Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-02
RELIEF IN SIGHT
! FOR SUBURBAN|TES
seashore Sojourners Will Also
\ Rejoice When Brackner's
Bills a Law.
MAY BUY FROM HOME
FOR DELIVERY HOME
Hop Beverage and the Like No
Longer to Be obtainable
Under Difficulties.
Especial to the Evening star.I

n Especial to the Evening start
y TRENTON, April 2-When Assem-
= blyman Brackner's bill, No. 749, be-
y comes safely perched on the statute
: boo ks, and 1t seems to have ali hopes
Z pf getting there, having passed tbs
= lower house by an almost unanimous
: vote, 1t is said. q situation trying TO
Z many will be relieved.
3 The measure is now in the Senate
Z and, as no one has been calling it
: such names as bad bill" its sponsor
! Is placidly looking upon the case OF
Z pne of Gust walt" for little while
3 only, as in the natural course Of
3 human events, No. 749 will be trans
y formed from an ordinary piece of pa
= per with words printed thereon to
= the majesty of a law. Mr.. Brackner
z halls from Hudson county.
y Then when a business man, say in
4 Red Bank. desires to sell few cases
z Of hop beverage, or a halfdozen
\ neatly ornamented bottles of John
: Barleycorn, to a resident of Asbury
= Park, and the resident Of Asbury
= Park wants to make an investment
y In such commodities, the sale can be
: made and the goods delivered. IT is
& not that way now. Great care must
: be used in the buying, selling and
! delivery of this class of delicacies.
Z To buy Is easy enough, but the pur-
chaser must carry his purchases
: home himself.
> City Folks In the Know.
! City folks who sojournj at New Jer-
!. sey seashore resorts during the sum
i mer are reported to know more about
h nnrfpir fnFp1c nf ifnpnTUanianpaq dina
1 to existing laws than most other
people.
4 Take Montclair and Plainfleld as
+ cases in point. Ii u Newark concern
SHOULD solicit orders. in these places
! for wet goods" and was caught de-
livering the same, there would be
J the mischief to pay. Somebody would
have to do some sweating for vio-
! 1ation of some kind of law, which
prohibits transactions of this nature,
unless the out-of town tradesman
other drinkables at the prices pre-
vailing in the affected sections for
such licenses.
A movement to hobble visiting
tradespeople from encroaching upon
! home preserves was begun few
years ago, and in some places is
still in force.
Men who conducted beer bottling
. emporiums in suburban communities,
and were licensed so to do, didn't
, take kindly to seeing wagons from
stores in the big cities delivering
cases of beer, etc, to customers in
! their bailiwicks, and emphatically
/. expressed their feelings. Other busl-
ness men agreed with them. So
there was a general getting together.
As to Butter and Booze.
'.They (meaning the customers) will
bly, our butter, but have New York,
Philadelphia or Newark people sup
NV them with booze" was about
the way one suburban storekeeper,
speaking for his fellows, put 1t.
"'Taint fair There's more money in
Z booze than in butter. Now, darn
it, we'll make them buy our booze
as well as our butter, or compel those
other dealers to pay a license fee"
All these things will be changed
when the Brackner bill becomes
law. The features in the Werts act
that have for about twenty-five
years been so awe-inspiring, will be
stripped of their terrors.
The many clauses that restrict and
surround existing law remain as
check to dealers in Intoxicating and
brewed liquors; but the part or Sec
ton that places the "disorderly
house" odium on all who sell and de-
liver under prescribed circumstances
S will no longer figure in the proceed
ings.
For Assembly 749 says: THAT a
delivery of any of the liquors afore-
: said elsewhere in the State than in
the locality or place mentioned in
said license, or application therefor,
shall not be deemed or taken as a
violation of this section"
And There's Another Bill.
Mr.. Brackner fathers another bin
that has a great deal TO do with the
liquor dsbursing question. 1t bears
the legend Assembly $685. and ii also
had q smooth passage through the
House. 1t is nesting alongside of
749 in the Senate.
This measure is a sort of "a rod
in pickle" proposition for any per
sons who shall. without n license
for that purpose had and obtained
according to law, sell or cause or
knowingly permit to be sold, d rect
I. ly or indirectly" any malt Vinous
or brewed Liquors. The person 30 Of
Tending will be fined sum equal to
the license fee in any municipality
where the offense is committed.
Liquors compounded for medicinal
Z purposes and In quantities under one
quart are excepted
Any person instituting proceedings
against offenders against the pro-
posed law is to have one-half the
z fine. The other half goes TO the
county,