New-York tribune., 1919-07-10
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Saloons Face
Dry Death
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new regulations. At present the saloon
business downtown is not paying
profits"
Leonard Kreuzmann, Spingler Hotel,
Fourteenth Street and University
| Place-"If the saloons depended on
beer and diluted wines there would not
be customer before 10 o'clock in the
morning and very few at night. The
beer drinkers come in around noon.
The hot weather helped the sale of
beer. There is six months of cold
weather when the saloon would sell
practically no beer. We are waiting
for developments and are losing money,
especially since we cannot sell the
stock of hard drinks that we had be-
fore July L."
Awaits September Morn
Fred Immorr, - Elm Street-"1
would have closed on July l but I un-
derstand everything will be all right
against September I. Ny business has
fallen off 25 per cent since July 1.
There is no money in beer"
H. P. Suerken, Al Lafayette Street.
Business is fair because we have a
large restaurant, but we ant exist
without booze, by which I meaQ wine
and whiskey
Fred Ahren, "a Lafayette Street
There has been falling off in my
business of nearly 25 per cent. l have
been told that by August l we shall
sell as before"
Charles S. Furthmann, two saloons,
located at 81 Park Row and 20 North
, William Street-"We're just existing,
but we will continue in business be-
cause we expect the present conditions
to become normal in time. In hot
weather, such as we had last week, we
were able to make some money be-
cause of the demand for beer, but on
other days we are barely able to make
expenses"
The Press Cafe, at 90 Park Row
1--we are making no profit at ALL said
business, but to expect to make money
without selling liquor is impossible"
Il Valentine Schmitt, Municipal Cafe, at
26 and 2S North William Street-"You
can't make money without selling
whiskey. Instead of having saloon
men pay $1.10 tax on bond whiskey the
government ought to raise the tax to
50, which the saloon men can afford to
pay if they raise the price of a glass
of whiskey to 25 cents. l think the
day OF the corner saloon is gone. The
saloon of the future will have to be
able to accommodate from five hun
have to sell everything from steaks
and ice-cream sodas to beer"
Sans Cafe, 120 Park Row-"We are
living in hopes; otherwise we would
give up now. We can't even exist un-
der present conditions"
O'Rourke's, at 156 Park Row-'If
you can't sell any whiskey you can't
make money"
The Admiral Dewey House, at 1e5
Park Row" "Whiskey is absolutely
necessary to this business. When the
summer is over people will want some
thing more than beer. AS a matter of
fact, the stuff we sell now isn't beer.
1t looks pretty bad for us saloonkeep-
ers"
Managers of the leading Broadway
show-food establishments declared last
night that the sale OF lemonade and the
other hastily concocted "ades," together
with 2.75 beer, cannot pay for chorus
girls and their costly costumes and the
jazz music.
Perhaps, they said dolefully and
an orchestra hidden behind paper
palms, a restaurant Sensation" of sew
eral years ago. With one exception
they agreed that the obituary of the
elaborate cabaret shows must be writ
ten.
Churchill Is Optimistic
Captain James Churchill, for many
years president of the Society of Res
taurateurs and owner of Churchil's
restaurant, Broadway and Fftieth
Street, was the only cabaret manager
who was not gloomy over the prospects
of h boozeless Broadway. He declared
that the attendance had not fallen off,
while the receipts have not decreased.
fo hot w VII,
support cabarets, he is going to stage
an unusually expensive performance, he
said, by way of advertisement.
ReisenweberS and the Cafe de Paris,
formerly Rector's, were among the first
to suffer cabaret, casualties. Perform
ances were discontinued early in the
week and the burden of entertainme
was put on the orchestras. The Palais
Royale, which stages a revue with
sixty-fve persons in it, exclusive of the
orchestra, will close it's cabaret Satur-
day night.
At Shanley's, Manager Moran de-
clared that simmer crowds and
shrunken receipts have come with pro-
hibition, but that an effort will be made
to continue the cabaret through the
beverage readjustment period. BY next
week Healys will have become show
less
At many of the places the advisable
ity of closing up entirely is being dis
cussed. The manager of the Palais Roy
ale said that his establishment might
close during the next week, probably
opening in September.
Chorus Girls Joblcss
About 800 chorus girls will be thrown
out Of employment by the closing of
the cabarets, J. B. Franklin, manager
of the Broadway Booking Bureau, de-
clared. Many already are on their way
to Atlantic City to work in places which
are installing cabarets. Mr.. Franklin
said that the cabaret shows here would
probably reopen in the fall, with a
substantial cover charge to help sup
port the show.
Pat Casey, booking agent, predicted
an early fall season filled with musical
shows which would quickly absorb the
unemployed cabaret choristers
Chorus girls nowadays,' Mr. Casey
said, edo not want to go on the road.
Formerly they could get room and
board for $15O a day. and they had
something left out of their salaries.
With present prices, however, they are
almost unable to make living on the
road.
"They have preferred to remain in
New Yorl. City. Cabaret jobs were
just what they wanted. Perhaps the
salary was less, but so were expenses.
They will suffer no hardship with
the discontinuance of cabaret revues.
but they may have to 60 on the road.
The closing of the cabarets will restore
conditions to normal pre-war status