Savannah Industries of 1886

Source: Morrison, Andrew; The Industries Of Savannah (Savannah, J. M. Elstner & Co., 1886)

 

                                                               GEORGE MEYER.

                                        Beer Bottler and Pasteurizer--75 Bay Street.

Meyer's Beer StoreGeorge Meyer's is the largest beer bottling establishment in Savannah.  Mr. Meyer was formerly in the service of the Knickerbocker Ice Company, and they were at first interested with him, but he is now sole proprietor of the business which he conducts.  He started in 1884, and with their assistance has already built up a handsome trade throughout Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, and Alabama.  He occupies two floors and a cellar at 75 Bay street, and has the latest and most recently improved apparatus for bottling beer and cider, cleanly and expeditiously that is now in use.  As sole agent here also for the Anheuser Busch Brewing Company of St. Louis, and for the Gerke Brewing Company of Cincinnati, he also has a heavy trade in keg beer.  His sales last year amounted to 25,000 kegs. Mr. Meyer has put experience, vim and enterprise into his business and is reaping the fruits of prosperity.

                                                                   RAY & QUINAN.

                                Soda and Mineral Waters--110 and 112 Broughton Street.

Mr. James Ray, of this concern is a veteran of the trade, he having been in the soda water business since 1854. He is the oldest manufacturer of soda water in Georgia. For the past eighteen years and up to last year he was in the business by himself, but in May last he formed a partnership with Mr. M. T. Quinan, who has also been in the business for a considerable time. Mr. Quinan was successor to a trade established here a way back in 1852, so that this is certainly the representative house of its line in point of years.
But it is also the largest house of its kind. The firm has fifty fountains which it supplies throughout the city, and it is the only firm here performing that service. Besides this the house has a fine country trade, which makes it taken altogether, a most important industry for Savannah.