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New-York tribune., 1920-02-22
Plenty of Work
In Milwaukee Yet

VT COST Wisconsin, and Mil
waukee in particular, lot of
IA money to bury old John Bar
leycorn, according to William
H. Austin, legal counsel for the Wis
consin Brewers Association.
Many millions derived as revenue
from the manufacture and sale of
the liquors in this state must be
made up by other forms Of taxation
levied upon the people, according to
Mr.. Austin, who also states that by
national prohibition the other indus
tries Of the state will be forced to
absorb about 10000 men formerly
engaged directly or indirectly in the
beer and liquor business.
During the fiscal year ended
June 80, 1919," said Mr.. Austin,
"the receipts Of the Federal gov
ernment from the manufacture and
sale Of beer, wine and liquors in
Wisconsin totaled s12,105, ,547.09.
"By the enforcement of the Eight
eeth Amendment and the Volstead
act this source Of revenue will be
lost, and the deficit must be made
up by taxation on other property, as
the government needs money.
During 1919 Wisconsin made
New-York tribune., 1920-02-22
Peoria Makes Food 4
Instead of Whisky

ing the war it dropped to twenty
ninth place. Now, under the reclas-
sifcation, we are completely off the
map and form merely a subdistrict,
with headquarters in Chicago"
There are now 2,662,000 gallons
of whisky in bonded warehouses in
Peoria. None of this amount is
loss, however, since it may be. sold
for non-beverage purposes, such as
medicinal, denaturat;on, hospital
and scientific. In any case, it is tax
free, except in medicinal uses, on
which it is expected this district will
get $2,OO0,0O0 in revenues. Peoria
loses, therefore, $50, 100000 in rev.
enues.
1t is estimated that when the
United States Food Products Cor
poration is in full operation about
ten times as many people as were
working in the distilleries will be
employed. Wages will be greatly in
creased.
Dr. E. C. Wagner, vice-president
of the United States Food Products
Corporation, has declared that hun
dreds of thousands of dollars will he
necessary to convert completely the
distilleries into food producing
plants. Included in the plans for
the big industrial conversion is the
establishment Of barge line on the
Illinois and Mississippi rivers reach
ing down to New Orleans.
when it became known abso-
lutely that the distilleries could no
longer continue to manufacture
liquor the great problem of what to
do with the million dollar plants in
Peoria came up" DR.. Wagner said.
Should the companies liquidate,
scrap the machinery, tear down the
buildings and throw thousands of
persons out Of employment? That
easy course was imme ediately de-
cided against.
"John Kessler, head Of the corpo-
ration IN New York, sought counsel.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-22
INE-GRAPE growers Of
California are proceeding
to cultivate their vines
90 thonOh po+L;r~ bJ

happened. They declare they will
continue to do so until the eight
eenth addition to the Constitution
of the United States is fought to
the last ditch.
The great wineries of California
have closed their doors, but when
they did so on January is their
vast stocks of the choicest of the
states vintages had been trans
ferred to private cellars. But few
Of the wineries have been dis
mantled. Those that have been are
comparatively small plants. The
more important are prepared to re-
sumo wine making at moments
notice should lightning strike the
bone dry law and destroy it's con-
stitutional underpinning.
The wine men are optimistic.
Their attitude is eve should worry?v
for already their 1920 crops are
beng contracted for at from S25
to $50 a ton, which is in excess Of
anything ever secured by the grow
ers in former years. Where these
grapes are going or what is to be
done with them appears to be an
open question. 1t is pointed out,
however, that during the season of
1919 more than 100 carloads of
fresh California wine grapes and
forty carloads of dried stock were
shipped into "dry" Oregon, alxl that
this was by far the greatest supply
of wine grapes from California ever
sold in that state.
Reports from Oregon admit that
these grapes cannot be used for the
table and are suitable only for wine
making, an industry that has thrived
in Oregon since prohibition went
into effect there. Since the nation
became "dry" further boost in the
demand for stock to make home
vintage has been shown in Oregon,
The commission men Of Portland
say that virtually no secret is made
of the buying and selling of this
wine stock.
The California Grape Protective
Association has under consideration
many plans for saving California; s
wine grapes and the establishing of
new raisin making industries. One
of these involves the drying Of the
wine grapes into 4 marketable
New-York tribune., 1920-02-22
ALT for bakers instead of
brewers; maraschino cher
: ries for home consump-

