The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-11-17
TEMPERANCE BARS
N SALOON PLACES
Saloonkeepers Have Eighteen Months
in Which to Get Ready to Change
Business Lines.

Detroit Mich, Nov. 16.-"Temper-
ance bars" will take the place in De-
tToit of saloons Already twosof these
workingmen's clubs have been formed
by church organizations, and IL they
are successful II Ia said that they will
be copied by other churches.
Such bar has been proposed by
Rev. W. II. Wray Boyle, pastor OF
W " a r dA n u 9 Presbyterian
Church. 1t will be run by men inter
ested in the dry propaganda and will
ofar all of the sociability OF bar
where intoxicants are sold. DR.. Boyle
is at present looking for q BILE
downtown location.
Officials of West Grand Boulevard
Methodist Episcopal Church are car
rying out their ante election project
of providing roomy mems clubhouse
for the men OF the congregation. This
club, built on property next to the
church, will be finished. 1t is believed.
by January.
Rev. George Edward Egar Cullen
was sponsor for the plant for a club
house to be run somewhat on the
lines of the Temperance bar Of Rev
DR.. Boyle. When the place Is COM
pieted 1t will be supplied with read
ing and writing tables, lounge chairs
and musical instruments.
Have Eighteen Months.
Detroit saloonkeepers, who, In May,
1918, must close their places of bust
ness as q result OF the election. are
not worried about the future. as they
realize they have time to consider
what business the. are to engage in.
The owners will lose practically
nothing as each Will have time to sell
practically all his property.
1t is stated that few, If any OF them,
have decided as to what field they are
to enter.
What will Detroit ana Michigan
brewers, out of busin sss through the
prohibition law, do next? is the pre-
vailing question here. Brewers OF the
city ard State have called a meeting
for Saturday and have asked Henry
Ford TO speak. 1t Is planned to dis
cuss the situation generally and the
possibilities OF finding some way for
the brewing companies to utilize their
plants after May |. 1918, with the
least possible financial loss
Mr.. Ford will be asked to explain
further plan 10 turn breweries over
to the manufacture of fuel for alco-
hol to run motor cars. Brewers. all
of whom have large amounts of money
invested IN their establishments, de-
clare y sy are financially ruined.
Eighteen breweries. $500 employees
and 1915 saloons will pass out of ex-
istence with the new prohibition law
in Detroit alone Employees OF saloons
who will be thrown out of work num-
Der 1916 Money invested IN saloons
,s estimated at $6.595.b00, Money In
vested in breweries Is estimated at
two and one-haif million dollars,
while the total investment in the De-
troit liquor basiness Is approximately
s9095.50O.
The surprise OF the election result
&c stin FOO near at hend for the men
deeply interested In Detroit breweries.
at least, 70 have any definite idea OF
what they can or will do with their
plants. filed generally with expensive
and special machinery. There are six
ty-two breweries operating in Michi-
gan. To many of the financially in
terested. the suggestion accredited to
Henry Ford. that they turn their
plants 10 the manufacture of alcohol
for fuel ana other purposes, offered a
field for attentive conjecture. F. +.
Ingram. who Is an enthusiastic pro-
moter Of power alcohol, says;
II hope the breweries can -readjust
themselves TO dry conditions 1t Is
true that prohibition will release from
tho wasteful process Of beer brewing
a large quantity of useful gains. Pro-
hibition will therefore tend to increase
the quantity Of grain available for
food and to lower the price of bread"