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Capitol Brewery Company,
Moerschel Bros., Proprietors.
No concern in Central Missouri furnishes a better illustration of the reward which attends the well- directed efforts of thrifty, honorable business men than the established business of Moerschel Brothers. Jacob F. Moerschel was born July 20. 1848, in Mil- tenberg. Bavaria, Germany, where he received his
In January, 1890, he bought the plant which he at present owns and operates in St. Charles.
Andrew Moerschel, the younger brother, was born in Miltenberg, December 31. 1854, from which place he came to America in 1869. locating in St. Lonis. He engaged extensively in the market busi-
early education, and later served an apprenticeship of three years in the brewery, after which he immi- grated. in 1867, to the United States, coming directly to St. Louis. Here he was engaged as brewer in the different breweries of that city until 1884, when he was given the position of Superintendent of the Klaussman Brewery, where he remained until 1890.
ness until 1884. when he took a position under his brother in the Klaussman Brewery. In 1892 the two brothers purchased the Wagner Brewery in this city, changing the name to the Capitol Brewery Com- pany. The purchase price of this plant was about $40,000. They added greatly to its value by exten- sive improvements until at present the buildings
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over more than one acre of ground. The brewery nilding proper is a four-story structure, built of rick, and is fire proof. The main building took he place f several old buildings which consti- uted the Wagner Brewery. On the first floor ' located the cooking apparatus, where the requi- ite ingredients are first prepared and the beer ooked in a large copper receptacle by means of team, after which it is pumped to the fourth story, where it is exposed to the air in a large copper pan, eenpying the entire upper room. From this pan he beer is passed through a series of horizontal pipes to the cooler, and is then conveyed to the cel- ars, where it is stored away in large tuns to under- yo the proper amount of fermentation. The cellars, located in the main building, are three in number. situated one above the other. As one steps into these cellars from the outer air with a temperature of 90 degrees Fahrenheit on a Summer day, he is suddenly plunged through a change of nearly 60 de- grees in a second of time, the cellars being con- stantly kept at freezing point. Arranged in double rows are the immense tuns or casks containing hun- dreds of gallons of beer passing through the various stages of fermentation. From these dark cellars the foaming beverage is pumped through pipes into filling machines, run into kegs or bottles and made ready for market. The scene here is weird beyond description. The pipes above are incased in solid ice, the hard cement floors below sparkling with frost, reflecting back the gleams of the sputtering torch when held alott, adds to the spectacular and fascinating scene. The capacity of this brewery is 20,000 barrels annually. The demand for its popular prodnet, which is shipped throughout Central Mis- souri to points on the Mo. Pac., C. & A. and "Katy" Railways, keeps it running to its full capacity. The ice factory consists of a four-story building, facing Dunklin street, where many tons of ice are manu- factured daily by the ammonia process. The water for this immense ice plant is supplied from two deep wells, one 275 and the other 350 feet deep, the water being raised to the surface by powerful pumps
which are kept running constantly during the sea- son. There are two gigantic ice machines on the first floor of the building, one of 60 and the other of 75 tons capacity per day. Only the purest artesian water is used in the manufacture of the celebrated Moerschel Artificial lee, which is frozen in clear solid cakes of 300 pounds each, being free from all acid taste and foreign substances, and absolutely pure. Of the 50 tons made daily the larger part is consumed by the Brewery and Jefferson City, al- though large orders are filled for outside towns. This ice is cheaper and better than the natural pro- duct, as a result the old time of ice harvesting is almost a thing of the past. The Moerschel Brothers not only make their own ice but also generate their own electricity, pump their own water, have their own power honse and furnish their own steam heat in Winter. They keep twelve splendid horses for their drayage and delivery. They give steady employment to 20 men, all of whom are thorough in their business, although every detail is watched carefully by the manager at this place, Mr. Andrew Moerschel, who personally inspects and gives orders in the different departments. The enterprising spirit of Moerschel Brothers is highly appreciated by the citizens of Jefferson City. They always respond liberally to any fund to be raised to meet emergencies or advance the interests of the town. They did their part nobly in the fight against Capital removal and are always willing to foster and help new enterprises. In the building of the bridge, they subscribed promptly $4,000, and have now subscribed $1,000 to help raise a railroad bonus for the extension of the Springfield & Lebanon Branch. The value of their splendid brewery plant is now more than double the amount invested when they came here in 1892. They have been eminently successful, and deservedly so, not only turning out the very best product in their line, but their busi- ness methods are so straightforward and liberal with their patrons that they have an ever in- creasing number of friends and volume of busi- ness.
