Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-08-17
RECORD
OF THE
ANNEX
WAS ALWAYS GOOD
Manager of the Standard Liquor Com.
pany Fighting FOrSa Location On
State Street-MOdern ShOrtI Order
Restaurant and Bar

TIL application for a change of
location for the Annex from the
Mccormick building to the west side
of Commercial street, is in the hands
of the committee on licenses and
will be reported on Friday night.
Alderman Bayne is making strenu-
Gus fight against granting the Stand
ard Liquor Company the right of re-
moval. The Standard Liquor Com
pany relies on its past good record
in going before the city council,
claiming to have conducted five
saloons in this city the past twelve
years without disturbance and
without a fight or a single police
call or case in court. The COM
pany pays $4,000 a year license to
the city and Manager Magers has
a petition of nearly every business
man on both sides of the street ask
ing that his removal be granted.
Record of the Annex.
At Salem all saloons are located
in the third ward of the city and the
general opinion among business men
Is that the Annex bar couldn't be
moved to a better place than the
site of the old Strong's restaurant.
The proprietors are the Standard
Liquor Company, and the Annex has
an unexpired saloon license for six
months to run. The proposed new
location was the Angelus restaurant
and was formerly a. saloon with. such
old-timers as oscar Hodges, Joe
Aitkin. and F. p. Talkington in
charge, and two others before them.
The New Cafe.
The interior is being fitted up for
a modern cafe and short-ordsr
restaurant with a six foot hallway
entrance, and a small barroom 10
by "a feet, with no chairs, tables or
lounging place OF any kind what
soever. All the private boxes will
be taken out OF the restaurant part.
There will be one large public din
ing room with a private banquet
room to hold about twenty. II the
business pays an 'order has already
been put in with the Brown sash
and door company for fine plate
glass mission style front.
Conduct Model Saloons.
Friends OF Mr.. Mayors In the city
council say IL would be a good thing
~ some more of the saloons of the
city could be under the same man
agement. The city recorders
records show that there have been
no arrests, and not even any COM
plants from any OF these saloons.
The company has a payroll of $1,000
per month and all the employees
nearly are married men with
families. They do not work unrea-
sonable hours, keep the Sunday law,
permit no minors, no card games or
any species of gambling, no women
are allowed on the premises. and en-
ployes who sell liquor to an in
toxicated person are discharged for
the first offense.
What Others Say.
e. p. Mccormack, owner OF the
department store block, says in the
twelve years that the Annex has
been conducted in his building there
has been absolutely no complaint
from any man, woman or child as 10
the manner in which that saloon has
been conducted. Joseph Meyers and
j. l.. Stockton. who conduct de-
partment stores on each side of the
Annex say there has never been any
disorder, and no one would know
but what IL was a place of business
of any other kind than a saloon, so
far as attracting any attention or
disturbing the neighborhood. The
main fight on the Standard Liquor
Company saloons Is made by the
prohibition element that considers
the respectfully managed saloon the