The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-06-04
SEATTLE BREWERY NOW
MANUFACTURING CANDY
Heinrich Brewery Helps to Put
Seattle on the Map as the
Candy City"
PROUD OF ENTERPRISE
Claims to be First Big City to
Convert Beer Money Into
Candy Money

Seattle, one of the first big cities
in the United States to go dry, now
sets up the claim to be the sweetest
city in America" in other words, the
candy town." 1t prevents as part of
its evidence in support of this claim
the fact that one of its large brew
cries has been converted into a
! chocolate factory. But aside from
! that it resorts to government figures.
Let the Seattle Times of May tell
the story.
Brewery Now Chocolate Factory
Government statistics say Seattle
consumes more sugar annually per
capita than any other city in Amer
lea
The old Heinrich brewery on
! Mercer street near Lake Union is the
place turned into a chocolate factory
and today is turning out almost as
many pounds of chocolates daily as
it did bottles of beer in the old days.
Government statistics compiled
by the Department of Labor place
Seattle at the head of the country's
II great cities in the consumption of
sugar. The average for each person
in Seattle a day is .223 pounds of
sugar. This is compared with .l52
pounds a person day in the cities
of San Francisco and New York, the
second sweetest cities in the coun-
try Because of Seattle's
sweet tooth and because there is a
growing demand for made-in-S Seattle
candy throughout the northwest and
even in foreign countries, the past
month has seen the establishment of
the first chocolate factory in the city
in the old Heinrich brewery build
ing"
It is sometimes states that former
alcohol addicts have resorted to the
use of sweets to satisfy their crav-
ing for drink. The theory advanced
is that the stomach is sort of dis
tillery and that candy taken into the
stomach is converted into alcohol,
thus satisfying the crstwhile boozer's
desire for booze This is a fallacy.
The manager OF one candy company
has different theory He is quoted
in the Times story as saying:
Booze Money Now Available
1t is not, because people are
turning to candy as substitute
for beer and wine that more
candy is being consumed now
under Prohibition. People are
eating more candy today because
they have more money. Money
spent for beer in the old days is
now being spent for candy, pic
ture shows and amusements. The
one thing in the world that no
one has ever had enough of is
candy. Seattle is Americas
candy city because Seattle was
one of the first big cities to go
dry and first of the big cities to
have its beer money converted
into candy.
Ernest E Heinrich, secretary and
treasurer of the Washington Choco-
late Company now doing business il
the old stand of the Heinrich Brew
ing Company, is quoted as saying: ut
is quite a contrast from brewery
to a chocolate factory but it is also
contrast to have candy eating
nation instead of a beer drinking
nation"
And we are all forced to admit that
it is contrast and also a sign of
progress. Every time a brewery
plant is converted into a factory for
, the production of legitimate article
! of commerce one more nail is driven
in the coffin of John Barleycorn. Such
transformation of the brewery means
the removal of that much opposition
to the enforcement of the dry law,
invariably means bigger payroll to
labor which means more money for
the merchants, happier homes for
many people-all of which means
benefit to the general community.
~