The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-09
BY JOSEPH MITCHELL and
WILLIAM ID. O'BRIEN.

Times STAFF Writer
Copyright 1892 b. the New York World
Telegram corporationI
NEW YORK, Aug. 9.-All over
IN the world the trade in wines
is stagnant.
Champagne merchants in the
wine capitals are worried, and on
the Cote du Rhone vineyard keep
ers gaze with no pleasure into
hardwood watts full of stirring,
rose colored juice.
In Hungary a liter Of Tokayer
Ausbruch, the Tokay Of good
queens, goes over the counter at
so hellers or 10 cents, and in
Budapest scrub girls use buckets
of thin wine to wash the floors of
hotels
In Portugal the government has
ordered the Lisbon restaurants
to serve wine free like water. Last
February, in the Prussian wine
land and in the Moselle region
of Germany, dealers slashed prices
merely to get barrels emptied for
the new wine.
In .Mitteleuropa champagne
never has been so cheap. In sec
tons of Germany bill for wine
comes to less than bill for beer.
1t is possible buy sparkling,
almost premier, champagne in the
suburbs of Paris for 76 cents a
bottle. A glass may be had in
bars from the Etoile to Mont
martre for 16 cents.
The municipal council in Rheims
has found it necessary to vote an
appropriation of $4,000 to help
finance a drive 10 make cham
payne popular.
News comes from Strasbourg
that this years Rhine wines will
be classed "of the Crisis Vintage"
And in the United States?
TN Manhattan the trade in wines
Il has picked up. Confident that
the Volstead act soon will be
modified or the eighteenth amend
ment repealed and that the rush
for fine wines will skyrocket the
prices, Bertram Veal managing
director of the Madison hotel, is
in Berlin buying up options on
some of the finest and Oldest
stocks in Europe.
From Berlin the optimistic Mr..
Veal will go to Paris and establish
an Office in which he will confer
with the principal wine purveyors
on the continent.
He is the first American hotel
man to make a wine buying trip
to Europe, in more than decade.
And he is not the only wine opti-
mist in Manhattan.
This week, in -cluttered
Broadway Office Louis H. P.
Mouquin, ebullient grandson of
the 96-year- old Henri Mouquin,
signed his name to three orders
commanding A. Magnier of Cog
nae and Neuchatel of Switzerland
and H. StegerWald of Bordeaux,
to buy and hold 100000 gallons of
assorted wines for Mouquin, Inc.
Mouquin, youngest member of
the most famous wine house in the
United States, now holds total of
more than 100000 gallons of wine
under paid orders III readiness for
the better days that are, it seems,
to come.
On the same day he placed his
last orders his father, Louis G.
Mouquin, returned from Europe
and announced the purchase of
an enormous vineyard in the
Bordeaux area. And from his farm
in Virginia the retired Henri
Mouquin, who once regularly en-
tertained such patrons as Charles
Dane and James Gordon Bennett
in his famous restaurant in lower
Fulton street, has sent word that
he will come up and help the
boys out when the laws are
changed"
II MAY be forced to sell my
l. 100000 gallons of wine in
South America or Canada at a
loss, but 1 honestly expect to sell
every pint of it legally here in
New York" said the young Mr..
Mouquin, who has been drink
ing at least a quart of wine with
dinner since he was Is years old.
So has his father. So has his
grandfather.
His father is so and looks so.
His grandfather is 90 and still
spry enough to manage success
fully 1.200-acre farm in Vir-
ginia, a state of bankrupt farm