Show miscellaneous brewers business while learning lea ining this I 1 learned some interesting facts about th tha manufacture and sale of beer w C chicago there are eig eighteen eteen brow bre eries cries in the city which make on tt 80 average barrels of beer an A dually about barrels oooo here from milwaukee and jtb cities nearly all the beer maa here is is consumed here so that WO w drink barrels each year As each pint bottle makes two glasses if I 1 remember correctly there would be sixteen glasses in 1 gallon or glasses in a barrel thirty one gallons aarand a grand total T glasses this seems 60 be a wonderful lot of beer suppo there are people in and its suburbs and that is all these barrels are aa consumed annually each man 6 woman and child would get on B fair apportionment a little more sno than glasses lasses or nearly two a day I 1 COW know lots of people abo WB dont drink that much beer in 0 their lives so there must be who drink pretty industriously I 1 A am told that good fat beer drinke U of industry and skill in the businow habitually get away with fifty sixty glasses a day A few hundri people of this kind would of couff bouis do ao a great deal to lower the average A banker who has a brewer or W two among his customers most have them so I 1 violate no c dent dence tells me that the bredow brewer profits are very handsome handsome 2 to a barrel possibly anyway ri most bi brewers ewers get rich rapidly x knew one who less than ten yes ago was a borrower to the extent of to to carry on blo business now he makes from g to barrels of beer in year and h has as money to loan POW bly it is figures of this kind that abst tempt the english investor too to ff pat his money into american 4 I 1 in spite ite of high license laws and pro hibl hibi tion agitation chicago |