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Miscellany: A London Brewery

Miscellany: A London Brewery image
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12
Month
August
Year
1844
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' - A linve been to aee a brewery, t s n tizo tht fourth in London, and only about lialf as large a, twooihers, which J shnll perhaps see by und by It belongs to Whitbread fe Co., and ie thcsamc wheraGeorgo Ilídinod, and rcckoned how fai the barrels would rench f placed cnd 10 cnd. I Uldnged once to the Thrales, nnd I)r. Sam Johh eon, playing the auctionccr, with pen and inkhorn by lúe sdó,'spoke of ite coppers and rats m "tho potcntiality of amaesing -wenlth beyond thí droams of avance,"- all of which, 8 it not recorded in the ehroniclcs of Boswell? The fathej of the present Mr. Whitbread was a great man in Parliatnent, but slew himself miserably on thc occasion ofsomo fnmily trouble. And I think all (lio brcwera would do as much, if they could 8ee and hcar nll üiëfamilij ïrbubté produoed by their vile liqiñds. lint to iho brewery: 1 1 ís a ciiy in ttsolf; a congregntion ofdingy masses, ofoonfincd architecture, a place of the utmost convenience for Deacon Giles's dcvils. There aro steam enfiincB, milis for grinding malt, másh tube- little Utensils holding only a fow hundred barrels, in which theystirup the broth ofstupidity- coppers to brew in. large enough to cook an clepham eoup, in which might swim a dozen elephants whole, once hoated by firos undorncath, but now by high 8toani, gonerated in a series o'f seven boilers, al! of which nrc kept far more than boiling liói by the trífle oi' 4000 tons of coal per annutn. [Jere are fermenting vats, and bins. and tubg. VVe síere shown into one o! tliu femieining rooms, which was amuicd to resomolc a church. It would hold 2000 full' grown Christian peopie, and I believe actually held ten times that number ofevil spirits. The lofty galleries wore filled with vats.in which the liquid waa reekíngandfoainingwithiisnitliy yoíisr, the firsts,.'agc of its fermenta don. The body of the house was full of tuba as big ns a pogpíe of -hogsheads eacli nrranged aloug aisles, boarded up hall way to calcli (he spunie. So all thíe migluy congregationof hogsheads, with a broadlij) sluek out íroai the topofeach, worc spewing over uno these aisles. VVhen ihis procesa arrivés at a certain" Btage, the liquid is draw.i oíl' li to a room below, nnd bunged up for use. ín nother room wc were shówn much largor va'ts'. in wliich the procesa was comme ncing. They held fjom 50(Í to 1000 barrels. Üur party of soine twenty souls, men, women and chiidren, stood on the upper icad ofonc of them, and looked down througha jlass skyhglu into the tormén ted liquid below. We pa6sed into the copperage where the barrels nid buttsaro made, ofsolid oak staves nearíy two uclies thick. VVe saw tho store-houses of maltnnd hops. rhey consume here from 4 to 500,OüO bushels of malt in a year, and how rnany tons of hops [ have forgottcm But oí the kuier. on account of constant variations of pnce, they keep nu immense supply on hand! The vast Btore-houso was crowded with ranges of hop bales fifujen or tweuty fect high. The greatest wonder, however. was tlje building in which they store away their beer. To say notlungof iis 6ubterranean regions, in which there were long ranges ot butts, and barrels, nnd kegs, rendy to be carted off to supply customers, and where there wás an invisible beer cistern sunkïrV the grouud. said tocontain4000 barrels; above ground, there werejn one room èight iron-hooped. toj)andbottom, puncheons or tubs, standing on end, into each of which you might have Iet down a Boston four story house, and headed t in, chimneys standing! The capacilyof each was 2ü()J barrels, more or less, and the whule would hold JG,000 barrels, all underone roof, eno.ugh.to sell for $il3ü,000. We also saw the atables of the mighty and mpnslrous horses that pull the enonnous load of beer througli the atreets. Thmj are fat, nnd yet do not drink beer. , Each hoe his name printed on japan, like a lawyer'a shingle. over his manger. And the namo o!' all the horses ihat aro boughtin the same year begin with the same letter oi the alphabet, so ihatthe tirne'they have hnd a liorae may be known from his name: One oftheso animáis coat from $250 to $300, and will eal up in Uie course ot tlio year, I should think, a pretty considerable haymow. He is vcry delibérate and clcphant-liko in his motions, taitng up and setting down his broud clumsy feet, which, from the enormous shaggy fetloclca, look ika ep many great street brooms, only once in -a víalo. But when ho does move, other things iave to. Tho proprtetor, who showcd us round, 1 lade a point to teil us that they kopt thoeo :a even when oldund unablo to work, und did ,T not part wïtH thom til! thcy süld them as dca ï horscs, Wiiat a pity that eomo of the pr.upc wh drink tlieir beer could not sharc tho samo con } foris. The pr.iprictor töfö us that they brew 190,00 barrels por anrmm; the value of which is, at' th loweet price. 