The San Francisco call., 1898-06-14
BEER RIVER
 WILL RUN LOW SchoonerS Must Be of
 Lighter Draught.
PACTOLIAV STREAM DAMNED
WAR TAXES WILL MAKE MEN
 MORE TEMPERATE.
Brewers and Tobacco Manufacturers Notified by Collector Lynch That the Tax Begins
 To-Day.

When the news came that President Mckinley had signed the war revenue bill yesterday afternoon there was a sen saton principally in beer and tobacco circles. Some retailers of the nectar of Gambrinus immediately placed orders for new glasses of smaller canber than those then in use, in order to cut down the quantity of steam sold in schooners to a war footing and the time of fighting will soon be indeed time of thirst. In some resorts small caliber glasses were put in use yesterday, and they were a decided disappointment to the beer-drinking pub lie, for they are disproportionately small and will meet not only the war tax of a dollar a barrel but enough more to pay for a good free lunch thrown in
 Other beer retailers nave retained the old schooners so dear to the sight of the thirsty patrons. with glass bottoms weigh ing about a pound and half, and thick faith schooner, for the holder of it be- lieves that he is getting a great quantity of the reddish brown fluid which neither cheers nor intoxicates-much. In order glass, or the white military collar as 1t IS called, is higher than ever, and is known as the majors collar.
 Cigars will be made smaller, ana pug tobacco will be no longer of the d1men- siOns of brick. While it may not be ad- visable to increase the retail price of the
 
 the honor of paying the expenses Of the Spanish war, the quantity in the beer glasses or the tobacco bag may be les sened, which will be equivalent to les sened consumption of the taxed articles.
 Internal Revenue Collector Lynch and his office were as busy as bees yester- day afternoon in notifying the dealers and manufacturers that the bill would go into effect at midnight. Among the first things done yesterday morning was mo- tifcation to the following effect;
 IT. District of California-Please take notice that after the revenue law goes into effect you cannot remove stock from the factory until the tax is paid the new rate, and you must have inventory stamps on hand for redemption Respectfully, JOHN c. LYNCH, Collector.
 Similar notices were served upon the to visit the breweries and inventory the stamps on hand, so that they might be exchanged for new stamps, the brewers paying to the Collector the difference in price
 dispatch was received by MT. Lynch enue notifying him that the new revenue law would go into effect to-day and in- forming him officially of the following rates:
 Beer s2 per barrel with IF per cent dis count tobacco, 12 cents per pOund-two. three and four ounce tobacco and snuff abolished and l 2-3 ounces and 2la ounces and l-S ounces substituted respectively; 1-ounce smoking to- bacco provided cigars and cigarettes over 3 pounds, s 60; cigarettes less, Sl 90.
 Collector of Customs Jackson was noti- fed by the Treasury Department that the President signed the new revenue law at 3:05 o'clock in the afternoon and that all tea imported after thef third day after the signing of the bill shall be dutiable at 10 cents per pound.