Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-01

travelling public. Furthermore, he
said. he had never heard anyone ask
for hotel accommodations at the Len
noX.
What the Public Avoids
Ihe fact that the north side of Mar
ket street was more generally travelled
py people en- route to and from their
homes on the Hill was attributed by
Mr.. Barker to the presence of so many
hotels on the south side. They used
the upper side of the street, he said,
because they were not so subject TO
insult and inconvenience due to the
liquor emporiums on the lower side.
Even though the State legalized the
sale of liquor, Mr.. Barker declared. he
does not believe in the licensing of
hostelries.
In other words, you do not think it
right that any hotels should be
licensed p demanded Mr.. Bergner.
Il do not, said the witness.
As to Wcaning
Mr.. Aflleck's objection was equally
drastic. Enough hotels exist, he said.
Tor the accommodation of the public.
Nor was license necessary, he added,
and referred to the Commonwealth as
an unlicensed place which seems to
be doing very we'll" Furthermore.
Mr.. Aflieck doesn't believe that Ger
man. French and other people who
have been accustomed to having their
beer and wine would suffer for the
lack of it,
Would you say that it isn't a neces-
Mr.. Bergner.
We'll" returned Mr.. Affleck grave
ly. II think they could be weaned."
The grave danger, Mr.. Af1eck
pointed out, lay in the fact that every
llquor sales place brings new converts
to its cause.
"AS n mnpufa ct,,rar ,,,l,o 10, 49,. =
great deal of the results of this" went
on the head of one of Harrisburg's
biggest shoe concerns, I've seen so
many instances where the habit grew
SO upon men that they couldn't give
it up.
The Business Mans Viewpoint
Men who are employed as travel
ing statesmen are not being given the
same consideration if they are drink
ing men. Firms are cutting out the
drinking men more and more. The
number of drinking men who are en-
ployed to-day is much smaller than
the number employed twenty years
ago.
Mr.. Bergner, incidentally doesn't
believe the newspapers and took occa-
sion in cross examining Mr.. Affleck to
get his views on the subject before the
public. In questioning Mr.. Affieck as
TO whether he thought there is need
for more hotels the attorney for Fish
man asked
Naughty Newspapers
DO you believe anything you see in
the newspapers, Mr. Aff1eck?" he
asked. "or are you like myself-pelieve
nothing you read in the papers?"
Mr. AffieclS admitted he believed
| 'some things"
S. G. Boyer said he thinks there are
enough hotels and that he had never
heard any demand for anything else
than sleeping accommodations. And
he had been dealing, he said, with
travelling statesmen for twenty years
Charles l.. Boyer, an ex-poor di-
rector. followed. He. too, thinks there
are enough hotels.
Why" smilingly inquired Mr.. Berg
ner, surely you are not opposed to the
sale of liquor?'
\ Joke-Eh, What?
well, / should think you should
know about that" grinned the man
who was elected to the poor board ON
the Prohibition ticket.
Following the hearing of the remon-
| STRANGE against the granting of a
| license to Samuel Fishman, proprietor
of the Lennox, the hearings on the
applications for relicensing hotels in
the county were begun with the con-
sideration of the request by William
II. Bowman for the privilege at the
st. Lawrence Hotel, in Berrysburg. An
attempt to license this hostelry last
year failed.
The next remonstrance to be con-
sidered was the petition directed
against A. P. Schaffstall. who wants a
relicense for his hotel in the Smith
building, Market street, West ward.
Lykens. This was begun late this aft
ernoon.
Applications for the relicensing Of