33a. Sterling por barrel, or $1,1,14, 205 in ourmoney at the pftjsëht rato of exchan-c So much foT the fourth brewery i„ Lon.lon"The temperance report congratúlales us witi i shght dccrcnsc in thc consumpiion of mal throughom the kingdom, but almost nono i, London. IW much of this decroase may o qw mg to temperance and how nmch to hungor don'tknow. But my hcart fe withinmeu lo-k at these brewerics. Thny are more rnek.neholy than even thc górged and reeking metropoluan grave-yards. They are thc grave-yarda o the future. London, June J8, 1844. PRESEKVATiON OF TIMIiER. Dear Leavittr-To n stray backwoodeman, the profusión of ron in this ieland ís a wondor.- It enters into alraost overy thing. Of some buildings ït ís jiearly the whblo, and of a vast many it is a greot prut. Not only are the railroads.pf iron, but the extensive and often magnificent Urviinii or depots, 08 we cali them are frequently of iron throughout, pillar and roof! And noble buildings they are. -Wood is little uscd. and .keptout of sight. . The higboBt steeples, up to thcir airiest pinnacles- with all their ornamental tracing and festoonery-iheir non;descript dogs and monkeys, are altogether of .stone, or stono and ron. JJut lately, a good deal is said about wood. and a patent has been taken out for converting it into iroa- I ehould rather say inio etone, by means of iron. This mildized, or raihc"-, fossilized wood, has been userJ in construcling the terminus of the Dover railway. and it really seetns to have the qualities of both etone and iron. llails of it laid down at Vauxhall. for experiment, endured a travel equal to that of a year on the most thronged railway. without any perceptible wear- not even the sawl marks of the timber being removed, h is suppoecd that timber thus prepared will not he subèct to rot or decayofany kind. This, 'timo will test. If this provcs truc, the (nventioti is of.. immense rhportanee to the United States, where timber is yct plentier, and iron scarcer', :hun here, Thc procesa of preparing tho timber S8imply this: the picces, aficr having been fittcd, y the cnrpentcr or joincr, for their places, are ntrodneed into an immense iron cylinder, whichi then exhausted by an air pump, A eolntio j oí eulphato of iron is then injected, whic íimmediately enters into the exhausted pores o the wood. The wood is then wiilidravvn, an ngtiin placed in singular vaccuurn a a solutioi '.oí muriato of limo, whicb, coming into cornac wiih the sujphate of ron within tbe wood, decomposes it, and fortns an insoluble sulpiiate o lime, or gypsuni. wiihin the wood; and the muríate of iron, the other new compound gocs nbou its business. So ihe wood bécónies ihoroughlj nipregriated v.ith etone, ns hard ai a rock, ani is yet as tough es il wns before. The expense 'ol preparing 200Ü sleepers, -enough for a mile of rmwny, is.said not to exceed $40.0. Somc uf thc grentest engineers have expressed their confidence in the Inventan, and tlie procesa is cmployed on many of the government works.- Wliat an nvention this for our Missiesippi valley! Railways built of light, poroue -wood- tho more porous the better. probably- may, for leas than a thousnnd dollars per rnile. bo converted into roade nenrly, if not quite as durable as iron. Yankees, I think, will not be loYig n looking into tlie maitar. Wchavemuch the advaniage of our' Englieh fiiendsin our social and well warmed long car?. Their cars have üo firc ir, them, as I discpvered lo my discomfort iu Marcii. and are all parVitioncd oílon the principie of -every pig Ín his own stye." or rather, ol eiglu or ten pigs in a styc, siuing face to In the fireft class cars are luxurious cuslnonp, and glass Windows ;u tlie sidos. In the second class, iho larc m wliich is cneraüy nbout two-.hirds of th at in thc ÜrM. Inl abontcqiuil to that of our first ciass in Massachuaeits. aro no cushions. but a studied hardnoss of mntcrial-and position, nnd no shvt vp? but i.ho inosl open accommodaiion for ihe Wind. Tlioro lè no doul.t ihisfreedom of ihe wind cotisiderably mcreases the traction, undersomo circumstances. But their roads are beiter guarded against accidente .than ours.

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