The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-01

Dink" Kenna's "Workingmen's Ex-
change" which advertised the biggest
beer in Chicago and which sold as
many as sixty barrels of beer over its
| $50 feet of mahogany in a single day.
| Righeimers, ON South Clark street, for
| years a meeting place of politicians
| and headquarters for election betting,
| fixtures and continue as restaurant.
More than 100000 has been handled
on one election by the proprietor.
| Sunday closing and other restric-
| tions caused the number of saloons in
Chicago to dwindle from 5000 to
| 5000 in recent years. Chicago will
vote on local option April 1, and a dry
| decision would close the saloons a
month later.
| 5000 saloons Mark Time.
st. Louis, Mo-, March 1.-The ma
| iority of the 5000 saloon owners in
Missouri are marking time in the
hone that congress will amend the ma
tionaI prohibition law so that manu-
| facture and sale of beer will be per-
mitted, according to representatives OF
the liquor dealers.
on the other hand, a large number
of saloon men already have arranged
to convert their places into moving
picture theaters, restaurants, soft
drink parlors, drug stores and mer-
camille establishments.
A few of the 1900 proprietors of
drinking places in st. Louis are Ii
censed pharmacists and will become
druggists; a few others will take up
law, and still others will devote all.
instead of part of their time, to
politics.
A. J. Cicardi, proprietor of what is
considered one of thesmost elaborate
cafes in the west; John Cafferata, an
other widely known cafe owner. and
George Melsheimer. whose cafe for
years has been the gathering place of
theatrical people, said they were I'M
decided as to future plans, but ex-
pressed hope that everything would
turn out favorably."
Here's a Famous One.
Among well known places that will
close July 1 is that owned by NJ. w.
Heron. internationally famous for its
cordial "Old Southern Comfort" The
recipe was formulated by Heron more
than twenty years ago and won first
prize at the Paris exposition in 1899.
In earlier days the drink, in glass
of rainbow colors, was served only by
Heron, but in recent years he has
permitted employees to dispense it.
Many rural saloons long have been
considered plague spots" of the state
because of law violations. They have
been the rendezvous of gay auto par
. ties after the urban cafes closed.
; not had state licenses for more than
ten years. operating only on federal
permits as clubs"
st. Louis places may be "'beerless''
4 several weeks before July 1, in the
opinion of c. Norman Jones, secretary
and treasurer of the st. Louis Brewing
association. Several of the larger
breweries have already gone dry
Mr.. Jones said he believed the others
would exhaust their supplies by
June 1,
Good Only As Junk.
Louisville. KY, March 1.-Distillers
say that apparently millions of dollars
worth of distilling properties in Ken
lucky will be worth only their value
as junk when prohibition becomes eff
fective. 1t is the exceptional case
where plans have been made for con
verting any of the 200 Kentucky dis
filling plants to other uses, they de-
clare.
The value of going concerns of the
zoe distilleries, which have a capacity
of MASKING 100 bushels of grain OF
| more daily, has been placed at $780,
100000. About half of the productive
| capacity of the distilleries is centereo
/ in Louisville.
The present prospect is said to BIZ
that most of the small number Of
breweries in Kentucky will be con
Verted into cold storage warehouses
, brewers also declare they face losses
The largest of the breweries are 10
Gated at Louisville and Newport.
) Four hundred and sixteen of the
1000 retail liquor licenses in Kentuck!
are held in Louisville, and more thar
half of the $50 wholesale liquor deal
ers in the state are located in Louis
vile.
Wholesale dealers. some of whom
have built up valuable private brands
n ShiS Ia i'm ~ ia ~
heavy losses. announce that they have
made no definite plans for the future
When Ohio Goes Dry.
Columbus, O., March 1.-When Ohit
5 goes dry on May 81, thru an amend
ment to the state constitution adopted
r last November, $500 bars and othel
drinking places will be closed.
Altho a referendum on the resolu
+ ton by which the Ohio legislator,
! ratified the national amendment il
. being sought by the VETS and
fight will be made on bills pending
IN the legislature to enforce the stat
e prohibition amendment, most brewer
= and liquor dealers have accepted pro
e hlbluon as a fact. They are planning
: to convert their places into soft drinl
:. stands and cafeterias. A few plan t,
{ move out of the country.
|. Some breweries are to manufacture
1 ice or be turned into cold storag
| warehouses. Others will make near
], beer, if this is permitted
What is said to be the biggest bar
!. room in the country, is located a
{ Bridgeport. o. 1t has 263 feet o
bar space. One bar is 113 feet long
It is operated by the Ungerleider Dis
filling company, and patronized large
| ~ by people from Wheeling, Yves
Virginia. just across the river. Yves
Virginia is dry.
The old Neil House at Columbus
which at one time sheltered Charlie
Dickens, and for a century the meet
ing place for politicians will CONVEX
its barroom into a cafeteria.
Many roadhouses and notoriou