The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-12-16

states got after the slot machines and
| the State Line House barkeeper was
] kept busy shifting his machines from
j one side Of the room to the other. The
| Illinois officers got the drop on him one
| day and bounced down on row of ma
: chimes lined along the wall on their
side, but before they could get process
on him he was over behind the bar in
! Indiana
While Indiana was 'liberar' on Slot
machines as a general thing, Illinois
| is liberal on saloon egulation-Illinois
saloons keep open on Sunday mornings
/ at least. 1t was just the most natural
| thing in the world to take out a beer"
! license to sell on Sunday mornings in
] Illinois. The entire license might have
| been taken out in that state, but there
| is a difference of $3.50 a year in the
cost of license governing the two sides
of the room and the bar, as a rule,
stands on the Indiana side. where the
$3.50 is in the pocket of the dealer.
In the office some complications
often take place. 1t was only recently
that a young man who jumped his
board bill in Indiana sat in the Illinois
side of the office talking it over with
his irate Indiana landlord, entirely safe
from arrest and prosecution.
Cinch pinochle and old maid are
the principal diversions OF the Glen
teIe of the State Line House. Their
card tables are ranged along the line
so that he players sit in both states.
1t is. however in the rooms upstairs
that one finds the most interesting
complications, and in the people who
make those rooms their place of resi-
dence. Half of them live in Indiana
and half of them in Illinois, and it is
the one house in the two states that is
divided against itself when election
and tax-paying time comes around.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Werley who own
and conduct the hotel have an inter-
estfng suit of rooms, the state line run
ming diagonally through them. Their
bedroom is small, but it is located in
two states, and Mrs. Werley sleeps in
Illinois and Mr.. Werley in Indiana.
He has a somewhat clouded title to
citizenhip, however, as the line clips
his side of the bed a little short and
one of his feet naturally falls in IL
linois. They pay taxes in the two
states
In another bedroom the line runs
lengthwise through a bed, so that the
father and son, who occupy it, sleep
in different states. That is they sleep !
in different states if they do not curl |
up. In that case they are likely to |
have their heads and feet in one state |
and the rest of their bodies in another |
To the rear of the hotel Mrs. Werley |
has a garden that is as complicated |
in interstate relations as is the house. /
A single bed of lettuce, small though /
it be, may be both Indiana and Illinois I
grown. 1t is cleaned at a pump in IL |
linois, prepared in a kitchen in Indiana
and served on a table through which +
the state line runs. That is one of the |
features of the hotel
Mr.. and Mrs. Werley are the only In
diana people-or Illinois people-who
can seat themselves at their sitting
room table to read and find themselves
by a state line. For such
a complicated household it seems to be
a well-contented and happy one, even
at approaching election time. and it
must be remembered that here party
alone does not divide, but Republican
residents of the same house are voting
for different men for state Office and
Democrats are similarly divided. Luck
lily there is not a Populfst or Prohibi-
ton voter to add still further to the
complications.-Chicago Chronicle.