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A. Guckenheimer & Bros.
| Name | A. Guckenheimer & Bros. |
| Ortssitz | Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
| Straße | First Avenue 93+95 |
| Art des Unternehmens | Brennerei |
| Anmerkungen | Produkt: Copper Distilled Pure Rye Whiskies. |
| Quellenangaben | [Industries of Pittsburgh (1879) 176] |
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| Whiskey |
1879 |
[Industries of Pittsburgh (1879) 176] |
1879 |
[Industries of Pittsburgh (1879) 176] |
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Beschreibung |
Verwendung |
| 1879 |
Dampfkessel |
4 |
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Einflammrohrkessel, L= 24', D= 42" |
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| 1879 |
Dampfkessel |
2 |
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Zweiflammrohkesel, L= 26', D= 40" |
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Arbeiter |
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Lehrl. |
männl. |
weibl. |
Kommentar |
| 1879 |
48 |
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Monatslohn zusammen $3.100 |
| ZEIT | 1879 |
| THEMA | Beschreibung |
| TEXT | The world renowned distillers of the celebrated brauds of "Guckenheimer's Pure live Whiskies" have their headquarters in Pittsburgh, and although their distilleries are located in another county, they are entitled to a prominent position in a work of this description among the representative business houses of Pittsburgh. Their principal offices and warerooms are located in the spacious double structures at Nos. 93 and 95 First avenue. This house stands preeminently at the head of all similar establishments in the country, and we are enabled to furnish our readers with a brief sketch of the extensive buildings occupied by them. The individual members of the firm are A. Guckenheimer, S. Wertheimer, E. Wertheimer and I. Wertheimer, and for more than twenty years under the same style the business has been successfully conducted. Their distilleries are located at Freeport, Armstrong county, Penn'a., and cover many acres of ground on the line of the West Penn. railroad, whose tracks intersect the premises, which have an extendeed frontage on the Allegheny River. The distillery, proper, is a two-story brick building 36,5x180 feet, and a two-story frame structure 34x98 feet both supplied with the most approved machinery and appurtenances. Their main warehouse is a mammoth four-story brick edifice 70x305 feet, with stone foundations of extra width and solidity, especially constructed to sustain the immense weight when filled to its utmost capacity, which is 25.000 barrels of whiskey. All the walls and timbers are of the heaviest description. This building is one of the most substantial and complete as well as the largest distillery warehouse in the country. Another three-story brick building for the same purpose and with a capacity for storing 6.000 barrels of whiskey is 84x52 feet and both warehouses are heated by steam. This firm manufacture their own malt exclusively, and their malt house is a four-story brick building 53x110 feet in size, supplied with a kiln thirty feet square. Their grain warehouses are also ol mammoth proportions, one being a one-story frame building with stone foundation 30x150 feet in size with a storage capacity of 20,000 bushels of grain, and another one-story frame building likewise with slone foundation 65x22 feet, with a capacity fur storing 8.000 bushels of grain, of which article the firm always carries an immense stock on hand of the best grades. Their storage room for empty barrels is obtained in a two-story frame building 45x34, and their cooper shop is a two-story frame structure, with stone foundation 40x100 feet in size. The firm manufactures every package used in their business from the best Indiana oak staves. The barrels are all hand made by the most experienced workmen and bound by extra heavy hoop iron. In connection with their cooperage department are extensive sheds for seasoning and storing material, where the staves are kept for three years before they are ready for use. Tlic business ofiices are models of comfort and elegance, and are situated in a beautiful one-story brick structure 40x25, finished in the most elaborate style of art in hard wood with desks and furniture to correspond. The guards above the desks are of magnificent French plate glass, ornamented with monograms of the firm. They are supplied with gas and steam heating apparatus and carpeted with Linoleum and elegant Brussels carpet. The fire and burglar proof vault is made with stone floor and head six inches thick, over 30.000 bricks and fifteen barrels of cement were used in its construction. Forty-eight experienced hands are constantly employed at these works with a monthly pay-roll aggregating $3,100. One sixty-horse power and one forty-horse power engine are required at this establishment and six large boilers, four of which are four flued, 24 feet in length and 42 inches in diameter, and the other two are two fined 2G feet in length and 40 inches in diameter. From this cursory view of the capacity of this house it will not appear strange to our readers that their whiskies can be found in every section of the United States, if not in every quarter of the globe. Mr. I. Wertheimer presides over the Freeport office and gives his personal attention to the clerical force there employed. Mr. E. Wertheimer occupies the respionsible position of President of the First National Bank of Freeport, and exercises a general supervision over the distillery and its manifold departments. The trade in the larger cities of the West is ably attended to by Mr. S. Wertheimer, while the senior member of the firm, Mr. A. Guekenneimer, attends to the general business of the firm at the home office in this city. Mr. A. A. Solomon, an experienced and accomplished gentleman, has offices at No. 34 Broadway N. Y. and at No. 121 Walnut street, Philadelphia, from which he attends to the wants of consumers in these cities and represents the interests of the house throughout the Eastern States. By tlie admirable arrangements thus noticed each member of the firm has his regularly allotted department and every detail of the business is under the immediate supervision of one of the parties most interested. |
| QUELLE | [Industries of Pittsburgh (1879) 176] |
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