The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-08-07
Capital City Brewery
Ready to Close.
CARMICHAEL BILL
AFFECTS REM VALUES
Social Clubs VIII Discontinue
Locker System.
brewery Had Been Preparing fs1
Drastic LeGfslatioG for e3o,0oo
Worth OF Near Beer shippeA
Out Of state Last week.

The Capital City Brewery. ninety
near-beer stands Of Montgomery. and
the social clubs will be closed Monday
by the time Governor Conner afaxes
his signature to the Carmichael prohi-
bition bill which passed the Senate
yesterday afternoon.
Although IL has been expected for
some time that the Legislators would
pass drastic prohibition legislation.
the passage OF the bill yesterday after
noon occasioned numerous inquiries By
anxious near-beer proprietors as to the
exact time when Governor Conner
would ark his signature. One near
beer proprietor kept himself hourly
informed for several hours as to tho
condition of the bill. II was finally
noised abroad that on account Of tbs
amendment. which nearly everyone
seemed to overlook. made the bill res
turn to the House for another vote, .
short respite being thus granted.
Through the passage Of the bill. $50
men will be thrown out of employment
at the Montgomery Brewery and the
near-beer stands. The weekly salary
list of these men amounts to $4,000.
I'VE have been expecting this drastic
prohibition Legislation for some time.s
said Naham Griel. ce-President OF
Greil Brothers, wholesale Rrocera.
druggists and liquor dealers. last night
For this reason we have been prepar-
Ing at the brewery. During the past
ten days we have shipped sixty car
loads OF near-beer from Montgomery.
and before Monday we will have ship
cars were valued approximately at
$4,000. We stiii have some near
beer in the watts at the brewery. but the
great majority OF IL has been bottled
and shipped.
This CarmichaeI bill will also AZ
feet about ninety near-beer stands In
Montgomery" he continued. "All Of
them viii be closed 80 far A. the sale
Of near-beer and the like are con-
cerned. About half OF these places are
run as suburban distributing storss,
dealing In country merchandise. This
part OF the business win be contins
ued.
Eat the brewery many men win ~
thrown out OF business. Some twenty
OF the men are men of means In the
community. They are heads OF the
various departments and receive large
salaries. All have bank accounts.
many own their homes, and others were
seriously thinking OF locating perina-
nently in Montgomery. Most or These
men have been with the brewery for
the past ten years. but the, n1aStex
brewer remarked the other day that
all OF them would leave the South
when Montgomery went dry. They
gave as their reason the desire to es-
cape the prohibition wave and anti;
saloon league. which seems TO be set.
thing over the whole South.
But not only win the Carmichael
bill affect the community through the
closing of the near-beer stands. props
erty and rental values viii be sert-
ously affected. They have been ar
fected within the past week. 1 know
of an instance whore Commerce
street store had been renting for $3.50
a month. / know that this same place
was offered for rent at 800 last week
with no takers. Another place on
south Court street has been renting
for 5000; I know that this place can
now be rented for 500. This place was
offered ut the lower ngure and not
single taker could be found last
week.
"Other places over the city are the
same Many of these nearbeer stands
will be vacated. and the rental to-
tai loss for some time. Even when
rented. the figure VIII be very maze
rally reduced. Property values OF
these places will be affeoted In very
nearly the same ratio:
"As far as Orch Brothers 10 con-
cerned, you may say that we shah
positively go out OF business as dis
tributers OF near-beer from the Mont
Romery store. Every one OF our
places, both inside the city and in the
suburbs, will be closed on the sigma
ture OF the bill by Governor Conner.
While the Beauvoir Club will remain
omen as a place of social gathering
the locker system was used by other
clubs throughout the State and the
south, will be done away with. in all
probability The same applies 10 all
other clubs of the city.
]. Kirk jackson, President OF the
Beauvoir Club. said yesterday: "At
the present time we are obeytng the
law, and until the Carmichael bill be-
comes q law. we shall continue as we
have been doing. The membership of
the Beauvoir Club Is composed of the
men who built the churches Of Mont
Romery, who are OF the great financial
strength of the Capital OF Alabama.
we are all law-abiding citizens. and
will continue as such. We are obeytng
the law as it now stands. and until II Is
changed we have nothing to say about
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