St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-07-11
BEER BY THE BARREL
Atlanta, Ca, as Yet is a Prohibition
Town Only in Name and Not
in Fact.
The Kimball House Propristors Run
Things Wide Open Under Protection
of Wholesale License.
Their Bar-Roorn Thronged with
Hundreds OF Thirsty and En-
thus1ast1c Guzzlers.
The Law invoked Against the Salea
But Without any Innmedi-
ate Effect. $50
Prohibition Doesn't Prohibit.

Prohibition Doesn't Prohibit Nj
Special to the Globe.
ATLANTA, Ca, July 10.-Yesterday was
a day Of incense excitement among those
interested in the prohibition question
owing to the open defiance of the law byl
the proprietors of the Kimball house. These1
gentlemen have been FESTIVE under the pro-
hibition 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 liz
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
dozen walters. Ii was announced that
Scoville u 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 Oh request.
a door led into an adjoining suit of rooms
where stood about a 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,
n. ft-x
and scene Of hilarity never before wit
messed In Atlanta was presented. Until
midnight the square in front of the i'm
provised saloon was filed 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 fugi-I
GUS. They were maddened by the interfer-
ence of the police with private business,
When at last large posse of police were
marched around and stationed at all the'
doors, the Indignation became deep. Calls
were made for the authority upon which
this seizure of property was made. If bun
one man had spoken the word
THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN A RIOT.
Curses were freely uttered against the
officers, and especially against Policeman
Jumbo Hunter, who had made himself pay
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 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 proprietors. Messrs. Bermen
& ScoVille in the meantime hastily appeared
before Judge Richard Fl. Clark and secured
from him an injunction against the city Of
fcers returnable on the 17th 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 al Judge Clark for the length Of
time he has given the liquor sellers.