The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-07-02
NEW YORK BARS
SELL BEER AND
LIGHT LIQUORS
Some in Open Defiance of Pro-
hibitiOn Law
LAW GENERALLY OBEYED
Atlantic City Remained Wide Open
Citizens Declare That Situation
Will Not be Tolerated

New York, July 2.-No unusual
demonstration attended the first days
application Of war time prohibition
yesterday in New York city or any.
where in the metropolitan district
The public generally accepted the Gov
ernments mandate philosophically
There were no arrests of dealers for
violation of the law.
The absence of any popular express
sion of disapproval was due it was
said yesterday, to the fact that the
inhabitants had been placed upon the
public gradually. Workmen were
able to obtain their beer without re-
straint, and the demand for stronger
beverages was reported by the places
that kept open to have been even be-
low what was expected.
Ninety per cent of the saloons in
the greater city were open as usual
yesterday for the sale Of beer. Some
openly defied the law and continued
the sale of spirituous liquors, par
ticnlarly in the early morning. The
sale of wines, such as sherry. Rhine
wines, claret and port. went on with
little or no interruption.
Most of the large hotels in New
York city continued the sale of beer
despite announcements ON Monday
night that this would be discontinued
This was the result of Attorney-Gen-
eral A. Mitchell Palmer's announce
ment that his attitude toward his
breach OF the law would be governed
by the outcome of cases in courts in
volvlng the Intoxicating properties of
2.75 per cent beer II was also de-
spite his announcement that such
sales might later be held to be vio-
lations
Atlantic City, N j., July L.
Despite the wartime prohibition law.
Atlantic City today was as wet" as
the ocean that breaks upon its sands,
Virtually every saloon in the resort
was open as usual and dispensing
LIQUID refreshments of all kinds. in
Guiding whiskey, brandy, gin and any
other kind of liquor called for by their
patrons. Most of the larger hotels
and cafes, however. confined their
sales to beer and wines of light al
coholic content
Mayor Harry Bacharach tonight
reiterated his statement that the ques-
ton of liquor selling in Atlantic City
is for the federal government alone to
decide. His position and that of other
local officials, he said. was defined yes
terday when licenses were granted to
121 retailers and dozen wholesale
dealers "We are giving no guarantee
to the license holders that they will
be able to sell F" the mayor said. THE
granting of the licenses merely means
the Atlantic City police are not going
do so by the United States govern
ment."
Several applications from citizens
and organizations for warrants for the
arrest of saloonkeepers who are sell
ing intoxicants were refused today by
United States Commissioner Henry w
Lewis Mr.. Lewis said ne could do
nothing until department of justice
officials in Philadelphia institute pro-
Iceedings.
Rev. Henry NJ. Mellon, chairman of
the civic committee OF the ministerial
association, declared a "wide-open"
Atlantic City would not be tolerated
and that an appeal probably would be
made to the department of Justice to
Isend men here at once.