The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-01-18
THREE DOZEN
 CLUBS SUPPLY
 SUNDAY BOOZE
That's Their Sole Object, Says Liquor Prosecuting
 Agent Henry Greenstein
(HALF DOZEN LEGITIMATE ONES
The Others Are the Merest Shams to Get Around the
 Sunday Liquor Laws

That there exist in Bridgeport near : ly two score fly-by-night clubs, or Sanizations effected for the evasion of i; the excise law restrictions. is the statement of Attorney Henry Green stein, one of the two prosecuting li- aour agents of the city made to The Farmer today in a discussion of the conditions of the city as to the dis pensing of intoxicants on Sunday
 There are 40 clubs in Bridgeport, where liquor is sold,n said he Half a dozen of them are bona fide orga- ntxations. The remainder are merely aubterfuges, with their sole object the .dispensing of liquor on Sunday" Attorney Greenstein expressed him self as heartily in favor of the pro- posed healing of certain so-called de- fleets in the present excise laws. and told The Farmer that he Is ready at fzny- time to lend such time\and assis- tance as representatives of the civic bodies seeking a betterment of such conditions. may see fit to ask of him. The prosecutor expressed himself as in favor of several radical changes, one of them the formulation of a new form of license, to be known as a club license, to cost $200. This should be required. in the opinion of Attor- ney Greenstein, in ali clubs where there are maintained bars for the dis pensing of intoxicants.
 Other changes he would endorse are the barring of all women from em- ployment in saloons, the enactment of such a law as would make it poSsi- ble to penalize frequenters of places where liquor is dispensed without a liouor license. and the fixing of min tnlum penalty of considerable weight,
 ~ a 1i- cense.
 Attorney Greenstein is familiar with the conditions of clubs in Bridge port. He says there are about half a dozen clubs where liquor is dis pensed without liquor license, and the fixing of a minimum penalty Of considerable weight, for the sale of liquor without a license.
 Attorney Greenstein is familiar with the conditions of clubs in Bridgeport. He says there are about half a doZ- en clubs where liquor is dispensed through the week and on Sundays, with nothing more than the U. s. li- sence. These clubs dispense liquor to none, as rule. but their own mem bers or the guests of their members.
 But in the case of the other clubs, the membership feature in the opinion of MT Greenstein is more or less farce. and anyone known to be not
  cutting authorities can get a drink. They are practically abandoned six days a week, and on the seventh, when the legxtimately licensed sa looms are closed the clubs open and do a land office business.
 There is much dissatisfaction over this condition in police circles. Green stein has informed the police that he will not prosecute any of the so- called Sunday clubs until he gets decision on two cases he says are pending in the court of Common Pleas. These are the cases of the Bridgeport Gun club and the Cedar Creek Yacht club
 The members of the Gun club, for the most part, would shy at a gun. and the members of the Yacht club as a rule know the difference between sherry and port much better than the difference between StarbOard and port. But they We're accustomed to gather at Main and Grand streets,