The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-11
ALL
RAISE PRICE
OF BEER
Means That Schooner
May Go and Five-cent
Glass Be Reduced in Size.

Collectors and drivers Of the various
brewing companies supplying the New
ark trade have notified their patrons
that within the next four days they
would have to pay from so cents to 81
more per barrel for the beverage, an in
crease of from 16 TO 20 per cent. over
the present price.
In some cases, it is said, the raise
was dated back a week or more, and
saloon-keepers in these instances were
surprised to find that they would have
to pay 20 per cent. more than they had
figured upon when the collectors called
yesterday. In these cases the price was
boosted without previous notification,
or, in fact, any notice until after the
beer had been sold over the bar.
The increase is said to be the out
come of an agreement made at a recent
meeting of the New Jersey State Brew
ers' Association, comprising 1t its MEM
bership all the brewers supplying the
Newark trade.
Under the scale of prices which will
be superseded Monday beer is selling
TAT So per barrel. Some of the brewers
have notified their patrons that the
price of beer would go up Friday, others
Saturday, and still others thai the in
crease would be effective Monday. The
increase is not entirely a uniform one,
some brewers raising the price eighty
cents u barrel, and others 81. At least
one brewing company dates back the
raise of its product a week or more.
The reasons assigned are the high
cost Of malt, which is said to have adj
vaneed from sixty-eight cents a bushel
in 1906 { o $780, at the present time;
the higher cost of hops; increase in the
cost of the heavy draft horses which
are used for pulling beer trucks; the
advanced cost of feed for the horses,
and, last, an alleged advance in the
cost Of labor.
1t is alleged that for the past few
months brewers in the vicinity of New
ark have been selling beer at an actual
loss Of from twenty to twenty-five cents
a barrel. This could not be verified last
night, when an attempt was made to
get in communication with several
brewers, but was current among saloon
keepers who discussed the raise.
1t is said that the raise in the price
of beer means the aholishing of the
schooner and the trimming down of
the size of the drink given a customer
LOT HVe cents. II IS alSO Salu tHhI lHc
bucket trade will suffer, and that in
stead of obtaining a quart or more of
beer for a dime patrons will have to
content themselves with a regulation
pint measure full Of the beverage.
1t is not unlikely thai a special meet
ing Of the saloon-keepers' association
of Newark will be called to take action
upon the raise in the price of beer.
The membership of the association is
about 1,4O0, or practically all saloon
keepers ir the city. In the hill section
Independent saloon-keepers are indig-
nant. and the meeting will doubtless
be a lively one.
1.-THE same thing applies to New
York. said a saloon-keeper last night.
I'VE are left without recourse, so far
as I can see. The brewers will tell
the independent dealers that they can
take their beer or leave it. If we don't
take it, and go to New York, we face
the same situation there, as l am In
formed that every brewer in that city
has raised the price, just as in New
ark. OF course, many saloon-keepers
are owned, practically, by the brew
ers, and these can't do anything"