The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-01-16

York Most saloons, the owners Of
which have decided TO remain in bust
ness, have been Transformed into res
taurants or candy stores.
Distilleries, elsewhere, it is said, are
being utilized for making denatured
alcohol for fuel, for use in the mechan-
ical arts and for other legal purposes.
Some are now creameries and cheese
factories.
Breweries Change Business.
Breweries, in many cases, according
to reports, have been turned into matt
sugar factories, automobile works, meat
packing and cold storage, and fruit and
vegetable dehydrating or eyaporatng
plants. Many employees OF dlstlllers
and breweries thus are retained at their
old places but at new tasks. An army
of bartenders, it is said, has obtained
Jobs at soda fountains and are reported
to be 'humanizing' the nut sund@
business.
Some of the things prohibition is al
legged already to have done TO the me
tropolis and other parts OF the nation
were pointed out here to-day by VIII
liam H. Anderson, superintendent OF
the Anti Saloon league, and others. Mr..
Anderson said: Five years ago, on a
zero weather night, 1000 or more men
applied to the Bowery mission for
lodging. The municipal lodging house,
with a capacity OF 9lS, on not one
night in December sheltered as many
as 100 persons. Ordinarily il would be
crowded.
"We are getting curious reports from
all parts of the country. For instance,
Harry A. Wrinkle, known as Dad, Tor
26 years the keeper of the Philadelphia
morgue, says; Prohibition has most
nigh closed us up. We had as many
bodies in two weeks in 1918 as we had
altogether in 1919 Sixty per cent Of
them came here through booze Some
of them were wood alcohol victims.
The daily average has been close to 90
per cent of what was normal before
prohibition
THE Yorkville police court in New
York. on Christmas dayA had only
two DRINKS as compared with 20 the
preceding Christmas. st. Lawrence
county, upstate, was going to spend
100000 for Jail extension two years
ago because of the number OF offenders.
This county covers $500 square miles,
almost as big as Rhode Island. The
superyjsors said wait when an effort
was made to bond the county, the vot-
crs decided to outlaw booze and to-day
the Jail is reported virtually empty OF
inmates.
Camden. n. J,'s famous workhouse
or paper pickery,' where the DRINKS
were sent to sort over paper for bailng
and which did business aggregating
s4 900. at last accounts had only four
prisoners. The Chicago bridewell' or
workhouse population is said recently
to have dwindled to almost nothing.
Pittsburg, Pa, shows one OF the best
records, 30 per cent fewer cases OF
Gags arrests reduced half and a
minimum Of cases of alcoholism being
reported from the hospitals.
..Thomas w. White, state supervisor
of administration of Massachusetts,, re-
ports that as result of fewer cases
many small courts which are now cost
ing the state 100000 a year can be
eliminated by one-haf Milwaukee re-
ports a shortage of labor at the house
Of correction. The decrease in cases OF
intoxication there is officially given as
20 per cent during 1919. Two-thirds
of the Cincinnati workhouse Is to be
abandoned, eifeeting saving OF $4,000
annually. because of the recent decrease
in occupants.
civilian Blodgett of Penn Van, n.
". announced that Never before in the
history of Yates county have so few
persons been confined in Jail. We used
to have an average of 250; to-day we
have &c. in the Connecticut state
prison year ago there were 56I pris'
oners. Now there are l20 vacant cells
and it may not be necessary to build
new S3.O00000 prison. Captain w. J..
Dempsey of the New York Central rail
road detective force. says the hobo has
been forced to 20 to work because there
is no longer such lure of the Tree
lunch, the booze and the saloon stove.
Charles r. Buchanan, jailer, at Han
nibal, Mo, whose position used to pay
him Sl75 by reason of his feeding pris
oners at 20 cents meal, has returned
to his old job of cigar maker because
prisoners are so few that he cannot
make IL paw. Middletown. y. Y, which
has been dry now for more than a
wear. reports unusual prosperity, some
of its former b saloonkeepers having
become successful merchants. Sheriff
Joseph T. Davis of Nassau county in
forms us that he has only IS prisoners
in Jail and only four of these are no.
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