The Nenana daily news., 1919-05-23

NEW 1ORk.-Hotel men of the
 North Atlantic states, excepting
 groups with headquarters in the
 metropolis who profess to see noth-
 ing but ruin ahead if prohibition
 is enforced, expect to be doing
 business at the old stand in the days impending when the mahogany bar and the connections more or less mysteriously mixed by the white-aproned dignitary behind t become matters of history.
 i Despite predictions of the city and state bonifaces' associations of New York that large numbers of hostelries will be forced out of business by the edvent of the dry regime, the majority of persons well informed regarding hotel af- fairs hold to the opinion that no such situation will develop. All along the coast and westward to the Appalachians, they declare, pro- prietors of city, town and country hotels. both of the commercial and tourist types, are mapping out means of obtaining from other sources revenues equivalent to those derived from the sale of intoxicants. Popularized dining-rooms, tea and dance parlors, soft drink grills and
 even the plebian soda fountain are innovations planned and in some cases, already in operation with sue
 cess surprisingly gratifying to their
 owners.
 And revival of automobile
 touring, which had less than halt
 the normal value last sumer, when
 America was at the height of her
 war effort, is expected to prove potent outside factor in tiding the majority of hotels over the
 transition period slated to begin with enforcement of wartime pro- hibition July l.
 Significant as straws that point the way of the wind in the ''bone dry crisis are editorials in several of the leading periodicals devoted to the hotel business, and reports
 of advertising agencies whose trade
 is drawn largely from "automobile' taverns. The hotel editors, while hoping for the best-and ''the best admittedly from their point of view
 would be failure of the govern
 ment 10 enforce the emergency pro
 hibition measure, together with z court of popular decision nullifyinG
 the national prohibition amendmen,
 advise their readers to look thc
 situation squarely in the face anC
 prepare for the operation of bar
 Hess resorts.
 All sorts of substitutes for rev
 enues obtained from the liquol
 trade are suggested and the Hive proprietor is urged to quit worry ing and get to work.
 The advertising men, summarizing their canvasses, declare that space
 contracted by the hotel interest:
 far exceeds that of last year, il
 fact sets a new record. The touris'
 houses, in particular, they state have plunged heavily into publicity
 frankly anticipating bumper
 season of automobile traffic anc
 planning, through increased patron
 age and expansion in many case:
 of meal serving activities, to re coup the losses which will follow the punishment of Old John Barley corn.
 From automobile rows" of hun dreds of Eastern cities the worc lhas gone out that people stand
 ready to buy almost anything or four wheels. "The war is over, 1 is the popular cry, and enforced stay-at-homes of recent open season are planning to see America. Tour { ist hotel men, it is declared, havr seen their salvation in the traye 1! boom already apparent in the stead fly increasing volume of sprini ! traffic, and improvements rangin; all the way from enlarged bedroom and dining-room facilities to in ! stallation of attractive lunch room and cafeterias have been the re suit in many establishments tha l hitherto have gone along in a con 1 servative, old-fashioned way, de pending on the bar for the bull of their receipts.
 While hotel men in many section \ have referred vaguely to "assur II apcoSS that uar-+irp nrnhi ihifiO,