Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-07-02
RAINES LAW RESULT.
PEOPLE WHO ARE BENEFITED BY
 THE NEW REGIME.

It Will Increase the Number of Hotels In
 Gotham by ThreefoId-Infant Industries
 springing Up-But Some Kinds of Busi-
 ness Suffer.
 Thomas Tusser, who wrote more than 400 years ago on the Five Hundred Points on Good Husbandry, said, among other things, Except wind stands as never stood, it is an i'll wind that turns none to good. ; At the time of the passage cf the Raines liquor tax bill the number Of persons who were inclined to concur i'll the philosophical remark of Tusser was somewhat limit ed, but since that time the advocates of the Raines law have become embold- ened, and some of them are now willing to admit that. after all the disadvan- tages and disabilities established by the new liquor tax law are offset, to q cer- tain extent, by some material benefits.
 Under the old excise law there were 230 hotels in New York. Under the new excise law there are, or very soon will be, about 1000 more, or 1,a30. The Raines liquor tax law defines hotel, i'll cities of the first class, as an establish ment having not less than ten rooms for the accommodation of guests. The ap- purtenanees Of 8 room in an ordinary hotel and in one established under the exigeneies Of the Raines law for the sale of liquor on Sunday are not exact ly the same, but ill one particular at least there Is a certain resemblanee-ev- cry room i'll a Raines hotel has a bed and every bed has mattress. As con- sequence there has been, since May 1, 8 market fer about 10, 900 mattresses, and seme of the mattress factories have in consequence been working overtime. One large firm, indeed, has put q new mattress on the market. It is called the "Ganandaigua. ''
 The mattress makers, however, are not the only gathers by the sudden and sporadic establishments of Raines hotels, for there is a large demand for hotel furniture, as we'll as for chairs and tables suitable for transient guests who patron ize Raines hotels OH Sundays. These Raines hotel tables are not of an ornate character. but must be strong enough to hold, without breaking, one or more glasses of beer; and the chairs of white pine must be strong enough to hold, without breaking. thirsty individuals of weight ranging from 150 to $50 pounds The stability of the furniture for Raines hotels IS of less importance than the question of eheapness. for the wear and tear OH the furniture is not considerable, occurring only one day i'll seven.
 Another class of persons who find that they have profited by some of the pecu- liar provisions of the Raines bill are the glassworkers ill the New Jersey fac tories. Reports from Camden indicate that the new law has been the cause of giving many workmen ill the glass fac- tories in Gloucester county considerably more work. The bottle makers are very busy, owing to large orders from New York beer bottlers. Nearly all the fac tories are running to their full capacity OH beer bottles. Many factories have more orders than they can fill The de- creased sale of draft beer at lager beer saloons on Sunday has led to an in- creased demand for bottled beer The custom i'll the retail trade is for the sa- loon keepers to furnish the bottles as well as the beer, subject to a rebate on the return of the former. It follows that there are 2 very large number of bottles in use-a number materially increased since the adoption of the Raines law following the Roosevelt crusade. Ac- corfIippIxv bottlac a,.a I, 1a,oanl and tho business of independent beer bottlers, acting apart from the beer brewers, has been largely increased. Some of the largest brewers bottle their own beer but the practice is not universal, and consequently those saloon keepers who sell the beer of establishments which have no regular bottling department are compelled to give out the work of bot ting to private firms, and it is the lat ter who have been keeping busy the Gloucester county glass men.
 A new and almost infant industry which has sprung up since the passage of the Raines bill is the trade in hotel registers. These registers are the trade mark of Raines hotels It is violation of law for any hotel keeper to conduct
 
 business without such register Saloon keepers, it is well known, have never been partial to bookkeeping with cus- toners, and it is well established rule ill the retail liquor trade that slate and ultimate bankruptcy are very near ly synonymous Under the provisions of the Raines bill, however, hotel must, of necessity, have a register for the pur- pose of recording the names and date of arrival of the guests, and as the whole sale stationers did not provide ill ad- vance for this there has been lively hustling to secure hotel registers. and the business i'll them has been brisk. A regular hotel register has usually print ed upon the top the name of the hotel and the proprietor and some of the rules which froynrp tha octah1i cb,oant Iut