Philadelphia and popular Philadelphians (1891) (14576655180)

Identifier: philadelphiapopu00phil (find matches)
Title: Philadelphia and popular Philadelphians
Year: 1891 (1890s)
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Publisher: Philadelphia, The North American
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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lt houses in the city on St. Johnstreet, and has controlling interests in the Germania BrewingCompany and in the Fairmount Steamboat Company. He ownsthe Riverside Mansion, the Lvceum Theatre, and the new GrandOpera House, at Broad and Montgomery avenue. In the GrandOpera House he takes particular pride, and with all reason, for it isone of the most beautiful and largest theatres in the country. Itseats comfortably 3,000. Mr. Betz, although most largely interested in Philadelphiaaffairs, by no means confines his investments to this city. Thehandsomest mausoleum in Philadelphia was built by Mr. Betz inWest Laurel Hill Cemetery. There is scarcely a ward in the city inwhich he does not own property, and he is the proprietor of manyof the brewery sites in New York City. At Betzwood, on the Penn-sylvania Railroad, he has a farm of over 500 acres, where he hassome of the finest herds of Jersey cattle in the country. He hasbeen called upon to fill many positions of trust, as a Director of the
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ET2 & Son-s Brewery annually ever since. Various new buildings and departments havebeen added to the establishment from time to time at a cost of over;750,ooo. The brewing of ale, porter and brown stout remains aleading feature of the business, and their bottled and draft ales andporters are shipped to all parts of the United States, to the WestIndies, Mexico and South America. Of luger beer the firm hasvarious makes, as Bohemian, Pale Export, Salvator and Munich.Improvements and alterations now going on at the brewery willgive still greater capacity. Mr. John F. Betz, Sr., is one of themost prominent and enterprising citizens of Philadelphia. He wasborn in Stuttgart, Wurtemburg, Germany, but was brought to thiscountry when but a year old. When twelve years of age he wastaken into the employ of his brother-in-law, D. G. Yeundling, abrewer in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. He remained there until ofage, when he returned to Germany for the purpose of gettinggreater knowledge of the brewe