Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-04-04
SALOONS AND POOL ROOMS.
Stirring Temperance Meeting ut Hamlin<
Church Yesterday.

Cnurch Yesterday.
Yesterday afternoon at the Hamline Church
there was temperance meeting held for the
purpose Of discussing the question Of pool
rooms and saloons. Judge Kimball addressed
the meeting, telling his experience with per-
sons in court who had reached there through
the use Of strong liquor. and he also told how
frequently the pool room figures in the arrest
OF youths. There are in this city, he said,
about !, 900 licensed places where liquor is sold,
and the police think there is one unlicensed
place, or speak easy" for every place that is
licensed. "And am sorry to say" added the
judge. ''there are innumerable drug stores
where liquor sold openly and to every one
who comes. Some druggists have been prose-
cuted and fined"
He then related several instances in which
liquor had caused trouble. and among them was
one in which a husband who went home found
that his wife had been drinking SO much that
she was intoxicated. and he learned that she
had sent their two little children, one after
another, to n neighboring drug store and there
they had obtained the liquor The liquor
habit, the judge said, affects nearly every body,
as he thought there were but few persons
IN the world who had not some relative or
friend who INDUCED in strong drink.
As TO POOL ROOMS.
Referring to the pool rooms, the Judge said
that unless the recent act Of the Commissioners
had changed affairs he thought that large
number of young men could be found in the
pool rooms while this meeting was in progress.
In conclusion the judge told Of young woman
who was arrested this winter. She found
on the street under the influence of liquor to
such an extent that she could not tell where or
who she was. This woman, he said was
dressed in silks and satins. She had been out
riding and because of the cold weather she
MT 1cotr uA len toll n n
aged woman who was in court recently because
she could not control her appetite for strong
drink. and mentioned the case Of a man whose
complete downfall had taken place in SIX
months. This man, when he appeared last
week, promised to stop drinking.
MR.. NEIL DUMoSr.
Mr.. Neil Dumont, assistant attorney for the
District, also spoke. He referred to the appli-
cations of the liquor dealers and said he had
never signed one in his life, although so long
as liquor is made he favors having 1t under
such restrictions that the authorities can con-
troll it.
Mr.. ". II. Proctor, who presided, also made
a few remarks and resolutions were adopted
thanking 1.-THE Commissioners OF the District OF
Columbia for their action in prohibiting minors
from visiting pool rooms and bowling alleys;
that we are Of opinion that they are entitled to
the gratitude of all good citizens for their no
BILE effort to save the youth of our city from the
demoralizing influence of these dens Of in
iquity," and directing the appointment Of a
committee of five to ''wait upon the Commits
sioners and request them to refuse to grant any
further licenses to pool rooms or saloons to be
kept at any place within two squares of the
high schoOls-to be measured from each
and every point of the boundary Of the square
upon which the said school is situated also
that they be requested to prohibit minors from
visiting saloons anywhere within the limits OF
the District of Columbia"
The chairman appointed Rev. s. E. Todd.
Hon. H. b. Moulton, Robert Andrews and Mrs.
c. L. Roach the committee to wait upon the
District Commissioners and present to them a
copy of the resolutions