The sun., 1919-02-24
MELANCHOLY DAYS
NEAR FOR THIRSTY
Beer Consumers Will Feel Eff
feet of Higher Prices To-
morrow.
BREW 1 CENT AN OUNCE
AS for Cocktails, They May
Aviate Shortly to IS Cent
Altitude.

Now truly is the winter of the drink
er's discomfort upon him. for to-day the
bad news will be placarded In every bar
room in the city that prices arc going
10 take another leap all along the
ticker line tomorrow. This latest
oiow TO the crooked elbow contingent Is
Justly to be blamed on the war. The
increase in prices is made necessary BY
the whopping taxes to be levied upon ali
intoxicating beverages under the new
revenue bill which President Wilson IL
10 sign Immediately he reaches Boston,
The clubman's beer as we'll as the
workingman's champagne are alike en-.
gulied In the rising price tide. Beer
while 1t lasts, will not be obtainable gen.
orally for less than cent an ounce
The price of a quar- OF the brew will re-
main at five cents in the run Of places
but the quar- will not be so large by q
couple of ounces as II is now.
In spite of the reports of an impend.
ing social upheaval II beer Is taker
away. IL Ia fact, many saloonkeeper.
say, that the beer trade has been fallins
on steadily until II is now but a shadow
OF its former self Many formerly In
veterate beer drinkers prefer the mem
DRY OF beer as II once was to tn,
actually Of beer as II now is, almost en-
tirely bereft OF it's pristine punch. AL,
hardly can be found anywhere.
Bottom Rises in Glass.
Be that as It may, the size Of beeI
glasses Is going to be cut down in prac
dcally every place IN town where tn,
price Is not advanced from s to 10 cents
Even tho so-called higher class places
which have been charging 10 cents RICH
, along. will cut down the size.
All brands OF whiskey will advance a
least cents a drink. That venerabi,
| institution, the Is cent whisley, appeari
to be doomed. Hereafter the cheapes
brand will be 20 cents a drink. Ba
whiskey will be % cents. Private stool
now retailing at % cents will be 80 cents
Highballs will be 35 cents. Cocktails
and mixed drinks OF all kinds will ad
vance 10 cents generally and in SOM
places is cents. Even these advances
the liquor men sayA will not fully NEE
the additional tax burden. but they as
sert that they are willing to bear par
| OF the general sacrifice
| In addition TO the increases mad
| necessary by the provisions OF the rev
| enue measure there are likely to be othe
increases In the immediate future on &C
count OF the growing costs of som
| liquors at Wholesale. II was said yester
day. One man ventHed tho prediction
that New York would see the day 500,
when 1t would pay 10 cents for a cock
| tail.
Hotel Bars BID for Trade.
There is but one ray OF hope in tn
situation for the drinker. The large
hotels pretty generally are going 70 llmi
| eases to an amount sufficient to NEE
| the doubling OF the revenue tax. tn
| terday that his concern had an enormou
| tracted for and that II would take n
! chances of being stuck" with any OF
| when July I comes around.
II find that's the situation in abou
all the hotels" he added. I'VE have go
TO get rid OF that liquor and we expec
10 do It easily enough. IL We don't pu
prohibit.ve prices on II. There's l,mi
20 the price a man in his right sense
win pay for a drink OF liquor and we'r
not going to Ntretch IT, There are enoug
hotels In this position to prevent tn
others from engaging in this kind O
profteering. for one would Just a
soon see our liquor stocks exhausted tc
morrow From February to July is
short time measured against eternity. ]
we're going to be dry forever we Nigh
as well start now as four months fror
| now"
The combination which this manage
controls already is underselling most @
the other hotels and as a result its bar
have been doing the biggest business c
their history.