The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1916-01-01
-FOUR |: STATES .DRF ! J.
0NNEN YEARS DAY
Three Million New Passengers for
Water Wagon When Western
States Bar Booze. -
WASHINGTON, OREGON,
IDAHO AND COLORADO
Limit on, Shipments Placed for
Each Family-Brewers Make
f'Near Beer.'' ].

SEATTLE, Wash, Dec. 30.-Three
million new passengers for the water
wagon!" I
On January the dry wave over q
once soppy and ''liberal''. West adds
the people Of Washington, Oregon,
Idaho and Colorado to the prohibd-
tion roster. -. -
Court decisions have sustained the
popular anti-booze verdict. Forty-five
b-eweries and 2,190 saloons are put
out Of business and more than $780,
100000 capital invested in the liquor
industry goes into a state of suspend-
ed animation. = !5s:: 5iss:
Blind pigs" will have tough root
ing.
The new law, practically the same
in all four states, permits an individ-
| ual to buy not more than two quarts
of liquor or twelve quarts Of beer
every twenty days. This must be-
shipped in, since manufacturer as well
as retail of liquor is prohibited. These,
their plants into cold storage re-
, designated authorities
Seattle Largest Dry City,. 4 et
The most interesting test for the
rest of the country to watch will be
the effect of prohibition in Seattle,
heretofore a decidedly wet seaport,
and the largest city in the United
States to go dry. ~
Seattle has four breweries and s15.
saloons. They pay a $1,000 annual
license each-revenue that will be-
lost. i.
The Seattle Brewing and Mailing
company, sixth largest in the United,
States, has erected new establish
ment in San Francisco: It's $3,000,.
600 plant here will remain idle sES
It's $1,000 daily payroll Of 500 men,
the annual purchase of $350,000 In
barley, a bank surplus of millions and:
a $4,000 beer export to Alaska-aN
this is transferred to wet California
fskss otflexr breWsEdess ssaIs.asoopYegtfAe
frdfthaSes dfftIl % sfss With
tpositories, soda and pop, soft drink
and clam juice factories. creameries
and butteries: =. = $50.
In Portland, Ore, curiously, many
saloon men disagree with perhaps the
majority Of merchants who believe
prohibition is going to put the town
"on the bum" ...>.<. szzz;s
t'Near Beer and Lunches. =,
They are planning to dispense, In
bottles and from the ,.keg, near
beers, I" sodas and pops, now produced
by the Oregon converted .breweriea.
Oyster cocktails, lunches and legit-s
mate palate-ticklers will also be sold.
They expect to make about as much
as before, because they will pay q
L. 1t e. =
$500 liquor license. ~-'z.:s5 zs:-ss5
In Idaho the situation is less acute.
since the drys have been winning i'm.
portant local victories there for years.
-Four Of the largest breweries had quit
even before the state went dry.
One-thirteenth Of Colorado will go.
dry on January I. Twelve-thirteenths
are already dry. -: :, Ee--.HSs..
Approximately 1900 saloons will
close their doors. Eleven breWeriea
will stop making beer. Five Of these
breweries are large ones capitalized
at more than $3,000,0O0.
-Four of them will make other pro.
ducts. The smaller breweries, with
only a small force of men, will quit
business. NJ I.-s..5.ss
Brewers to Make Pottery:
The converted breweries will manu4
facture near beer" and soft drinks
The Coors Brewery, at Golden, Colo,
will make pottery from the clay beds
nearby and will gradually Include
other lines. -
In Colorado 100 saloons have al-
ready quit and about 100 more will
close before the first Of the year, 40
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