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40,000 Must
Seek Jobs When
Saloons Close
Also 8,693,750 Sqiiare Fee!
of Floor Space Will Bc
for Rent at 40 Per Cenl
Less Than Is Now Paid
Bartenders Are Unhappy
Their Sales Methods Not Cal
cnlated to Get Them Other
Good Jobs, They Say
Uniess President Wilson dcclares the
period of demobilization ended before
Jaly 1 every snloon in the United
States must close on that day. There
are 6,955 drinking places in New York
City the proprietcrs of which are con
templatlng the eft'ects on themselves
of this war emergency law, which
threatens to end the manufacture and
Balo of alcoholic beverages six and
a half months in advance of the Federal
prohibition amendment to tho Consti
tution.
While thoro are 6.95S drinking places
in New York City to-day these figures
will not be accurntc on July 1. Every
night in the greater city the Hghtg in
some saloons go out for the last time.
One by one the keepers of barrooms
are quitting.
In 1916 there were 10,357 drinking
places in New York City, one to every
515 persons, including babies. Only
6,955 remain. Not "drink and tho
devil have dono for the rest," but those
war time bogies?taxes, high costs of
materials, including tho glasses in
which the liquor is served, wages and
restrictions shutting off the patronage
or men in uniform.
One Thousand and Fifty-five Hotel Bars
These have combined to put out of
business 3,402 drinking places in New
York. Of those that survivo 1,055 are
connected with hotels or restaurants
and 5,900 are just saloons. In addi
tion to these there are 679 storeswhere
liquor is sold not to be drunk on the
pvemises, and 290 pharmicists where
liquor is sold on prescription. Theso
tigures were tabulated by the State Ex
cise Department.
Thirty-four thousand bartenders and
saloon porters will be thrown out of
work in New York City July 1, or, if
the President intervenes, on January
16, 1920. Many of them have grown
old in this busines, until they feel
niore tiinid about tiying to earn a liv
ing for themselves and their families
in any other occupation. What are they
going to do?
The pi-oprietors of the saloons of
New York City?and William McClena?
han, former head of the New Y'ork Re
tail Liquor Dealers' Association, esti
mates that there aro at least 8,000 of
iheBe? also will have to seek a new
means of livelihood. What will they
<io?_ The barrooms occupy many of the
choicest corners, from a real estate
standpoint, in New Y'ork. What sort of
tenants will teko their place?
Their Methoda Are Their Own
Most bartenders simply echo the
nuestion about themselves by asking:
"What can we do? > ew of us ever
?-have dono any th ing else bufeft^rid bar.
Standing long hours behirtija the bar
has broken down the arches of our
1'cet. Consequently many of \is are
flat-footed. Our hands are soft and
tender from frequent immersion in
water. We are salesmen, but -what
other commodity requircs our selling
methods?"
Dr. George W. Kirchwey, state dl
rector of tho United States Employ
ment Service, does not view Beriously
the dumping of approximately 40,000
men on the labor market.
"This is not an enormous number,"
he Baya. "Every week 100,000 men are
being placed by the United States em
ployment service. We shall be able to
offer these men a great variety of op
portunities. There isn't even need for
a special department to handle their
case. The oxioting raachinery will be
ample, I belicve.
"After all, a bartcnder is a salesman.
If he can sell beer ho can sell some?
thing else. He works behind a counter
in a saloon. What is to prevent him
from working behind a counter in an?
other kind of storeV
Candy and Soft Drinka
There is plenty of evidence from
Western states that have gono dry ia
the past to bear out Dr. Kirchwey. In
Minnesota many ambidexterous bar?
tenders, who could wield a bungstarter
in one hand while they shook a cock
tail in the other before that state went
dry, now sell candy and soft drinks.
As for the saloon proprietors, Will?
iam McClenahan, whose cafe is in 153
Seventh Avenue, is as good a spokes
man as any.
First and foremost, Mr. McClenahan
doesn't believc the saloons will bo
closed July 1. To support his belicf he
quotes the contentions of Elihu Root
and William D. Guthrie that the war is
over. The Sheppard amendment to the
acrricultural bill of 1918 provided that
there should be total prohibition until
the war waa over; that fact to be pro
ciaimed by tho President; and also
until after demobilization; that fact
aiBO to be proclaimed by the President.
Mr. McClenahan believes the President
will Rave the day at loast until Janu?
ary 16, when the Federal prohibition
amendment to the Constitution be
comes effective. But as for the saloori
keepr, Mr. McClenahan says those that
have a "bundle" need not worry. Those
that have not must start over again as
best thfey can.
The Real Estat*> Prohlem
The real estate problem is already
bothering many of tho persons con
cerned. When all th* drinking places
in New York are closed there will be
roughly estimated, 8,693,750 square
feet of floor spaco tenantless. This ia
on the assumption that the average
saloon occupies a storerocn 25x50
feet. Real estate men do not believe
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other merchnnts will be willing to pay
as high rent as tho saloonkeoper.
Charles Donahuc, of the real estate
firm of Schmidt & Donahuc, which
handles tho real estate of the George
Khret Brewing Company, believes that
saloon properties rented for other
purposes will bring only about 60 per
cent of the a mount their owners have
received from saloonkeepers. His
partner, Herman A. Schmidt, agrecs
with him, Togelher they have in
charge about 125 saloon sites in New
York City owned by the George Khret
Brewing Company, more property of
this character than is controlled by
any other single interest in New York.
