Evening star., 1901-10-22
CRUSADE AGAINST LIQUOR
COMMITTEE APPOINTED WITH MEN,
BER IN EACH PRECINCT.
First of a Series of Meetings Held
Under Auspices of Anti
Saloon League.

President James L. Ewin presided at the
first meeting last evening of the sixth an
nual anti-saloon revival under the auspices
of the Anti-Saloon League. The meeting
was held at ST Paurs Church. 11th and ii
streets Devotional exercises were con-
Quoted by Rev. Walter H. Brooks, and
reports were read by chairmen of COM
mittees. as follows: Legislation, Andrew
Wilson: literature, r. E. Harvey; protests,
A E. Shoemaker, and mass meeting, ii. q.
Metcalf.
1t was announced that the pastors of all
the local churches had been requested to
devote Sunday, October q, to the cause of
temperance. In reporting on the army can
teen law, Mr.. A. N. Garfield, among other
things, stated that from investigation his
committee believes that there is less of
drunkenness and OF consequent demorallza-
ton among the soldiers at the posts visited
by the members of the committee, and has
been less during the last six months than
ever before during any similar period of
their existence when occupied by so large
a force.
Report of the Committee.
The report is in part as follows:
your special committee appointed to in
vestigate and report upon the correctness OF
the statements made in the newspapers of
the country to the effect that the law pro-
hibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors in
the exchanges or canteens al military posts
had resulted Immediately in the opening OF
many additional drinking saloons IN the
vicinity of these posts, outside of the mill
tary reservations and of military control,
and had resulted in a consequent alarming
increase in drunkenness and decentralization
among the soldiers, submits the following
partial report:
our committee has visited the posts as
signed to It, viz, the arsenal, the navy
yard, and the Marine barracks, in the Dis
trict of Columbia; Fort Myer and Fort
Hunt. in Virginia, and Fort Washington, in
Maryland, and has found that the reported
opening of new or additional saloons in the
vicinity of those posts since the abolition
of the sale of intoxicating liquors in the
canteenS is not true to any of them.
Your committee finds that in the Dis
trict of Columbia there were 515 licensed
bar rooms at the end of the license year,
October 81, 1900; and that there are today
only 513 such bar rooms; and that during
the last license year no new bar room has
been licensed in the vicinity of any military
post in the District. That there are now
four saloons in the village of Rosslyn, at
the Virginia end of the Aqueduct bridge
and three on the road between that village
and Fort Myer, but they have all been
there since before the anti-canteen law was
passed, and no new ones have been opened
in that vicinity.
THAT there are no saloons at Fort Hunt
and none nearer to that post than Alexan-
dria, Va. That there are three saloons on
the road leading from Fort Washington to
the country outside of the military reser-
vation; that they were there when the anti
canteen law was passed, and that no new
saloon has been opened in that vicinity
Concerning Liquor Licenses.
report upon the number and character
of liquor licenses asked for during the
present year was read by Mr.. A. E. Shoe
maker, attorney of the society He
stated that his committee had been active
in the preparation for two weeks cam
paiSn against the saloons of the District
about to be inaugurated. Members of the
association have been appointed as follows
to take up the work of locating saloons OBJ
jectionable in the various precincts: First
precinct. Mr.. II. NJ. Kingsley; second pre-
cinct, Mr.. o. P Kelar; thru precinct. Mrs.
Emma l.. Berry; fourth precinct DR. c. w.
Childs; fifth precinct, Mrs. Lizzie j. Allen;
sixth precinct, Mr.. A. ]. Edison; seventh
precinct, Mr.. ]. S. Blackford; eighth pre-
cinct, Mrs. F. NJ. Hazard; ninth precinct
Mrs. G. l.. Chaplin; tenth precinct, Miss
Eta Jackson,