The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1904-08-19
IS THIS THE SOLUTION?
The Episcopal Church Goes Into the
Saloon Business on the 'sNO
Treat PIan''

| LII. D., bishop OF the Protestant Epis-
copal diocese of New York. opened the
Subway Tavern" with prayer, and at
the conclusion of the opening exercises
the doxology was sung.
The Subway Tavern is saloon, fash
ioned and conducted after new idea,
at the corner of Mulberry and Blocker
streets near the Bowery. The bishop
made a speech in the barroom, standing
on beer case, praised the new sa-
loon and declared that it represented
more progress toward temperance than
the efforts of temperance leaders of so
years.
The Tavern has been financed by cer-
tain members OF the City club, who be-
lieve that, in addition to the predicted
8 per cent dividends, the saloon will
work reform among drinkers. Any
man or woman can buy anything from
glass of soda water to rye highball
in the place SO long as he OF she does
not "treat."
When Bishop Potter arrived in the
saloon to conduct the opening exercises
he approached the bar and spoke to the
bartender, remarking about picture
on the wall showing some sportive
nymphs in rather glaring negligee. The
Bishop apparently was not over-pleased
with this feature of the saloon.
To crowd of members of the club
and few stray wanderers from the
Bowery who happened in Bishop Pot
ter made his speech.
1--WE have the great multitude ofpeo-
Pile whose daily life is one OF toll to con-
sider," said the bishop. "When the
days work is done what is to become OF
them? | belong to the Century, the
Metropolitan and half dozen other
clubs, and I can go to one or all OF them
for my entertainment and my pleasure.
"But what is to become of my friend
who lives in two rooms with his wife
and five children?, It's all very well TO
go to your club for lunch when the day's
work is finished. but where is the man
going who does not belong to these
clubs? Inevitable necessity drives him
to the saloon.
Gentlemen, hold the effort to shut
up the saloon as the most tragic and at
the same time the most comic failure in
modern history.
"The temperance question is as far
from solution today as it was 90 years
ago.
81 may add that the efforts to settle
it in high handed way have led to an
untold amount of hypocrisy. Gent G.
men, this movement of ours today must
be taken into account by all if they
wish to save the republic. We must
make the home of the working man
cleaner and brighter, and we must see
that he gets his recreation"
The saloon is divided into two sec
tions, the "Water Wagon" and the
"Not Water Wagon" They are sepa-
rated by partition. Women who
want to drink glass of beer at a bar
may be served from what looks like
soda fountain on the water Wagon"
side. I he bar proper is in the second
room and that is exclusively for men,
Any sort of a drink can be had but each
customer must pay for his own drink.
The idea is to raise the standard of
drinking rather than attempt 10 abolish
it. 1t is not altogether new. Earl
Gray tried to revolutionze the dram
shops of London by just such scheme.
The Subway Tavern, its promoters
say, is to be made pleasant, comfort
able place where the drinker can be
surrounded by moral atmosphere and
where frst-class beverages will be dis
pensed cheap, Regular 15-cent whisky
is sold for 10 cents per glass and other
drinks in proportion.
Bishop Potter put himself on record
a number OF years ago as being friend
of the workingman's saloon. He recog'
nizes it as the poor mans club.
You need clean healthy bowels just
as much as pure wholesome food; with
out either, you cannot keep well. Hol-