Show OLD BREWERIES STANDING IDLE Soine Sone Become Factories and Others Fall Into Decay CHICAGO Jan By 23 23 By The Associated Press Hal Press Halt of ot the brewery buildings of the middle west today stand desolate and for for- forlorn for forlorn lorn horn The remaining 50 per cent have been converted Into cereal Leverage beverage manufactories cold slot slot- stor storage age warehouses or industrial plants The utility of ot huge hue vats vata and freezing plants has been confined to related manufactures dairy manufactures products chemicals and Ice cream and Juice fruit soft drinks IA MANY Y REMODELED Many of the breweries have been remodeled directly for mak- mak mak making leg ing other beverages some have leased their stables or ot subdivided their establishments Into storage sections Freezing apparatus with exten exten- extensive exten- exten extensive ewe sive sand and elaborate cooling coils colis and piping systems system has lain Idle in ID several Chicago plants where suit suit- suitable suitable suit suitable able Industries have o not been ap- ap applied ap applied plied filled The employment of their vast floor space has accounted for or touch much of their convertibility TURN OUT SW SWASH A large number of ot Illinois brew brew- brewers brewers ers have c complied compiled with prohibition regulations by de tle their product cud and continuing to follow the profession Six of St St Louis 21 brewing plants are aro turning out non non catl cating beverage mostly on a small scale one Is under padlock for violating the tho act thre three are being used for or other purposes and the remainder are Idle Anheuser Busch Inc among the largest manufacturers of beer bler In prohibition pre days is 15 now the manufacturer of non non cereal cereal beverage but its volume output Is only 20 per cent as great i and 1200 men are employed Instead i of i O ONE E IS SHOE SnOE FACTORY The Letup Lemp L rop brewery has ben been turned d Into a sho phio shoe factory The Green Tree iree rec brewery will be used as ae a factory A third plant Is used for cold storage Tho The other plant plants are on the mar market keto ket but do not sell readily because theIr architecture Is such that they ore are not easily converted con The extensive plants of the Kansee Kan see Ball City breweries s have been sold One unit Is now a flour mill one onea onea a chemical plant one a bakery and two are re used by Ice companies The only other large brewery at alKansas City Citi the turning out near beer bee St St- St Joseph had two large brew brew- breweries breweries eries cries and several small ones when the act wont went w nt Int Into The small plants were closed im- im Im Immediately mediately and the others sought other lines of business Such breweries in Kentucky as still WI till are In operation have been converted principally to soft sott drink factories and cold stora storage e plants In the cellars of one oue brewery wery how how- however however over how ever were housed the menageries of two circuses GROW MUSHROOMS S Mushrooms bloom In the StygIan 1 vaults o of a Louisville plant Where once enzyme strived to change malt and h hops ps Into a tonic brew parasitic fungi now bring substantial substantial Income to t owner through theIr delectable d U honey Two thirds of Indiana's brewing establishments have undergone conversion conversion-a a coal yard a milk house a wholesale grocery building and a chemical plant re- re replacing re replacing placing while some some while others have I been belli razed to permit new build build- building buildIng ing ing MAKI CHEESE NOW OW A Wisconsin firm mal malce makes 9 cheese in III winter and near-beer near In sum suni- summer sum summer mer Ice leo Ice cream and malt bey- bey bevI bev beverages I Ira es of legal alcoholic content have provided ed other use uses while I many are untenanted Idleness shares sharee with transformations transformations Into creameries produce houses and cereal drink plants In I Iowa 10 breweries Little metamorphosis has hOIl been In Minnesota where the active breweries brewe of today are ara used to 10 manufacture milder beverages IS ICE 1 PLANT L LT T Of Ot the two existing Oklahoma territorial brewing plants planta one was remade Into an Ice lee plant and the tho theother other abandoned A single brew come comes out of Texas An hotel bicycle shop and meat litO storage rage room have accounted for one Houston brewery bre Ice but but- butter but butter ter and warehouses for others |