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THE COMMERCIAL CLUB OF JEFFERSON CITY.
The Commercial Club of Jefferson City is largely composed of her leading business men, the purpose of the organization being to encourage and assist in movements to advance the material, social and educational interests of the city. Their elegant suite of club rooms, the best located and most completely equipped in the State outside of St. Louis, are shown below: we also present a view of the reception hall. The rooms are supplied with periodicals and read-
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ing matter generally, with appliances for amuse- ments, such as chess. checkers, whist, etc. ; one of the rooms is furnished with a fine billiard table, which is free to the use of the members and their friends who are lovers of this healthful exercise. This organi-
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zanon is now taking active and effective steps to locate a number of factories, and will doubtless sur- ceed with several,adding greatly to the material wealth of the city. The initial or preliminary meet- ing of this organization was held April 6, 1893, with A. P. Grimshaw temporary chairman and Jno. G. Lewis temporary secretary. April 21, 1893, Mr. A. P. Grimshaw was elected to the office of President.
of the Club, and F. H. Binder Vice-President. The first Board of Directors, nine in number, were A. P. Grimshaw, W. W. Wagner. R. Dallmeyer, W. A. Dallmeyer, F. H. Binder, J. P. Porth, H. W. Ewing, Jno. G. Lewis and Lester S. Parker, who then elected Jno. G. Lewis Secretary of the Club and Jesse W. Henry Treasurer. At this meeting Mr. J. C. Fisher addressed the Club at length upon the important subject "A Bridge Across the Missouri River at Jefferson City." hence his sobriquet. "Fa- ther of the Bridge." The directors at present are Judge Philipp Ott. G. A. Fischer, H. F. Priesmeyer,
Reception Parlors of the Club.
F. M. Brown, Chas. Opel, W. W. Wagner. James llonehin and Dr. G. Ettmueller, all of whom are representative men both in business and social circles. The President is Judge Philipp Ott; Vice- President, Dr. G. Ettmueller; Secretary, Chas. Opel; Treasurer. Ed. Holtschneider. The organization engineered and was the means of carrying through the building of the great steel bridge, county court house, sewerage system, opposition to the Capital removal; in fact, almost every move to advance the material interests of the city was conceived and pushed to completion by this organization.
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JEFFERSON CITY HORSE SHOW.
Within the last few years horse shows have be- ome fashionable and popular in the West and con- equently Jefferson City, being up-to-date in matters pertaining to good horses, gave her first annual horse show in 1897, followed by one in 1898, and mother in 1899, and the show for 1900 promises to elipse all former efforts. Great interest is taken n these annual events by the people of Missouri, and specially is this true of the people of Jefferson City, and properly so, it being the Capital of a State ron-
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reded to be the home of the best horses bred in America. The first show, in 1897, was not strictly a horse show, but sufficient interest was manifested to encourage the organization of a strictly up-to-date Horse Show Association, which was duly consum- mated in the year 1898, with the following officers: Jesse W. Henry, President ; L. D. Gordon, Vice- President: F. J. Wildberger, Secretary; Emil Sehott, Treasurer. Executive Committee: L. D. Gordon, Fred. II. Binder, W. W. Wagner, M. F. Overstreet, George C. Ramsey. The exhibition of 1898, given under the above management in Cottage Place Park, was handicapped by bad weather and other un- toward circumstances, but despite these, many har- ness horses, high steppers and saddiers, ordinary and high school, participated in the events.
