The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-01-18

and at Main street and South avenue respectively, to discuss the chase and to plan their cruises. These gather ings always occurred on Sundays The police raided the places, and the proprietors were fined in the city court. They appealed to the court of common pleas. Somewhere up there among the records of the county court house the cases may be found. Green stein doesn't know where they are. Judge Banks is the prosecutor. But Greenstein isn't going to prosecute any more such cases, he says, until he hears what is the fate of the two cases that went up from the lower court. He wants to know whether the upper court will hold that a club members on Sunday.
 But 1t is @ well accepted belief" said MT. Greenstein, that the clubs do not confine their sales to members. Anyone, l supposed can get a drink on Sunday if he wants it. The clubs violation of the law if they dispense liquor to others than members. But how are we going to find out? These club managers know the police. There IS no money provided for the en- gagement of private sleuths to gather What we need is law that will place the clubs with bars in the same class with other liquor dispensing places. It is unjust to the saloonkeeper to al- low a club to sell liquor indiscrimi- nately, or even to members, without paying for the privilege, the same as do the saloon keepers.
 Entirely apart from the merits of the liquor traffic as @ business en- terprise. we must recognize it as a legalized business. The saloon keep CTS pay we'll for their licenses. They or 1o1 Ao FvI- merchants, complying with the law. The clubs as rule are not in the liquor business as means of profit Still, they are not operating their bars at a loss. They do engaged in the liquor traffic, and they ought to be made to pay something to the ex- else funds. I consider that s2O0 would be a fair license.
 Now, as to this question of females loiterfng about saloons. There is @ 1oophole in the law by which women employed in saloons can't be prosecut- ed; There are no waitresses in any saloons in Bridgeport except those in the so-called tenderloin. The reason is clear-that the saloons conducted along reputable lines don't find need for such employees. We need a law that will remedy that condition.
 Under the present conditions. with saloonkeepers so jealous of their li- censes. it is not unusual to find men maintaining the kitchen saloon where on Sunday liquor is sold without any form of license. This. to my mind, is more grievous offence than the illegal sale of liquors by a saloon keeper, who depends upon the sales for his living. I believe there should be a fixed minimum penalty that would stop this sort of business. Fur ther. it is fair to believe that no one goes into such places as these without the fixed purpose of violating the law. But under the present law these men are not subject to penalty. I believe this is wrong-that the freauenters of an unlicensed saloon should be pun ished the same as frequenters of li- censed saloons.
 ''I'm told that the police of Water bury and Danbury have succeeded in breaking up this Sunday club busi- ness. They succeeded in establishing the fact, I'm told. that the club me9- agers sold to others than members. But this is pretty hard to prove, es- pecially where you've no money to use to engage detectives for that class of work. We have no appropriation for that purpose here