1VA ries for home consump-
ton instead of cocktail
concoctions; fruit for jams instead
of joy juices; syrup for table use
instead of alcoholic liquor; those
are some of the conversions which
already have been put into force
in Peoria's former distilleries.
Seven former distilleries, one of
which was the largest corn distil-
lery in the United States, have been
absorbed by the United States Food
Products Corporation. Since July
l, 1919, when wartime prohibition
went into effect, all of the plants
have been undergoing gradual but
extensive remodeling.
The change is looked upon bv
business men and bankers as one
for the better. More people are
being employed at larger wages
than formerly. Peoria loses in one
way only: it loses it's rank among
the big internal revenue districts Of
the nation.
"Prohibition will not mean an
absolute loss to PEORIA" E. D.
McCabe, internal revenue collector
for this district, says. "Although
we drop from first place to last
place in point of revenue collected,
we are gaining in that more people
are being employed at better wages
IN the food products plant than were
employed in the distilleries. We
are bound to move up close to first
place in the matter Of food pro-
duction.
I'm the old 9Th District, before
the reclassification of revenue dis
trlcts last year, Peoria district rev.
enue collections totaled $32,082,-
632.8S, for the year ended June
so, 1919. Prior to the war Peoria
ranked first among the internal
revenue districts Of America. Dur
New-York tribune., 1920-02-22
DELIVERING GRAPES at California avinery. Cali
fo1l0 stlu hopes to prohibition declared coastta-
tona but Is finding market for its grapes spite of

Otto F. Stifel, part owner Of the st.
Louis Browns and Of Miss Jemima,
the crack racing filly Of 1919, has
been turned into an oleomargarine
factory. The Mutual brewery, COM
paratively new, Is being used as an
assembling plant for motor cars.
The Home brewery is q cold storage
plant. The Greisedieck brewery is
to manufacture commercial alcohol.
The Schorr-Kolkschneider brewery
will make ice cream. Many Of the
other plants are still warm from the
last brewing, and their owners have
not yet made up their minds as to
their final disposition.
Cafes Still Open
The downtown cafes are, for the
most part, still alight, their old
owners trying soft drinks in hope
less sort Of way. Many Of the saloon
keepers are holding out for large
bonuses for their leases. Some of
the great cafes have closed up and
have been absorbed In the business
life Of other institutions. Nc
Tague's, the Delmonico's Of St.
Louis, was In the basement of the
large department store of Scruggs-
Vandervoort & Barney. The ia
nous cafe has been absorbed by the
dry goods company. Faust's, the
most famous cafe between New York
and San Francisco, the place where
beer was said to be better thar any
where in the world, has been vacant
for five years. The town has grown
New-York tribune., 1920-02-22

= was decided to turn the distiller-
les into food producing plants.
Flour is being milled now at the
Great Western plant, but not in as
large quantities as we wish. The
milling facilities are being rapidly
enlarged. At this same plant, which
New-York tribune., 1920-02-22
4tional Prohibition Proved Blight or Blessing

~ Nds 16een the effect Of prohibition those
otsnsusities that depended IN large
manufacture OF intoriccnts for their material
prosperity? With the coming of spring auiu grass
groo IN the streets here the greet trucks of the
orea0er the distler rolled has trade found
channels through hch roug TO settle these questions
The Tribune instituted inquiry such cities St.
LOUIS, Mals0aee and Peoria, and in California, home of
the s0sne interests OF the United States The fouoUng
ARTICLES not the s0ork of special correspondent
are homernode usually containing semsio6cal state
nents from s~ch authoritative the local CHAM
Der OF Commerce similar organizations.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-22
Never So Prosperous

