The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1920-04-27

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The city of Birmingham built =
city Jail at a cost of 100000 and
the normal number Of prisoners be-
fore prohibition was 200. Al re-
suit OF prohibition this building and
grounds has been given
over to the Juvenile court for hous-
ing and training delinquent chill
dren."
New York, April 2s.---Another
large club testifies to the economic
dement's OF prohibition and gives its
denial to the prediction that mems
clubhouses must suffer financially
through the withdrawal Of the sale
OF liquor The National Republican
Club, the largest Republican club in
the city, held its annual meeting the
other day, when it was learned that
during the year a deficit had been
transformed into surplus. that the
clubhouse had been redecorated and
much new equipment installed, that
there was q net addition OF AS mem
bers and that with all the improve
ments and betterment of conditions
generally the management had not
found II necessary to advance the
dues. 1t Is pointed out by prohibi-
ton leaders that as this club had a
well patronised and profitable bar
before the advent of wartime prohi-
bition the results attained through the
operation OF the dry laws must be
generally recognized. The announce
ment that the club alphabetically
prnspered under prohibition, without
adding to the costs OF the individual
members, IL in sharp contrast to q
1aN "a
club which stands a. publicly con-
that the sale of liquor is necessary
to the prosperity Of such an organi-
zation.
Los Angeles. Cal, April 26.-The
revenue which was formerly poured
into the city treasury here from
liquor licenses is being replaced by
the occupational tax. Before prohi-
bition became effective. liquor inter-
estS here were loud In their predic-
tfons OF the financial distress which
would follow the loss of liquor reve-
nue.. The occupationai tax is being
imposed upon certain classes OF pro-
fessional people conducting business
on their own account The revenue
derived from this tax is to go toward
salaries OF ofilciais and employees and
administration expenses.
Chicago, April 2s.--Real estate
values in former saloon infested dis
tricts are said to be making tremen-
dous advances. One firm of real es-
tate brokers alone has leased for
other purposes at large increases in
rental more than forty stores former
" occupied a. saloons since the first
OF the year. A member of this firm
told a representative OF the Christian
Monitor that the demand for store
locations in the Loop" district was
far greater than the supply and that
the saloon leases were snapped up as
soon as offered. One former saloon
keeper. he said. who is paying $500
a month for his vacant store. re-
Gently refused = handsome bonus for
his lease. All kinds of stores are
taking the former saloon locations,
he said. meat markets and candy
stores Leading
Detroit. April .s.--Police authori-
ties in every large city are finding
election days to be much less ex-
pensive and troublesome than they
were in the years when liquor was
openly sold and when the full MEM
be1pnip &. the police force and many
reserves were cften called into ser
vice to meet the disorderly conditions
arising from the saloon. The recent
election Gay in Detroit passed per-
haps even mere quietly than normal
day. Notwithstanding the fact that It
ended one Of the warmest campaigns
the city had ever experienced, the
voters turning out in presidential
preferential primary and to settle the
question Of the construction Of mu-
nicipal III cot car lines Yet there
were oniy Two arrests for drunken
ness, neither. OF which bore any re-
laticn to the balloung. Police OH
ciaia recalled the time when rival
factions We'd with each other in dis
tributing LIQUOR. Thousands OF