The New York herald., 1922-06-08
Restaurants That Ignore Law
Are Said to Take Trade
From Hostelries.
LAXITY CALLED DISGRACE
Harding, Daugherty and
Other Officials Will Be
Appealed To.

The Hotel Association Of New York,
at it's quarterly meeting in 334 Fifth
avenue last night. denounced the res
taurants in the theatrical districts
that are violating the Volstead act,
and directed the officers of the or
ganization to make an appeal directly
to President Harding, the Secretary
Of the Treasury and the National Pro-
hibition Commissioner for more ef-
fective enforcement of the law.
The text of the resolution is as fol-
lows:
Whereas the volstead National Pro-
hibition law. enacted pursuant to the
Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitu-
ton of the United States, absolutely
prohibits and makes unlawful the manu-
facture and sale of intoxicating liquors
for beverage purposes: and
Whereas the hotels of this city and
elsewhere have been and are paying
large and excessive taxes upon their
properties. the assessed valuation of
which has been predicated largely upon
the revenues which these properties have
heretofore been able TO produce through
the lawful sale of liquors. and there has
been no diminution in the amount of
such taxes but on the contrary con-
stantiy advancing increases; and
Whereas the proprietors of our no.
tells. IN their determination co be law
abiding citizens, have been and are con-
| scientiously obeying the letter and spirit
| OF the aforesaid law, with the result that
large portion OF their revenues have
been cut off; and
Whereas 1t is a matter of common
knowledge. which the public author
tiles are apparently overlooking, that
violations Of the aforesaid law are open
flagrant and brazen in a large number
of restaurants and other places of this
city and elsewhere. and irresponsible
persons are profitably and openly ply
| ing bootlegging practices, and such vio-
| lations of law are growing In numbers
and extent. notwithstanding the effec-
tive remedies which the law affords for
the prevention thereof and
Whereas II is a matter of common
knowledge that under the national pro-
hibition law the Illegal traffic in res
taurants is actually increasing. in con-
sequence whereof the restaurant busI.
ness, which our hotels have heretofore
conducted profftably, is in many in
s.ances operated at serious loss: and
Whereas the hotelkeepers of this
city and elsewhere have been and will
continue to be law abiding; and
Whereas conditions have grown In
tolerable: now. therefore. be It
Resolved, That the officers of the
Hotel Association of New York City be
instructed to call the matter to the at
tention of the chief national executives
upon whom rests the duty of enforcing
the law, and request that they take
immediate steps TO enforce the existing
laws so that these intolerable conditions
may be forthwith eliminated. And be
IL further
Resolved. That a copy Of these reso-
lutions be forwarded to the President
OF the United States. TO the Secretary OF
the Treasury of the United States, to the
Attorney General of the United States
and to the National Prohibition Com
missioner"
Those present at the meeting included
NJ. NJ Boomer of the Ciaridge and Nc
Alpin hotels, E. NJ Statler Of the Hotel
Pennsylvania. Fred c. Mushenheim OF
the Hotel Astor. August Mule of the
Waldorf-Astoria Thomas d. Green OF
the Hotel Woodward. I. Fluegelman OF
the Hotel Hamilton, Mark Caldwell. as
sistant secretary of the association Ed
ward c. Fogg Of the Hotel Plaza. Ed
ward NJ. Tierney of the Hotel Ansonia,
and president Of the National Hotel AS
ISOLATION.