Yet St. Louis never has been so
prosperous, so busy, so ambitious
or so confident as it is to-day.
Jobs were never so plentiful.
There is a tremendous demand for
labor. Bonuses are offered for rapid
completion Of new buildings. Labor
ers are making from $50 to $40 a
week in some lines. Plumbers, car
penters, ETC., are getting ten hours
pay for eight hours work. Labor is
at a premium in all the established
building trades. AS soon as a sa-
loon closes up store of some sort
takes it's place. Over 700 new
grocery stores alone have been
opened in st. Louis in the last year.
Drugstores and delicatessens
abound. Automobile concerns are
growing like mushrooms overnight.
There are practically no vacant
residences and few vacant business
properties.
AS FOR the $4,000 brewery and
allied trades people, we'll, the new
plant Of the General Motors In
northwest st. Louis will take all of
khsn. The new plant Of the Union
Mug Company will take as many
, more. Over the Mississippi, In East
st. Louis, the Aluminium Ore Com
pany of America can take care Of
5000 men at high wages. With
practically $4,000 residents engaged
in the brewery trades thrown out of
employment in the last two years
st. Louis has no unemployed men.
All the trades and big business en-
terprises are calling for good saen
and women. Female labor is
scarcer than male. The great de-
partment stores, telephone com
panies, private employers, ETC., want
all the female help they can get
Coal beavers are scarce at SO q
day, which means three cents 6
bushel for all coal handled by them
Expected Pompeii's Fate
So is St. Louis, the great anti
prohibition city, in the first days Of
what was to have been it's destruc
tton. The lava Of prohibition wa
to have made it another Pompeii
Behold, it is another Babylon i,
Babylon's most babbling day. No
a vacant room in the hotels O.
boarding houses; owners Of private
residences are being held up on th
streets and besought to rent room
or beds to residents without a plac,
wherein to lay their heads.
The great Anheuser-Busch plant
tho largest beer brewery In tn
world, 1t was said, and next t.
Guinness porter brewery in Dublil
tho largest brewery Of any kind il
the world, has not brewed a ke,
Of beer in a year. It's 1900 EN-
ployees are scattered to all part
Of tho city. Most Of them hav,
got better jobs at better wages ane
with shorter hours than they hac
In the brewery. The great pile.
Of bricks are being changed into
packing plants. August A. Busch
son Of the famous founder, purposes
New-York tribune., 1920-02-22

away from Faust's, and also from
its next door neighbor, the old
Southern Hotel, with its 100000
New-York tribune., 1920-02-22
T. LOUIS, the citadel Of Gam
\ brinus in the Western Hem
, isphere, trembled for years

at every cannon shot OF the
prohibitionists. With thirty-three
breweries, employing $4,000 persons
and bringing into St. Louis sum
estimated at $25,000,000 a year. St.
Louis felt that, of all cities, prohi-
bition would hurt it worst.
Prohibition will make St. Louis
deserted village" was the belief,
even Of men and women who did not
disbelieve in prohibition. Even
many ministers Of the gospel, pro-
hihitionists at heart, did not advo-
cate prohibition for St. Louis. Beer
seemed to be the very breath Of life
to the town.
Now beer brewing is a thing of
the past. The thirty-three great
breweries have shut down. Twenty
five hundred of its three thousand
saloons have closed their doors. Malt
and hops dealers, brewery supply
men, saloon supply men, beer pump
makers, rice brokers have had their
best customers, their only custom
ers. taken away. Great bottle blow
ing works have lost their brewery
custom. Fifteen thousand brewery
workers and as many more men in
allied trades, some 10000 bartend-
ers and saloon porters, lunchstand
tenders, etc, have lost their Jobs.
Twenty five hundred landlords have
lost their saloon tenants. Some
100000 said-to- confirmed beer
drinkers have lost their favorite
beverage.
The Nenana daily news., 1920-01-23
NENANA ID HAVE
 REAL SH0WH0USE;;
 WORK UNDER WAY

Nenana is to have a real theater --one in which regular action plays can be produced as well as movies shown. The demand for such building, with large stage, scenery, drop curtain and all the other things that go to make up regu- lar theater, will be met by the own CTS of the Coliseum, and when completed, the new Coliseum will have the distinction of being the only working" theater, worthy of the name, in Central Alaska. The work of transforming the Coliseum was started yesterday and it is the intention of Messrs. Ros- burg and Burns to expedite the re- modelling in every way possible. The changes are being made under the direction of Contractor Earl Slip perm
 The changes will include the en- larging of the stage so as to ac- commodate a large company of ac- tors, with stage settings, wings, and dressing rooms. The stage will be modern in every respect and cleo trically lighted after the most ap- proved fashion. It will add not little to the interior appearance of the theater, and the building. al ready big asset to the town, will take on increased importance as one of Nenana's chief attractions. In addition to the construction of the stage, an addition will be erected on the north side, in which there will be living quarters for the Rosburg family, and an office. The addition will be 24x3O feet in size i The improvement was undertaken at this time in order to provide d suitable place for the production of the amateur play which is to be staged soon by the Nenana Com mercial club, under the direction of Fred Date. Both play and new stage will be ready for presenta- tion to the public early in Febru- ary.
 The improvement VII involve the expenditure of several thousand dol lars--an expenditure which indicates confidence in the future of Nenana and d desire on the part of the owners of the theater to provide the Nenana public with variety of entertainment not obtainable in oth- CT Interior Alaska towns.
The Nenana daily news., 1920-01-23
GERMANY EXTENDS
 BILLION FOR IDLE

