Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-05-18
ECONOMIC EFFECTS
OF PROHIBITION

How prohibition is rehabilitating an
element Of society which has pro-
duced little or nothing, sending thous
ands of men into the productive class
and making thousands of happy and
comfortable homes. tremendously re-
ducing the costs Of government in
many directions and producing condi-
lions generally which make for a
stronger and better and weather. ma
ton, IS told in a few items which The
American Issue. the organ OF the Anti
Saloon League OF America. has culied
from the press of the United States
and which, il says. are a few Of the
multitude OF items collaled" They are
as follows:
Camden county, New Jersey tTren-
toni. workhouse practically empty
Jail with very few inmates.
Essex county, New Jersey New
ark), jail. SO cells formerly all 0ecu-
pied by DRINKS and minor offenders,
only Is cells now occupied
"Passaic county. New Jersey (Pat-
erson). Order for new jail Cancelled
The Sheriff says not now needed ow-
ing to prohibition.
Bergen county, New Jersey black
ensack), new 100000 Jail with only
II occupants. Consider remodeling
into tenement house
Warren county. New Jersey, jail
empty.
"Hunterdon county. New Jersey, jail
empty
Sussex county. New Jersey, Jail,
one prisoner.
Somerset county, New Jersey, Jail,
one prisoner.
Cumberland county, New Jersey,
jail. two prisoners.
New York City, Bellevue Hospital
alcoholic ward closed.
New York City, free clinic for drug
addicts abolished
New York City Board of lnebriety
nothing to do-have requested the
Legislature to dissolve il.
New York City, Commissioner of
Charity reports few Migrants; lodging
houses practically out of business;
enormous decrease in destitute fami-
lies: fewer children committed to in
stitutions; appropriation reduced 81
900 600
philadelphia city workhouse. LOO
empty cells. formerly all full.
1 ITnunffnl oil
coholic ward abolished. In July, 1918,
had 162 patients. In February, 1920
only eight patients. Now none.
Chicago Illinois, two municipal
courts handling criminal cases closed
for lack Of cases
Chicago, Illinois, morgue keeper
reports his business is very light.
Hartford, Connecticut. prisoners in
Jail under sentence reduced from 1877,
September 80. 1916. TO 81, February 1,
1920
New Haven, Connecticut reduced
during same period from $50 to 50.
columbus, Ohio, 100000 popula-
ton, not a single arrest for any cause
during "a hours of week of March 20
to 81.
Detroit. Michigan, total arrests
| 1917-19 300; fell to G.2S4 in 1919. I'M
der prohibition.
Buffalo, New York. arrests for
drunkenness fell from 2,761 in Janu-
airy. 1919, to 1.O12 in January, 1920.
Erie county. New York. (Buffalo)
inmates in penitentiary reduced from
554, January. 1919, TO 176, January
1920.
"San Francisco. California. total ar.
rests fell from 4,105. February, 1919
10 1888 in February, 1920.
Peoria, Illinois, formerly the
worlds greatest whisky center), in
March had only six inmates in the
workhouse. Formerly the average
was over 200
East st. Louis. Illinois. opposite st
Louis, notorious for liquor-inspired
race riots. and with very large alien
population, March 5, 1920, had not a
prisoner in the city Jail.
Salvation Army and industrial
homes are being discontinued every
where.
Kelley cures in White Plains, New
York, and elsewhere throughout the
country are discontinued"
RECORDS WANTED