Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-26
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just 10 ma out how those con-
ductlng, liquor business in Harris
ourg regard the coming of prohibit
ton the question was put to several
heads of establishments of various
KINDS as to what they think is go
ing to happen when the country goes
dry. The results were extremely
interesting and the contrast between
the calm discussion of the PROPOSE
tion and the indignant manner in
which such a question would have
been repelled. three or four years
ago was marked. There was also
the interesting fact that no two of
the men addressed seemed to agree.
One long headed man said that he
was going into the mineral water
and so-called soft drink trade and
had been working it up for weeks.
He showed some figures that were
astonishing. Another said that he
would embark in the ice cream bust
ness, into which a number of men
extensively engaged in the whole
sale liquor business have been going
for months. These two men are
wholesalers and did not care the
sale of near" products. AS for the
retail end, the head of one hotel
said that he would do as they have
done in Detroit and put soda
| fountain in his bar and encourage
| the tea and coffee and pastry habit.
He said that people were going to
continue to gather in what are now
bars and that the coffee house or
olden time was coming back with
| some features borrowed from Eu-
rope. incidentally, he said that he
expected a boom in the lunch par
business. The head of plain saloon
| declared that he was going 10 qult
l..
the quick luncheries were going to
get the money that now goes for
beer. Another man who has wen
known stand said that he had
! thought about an all night conee
room. but that he was atralu
that such places would in time gro"
notorious, Just as some par rooms
have become in the eyes OF ponce
officials. This man also raised tne
interesting point that there was go
ing to be trouble regulating men VINO
brought their liquor along ana "oulu
drink it out of tea cups in "coHee
| ioints" as he called them; lunch
rooms and similar gathering places
which will replace the saloon as
nlace for men to congregate at night'
He also said that he did not thlnk
that prohibition would decrease the
so-cailed night life that has peeh
increasinc so noticeably in Pennsyl-
vania cities lately. Another man
Who has closed his place at mo
night no matter who was In the pas
saws that people will go 10 oeu
earlier.
1,y,,o, tho men selected to, be
,astioned about the great propose
tion from the standpoint OF .ne
folks who sell grog were asked "ha'
,yas going to make trouble in enlorc-
&c prohibition they all said that 1t
n,ori1 no "home made" The oplh-
ion seemed to be general that the
amount of liauor laid by in cellars
~ nnodicine chests or hidden uhuer
beds is not as large as supposed
and that it would be caretulIy
boarded, Men having it, said one one
man who has a big TRACE IN .ne
minor fractions of liquid nleasuIH,
will keep it back and Try lhet
hands at making various Wiz
and will experiment in everything
fror, reaches and cherries to apples
and NUNS with dandelions as sloe
I;ne '"There is nothing to prevent
q man from making his own nquor
provided he knows how any I~noIe ~
thon there is to prevent hlm from
rnoL;rg fudge" said he. Ihe re-
suIt will be more fearful ana Won
darfrI concoctions and more pictur
esnue Tags for a while after the 'dry
low GOES into effect than you can I'M
ns;ne But they will soon get over
II Fxperience in other states mas
sbo,yn that the number who go pack
ofter a 'wrassle' with home stuil 10
small People will be more apt u
turn to drugs" :, Avn,
.'uarrisburg is an all night toWh
J., ,o,,e respects because 1t is ran
road center and because OF various
orLs and there is going to De d
oortain number of persons VINO VIII
go around after midnight, was
t,'d eoinion of a man who tends MS
III, liz bar at don't know what L am
W., - do. but if you ask me I'm
going to say that the luncn Iacas
are going to be the gatnerlhs patan pt
ond that there will be lot OF loIe 81 :,
Joints opened up. The torelss nd
sore on this prohibition stut ~ ~
thev are going to be Dig DuSei ".
near beer and treat 1t IN thelr oMl, ~
wav And you just watch anu s see
how the foreigners buy up the srapes
=, this summer. Why, down aroui.u
| Steelton. there are more grapes
. houpht than you have any laea Vi
ond the foreigners make thelr own
, .,,;nae on a scale that no one realiZeS'
some of them do get drunk occasion
aI,,, and when prohibition comes III
thair weddings and other celepratlons
ro Going to be curious affairs, espec-
sanv n every family brings It's own
brand 4"