Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-19

'no-saloon" ordinance, If adopted, will
the community, as they are firmly
convinced that the large tourist trade
now enjoyed by Los Angeles will prac-
t.cally be ruined.
Here are authorized interviews from
four of the leading hotel men of the
city as to the Chapman ordinance on
the liquor trade. The idea in collecting
these interviews was to show how the
adoption of the Chapman plan will af-
feet the tourist trade.
Would Kill Tourist Trade
| II. G. Fryman, manager Hotel Ian
ltershim: "The tourists who bring the
most money to Los Angeles ana whose
trade is most worth having, are those
who know what they want and are
willing to buy it, Money is no object
to thousands of these people. AS a
rule they are moderate drinkers-that
Is they may take a cocktail before
dinner and may have a pint of wine
with the principal meal of the day.
They are not coming to any resort or
any city that interferes with their ac-
customed habits of living. Pasadena
Is supposed to be prohibition city,
but in the resort hotels the liquor
trade is conducted as freely and in the
same manner as in licensed hotels of
the best class in this city. The Chap
man ordinance will have the effect Of
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able tourist trade Tourists OF the
class L name are not going to any
place that hampers their freedom. For
business reasons the people of Los An
geles should not have to think twice
as to how they will vote on June 2. I
am for high license and strict regu-
lation."
Travellers Will Not Come Here
Harry Loomis, Angelus hotel: II re-
gard DR.. Chapman as one of the most
willy politicians who has come to Los
Angeles for years. His opponents will
not agree to this perhaps, but it is
true. He is in the position Of a man
who has three or four opponents to
whip, any one of whom he could de-
feat singly, but combined they would
defeat him. His present move is to
divide the opposition. The Chapman
ordinance, If enacted, would help the
wholesale liquor dealers and the drug
gists, but they would come next on the
Chapman program. If DR.. Chapman
wins, I expect to see this city become
4. 4: e.,
years, and that would simply cut us
out of the tourist business. There are
two classes of men in this world, the
spenders and the hoarders. We point
out the spenders to our children as
horrible examples but there is no use
denying that it is the spenders who
build up the communities in which they
live. One John w. Gates is worth more
to a community than a dozen John
Rockefellers. We want to encourage
the wealthy spenders to come here all
that we can. Closing the town will
not bring them"
Had Enough of Kansas Idea
Hi Alden, Nadeau hotel: "Oh, no, DR..
CHd > VIII IlOl AulI luC
town! If it is adopted it will just kill
it. The tourist business that means
so much for Los Angeles in the winter
time will be SKINNED of the cream.
You understand there are two classes
of people who come here in the win
ter, the spenders and the class which is
now following Dr. Chapman. The
spenders will all give us the go-by if
the ordinance becomes a law. They
will say that San Francisco is good
enough for them. for none of them
wants to be interfered with when it
ner and doing as he pleases, provided
he does not interfere with others. The
other class isn't much good to a town.
1t holds its cent pieces until the In
dian shrieks. 1 cannot believe that the
people of this city will deliberately cut
their own business throats. | know that
very large percentage of business men
think the prosperity of the city would
be preserved by maintaining things as
they are. but there is vote here that
no one knows where it will go. 1 mean
those people who come here to live and
that you never meet about in business,
To show how l feel on this question l
can cite a case. A day or two ago 1 re-
ceived a letter from Arthur Aetts and
Il. l.. Doheny asking me to aid the
Francis Murphy fund. 1 wrote that,
while | was thoroughly in sympathy
with the Murphy idea of having a
master mind direct those who were not
sufficiently strong to direct themselves,
| thought the time inOpportune to ask
for assistance. To tell the truth 1 do
not think would care to stay in busi-
ness with this made dry town. /
have had one experience with prohibi-
tion i'm Kansas. Hundreds of unli-
censed drinking clubs and joints start
ed up. and there was so per cent more
drunkenness after the state presumably
went dry. Legitimate business was
stihed and illegitimate business fos-
tered. I'll attend to the Let's and Do
heny matter after the I'd of June"