The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-02-04

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claimed, serve often to keep the boys to-
gether and away from the saloons.
| If advantage could be taken of the OPP
portunity offered in these loose organi-
cations by social settlements, Mr.. Mel
endy believes that they might easily be
made substitutes for the saloon. Be
tween the club life of the boy and the
hodge life of the man there in the
city scores of young mems clubs. There
lis a marked lack of guidance in these
and as the case stands it is difficult to
say whether they are in the main SUD-
lstitutes or feeders for the saloon, but
they may be easily turned in the right
direction.
There are T5i churches in the city. OF
these seyenty-nine have made some adj
Vance in instituting clubs, organized as
substitutes for saloons. Seventeen more
are contemplating such work Six
churches have gymnasiums and two
lhave occasional theatricals. but as a
trule the churches of Chicago as sub
stitutes for the saloon count for very
little The twelve social settlements in
lChicago located in the most congested
districts in the city, are doing good
work, but they are so few in number
THAT they are not serious menace TO
the liquor traffic.
Among the substitutes for saloons IA
vorably regarded by Mr.. Melendy are
the cheaper places of amusement. In
many of these, it is stated truly, the
melodramas and the vaudeville are
5 clean and rarely suggestive OF evh
While these in a sense substitutes
! for the saloon. there are other places
/, OF amusement of lower grace Wnlci
, are feeders for saloons.
The cheap lodging-houses are in nc
sense it is declared, substitutes for tht
saloon. Most of them are simply intol
cradle The exceptions are in the linz
] of the cheap lodging-houses established
4 by the Salvation Army, the y NJ
Z A and other organizations of the kind
, The cheaper lunch counters and restau
: rants are failures, in that their seen
and Decent lunches do not compare
u favorably with the free lunch of tn
i saloon, and the air of poverty abou
d them is offensive even to the poorest
Y Most of the RESTAURANTS that make
S specially OF supplying food to the la
+ boring people cannot compete with tn
. saloons On Madison street in a dis
lance of four miles there are 10 saloon
l and ffty-three restaurants Three o
; the latter are scent establishments, fiv
5 are 10-cent, twenty are 15-cent, sever
= are 20-cent. sixteen are 25-cent, and tw
h are 35-cent restaurants. In other words
o in this district of four miles there ar
e eight unattractive restaurants for tn
~ poor man and lis saloons, nearly all o
which furnish free lunches with at
tractive surroundings.
The special substitutes of the Y. NJ. {
A.. the Salvation Army, and the Catho
lie temperance organizations have bee
"a successful in remarkable degree, bu
% there are not enough of them to exei
= else any perceptible influence. Too oft
~ en-, Mr.. Melendy claims, the religion
element is intruded. In too many case
lie they lack attractiveness. To compel
l. with the saloons, these special subst
t, tutes must be as attractive as the SO
= loon and must be carried on not a
n philanthropic enterprises, but upon
strictly business basis.
Ii is estimated that so per cent of tn
men who go to the saloon go there pr
~ marily for drink. The other 80 per Ger
s. go from various legitimate motives, an
Is it is believed that this 30 per cent ca
Is be taken from the saloon by satisfat
tory substitutes. 1t is not claimed thu
n substitution will entirely do away wit
ry the liquor traffic, but there is lare
o. work for reformers in this direction
ed and Mr.. Melendy insists that such wor
T. is more needed than legislation in Oh
Vs. cago at present.