Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-09
SURELY THIS is A PIPE DREAM
Proposed Pipe Line From Brewery
TO Homes in Jersey
Town.


Who cares II the officious police insist
on a closed season for sacks over Sun
day?
Why worry IL sanctimonious neighbors
sniff at the goinss and comings OF the UNI
muzzled GROWERS" these hot summer
nights?
Is there not a good time coming when
the dew Of Gambrinus that brings refresh
ment and cheer to the hot and weary will
be accessible for home consumption as Cro-
ton water, electricity or gas?
As herald of the fair day when one can
turn to his neighbor in the humid subway
and inquire Have you a little 'bierstube'
in your home?" the mayor and the COM
mon council of Montclair N. j.. received
an application for a franchise from the
Montclair Beer Piping company.
The corporation proclaims itself an enemy
of the saloon and a promoter OF indulgence
in matted stimulation under home influ-
ences.
Addressing the city fathers of MontolAir.
where there are no saloons, the company
says it desires to fill long felt want by
constructing a high. tank on Montclair
mountain and fill it with the brand of
beer favored by a majority Of the citizens.
From the tank pipes will be laid TO every
home in Montclsir with meter attachments,
provided with coin slot service, so that
subscribers may draw their supplies in
conformity with their capabilities or de-
sires
The company agrees to furnish the best
nickel-lined pipes and to maintain a fine
head pressure. and to deliver its COM
modify without too deep a collar
In addition 70 the home service the com.
fnN N h
lie beer fountains with niokei-in-the-slot
attachments in the parks and at cross
roads. In return for exclusive franchise
rights the company offered the NUM-
oipality OF Montclair q royalty off SS1t per
cent of its profits, or a flat sum OF 500 per
year for each group OF 1000 subscribers.
The communication was referred to the
committee on public utilities, which will
hold a public hearing on the matter soon.
An officer of the company, who said that
his associates were public-spirited citizens,
who wished TO remain in the background
until they had tested public opinion, as
serted that the application for fran
ohise In Montclair was experimental.
Asked why Hoboken had been overlooked
as a more promising field, he said the
company had considered the matter seri-
ously, but there was one objection. Fol-
lowing Governor Wilson'S lead, II was GER
tain, he said, the residents OF that trans
planted fatherland would insist on choos-
ing the communal brand OF beer BY a refer
endum. and in what would certainly be a
prolonged campaign, the reckless activity
Of rival breweriss, the homely virtues OF
the company's proposed service might be
obscured.
He was certain, however, that in time
the comfort and convenience OF a beer
meter in every household would be recog-
nized and that the service would be widely
| appreciated.
That the proposed service was suscepti-
BILE OF development he admitted, and said
inventors were already devising complex
meters through which by pressing down
one OF . series OF levers the subscriber
could have his nauid Joy, light or dark or
INDUCE himself in P1lsnor or Musenohener.
on the more expensive meters there would
be a tap from which would now an In
faliibls antidote for ''katzenjammer."-
New York Herald.