The Cairo bulletin., 1914-06-16
Fifteen Local Wholesale Houses Are
Having One Of Their Best
Years.
DRY VOTES ELSEWHERE
HELP BUSINESS HERE
Rig Mail Order Trade TO Territory
Where Saloons Are
Taboo.

The wholesale liquor houses oi
this city are enjoying one Of the
most successful years Of their exist
ence. and various reasons have been
assigned as a cause The fact that
Southern Illinois aud nearby terri
tory is mostly dry is heneiltnb
them rather than harming them
Heavy restrictions imposed upon
the sale of liquor IN Tennessee is
also contributing cause.
There are fifteen whole. ale liquor
houses in cairo doing total yearly
business which is estimated at ST.
25O.OOO. An inkling Of what p OH
hilton would cost the city is shown
nv the fact that it derives a yearly
revenue OF over $4,000 from the
liauor interests.
There are two principal reasons
for the extinct Of this industry II
cairo. Glat the ideal facilities which
its location affords combined with
the fact it is in the center OF dry
territory.
Most of them are mail orde
houses which ship direct to the con
sllmers in dly territory, some Ct them
issuing ever 1o0,05o circulars 2.
wear While many shipments ar
made to points throughout tht
country, the bulk Of the business Is
done with Tennessee Mississippi
and Arkansas.
Five years ago the state Of Ten
npssee was yoted dry. In some o.
the larger cities, particularly Mem.
pbis, it was never enforced until re-
Gently. Several wholesale lquoi
houses left immediately some o
them coming to cairo. Others We@C
bold enough to remain. Another at
tempt to dr;Te out the saloons wa
made later when the leaislatur
passed the nuisance act, whereof
the tax payers could petition III,
state to remove any boisterous 81
loon. This had little effect upon Tia.
wholesale liquor houses. But The
l., a D Il la
no liquor could be sold within fou
miles of a school house or n church
This was set back for the liquo
houses, and little else was open t
them but to depart when an injun
tion was issued last spring agains'
all wholesale liquor houses doing in
terstate business.
Tennessee furnishes large per
centage Of the liquor business an,
in order not to lose this, other firm
moved some Of them leaving brancl
houses in Memphis to care for a por
ti0n of the interstate business. On,
liquor house predicts that Cairo /
to get ninety per cen of all til
liquor business Of Tennessee in tn
fail.
Sambucetti and Co. Of G17 OH
street. who have been in p ne
for fifty years, is the nav est mea
yer of the family of wholesale
liquor houses in Cairo. In 1909 i
was rated at from 100000 t
100000 and is now rated at con
siderably more The firm moved her
about a week ago from Memph
where they were ousted by the il
junction. The company was tn
largest importing and wholesal
liquor firm in Memphis. Their ma
order business extends through Al
bama, Mississippi and Arkansa. At
dressographs and other office me-
chimes have recently cost the frl
$1,000 This is one of the concern
which left branch in Memphis
Sambucetti and Co. is the agent t
the Anheuser-Busc Brewing AssC
citation in Memphis and buys only
carload lots.
The Central Distlling Co., II
Ohio street, distributes d about zoo
600 circulars annually throughOr
Mississippi. Alabama, Arkansas an
Tennessee, also 20 parts of Texa
Oklahoma. Southern Illinois an
southeast Missouri II is strictly
mail order business. The firm can
from Memphis in 1909 after Il
state was voted dry and is the Sc
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