Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-07
Prince Arthur Of Connaught
as First Viceroy of Ireland
Believe His Popularity and Nearness to Royal Family Will
Have Good nfuence-Lord Derby May Get Premier
ship on Unionist's turn-Other Foreign News.

1t might have been caused by mis-
hap to the tanks or failure of the
torpedo tube door to operate.
There is now little hope of ever
bringing the Al to the surface. She
lies in twenty-seven fathoms Of water,
while no submarine has yet been
raised from a greater depth than seven
fathoms. Besides, the boat lies with
her nose tilted at an agile of 30 degrees
and her quarters buried in the mud
to the base of her coming tower, so it
would be almost impossible to get
grip ON il.
The thousands of horse drawn omni-
| buses which were a familiar sight in
London few years ago are now serv-
| ing as chicken houses, as woOdSheds
or cottages at the beaches There are
now only about a dozen of the horse
| buses left in service, those being used
| to connect up street car lines which
| do not cross the bridges over the
FThames. The omnibus companies
have been disposing of the old vehicles
| for 81 apiece, rate so low that the
| demand has been greater than the
! supply.
PARIS, March IA bill to stop the
opening of any more drinking estah-
lishments in France is to be presented
to Parliament as the opening wedge
for the anti-alcoholic campaign which
is being taken up anew by temper
ance advocates.
Here are some of the facts with
which they are trying to drive home
the need of restraint:
Frenchmen Greatest Drinkers.
If the drinking hlaces already estab-
lished were so apportioned there
would be one for every group of
eighty inhabitants of France
In some districts drinking places
are so thickly placed that there is one
for every seventeen persons
New drinking places are springing
up throughout the country at the rate
of six a day.
More alcoholic drink, including
wines, is consumed in France than in
any other nation in the world.
In the form of spirits alone it is
estimated that $3.50, 900, 600 worth was
drunk in France during 1911.
Complete prohibition is beyond the
widest dreams of any French tenn
perance e f or m e 4. says Henri
Schmidt, who is author of the bill
about TO come before the House of
Deputies, and the most we can hope
at present is to forbid the opening of
any new saloons. BY refusing TO
grant new licenses we hope in the
course of time, as some of the present
drinking establishments fail or cease
to exist for other reasons to reduce
the average of drinking places to one
for 200 inhabitants. We shall not,
however, try to prevent the opening
of restaurants where drink is sold
with meals.
But even such a mild anti-alcoholic
measure as this is likely to meet with
much opposition In Parliament. How
difficult it is to pass temperance legis-
lation in France may be judged from
the fact that in 1912 only 126 out Of 600
deputies. voted in favor of milder
bill which originated in the Senate
and was twelve years passing through
the upper House"
The German Parliament like that
OF France, will soon be called upon
to consider measures of restraint up
on the liquor business of the EN-
pire.
The Federal council has prepared
for consideration a bill which is the
result of years of agitation against
the issuing of liquor licenses regard
less of whether there is any real de-
mand for more drinking places. Tn
der the existing law municipalities
where the need for their issuance is
not proved, but the new measure
makes such refusal mandatory. 1t
also requires applicants for licenses
to show that they are persons OF
good character and can be depended
upon to conduQA their business prop
erly.
The new measure is general in it's
application, but is aimed primarily
at Berlin, where the development of
drinking places of a dubious sort in
the last three or four years has been
amazing. Quiet residential districts
haye been invaded by gaudy restaur-
ants and cafes and institutions
known as American bars equipped
with barmaids and exotic liddlers and
serving mixed drinks termed "Amefi-
can" To these places come hangers
on of both sexes; none of them close
their doors before or 4 o'clock in
the, morning, and in most of them
business is at its height at those
hours.
Proponents of the new licensing bill
declare that not one i'm ten of these
resorts exists to meet a real need,
but rathar to create one, and they
are prolific breeding places of inn
morality. Particular objection is
raised to the so-called "Animierk-
neipen,' or animation bars" places
where the guests are encouraged TO
drink as much as possible. All these
resorts have barmaids whose great
est assets, from the standpoint of the
house, are their good looks and abil-
ity to put away drink for drink with
their customers. These women work
on percentage, which naturally spurs
them to sell as many drinks as pos
sible.