The Washington times., 1917-01-11
MANY JOBLESS IF
DISTRICT GOES DRY
Passage Of Sheppard Bill by
House viii Throw Many
Out of Work.
GREAT LOSS OF REVENUE
100000 Will Be Sum Lost
Annually by the District
Through Prohibition.

Enactment of the Sheppard prohib
ton bill into law would affect tn
District in the following ways:
About 1000 employees in barroom
and wholesale establishments wpul
be thrown out of work.
Nearly-fEe hundrer workers in tn
FIVE breweries here would be throw,
out OF employment
The District would lose almost $500
900 annually in revenues
The United States would lose exac'
~ $15,575. computed on the basis o
the present number of wholesale an
retail establishments.
Breweries Worth ss44,seO.
The total assessed value of tn
breweries here is $685., 24O, and thI
is regarded as two-thirds the actus
value, which, on this basis would b
SS44,s60
No recent estimates are availabl
Of the value OF the property on whic
liquor is now sold.
Lose Half Million.
The estimate of a $500, 900 loss 8
the Districts revenues is based on tn
number of liquor licenses for the III
cal year which began November /.
There are 267 barrooms in the Di,
trict; the license fee for each is 81, 500
There are 50 wholesale establish
ments, at an annual fee of $500.
Saloons Limited.
The excise law limits the numbe
OF bar rooms to 800, including l
censes to hotels and clubs. Therefor
the Excise Board has at its dispose
thirty-three more retail licenses. 4
view of the boards attitude towar
recent applications 1t is considers
unlikely that the number OF barroom
will be materially increased.
The number of retail licenses file
before the beginning of the Iicens
year was 2S1, of which 259 wer
granted. Since November / there hav
been seventeen applications for bal
room licenses, eight OF which hav
been granted.
Grant IS Applications.
Eighty-five applications for whole
sale licenses were granted out of
total of ninety-five applications Nc
vember 1, The number of applies
tions filed since is eleven, five O
which have been granted. The eS
else law places no limit On the nun
Der of wholesale licenses.
Barroem Employees.
The number of employees in bal
rooms and wholesale establishment
who would be affected by the passag
CT a prohibition bill is estimated .
Theodore Sproesser, president of tn
Bartenders' Union, as in the neigh
borhood OF 1000. Mr.. Sproesser sal
today that the average number @
nen employed in the bsrrooms is fiv
Few saloons, he said. have less tina
three bartenders,. while in man
places more are employed. The ave
age number of helpers, he said,
two. The bartenders are paid $50
week and the helpers from IS to SO.
II
said, also average five employees.
Affects 500 In BrewerIes.
Nearly 500 brewery workers wi
be thrown out OF employment, accort
ing to statements today from brewer
At the HeurIch Brewing Compan!
Water and Twenty-fifth streets, Il
men will lose jobs. They are class
fled as follows: Fifteen bottIers, ]
drivers, 10 inside men, = engineer
and firemen. 20 outside helpers, an
the remainder assistants of variou
kinds.
The ornamental Brewing COmpan,
521 G. street northwest, would los
its office force, helpers and 30 othe
workers.
Seventy VIII BE Dropped.
At the Schlitz Brewing Compan.
Third street and Randolph plac
northeast, 20 men will lose position
The office force. which includes
men. IS bottlers and assistants. ]
drivers and II bottlers. will see the
pay envelopes stopped.
Forty-five men will be withoI
work at the Abner Drury Brewin
Company next November, when ii
law becomes effective. OF this nun
Der 10 are bottlers, L. drivers. e.
ginemen and the remainder assignG
to various jobs around the plant.
Mean Total Shutdown.
The Arlington Brewery has bee
closed at Rosslyn, Va, since last Oct
Der, and when it went out of bus
ness a score of men were left witt
out work. If the Sheppard bill b.
comes a law the shop will close el
tirely, 1t was said this morning, an
even the few watchmen and offlC
men will lose out.
Only the office force will be a
fected at the Byrd and Barry Di
tributing Company, as the beer
shipped here for distribution at othe
points. Six employees will be droppe
IL the District goes dry.
Thirty skilled bottlers and brewer
will lose their positions at the plar
of the Anheuser-Busch Company, De
aware avenue and Z street, in add