In the year 1899, encouraged by the success of former meetings, and desiring to have an exclusive horse show, forty citizens of Jefferson City. a major-
ity of whom were instrumental in inaugurating this popular form of entertainment two years previous, organized themselves into the State Horse Show Association of Jefferson City, with the following officers: HI. Clay Ewing. President ; G. C. Ramsey, Vice-President : A. M. Hough, Secretary; W. A. Dall-
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meyer, Treasurer. Executive Committee: G. C. Ramsey, F. M. Brown, L. D. Gordon, T. B. Mahan. HIerman Schulte. The previous meetings had been participated in chiefly by local horse fanciers, and prizes were awarded mostly to horses owned in Jef- ferson City, but the Program Committee of the 1899 show determined to widen the scope of the competi- tion by increasing the amount of premiums and fur- nishing a greater variety of exhibitions.
The committee was aided in its efforts to devise an attractive list of exhibitions by the co-operation of Mr. A. E. Ashbrook, of Kansas City, publisher of the Kansas City Horse Show Monthly. The events of this show surpassed all former exhibitions, the high-jumping of "Joe Wheeler," "Black Douglass" and "Bonnie Lassie" being an especially popular feature, though by no means detracting from the general interest manifested in the other events. in which the best talent of the State was competing.
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The grounds of Cottage Place Park are peenli- arty adapted to events of this kind, and with the special and brilliant illuminations provided, made a most attractive scone. Here were gathered the youth and beauty of our city, the members of the smart set. and everyone who admires the symetry and faultless action of the high bred horses. The Association provided every accommodation for the proper care of the valuable horses, and spared no pains to make pleasant the stay of visiting horse- men. The street parades on the program each day were carried out and were a very attractive and pop- ular feature, being participated in by the citizens
held at Cottage Place Park Angust 7-8-9, promises to surpass in scope and magnitude all former exhi- bitions, and under the management of the following named officers, will no doubt be a grand success: Judge W. C. Marshall. President ; I. D. Starke, Vice- President : F. J. Wildberger, Secretary; W. A. Dall- meyer. Treasurer. Board of Directors: J. M. Wells, H. F. Priesmeyer. V. JJ. Kaiser. W. A. Moore, (. 1. Ware. The management is assured of the presenceat the coming show of such horsemen as D. L. Parrish of St. Louis, Mo., Augustus Busch of St. Louis, Mo .. .1. E. Ashbrook, of "The Horse Show Monthly," of Kansas City. Mo., all of whom are enthusiastic ad-
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generally, and bringing into play many artistic and novel ideas. The parade attracting the most admi- ration was the Flower Parade, under the auspices of the ladies of Jefferson City. At least 40 vehicles were in line and each vied with the other in beauty of design and decoration. The parade was recog. nized by visitors as comparing most favorably with those of the larger cities and many compliments were bestowed on the ladies for their taste in the decoration of the handsome torn-onts.
The prospectus of the coming 1900 show to be
mirers of horse flesh and breeders of horses which have won fame throughout the country.
The State Horse Show of Jefferson City has won an enviable position among associations of like character in the country, and the warm esteem of horsemen throughout the State, which will no doubt result in increased interest and attendance at the coming exhibition. The citizens of Jefferson City may well afford to extend every encouragement to its promoters, and every hospitality to visiting horsemen.
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COLE COUNTY ILLUSTRATED SKETCH BOOK.
INTRODUCTION.
Our purpose in this publication is to reflect on its pages Jefferson City and Cole county as they are today with only a sufficient glimpse of the past to enable us better to appreciate the many bless- ings, comforts and advantages we enjoy (physical, intellectual and social, as a result of the broad, far-reaching efforts of the pioneers who laid, in the then wilds of the West, the foundation of the great commonwealth of Missouri.
The first European to place foot on what is now Missouri soil was the adventurous Spanish Cavalier DeSoto, in 1547. The early settlers, however, were largely French, coming nearly two centuries later. In 1762, as a result of war between England and France. the French claims east of the Mississippi fell to England, while those west of the river to Spain. In 1801, through the manipulations of the great Napoleon, France again had ceded to her by Spain the vast domain west of the Mississippi, which in 1803 the United States, under the administration of Thomas Jefferson, purchased of Napoleon for fifteen million dollars, this being the Louisiana Purchase, the one hundredth anniversary, of which event St. Louis is preparing to appropriately celebrate in 1903.
