New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-10-14
ANTI-TREAT LAW
FRIENDLESS HERE
Hotel Canvass Unanimous
in Hoping England
Keeps Her Novelty.
LET SLEEPING DOGS
LIE" BARROOM CREED
Fear Of Bomb from SuffragiSts
Makes Cafe Men Sensitive
Of Much Publicity.

We now come to the subject OF treat
ing. We come to that subject because
the London law prohibiting a man from
buying another man a stoup of alco-
holic beverage became effective yes
to-day, and there are so many persons
in this town interested in the question
that a Tribune reporter went forth 70
learn what the jolly innkeepers Of New
York thought about il.
Kipling. in his ramble through our
continent in the COS, found that the
"have another" idea had enslaved us; he
found that We were the most fragrant
vi0lators of the rule of hospitality. In
other words, he discovered that we be-
lieved every man should buy round:
This indictment lay impressed until
yesterday. Then it had TO be faced.
Thomas Carroll, the stoutest owner
that the Hotel Hermitage, Seventh
Avenue. near Forty-second Street, has
ever boosted, was reading, for the
fourteenth time, his copy of Montague
when the reporter entered.
IL am not qualified" he said, "to
utter any expression on this subject.
I haven't had time to study II, but |
will say that the treating idea is still
in an undeveloped stage. Why shouldn't
one nan buy another a drink? II he
other man doesn't drink there is no
reason why the first drink should have
been purchased
"A no-treating law would never
work in this country. | end discussion
right there. But | want TO say that
we should do more along the treating
line. We should treat our friends 70
shines. to pressing OF suits, TO new
clothes and 10 new automobiles. | am
serious in this. man doesn't hest
tate TO take a drink paid for by an
other man, but he wouldn't accept d
motor car under the same clrcum-
stances. We think too much about val
ues in this country. | sigh for the old
days"
While Mr.. Carroll was working up
some signs Thomas Healy, the restau-
rateur. who believes in making the
price of food and drink meet the size
Of the workingman's pocketbook, re-
vealed his thoughts.
81 am neutral" Mr. Healy said. "In
the first place-and in the last-the
question Is one that applies wholly 70
England. Over there they are trying
TO keep the men necessary to England's
war success from wasting their time
and money and weakening themselves
by over-indulgenc in spirituous drinks.
I read in The Tribune, | think, that
the authorities complained that the
wives 1of some of the soldiers were
spending the money granted to them In
drinking, and that this is one OF the
reasons for the enactment of the pres
ent law.
81 don't believe that women would do
such a thing certainly, in my career as
a restaurant man have met no women
of that type"
James Stewart, assistant manager OF
the Waldorf-Astoria, said comment on
the matter by American hotel men was
not justified
Anybody who has paid attention to
the situation" he said, "knows that il
is local TO England. AS | understand
il, conditions there cannot be brought
into comparison with those obtaining
in this country. So why talk about it ~
Jack Dunstan, proprietor Of Jacks,
on Sixth Avenue, said he hadn't given
deep thought TO the subject. Other bene-
fciaries of the Great White Way"
habit smiled, but refused to say any
thing.
The majority of Broadway cafe, hotel
and restaurant men were willing
enough TO give their views, but they
wouldn't permit their names to be
printed with them. In these times a
man who caters TO the general public
fears that statements from him on
such questions will ALLEVIATE patronage.
Woman suffrage cuts a quantity of ice
in this. Most women do not drink
low bridget, and the retail dispensers
of liquors fear that when women get
the ballot they will take steps 10 cut
down the sale Of what the comic papers
refer 20 as booze.