The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-30
MANY NEW RESTAURANTS
.SAL00NKEEPERS ARE WISE
Transforming Side Rooms Into Eating Places to Meet Pro
 visions of New Law.

Gracious" said John $. Fowler. as- sistant clerk of the superior court, yes terday, it seems as if every saloon keeper in New Haven was getting out a license to conduct a hotel or restaur- ant in connection with his regular business. Bye and bye I guess the sa- loon mer will want blue ribbons to hang outside their doors on Sunday mornings"
 The fact is that nearly three quart CTS cf the saloonkeepers of New Ha- ven are busy just now transforming their barrooms into hotels and ves., taurants in order to abide by the px- else laws recently enacted by the leg. lslature and still be able to trlnsacl a business that will be as profitable a 1t was before the statutes were alter ed.
 Tiiis is the scheme that many of the saloonkeepers are adopting in order to evade the law which says that the siderooms must go. They propose call ing these siderooms hereafter part of their restaurants or hotels, the conduct of a restaurant or a hotel in connect- ion with a saloon being perfectly legal,
 The law says that there shall be no side room or back room in a saloon other than an office and lavatory.
 No person licensed to sell intoxi- eating liquors" runs the law, Tor his servant or agent shall hereafter, ex- cept in hotels and restaurants, de- liver or serve intoxicating liquors to be drunk on the premises, in any room or apartment other than barroonl."
 The sideroom in the New Haven sa- loon is an important factor in the sa- loon business. The saloonkeepers to all appearances abolish the sideroom by equipping it for the serving of edl- bles.
 There may now be seen sandwiches which will in time become fnoldy from age, for the new scheme is about the same as the methods practiced by New York saloonkeepers in interpreting the Raines law The slderopm may be maintained without violation of the law if it forms part of the restaur- ant, The edibles that are generally. served in New York on sundays under the Ralnes law requirements consist | generally of time-honored sandwiches ! Few people who patronize saloon in New York on Sunday eat these sand wiches They are simply dusted off once week, always before being serv- l ed.
 Chief Cowles' men, as heretofore stated, are making careful examin7 | atlon of the saloons of New Haven t6 observe if the law appertaining to the side room is being conformed to. In places notorious for side rooms they now perceive the tables dressed for lunch and the patron ordering intoxi- eating liquors without the slightest 1 quairn of conscience.
 The county commissioners have been surprised at the number of liquor H. censes that have been requested for hotels and restaurants When man receives his license from the county 1 commissioners in order that it may be strictly legal it has to be recorded in the office of the clerk of the superior court
 It was the large number of saloon | licenses for hotels and restaurants brought before him that caused the | ejaculation from MT, Fowler yester- l day
 "Who says that there are not enough hotels and restaurants in New Haven l to feed a multitude?" asked Mir. Fow- Ter.
 Of course the changing of a saloon into a hotel or restaurant with little office in front does not facilitate mat ters any should the proprietor or op- orator desire to transact Sunday
 business The state law says that
 there shall be no liquor sold in Con-
 necticut on Sundays unless upon pre-
 scriptions from bona fide physicians
 These are compounded at drug stores.