Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-01
HELD BACK By MAY-DAY STRIKE
Some of the Restaurants Cannot Be Made
Ready for Business Until the
Carpenters See Fit.
AYUHBEa OF NEW TEMPERANCE hotels
To-Day LiqsDs By tA. Quart Cannot Legally Be Pur'
chased in Allegheny County.


purchased in Allegheny county. A retailer
cannot sell d quart and now the man who
buys whisky and takes it home for "me-
dicinal purposes" must either be satished
with pint or go to two saloons to get the
required quart or course there are numer-
Gus ways of eva5ing the law. For instance,
two men can buy pint each, and one man
take it ALL But the judges of tine License
frown upon the pint trade, even, and
of well for a saloonist to make a prac-
of selling, except by the drink, as he
sometime get into trouble.
Saturday is always a big day for whole
.alers, especially those who have big quart
trades But this one Saturday will pass
yer without people being able to lay in
zig stock for the Sunday quiet jag, and how
he prohibition towns In the vicinity of the
county will suffer- Usually there are large
delegations from all around, men who come
to the city to wear jag home and carry an
other one in their pockets This one Sun
day will have to pass dry, though good
many people complain that all Sundays are
wet and unpleasant.
How Closing VIII Affect Them.
The smaller wholesalers will have to stand
big losses, but with the larger dealers it
won't be so bad. The former supply
emergency business, while the latter have
regular trade with saloonists who have. OF
course, been compelled to put in extra large
supplies of the cooling beverages to last
until Judges White and Magee hand over
the KEYS to the years wholesalers. To be
sure, there will be some loss, and there may
be people unable to get on full head OF
steam on account OF the want of beverage at
She numerous hostelries.
Last night was an ausplcous occasion on
which to change from wet to dry. The rain
descended upon the earth and found want
of umbrellas on the street, and this COM
pelled great many people to "get in out of
the rain" and they of course felt the force of
the supplying the wants Of the inner man"
story, and proceeded to do so. This had the
effect Of swelling the receipts OF the saloonist,
and sometimes the head of the drinker.
But by the time some of the old people get
licenses again, these bygoues will be for
gotten, and on opening night the same good
fellows will drink to the health of the sue
cessful applicants from a glass of triple X.
Double y may go closing night, but it won't
do for grand opening.
Unwillingly Quit the Business.
There will be some elegant new saloons
and restaurants in the Gas City the coming
wear. if the striking carpenters ever relent
and finish up the Improvements Last
night, when the last nails were driven in the
work at various new restaurants, the sounds
were like the knell of business for some time
to come while the click of the KEY in the
doors of the old places was the knell of de-
parted spirits Some of the old places have
done as well as the most successful "conIacker'
could wish, and the proprietors closed their
doors at midnight with heavy sigh for the
past when money flowed into the cash drawer,
washed over the bar by beer or its companions
IN drink.
But the want of carpenters will leave stocks
I debris the floors of some of the
laces this morning. and if some of them do
pen up they will have TO pu' red lanterns on
distractions to prevent theiI customers
king their necks. Some of the places are
lust beginning on the improvements while
are almost finished. Yet all alike must
he pleasure of the strikers before their
urarts will be what they have promised
ddges they will be. Some of them have
.staurants at all, nor can they have until
rooms are nIeu up.
Some of the New Restaurants.
ief among the new restaurants will be the
Royal, on Fifth avenue where Albert
llOu "4tA S.lltlIsllu lElSuus anu SLIdnEeES
like hospitality. His bar is not yet ready.
beginning this morning he will serve Wines
b., in bottles to his guests at the tables. To-
rrow his bar wiil be ready and then his bust
IS viii begin in earnest.
Ias I. Keller. just across the street, will see
sun rise In;s morning with much pleasure.
or from this date one year he will have the
official right tend the thirsty populace in his
cozy Lstle RESTAURANT. His bar will not be
ready <ur bus,s;e-s until mex: Monday.
Thom2s Wallace is going TO have neat
,xIo.on .Fsa,
avenne, bG. TIE carpenters lett him all in
- heap lass night at o'clock However, when
the time comes this morning. his liquid dis
DensoCy viii be tIrned or, and that half of his
business. ieIs;. VIII 20 on. He has hopes for
tIc restaurant part. but the managers of the
car3eptcrs' strike hold the string which will
make him dance CT stand still.
p. :. Huckcsteir, of Seventh street. is also a
victim III tEe strike and Lis business will be
sonewla: delayed by it. His restaurant can
nos DO gotten ready for some time. but his bar
will 20 OF as regularly as the clock, beginning
early this morning
Some New Prohibition Hotels,
Johnny Newell will not be ready for business
Shis morning but lie is not going to allow many
more Gays 20 slip 2roftless by. if he can help
IL ais oar and cafe will be finer than ever
before and that wei KIN own old stand in a new
location viii shortly have its opening. The
Hotel E.ifel is also being somewhat remodeled,
but the bar business is not being greatly inter-
Fered with. There are inany other places where
i;nprorou!ents are being made.
Cute = number Of hotel men have decided to
run on the temperance plan this gear. they
did not aEe out licenses TO sell drinks. The
ludges were mainly the cause of the decision.
so of coarse, it was perfectly legal. Soft
drinks aud cigars will be the extent of the bar
trade A. these houses. At midnight when
rhese men we're t6rning over their new leaf,
thera was a sUuad of revelry as the glasses
clinked 5heir lass clink and were slowed away
for a years forced idlencss. Perhaps it will be
iSpper but that will be decided later on
The Hotel Boyer will pay considerable atten-
tiou 10 the prohibition trade this year as the
Sudres prohibited it doing anything else. This
e no Joke for Mr. Bower but he will keep his
bar open for the soft drink and cigar trade.
Where Coffee and Pop Are Strong
I,enz d Eleinschmidt viii attend more es-
peciaIly to the wants of eaters this year. and
will ignore the drinking part of their former
trade. Numerous others will do likewise.
Johnny Stroup closed last night in blaze of
,iory and contributed his receipts to the News
BOYS Home fund. He tucked his bandbox under
his arm and looked into his big mirror TO see
row it would feel 10 go out of business
Over in Allegheny they are 4 little short Of
licenses notwithstanding the fact that two new
ones were found. This latter fact Is still
widely discussed over there.
The Central Hotel will not serve drinks dur
inc the next II months, and letters will be
dealt ont by Postmaster GIlleland in the old
barroorl The Farmers Hotel, Hotel Rhodes,
and McCarthy's Hotel are all in the same boat
with nothing but water around A Fillman
has for years run a saloon on Federal street,
mt he was one of the victims and has SIS 00Q
rorrh of goods he would like 20 dispose Of
Scoring the K. of L.
President 6ompers. of the Federation Of
rabor. il out in . circular denouncing the
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