BERLIN. - The German govern ment at the nnd of December will have spent in 1919 one billion marks for the support of the un- employed, according to the figures of the labor ministry. Another bill ion marks will have been paid out before the arrival of the time speci- fled for this support to cease, it is estimated.
 It is planned, because of the huge amount expended in this way, to try to induce the unemployed to work on emergency labor The government is now supporting 550,- 900 unemployed Under Secretary of State Moellendorf has demanded a fund of five billion marks to tackle the unemployment question.
 The representative from Baden has announced that idle textile workers there are leaving for the Ruhr district to become coal miners.
The Nenana daily news., 1920-01-23
PAPER IS
 ON SALE BY THE NEWS

A shipment of typewriter paper, of the standard American brand, has just been unpacked at The News office, where it is on sale by the box or in any other quantity desired. The sizes include both legal and letter and the weights range from the lightest to heavy.
 The paper was bought right and is being sold at close margin of profit.
 The News also has imprinted en- velopes for sale by the box and by the package-all sizes, from baroni- al to legal, white and colored, and bond and wove.
 Nenana, Where Balls and Rivers Meet
The Nenana daily news., 1920-01-23
MOVE MOUNTAIN ID RECOVER ORE
 IN COPPER MINE

B1SBEE, ArlZ.-Mining engineers have solved the historic prophets s problem and have literally moved the mountain to Mahomet" Ten million feet of Sacramento hill, ad- joining Bisbee, is being shoveled by steam and carried away by rail- road so that the Phelps Dodge cor poration can reach 7,OOO,0O0 tons of copper ore which is part of the ramifications of the Copper Queen mine.
 1 It is a gigantic project. All the genius of the engineering depart ment of the organization was re- quired to put into effect the level ing of the mountain, the work of which began in 1917. Care had to 1 be used in blasting to prevent dam age to property and life in Bisbee and Warren from boulders hurled down the mountain side into the towns.
 Where to put the earth covering of this mining treasure was another problem. Warren and Bisbee oc- cupy the gulch at the foot of Sac ramento hill. It was necessary to . build railroad tracks into several spur gulches, and because of the narrow width these had to be single tracked. To prevent accident, and facilitate continual movement of earth from the steam shovels work ing at the hilltop, competent rail road train despatcher and telephone equipment was installed.
 The work was begun in the midst of the war, while machinery was hard to obtain and labor difficulties were increased by l. w. w. agi- tators Yet, in spite of these handi- caps, the workmen have leveled the top of the hill and removed large slice from one side of the mountain
 The steam shovels have not yet reached the rich copper veins of the Copper Queen, but they have come into ore containing one-half to one percent copper. Some day, per haps, a means may be discovered to extract this copper at a profit. EX- Iperiments have been made in cheap Bleaching of grade ore, which promise few cents ton profit by separating it into piles for teaching by water alone.
 In the meantime, the steam shov- els are keeping steadily at work in the hope that soon these giant in Istruments may be rivaling the Cop per Queen underground miners in the production of copper.
 This is said to be the first ex- pertinent of it's kind in mining, and its success may mean revolution in the industry.
The Nenana daily news., 1920-01-23

See J. A. Slippern for new rates on subscriptions and renewals of all leading magazines and periodicals. Club rates on application.
The Nenana daily news., 1920-01-23

The residents of Brooks contrib ute $2 each per month toward the support of the Tolovana hospital, of which Miss Mckenzie, formerly of Nenana. is in charge.
The Nenana daily news., 1920-01-23

Tie Contractor Munson arrived in
 Nenana on today's train from his camp out the line.
The Nenana daily news., 1920-01-23

