NEW USES FOR OLD BREWERIES.

White Ribbon, Volume 25, Issue 289, 18 July 1919, Page 4

NEW USES FOR OLD BREWERIES.

(larence True* Wilson, says: “When I*inhibition is enacted the browns do not g<i out of business they go into business. Wo voted <*u 1 saloons «l<" rd in Oregon. One great brewery i*' going to manufacture furniture. Hero tofore we have raised the lumber in Oregon, shipped it to Michigan, and bought our furniture from there at a third more than it ought to cost us. \nother brewe*ry i-, going to become a shoe factory. For seven* v years Ore gomans have purchased their shots in Boston, although we raise the hides and everything needed for shoes *n Oregon. Tim conversion of these two breweries into a furniture factory and a sh >e factory will cause them to employ from twelve t<> sixteen times amany men a-, they formerly employe-!, and incidentally the Western price on shoes and furniture will l>e reduced, possibly by a third.

UNIOUE STORAC.K V VIS

The Borden Milk Company at Randolph, N.Y., has purchased a mini her of big tanks formerly used by tinK. W. Cook Brewing Company, of Kvan-'Ville, Indiana, to store beer, and will use them as storage vats for babyfood.

WOT HER TRANSFORMATION

Huebncr-Toledo Breweries Company, one of the largest concerns of the kind in Ohio, will devote its 3,000,000 dols. plant to the manufacture of temper am e beer, and will continue to operate 175 saloons as social centres is the report from Toledo, as published in a Chicago paper. The Huebner saloon properties in various parts of the State will l>e used in like manner. The company will also manufacture ice on an extensive scale.

Many breweries are Ixong used a> ice cream factories, says an Exchange. “When a long dry s|>ell settled down upon a certain eastern city it had three prosperous breweries. I hat city had been drinking about 3oo,<xx> barrels of beer yearly, worth j, 100,000 dollars wholesale, including revenue tax, and retailed for about 3>100,000 dollars. To-day this city is eating 3,000.000 dollars worth of ice cream yearly, while wholesale about 3,600,000 dollars and retailing for 4.200,000 dollars. One brewery which employed about 50 people when converted into an ice cream factory employed 130.

MOTOR CYCLES REPLACE BEER. \ set lion of the Pabst Brewery , where formerly 130 brewery workers were employed, has been leased foj a long term by a prominent motorcycle manufacturer who will employ be tween 300 and 400 highly skilled men to make motorcycles. And Mill they say Prohibition will throw so many men out of work. Rather will it tend to make men hustle to become skilled w 01 k men.

BREWERY BECOMES RICE MILL. New Orleans is not waiting for the Prohibition amendment to go into effect before beginning to dispose of brewery propertv. The Farmers’ Cooperative Rice Milling Company, Inc., • f Donalsville and New Orleans, has bought the first large brewery property to be sold before the Prohibition amendment goes into effect, and is converting it into a rice mill, with a rapacity of 1,200 barrels daily, at a cost of 75,000d015. Another brewery pt mt recently erected a four storey chocolate products manufacturing plant on land it owned, and is now planning to convert its brewing plant into .» fruii and vegetable de-hvdrat-ing plant.

SOFT DRINKS AND DOUGHNUTS REPLACE BEER AND PRETZELS

Commander Evangeline Booth, it is reported, has announced that the Salvation Army in New York is planning to take over saloon leases and fixtures, converting the deserted saloons into workingmen’s clubs. Soft drinks and doughnuts will have a prominent place.

“The first step is to see if the brewery might not be diverted into an industry so like brewing that its equipment could be kept practically intact. There is a field for brewed non-alco-holic beverages. Then comes beer like soft drinks made without rnalt, followed by fruit juices, soda water, carbonated water and aerated drinks generally. The fermenting facilities of a brewery can be utilised, partly at least in the making of malt vinegar, »east, malt, Hour, malt extract and diastase preparations for use in bakeries. Malting facilities, are adapted to the manufacture of breakfast foods, which get much of their flavour from malt.” * * *

In some cases country breweries have been turned into creameries, and ihe old cow has been colonised round them.

SALOONS CLOSED BV AGREEMENT In Christian County, Kentucky, .m agreement was entered into by the wets and drys that if the Prohibition election scheduled for October, iqiß, be called off, all the saloons would b< closed April lof this tear. Consfqucntly, on April 1 the saloons were closed Several of these have already been remodeled to: restaurant, billiard, and soft drink purposes. Because of the great demand for stores, theie will be practically no vacant building .

“Among new use's for breweries reported recently arc: Cold storage' of <*ggs, meats, fruit, dairy products and turs, fermented milk beverages, soft drinks, manufacture of prepared foods, fruit and vegetable canning vinegar making from molaswes, dehydrated fruits and vegetables, yeast, oleomargarine, malt svrup and malt sugar.”