The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-06-21
Take In Many Thousands of
Dollars Annually, But Traf-
fic Costs More Than
It Pays.
BALANCE rs ON THE
WRONG SIDE OF LEDGER
Maintenance of the Children 8
Homes, Infirmaries, Police
Courts and Other Charities
and Corrections Is Expen-
sive-City Loses BY Deal.

Cincinnati. Ohio, June >.-Ha mil
ton County has 93S saloons or these
SIC are In the city Of Cincinnati and
Il22 are in the other municipalities
and townships of the county outside
the city The State receives annually
in revenue from these saloons $500.
965.54. Cincinnatis share is s466,-
1865 The city infirmary gets sl6s,-
34ss2 the county infirmery s24,-
/ 327.24. and the township S17.a5S.So.
1 The town OF Loveland has no sa-
Icons. but liz entitled to two. Airing
ton Heights Ia entitled to one saloon
but does not have any. Mt. Healthy
could have four saloons under the
apportionment but has but three.
The munici pality of Wyoming is dry
Crosby. Harrison and Miami town
ships are dry, although they are en-
titled TO one saloon each. Colerain
township could have ak saloons but
gets along with four, while symmes
and Whitewater townships have two
saloons each, although entit@s 4 to
three each.
| Aside from thu saloons there were
six breweries, fifty five distilleries and
rectifiers. and fifty-four Wholesale
houses which pay the State license and
III which pay the Federal tax
II 10 not uncommon for Hamilton
County saloons to have wine rooms
ATTACHED, and these wine rooms are
frequented by men and women.
Dance halls are often in the same
buildings with saloons
The number of arrests for drunk
enness In Hamilton County last year
was 1888, while 4,2bs other arrests
were indirectly attributed to intoxica-
ton. This is in excess of fifteen a
day. When a person is arrested in
Cincinnati for drunkenness 1t is a safe
guess he is well under the influence
OF liquor.
There were sixty--even murders in
Hamilton County last year, and L.
$40 prisoners were in the county jail.
while from Cincinnati alone 2.sT0 per-
sons were sentenced to the workhouse.
1t cost the county st4,74e to feed the
prisoners In the county jail
There were 800 divorces granted
last year in the county The first
year of the Court OF Domestic Reia-
tons 900 divorces were granted,
From 40 to so per cent of these d.
vorces were due TO drink
In Cincinnati there are 700 police.
men and the appropriation for the
department for one year is s7as,-
$3.50, or more than $4,000 in ex-
cess OF the entire sum the city re.
ceives from saloon revenue All the
liquor revenue docs no more than
pay for the extra policing Of the city
made necessary by the saloons
Heavy Maintenance Cost.
There were 7SS persons in the city
infirmary and 229 in the county in
Urinary. The maintenance cost of the
city infirmary for the year was sT2,-
96i.o4. Maintenance cost of county
inftrmary and outside aid was s35.534.
Total for city and county. $t0S.4S6.04
Hamilton County has l499 persons
In insane asylums, IFS in the Ohio
Hospital for Epileptics, and 1873 in
the state Hospital for Feeble Minded
The cost to the county for her insane
for the year was s191,14S15, for her
epieptic and feeble minded, sS4.-
1915.
Last year Hamilton County had
l55 convtcts in the State penitentiary.
and the cost of maintaining these
Hamilton County prisoners was s1S,-
T31+T5. There were nInety-four per-
sons from Hamilton County in the re-
formatory last year, and the cost OF
keeping these Hamilton County pris-
oners was sl4,l70.50.
Last year Hamilton County had 7sI
Dogs IN the Lancaster Industrial
School. and the cost of keeping these
Hamilton County boys was ss,35l.20.
Statistics not received from the Girls !
Industrial school at Delaware.
All the cost Of crime. pauperism,
insanity epilepsy and feeble minded
ness is not due to the saloons. 1t is
not extravagant to say that so per
cent OF crime Is due directly or in |
directly to drink. II will be remem-
bered that couple of years ago 50
per cent of the prisoners in the Ohio !
Penttentiary attributed their downfall
to liquor.
Percentage Not Too High.
Neither is II extravagant to say
that from so per cent TO so per cent
OF the pauperism, insanity. epilepsy
and feeble mindedness is traceable to |
liquor Those who have made a study
of causes leading to such conditions
will not say such percentage is too /
high.
But these figures cover only a small
part OF the cost to Ctnc.anau ana the