See J. A. Slippern for new rates on subscriptions and renewals of all
 leading magazines and periodicals. Club rates on application.
The Nenana daily news., 1920-01-23

Woodbury's Facial Soap and other standard toilet soaps. Fowler & Morris.
The Nenana daily news., 1920-01-23

Nenana--The Gateway to McKinlay
 National Park.
The Nenana daily news., 1920-01-23

Horiiek's Matted Milk. Fowler 8, Morris.
The Jewish monitor. (Fort Worth-Dallas, Tex.) 191?-1921, 1920-10-01
TRIBUTE TO sCHIFF
ON 10TH BIRTHDAY

When Jacob II. Schiff reached HE
seventeen birthday on Jan. 10, 1917,
The American Hebrew and Jewish
Messenger asked fnanciers, educa-
tors and prominent men in all walks
Of life to express their opinion Of the
man who had been leader in finance,
Continued on Page l6).
The Jewish monitor. (Fort Worth-Dallas, Tex.) 191?-1921, 1920-10-01
Price Five Cents

fore Home for Incurables, an institu-
tion founded by Mr.. Schiff more than
thirty years ago and maintained and
expanded since through his munifi-
cence. He resigned as President Of
this hospital only last year, after he
haG seen the institution placed upon
a permanent foundation.
None Of the fnanciers who paid elo.
quent tribute to his genius as a bank
er, nor the philanthropists who gave
such praises to his generosity, could
make any estimate either Of his
wealth or the extent Of his wealth or
the extent Of his benefactions. Their
only answer was: 20, millions, mil
lions He was very able, but more
generous"
II was pointed out, however, that +.
II. Hartman. whom Kuhn, Loeb &
Co. backed in many Of his great rail.
road ventures, lef. an estate Of more
than 100000 Mr.. Schiff shared
in the profits Of that gigantic enter
prise as well as in many others Of les
ser size. He was director in several
corporations and trust companies.
Funeral Services Tuesday.
Members of the family said
that funeral services would be
held at Temple Emanuel at Fifth
Avenue and Forty-third street, at 10
o'clock on TuesGay morning. Mr..
Schiff was a member Of this temple
as well as n benefactor Of Temple
BETHEL. Admission is TO be by card
only
Mr.. Schiff contributed literally u
many charities OF a non-sectarian
character His benefactions amounted
to many millions. Among his gifts in
recent years were 100000 to the las
Jewish War Sufferers drive, $780,
O0o to the United Building Fund,
100000 annually to the Federation
for the Support Of Jewish Philanthro-
pies, $780, 900 to Barnard College for
the erection Of a Schiff Hall, 100000
to build an annex to Montefiore Home,
s500,00O to the Red Cross and $780,
900 to the Seventh One" drive.
Colonel II. A. Guinzborg, associated
with Mr.. Schiff in philanthropic
work said the banker gave not only
Of his fortune but Of himself to the
charities in which he was interested
"lf he became interested in a char
ity," said Colonel Guinzborg, "Mr.
Schiff thought about it day and night
and tried to make il a success. In fact
he worried about it IL things did no,
20 we'll and gave Of his time and ener.
KY to make Il a success"
The Jewish monitor. (Fort Worth-Dallas, Tex.) 191?-1921, 1920-10-01

bedside until the end came at $3.50
o'clock in the evening.
Mr.. Schiff's last days were pain
less. The end came peacefully, with
plenty of time to summon the mem
bors of his immediate family as well
as the physicians in attendance.
On Thursday last Mr.. Schiff suf-
fered severe pain from his. heart af'
fection but toward morning. he lap
sed into semi-consciousness.
To members Of his family Mr..
Schiff expressed the belief that he
would be able to get up and aboutin
few days and he declared that he be-
lieved he would be able to indulge soon
in the five mile walks he was accus-
toned to take daily before his first at
tack of heart disease.
Besides his wife and children, Mr.,
Schiff is survived by two brothers,
Philip and udwig, retired bankers
Of Frankfort-on-M Main, Germany, sew
eral nephews and nieces in that coun'
try.
Death Surprises Associates.
So unexpected was MT Schiffs
death among his associates in chari-
ties, in business, in religious work and
in the manifold interests where he
had attained pre-eminence, that scores