The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-04-09
According to Statement Given
Out by Victor lose, 200 In
dianapolis Saloons Are to
Be Cut Out.
ARE MAKING THE MOVE
TO APPEASE PUBLIC
All Booze Joints in Residence
Districts Will Be Eliminated
As Will Also the Tough
Places.
Especial correspondent.)


indianapolis, Ind, April 9.-The
brewers of this city have decided to re-
duce the number of saloons in Indian
apoIis. They will cut cut 200 of them
according to a statement given out
yesterday evening by Victor Jose, Sec.
retary and manager of the Capital City
Brewing company. The brewers have
at last recognized the fact that there
are too many saloons and that there
are also too large a number of disrep-
utable and undesirable places. and it
is this kind of saloons that they pro-
pose to wipe out.
Mr.. Jose said the members Of the In
dianapolis Brewers Exchange held a
meeting few days ago and discussed
thoroughly the matter of reducing the
number of saloons In the city. The
result was the decision to cut out 200
of them. At first 1t was proposed to
eliminate $50 saloons, but this number
| was changed to 200. There are now
in Indianapolis about 74O saloons, ana
it was the original purpose to reduce
the number to 500, which would be
tion of the city.
Will Make List.
In order to get at the undesirable sa-
looms and root them out, the brewers
decided that each brewery that is a
member Fof the indianapolis Brewers
Exchange should make up list Of the
saloons In the city that it believed
should be wiped out. These lists are
now being prepared. each brewery
| working independently of the others.
| AS soon as these lists are completed
the brewers will have another meeting
and compare notes. From all Of the
lists turned in there will be list OF
200 selected for the ak. Then as rap
| idly as the present licenses for these
200 places expire. they will be closed
and put out of business. No new Ii
censes will be asked for them.
Thus, the brewers say that within
one year the entire list of 200 will be
got rid of. In making up the final
list the brewers win call on the police
department and the city authorities to
assist them. 1t is pointed out that
the police and the police court records
will be of valuable assistance in this
matter. for they will be able to show
the ones that should be closed. The
police will know what saloons are al
ways having trouble and the ones that
continually violate the law, and these
will be among the number to be closed.
Out Of Residence Sections
In addition to the law violating sa.
looms the brewers will close lot of
saloons that now exist in the residence
section of the city, where they are
not wanted. In this way the brewers
hope to stem the tide of public sentl-
ment that has been formed against
them by their past action in opening
saloons in neighborhoods where they
were not wanted and where the peo.
pie opposed them.
/ Whether the county commissioners
will fall in with this plan of the brew
ers to eliminate 900 saloons remains to
be seen, for it is pointed out that to dc
this would be to discriminate against
200 men in favor of the $40 that would
still be left In the business. And an.
other feature that may enter into ths
plan is whether or not the brewers will
select for closing large majority oi
independent saloons. or whether they
will also pick out a lot of their own sa
looms for elimination. 1t is feared
by many that when their list OF 2OC
saloons is made up it will be found tc
contain mostly the names Of those sa
loon men who do not buy their beer Of
the local breweries. and who, therefore
are Independent of brewery control.
i Most Are Brewery Saloons.
There are about 80 such saloons ii
this city. the rest all being owned Of
controlled by the breweries. As {
general proposition the independen
saloon keeper is man of Independent
means. who runs his own business
owns his saloon and all that 1t con
tains, obeys the law and conducts hi,
place along decent lines-much NOR,
ilaw-abiding. in fact than the averag;
brewery saloon. Some of them bu.
beer Of Chicago breweries, some OF Mil
waukee breweries and some from brew
cries Of other cities. and 1t is the belle
Of some that the names Of such place
will be numerous on the list of thos,
regarded as undesirable by the loca
brewers.
Not only will the brewers close 2Ol
saloons in the city within next year
according to Jose, but they will Alst
oppose the granting of licenses to an,
more new saloons. and the first step il
that direction was taken yesterday
when Jose and J. e. Bell. attorney TO
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