In 1812 the Territory of Missouri was organized, and in 1820 entered the Union as a slave State, a result of the paeifying influence of the great statesman Henry Clay, the measure admitting being known as the Missouri Compromise. This compromise and the famous Dred Scott decision made the State specially conspicuous in the exciting debates which immediately preceded the tragic horrors of the war of the rebellion. At the beginning of the century just closing, the whites within the present boundaries of the State numbered only a few thousand and the struggles, hardships and tragedies attending their efforts to plant civilization in a land habited by savages and secure from primitive nature the necessities of life for themselves and families, we will not attempt even to suggest nor will we (although Gibbon says mankind gives more glory to its destroyers than its benefactors, and the tales of war are most absorbing mention the intensely interesting and tragie events of the dark period which followed the attempt to dissolve the Union. We will only say that during this bloody strife the loss of the State in her best blood was great while that of her material wealth was almost be- yond compute, but the character, enterprise and indominable will of her people coupled with her unlimited and varied natural resources enabled her to rise, Phoenix like, from the ashes, and, meas- ured by the standard of education, wealth and political power take fifth place in the list of States, although much younger than her ont-ranking rivals, none of which suffered by the war, but on the con- trary profited largely by the great demand for their products resulting from the strife.
The great State of Missouri in the Geographical Center is unquestionably favored by nature more than any other of the American Union, as attested by her boundless treasures of rich soil, coal, iron,
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zine, lead, copper and well distributed forests of the best timber, abundantly supplied with water from the graceful flowing streams and sparkling springs, while certainly none have been more for- tunate in the character, enterprise and intelligence of its people; for these reasons, and judging by the rapid and substantial progress of the past, we may confidently expect the future to place on her brow the crown of first place among the States.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher said: "All admit the State of Missouri, in natural resources, leads all the rest, and is the crown and glory of the Union."
MISSOURI.
SKETCH BOOK PRIZE ESSAY ON MISSOURI BY RUSSELL C. McMAHAN.
It has been truly said that the ancient boast,"All roads lead to Rome." might with equal pro- priety and without distortion of facts be changed to "All roads lead to Missouri." Located as she is, about midway between the Atlantic and Pacific. A State that "graples hold upon Mexico and Central America on the South, and upon Alaska and British America on the North. and through which is a thoroughfare to the golden gate of the Pacific." She is the very heart of the Union, with resources enough to nourish the whole body. The area of Missouri is sixty-nine thousand four hundred and fifteen square miles or about forty-five million acres; such a vast extent that the entire states of Maine,, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island and Delaware could be put down side by side within its boundaries and still leave a margin of nine hundred square miles. But few portions of the world are so well watered as Missouri. The Mississippi river washes the entire eastern boundary. The Missouri washes it on the west from the northwest corner southward for two hundred and fifty miles, and hence on clear through the heart of the State. These two mighty rivers have many tributaries, large and small; and springs in large numbers and great varieties refresh and beautify all parts of the State. Missonri has no desert lands. No words can describe the beauty and grandeur of her native forests. Walnut trees one hundred and ten feet high and twenty-two feet in circumference; oak trees one hundred and twenty-five feet high and twenty feet in circumference; sycamores one hundred and thirty feet high and twelve feet in diameter; hickory, elm, gum, birch, cedar and pine, all grow in every part of the State, and from these, in 1898, Missouri. after using all she needed in each district, exported three hundred and fifty million feet of lumber: forty million feet of logs, besides six thousand three hundred and seventy-one cars of cord wood, three thousand cars of cooperage and four million ties. The soil of fully two-thirds of the State is adapted to the raising of all the small fruits. The southern part being famous not only in the United States but in Europe as the "land of the big red apple." The fruit crop alone in Missouri amounts to twenty-six million dollars annually, and as a producer of corn, wheat, oats, hay and potatoes no country in the world can surpass her.
