Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-06-28
mus, have proper credentials.

must have proper credentials. In
side there are intelligence bureaus.
or at least people whose business 1t
is TO give any desired information.
The heads of departments are all
busy men: but not especially difficult
of approach. by people who have le-
gitimate business. The general rule
is service in the order Of arrival and
business is transacted with celebrity
and despatch.
Inst now the hotels Of Washington
are crowded as they have seldom been
crow ded except on inauguration or
other big occasions. This Is especi-
ally true OF the larger hotels to which
strangers from distance would feel
warranted in going alone. 1t frequent
ly happens that rooms are not to be
had until after hours OF waiting. and
il is not uncommon for people to run
over to Baltimore forty miles away to
get accommodations for the night. For
an ordinary room in first class ho-
tel the charge is from three to four
dollars a day, and more desirable
rooms are much higher in price. heard
il intimated once or twice, however,
that there is more or less humbug
about the scarcity Of hotel accommo-
dations: that the managers, like many
other people, have fallen 10 the pro-
iitcrring spirit, and even when they
have rooms TO spare. they give wait
ins guests the impression OF being
the subject of especial favors. AS to
how true this is / do not know: but
have known Of such things.
ON my last previous visit to Wash
ington. the city was pretty well filed
With liuuor saloons. These were TO be
Iulnd on almost every block in the
business part of town, and They we're
rrctty well scattered about elsewhere.
II is not that way now. Most of the
drinking places have been changed to
eating places. But the city Is not dry
by a good deal. There is a good G'al
of tiserng going on over the city,
especially in the hotels, practically all
of them. The porters and bell hops
will furnish liquor at from three to
five dollars q pint, and beer at n dCi-
lar a bottle. They get their supplies
from Baltimore: but it does not APP
pear that business is especially brisk
The common testimony OF residents ~
that there has never been so little
drl,rI,ing in Washington. II Is rare
thing to see drunk man now, and
the city is said TO he cleaner and bet
ter than it has ever been.
But the state of Virginia is not fool
ing anybody in it's efforts TO enforce
the liquor laws. While sitting In the
smoker OF Pullman coming down
from Washington last Saturday
night, heard that Virginia officers
were on the train feeling the weight
Of every grip, not only in the Pull
mans but in the day coaches. 1t was
stated half n dozen grips were seiZ-
ID because they shook as If they con-
tanned whisky. Investigation develop
ed that the story was true. The Of
nccrs remained on the train all the
way down to Danville, and took
number of grips over the vociferous
| protests of the owners. I learned that
this was n common thing, especially
on Saturday nights. The Pullman
conductor told me that so far as he
knew no effort had ever been made
to seize the grip Of passenger VINO
was going on through the state oi
lNirSinss- Ia {. nhse,.gA Lthe Xir9inesf1S
GERS talk as II they have the right I'd
seize any liquor they might find In
| Virginia, and the probability Is that
the mattcr-.will fully be tested In the
courts. \ passenger on the train said
he knew of Il case recently where an
officer shook n grip. decided that there
was liquor in it, hunted up the own
rr and demanded that he open 1t. The
owner of the grip refused to do any
thing of the kind and defied the Of
iiccr to either break the lock or seize
the grip. The Sser did neither
There was quite lot of feeling over
the matter among the passengers.
Some of them grew pretty hot, and
others took It all as something of n
joke.
From the general appearance OF
things. especially since Washington
has gone dry and the government has
| realized that the liquor traffic Is a
source of danger and weakness in the
prosecution of the war. it would seem
that old John Barleycorn Is about on
his last legs.