt nor exaggerated.
Nor is theend in sight. Departures
for the betterment of the plant are ever
in serious contemplation, and as fast
as one improvement is put into execu-
ton another is planned and contracted
for by the enterprising management.
The latest advance is embodied In the
installation of a pipe line and pump
ing plant, which forces the beer from
the big brewery watts into watts in the
boiling house, the latter receptacles
being directly connected with the bot
Ting machinery. BY this process the
product of the plant from the moment
it leaves the kettles until 1t is securely
sealed in the bottles, passing from one
vat to another through the various
stages Of it's Development "a journey
which by the way requires year to
completes under constant pressure
and continues in freezing tempera-
ture, where no germs OF impurity may
generate or exist, until having been
encased in bottles previously made alb :
soIutely clean, 1t 10 consigned to the
exacting care Of sterilizing machine,
goes then through labelling machines,
to be packed for storage or shipment.
The pips line system, which has only
been installed in two breweries in
Maryland, enjoys Uncle Sans sane
ton, although 1t is necessary to have
revenue agent present the major por-
tIon Of the time, since the agent holds
keys to all the pipe line valves and the
watts can only be emptied or filled In
accordance with his action in the prem
ises. Hence as in the case Of the Cum
berland Brewing Company, which
daily bottles 10 barrels OF beer, the sup
ply in the bottling watts must be ample
and the guager Is kept on thequi vive,
lest the supply be exhausted and furth
er bottling prevented. The pipe line
system not only facilitates the work
but promotes absolute cleanliness in