St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-07-11
BEER BY THE BARREL
Atlanta, Ca, as Yet is Prohibition
Town Only in Name and Not
in Fact.
The Kimball House Proprietors Run
Things Wide Open Under Protection
of Wholesale License.
Their Bar-Roorn Thronged with
Hundreds Of Thirsty and En-
thus1astic Guzzlers.
The Law invoked Against the Salea
But Without any Immedt.
ate Effect. .sas
Prohibition Doesn't Prohibis,

Special to the Globe. !
ATLANTA. Ca, July 1o.-Yesterday was
a day Of incense excitement among thosa
interested in the prohibition question:
owing to the open defiance Of the law byl
the propretors of the Kimban house. These
gentlemen have been FESTIVE under the pro-
hibitlon law, and have announced their
purpose of fighting it in every possible way.
When prohibition went into effect on the
1st of July, it found several wholesale lie
censes out for dates in August, September
and October. The one in October was
held by MI. M. j. Mabry, who did small
business in the suburbs. Yesterday morn
ing the Decatur street doors OF the Kim
ball house were thrown open, and
the public was invited to enter.
Within were several long tables,
on which were placed as many
huge beer tanks, each attended by half a
dozen walters. 1t was announced that
Scoville 81 Berman had bought the license
which Mabry held, and intended to sell
beer, whisky and cocktails by the quart un-
til the end Of October. In the rear end Of
the room were several hundred white
pitchers which would be filed On request.
A door led into an adjoining suit of rooms
where stood about dozen walters with
tables laden with glasses. AS the glasses
would be used the walters would wash and
place them on tables again. When the
town boys caught on to the scheme-which
was to secure a pitcher. get it filled and
then retire to another room-they gathered
around the hotel by hundreds.
BEER KEGS WE'RE EMPTIED
faster than they could be rolled to the hotel,
drafts were made on the wholesale houses,
and scene of hilarity never before wit
messed in Atlanta was presented. Until
midnight the square in front of the inn
prOvised saloon was filled by men of all de-
grees anxious to drink and taxing the utmost
powers of the walters Meantime con-
sternation reigned in the prohibition camp.
Hurried meeting were here held and the
officers were called upon. 1t was decided
that the business should be broken up at all
hazards. Prominent business men as we'll
as boys crowded the rooms. While this
was going on the crowd was growing furi-I
GUS. They were maddened by the interfer-
ence of the police with private business,
When at last a large posse of police were
marched around and stationed at all th6'
doors, the Indignation became deep. Calls
were made for the authority upon which
this seizure of property was made. If but
one man had spoken the word
IdERE WOULD AAtE BEEN a RlOIs
Curses were freely uttered against the
officers, and especially against Polceman
Jumbo Hunter, who had made himself pau
ticularly obnoxious by his disposition. AZ
noon the prohibition leaders. the mayor,
the police commission, and the chief Of
police decided that steps should at once be
taken. The ground of action was that.
while the license was good, it could not be
legally transferred, and that, therefore, the
sales of liquor in the Kimball house was
without license. Police Commissioner
Martin and Chief Of Police Connolly en-
tered the barroom amid a bowling crowd Of
over 500 drinkers. The proprietors were
| notified to cease their sales. This they
| refused to do. The police then proceeded
to arrest the walters one by one as they held
out liquor. Their places were as rapidly
filled by the proprietoTs. Messrs. Bermen
& Scoville in the meantime hastily appeared
before Judge Richard Fl. Clark and secured
from him an injunction against the city Of
ticers returnable on the 18th, restraining
them from in any manner interfering with
the business of the Kimball house. AS the
news was announced to the crowd and the
policemen filed away a shout Of triumph
went up, followed by rush upon the
pitchers. The prohibitienists are bitterly
charglned at Judge Clark for the length OF
time he has Given the LIQUOR Sellers