The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-02
Prohibition HasIncreased Montgomery Business
ESTIMATED AT a,ooo A DAY
The Jug Trade Has Grown to Be
 Enormous.
Express Cars Are Iesded by Geer- sla Firms which Have Moved Their Busines. to sroat-
 gomery.

Prohibition, In Georgia has increasea Montgomery's cash bushes trade at least s4.0oo day Jacksonville ana Chattanooga are not the only irrfgating stations for arid Georgia.
 Every train that leaves Montgomerv and goes east Is q relief train" Tor thirsty Georgia. The express car IS stocked, well stocked with bottles and tugs. The increase of the freight business in liquids has been astonisn- ing. Georgia is certainly snirs.s State.
 She smaller portion of the business is sent in with monsy orders. Ins larger part of 1t comes in drafts ana express money orders and anything ike an accurate estimate is therefore irn- possible. because the banks and the express people do not talk about their business But the wonderful increase in the express business has not gone un noticed.
 At the postofice 1t is said the money order business has increased at ieast 100 per cent since January lst. An extra money order clerk was put on at the postoffice last July and some fear was expressed as to whether the business would justify the increase. There is no longer any such fear. The fear now is that the present force can not keep up with the business Post ofFice employees estimate that the total increase in money order business in two months is at least lo0 per cent. It ts safe to say that the increase ot the whiskey shipped out of Montgom- ary is in the same rate 100 per cent
 A well known liquor dealer said yeH- terday:
 seven Georgia firms moved to Mont . gon1ery on the 1st of January when Georgia went dry. They were firms who had established tn business who had a cIientage and regular customers. These customers were notified or tne location of the new firm in MontEcm- cry and a continuance of their business was requested. by letters or by per eonal appeals. Some of these Georgia firms have practically no bushes out side of their Georgia trade. which keeps them busy enough.
 'sThese Georgia firms rented stores near the wholesale district of the city. One or two of them bought out retail Iiauor business which had already been established. But they changed the form of business. Where only drinks heretofore had been sold over the counter shipping department was put in. for supplying the customers who had been left in Georgta.
 q hardly suppose you could esti- mate the daily amount of money that comes into Montgomery from Georgia, but I should say that 1t would be at least $4.000 a day. I know that every one of the Georgia firms is doing big business. I understand that all of them are we'll pleased. The Georgia orders are up to all expectations."
 The appearance of the depot when Georgia train is due to leave shows that the jug trade of Montgomery is booming. The express messengers complain of being overworked. The wagons which go to these trains are certainly we'll. loaded and jugs form no little part of their loads.
 Eufaula is the only point between Montgomery and Georgia at which whiskey is sold and there a dlspensary is established. This dispensary Is do- ing a booming trade especially on Sat- urday. The proceeds of the Eufaula dispensary are used for the city and rural schools. and If the present busi- ness keeps up until Alabama prohibit tion is inaugurated the Barbour Coun- ty schools will be independent for sev- eral years.
 It is said that the dispensary man agement at Eufanla is forced to put on additional shipping clerks on Saturday and that these clerks work at a des- perate rate until the legal closing hour comes. It is said, too, that the legal closing hour always comes before all the Georgia orders are filled.