Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-02
The Original Package Establishments
Now Reign Supreme, and
Dispose Of
LIQUOR WITHOUT FEAR Or FAVOR.
ALI Are Enjoying a Rushing Trade, and
More Dealers Are Preparing to
Go in the Business.
FAIRLY GOOD ORDER Is MAINTAINED.
Only One Prosecution Has Yet Been Entered and 1t
Had No Effect

BEAVER FALLS, August Last spring
when his Honor Judge Wickham granted
licenses to three hotels and three breweries
in this place no doubt he thought he was
making it wet enough for any right-think-
ing person, and the temperance people
thought he was making the town little too
wet in fact, yet it was not until the Supreme
Court, by their decision, gave any or every
one chance to engage in the liquor traffic
that the people of Beaver Falls knew
what the term a"Wet town" really meant.
That Beaver Falls is "wet town" so far
as the liquor traffic is concerned no sane
man will attempt to deny at present. -Four
original packet saloons are now in full
blast, and the prospects are that inside of
ten days a half dozen more will be added to
the number, for every one sees millions in
it' and are anxious to engage in the busi-
ness.
BUSY NIGHT AND DAY.
-Four original package houses are now
kept busy night and day dishing out beer
and other liquors to the thirsty residents of
Beaver Falls. Lewis Wagner, an unsuc-
cessful applicant for brewers license, has
an original package house going in full
blast at the extreme southern limit of the
town in his brewery. At the extreme
north end of town, Bingle & Patter-
son are running an original pack
age house in a livery stable, while
in the center Of the town George
Wurzell is dishing out beer in his tin shop,
on Seventh avenue, to all those who have
the price of bottle, and Bergner & Taylor
Isrk al sn
room on Fifth avenue.
The beer is sold by the quart bottle at Is
cents per bottle, or two for Is cents. Wag-
ner, however, sells his beer at 10 cents per
bottle. Customers are allowed to drink the
stuff right on the premises, and to say that
these original package bars are well patron
lied is putting it very mildly.
at times it is almost impossible to get
served. Customers buy their one or two
bottles, retire to back room, are provided
with lasses, and there they sit and guzzie
to their hearts content, and as long as their
appetite and money hold out they are
served.
RATHER A RUSHING BUSINESS.
Bingle and Patterson have sold as high
as !, 100 quart bottles of beer in one evening,
together with whisky in pints, half pints
and quarts. They sell Youngstown beer OF
good quality. They are agents for John
Hines of that city. Wagner is the agent
for a Canton as we'll as Wheeling brewery.
He sells nothing but beer, and states that
his sales will average 600 bottles per day
and 300 eighth kegs per week.
George Wurzell sells Hines youngstown
beer, and states that he could sell 700 quart
bottles per day il he could get the beer, but
be cannot, so is half the time without it; he
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have luSt opened, and il is hard TO tell how
much they will sell, but they are in an ex-
cellent district. They sell Slaughters' beer,
of Cleveland, o.
The patrons of these saloons come from
all classes of society; the "bum" who can
raise the price of bottle, the workingman,
the clerk and the merchant, all sit side by
side in these saloons and drink An o. P.
saloon is one of the most democratic insti-
tutions in the world, all classes meet on a
level, drink beer and hobhob with each
other, strange to say.
THE BEST OF ORDER
is preserved, and though at times, the in
mates get q little noisy, yet at no time has
the police been called TO Quell any disturb
ance, nor have there any fights, SO far,
occurred The liquor drank does not seem
TO be of the fighting kind, so everybody is
jolly and good natured.
The modus operandi to start an original
package saloon is this: One must FIRST
secure his building, then get an agency from
some brewery or liquor dealer outside the
State The next step is TO go TO Pittsburg
take out United States liscence at the
revenue Office. This costs one S22 SO, and
then one is ready for business as soon.as the
liquor arrives. 1t is all sold in the original
package just as it arrives at the agency.
To get certificate of agency one must
bear the reputation of being a sober, trust
worthy man. None others need apply. for
the liquor dealer or brewer takes all risk
and must protect his agent in case of prose-
cution, and bear all expenses OF a defense.
One man in Beaver Falls had all arrange
ments made with a Youngstown firm, had
his United States license, had his place of
business, and, it is said
THE FIRST SHIPMENT
Of liquor was ready to send to him, when
some one put a bug" in the ear of the
Youngstown firm to the effect that the pros
pective agent would be a better customer
Tor the liquor than any he would sell to,
and that ended it; the liquor was not
shipped. Dealers have to be particular, for
their own safety, whom they appoint as
agents.
The legitimate bars are suffering to a
great extent and where gallons of LIQUOR
were sold at the hotels, they do not sell
pints At an o. P. house one can get a
quart bottle of solid beer Tor 10 or Is cents,
This quart will make about four good
glasses and people as a rule do not care to
pay 20 or 25 cents for that which they can
get Tor 10 or 10, and then have to drink half
froth besides. That is the reason that people
as a rule patronize an o. P. bar in preference
TO legitimate one, and strange to say many
people are seen patronizng an original
package house who would not be seen step
ping up to the bar of regularly licensed
Eouse.
That there will be a half dozen more
original package saloons in Beaver Falls
within 8 fortnight there is little doubt.
Charles Webster has his license, his agency
and house rented on the main street of the
town.
ONE OF THE AGENTS.
Ed shaffer, made notorious as one of the
parties alleged to have taken a bribe in the
late Congressional nomination muddle in
the Twenty-fourth district, is about to enter
the business. He has been keeping a
grocery, but the grocery business does not
pay like the original package business and
he is out for money.
Titus Welsh, an axe maker, will be a
partner with him. Sam Watson, a bar
tender, is about to open up, and several
others are thinking seriously of the same
thing if they can get an agency. The latter
thing is the hardest thing to accomplish in
the business.
A visit to one Of these original package
saloons is worthy description. At Wag-
ner's one enters the brewery; there one finds
all classes of men sitting in the large brew