Missouri does not claim to be a cotton producing State, but in 1898 more than one million two hun- dred thousand dollars worth of that product was sent to market, and the cotton seed products amounted to about sixteen million pounds. She stands first in the production of mules, hogs and poultry. Fortune has been kind and set the boundary lines of this State around a portion of country filled with an unusual amount of the mineral sub stances useful in the manufacturer's art. There is no territory of equal extent on the globe which contains so many different kinds and such large quantities of the most useful minerals as the State of Missouri; and though her mineral wealth has hardly been touched she ranks first in the production of lead and zinc, producing more of the latter than all the other states combined. Her iron fields, including Iron Mountain, which covers five hundred acres, and Pilot Knob, are almost inexhaustible. The coal area of Missouri is said to be twenty-three thousand square miles, and her coal mines produced in one year recently almost three million tons of coal, and that is said to be a small amount compared with what might be produced annually. In addition to its immense lead, zinc, iron and coal industries Missouri also has silver and copper; great heds of glass sand, pottery, tile, brick clay and an endless variety of building stone; granite lime- stone. sandstone and marble, and for purely ornamental purposes, a Mexican onyx, susceptible of the most beautiful polish. Missouri has had a wonderful history which reads almost like a fairy tale. Some of her inhabitants yet living can remember when she was a part of the district of Louisiana,
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a wild waste of forest and prairie, without a population; the home of the Indian and the buffalo, and now such has been her thrift, she ranks in population as fifth in the sisterhood of the forty-five states which compose the American Union, and boasts of a taxable wealth of almost one billion dollars. In many lines of business and manufacture Missouri's cities lead the world. St. Louis is the great metropolis of the West; stretching nineteen miles along the Mississippi river and about eleven miles back from the river front. She has twenty-one railroads, and their cars arrive and depart from the largest and most perfectly equipped depot in the whole world. This limited space barely admits mention of her great population of six hundred and eighty-five thousand, her manufactories, mercantile houses and various industries. Viewed from the dome of her highest building one can hardly believe that this vast city can be the growth of less than a century, and seven-eighths of it has grown there inside of twenty-five years. Kansas City, Missouri, has the second live stock market of America, and many of her smaller cities are examples of wonderful advancement. The population of Missouri is estimated at about three million two hundred and fifty thousand. As to the character and quality of her people she admits no superior. Her most distinguished sons and daughters have become so by honest toil, combined with intelligence. Missouri takes a proud position in the educational world,
and enjoys the high distinction of having the largest public school fund of any state in the Union. She has a State University, three Normal schools, and a school for the higher education of colored people. She has three insane asylums, a school for the blind, a reform school for boys and an industrial home for girls, where the kindest care is taken of her unfortunates. I have space to mention ouly a few of Missouri's sons who have risen above the ranks to distinction and world wide fame. Marvin, the preacher, Eugene Field. the poet, Clemens, better known all over the world as "Mark Twain," the humorous writer, were all born in Missouri. She has produced Statesmen in plenty; in the United States Senate and in Congress have been seated many Missourians of whom she is justly proud. Among the list of her own governors may be found the names of several who were born and reared in Missouri.
We have seen that in all the elements of desirable location, area, fertility of soil, inexhaustible mines, and enterprise Missouri is an empire in itself, but not halt of her possibilities have been told. She is a land of infinite promise, and giving the broadest welcome to all honorable men and women whatever creed or clime in the future.
"Rising rugged and reliant, Like Anteus, the old giant. She will dare and do great things."
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FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH.
The First Baptist church of JJefferson City, was not always the strong, prosperous and influential congregation it is today. Its history affords a striking illustration of the great advantages enjoyed by the citizens of the Capital City of the present over those who struggled with the circumstances attending its early history. The tirst organization was July 8, 1837, in what was then the new capitol of a new and nndeveloped State. The original members were Daniel and Ann Colgan, Jason and Sally Harrison, P. H. and Sarah Steinbergen, Rachel Walker, Ava Rice, and three colored persons named General, Adam and Jennie. The presbytery was composed of Ellers Kemp Scott, M. D. Noland and R. S. Thomas. Immediately after the organization five additional members were re- ceived by recommendation. Elder M. D. Noland was first pastor being followed by Elders Kemp Scott, S. H. Ford. W. W. Keep. T. F. Lockett and J. A. Hollis. This list ineludes all who served the organi- tion as pastor previous to the war of the Rebellion. The original meetings were in the private homes of the members, the ordinance of Baptism being ad-
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