In a Btatement together they said:
"Prohibition in force would deprive
many holders of realty in greater New
York of their equities, where their
properties are mortgaged, because
stores occupied by saloons will bring
only about. 60 per cent of the present
rents?if they can be rented at all for
other purposes.
Brewery Workers Will Movo
"Furthermore, It will depopulate, to
a great extent, the properties in the
vicinity of breweries and thereby wipe
out equities of present owners in those
localities, because many now working
in the brewery must seek quarters
elsewhere."
Schmidt & Donahuc have managed
to lease one of the 125 places they
expoct to have on their hnnds soon.
That is the saloon at 300 West Fifty
ninth Street, with a frontage on Co
lumhus Circle. It has been leased by
the Riker Drug Company for approx
imately what the saloonkeeper occu
pant. has been paying.
"That does not mean anything," said
Mr. Donahuc. "We could rent a pig
sty on Columbus Circle.
"So far as the rest of the. saloon
properties is concerned, we are sitting
like young doctors, waiting for pa
tients. The average rental paid by a
New York corner saloon is $230
monthly. The owners of that prop?
erty will be lucky if they get 60 per
cent of that. The saloons could af
ford to pay more than any other busi?
ness.
Drop from $140 to $45 Bid
"Grocers, butchers and drygoods
men have come to us offering to" rent
saloon properties. There is one place
in Second Avenue. It formerly rented
for $150 a month. More recently the
rent has been $140 a month. Yester?
day a grocer offered us $40 a month
for tho corner. A candy storo proprie
tor offered $45. We would rent it for
$80. That is one of the cheaper places,
but it serves as an example.
"The owners of most saloon prop
erty, I believe, will seek to adjust the :
situation by rtj.Ving the rents of the
families who lWe upstairs in the sa?
loon building to meet the difference."
For the year ending September 80,
1918, the total money collected by
liquor licenscs in New York City was
$12,011,852. Half of this went to the
city and the other half to tho state.
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Anti-Drug Crusade
Here Retarded as
Autfoorities Split
Copeland and Hcrrick Are
Deadlocked on Plan for
C li n i c s and Registry;
Change in Codc Sought
A deadlock has developed between I
the State Narcotic Commission and the
Department of Health on tho drug
situation in New York. For two weeks
Health Commissioner Copeland has
been waiting for somo action on the
part of State Drug Commissioner Her
rick, but beyond tho appointment of a
new dcputy commissioner thero has
been no positive functioning go far.
Commissioner Herrick told The
Tribune last night that there was no
immediate prospect of tho commission
taking any action. Ho said the whole
proposition was a camparatively. new
one. and serioii3 consideration would
havo to bo given it beforo any definite
slep's were taken. At present he is
working out nn idontification system,
but thero is little prospect of it matur
ing in time to satisfy Dr. Copeland,
who foresees the speedy closing o? the
drug clinic on Worth Street if some
act.ion is not taken immediately.
Dr. Copeland's alternative is to have
the sanitary codo of tho city so
nmended as to give the Health Depart?
ment definite. functioning powers and
this he will attempt to do.
Commissioner Herrick professed
himself content to have Dr. Copeland
go as far as he likes in this diroction.
He is willing that he should institute
his own registration and identification
system and open as many new clinics
as ho likes.
Interrogated on Dr. Copeland's
statement that the State Narcotic Com?
mission could clean up 100,000 cases of
drug addicts in the city within the
next six months if it went at tho task
systcmatically, Commissioner Herrick
said:
"An absolute impossibility! Be
sides, there are. no figures to show that
there are 100,000 drug addicts in New
York City.
"The State Narcotic Commission
ha3 no power eithcr to open or main?
tain clinics, and thore is no prospect
of immediate action on our .part. Wo
must have timo to feel our way. The
question is un to Dr. Copeland. Per- '
sonally, I should be pleased if he were
able to got the code so amended as to
enable him to act on his own initia- !
tive."
Norway Seeks Indemnity
LONDON, May 11.?-A wireless dis
patch from Christiania says the |
Foreign Ministor has sent a rcquest to i
the peace conference at J'aris seeking
an indemnity from Germany for Nor- j
wegian vcssels sunk.
Cubans Nominate Gomez
HAVANA, May 10.-?Jose" Miguel
Gomez, former President of Cuba, hvas
nominated to-night by the Liberal As
sembly for the Fresidcncv. He re?
ceived a vote of 83 to 5 for Alfredo
Zayas, former Vico-Presidcnt. The
election takes place in 1920.
Year's Liquor Supply
Still Remains in Bond
New York Tribune
Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, May 11.?In tho
next fifty days the country must
consume (50,000,000 gallons of liquor
if the nation is to go literally bone
dry on July 1. There is that much
now remaining in bond?enough for
a year's consumption under ordinary
circumstances?and dealers are won
derinp: how to get rid of it before |
the dry spell, unless they give it
away.
As a further sign of the arid time
approaching, the attitude of Attorney
General Parker toward the brewers
has grown more threateninp:. IIo has
blasted tho hope of the 2.75 per cent
bccr-makcrs by holding that the war
time prohibition act, which became
effective May 1, prohibits the brewing
of all beer, regardless of its alcoholic
content.
Allied Recognition
Of Carranza Rule
Apparently Nearer
France Expected to Accept
Mexican Minister Soon;
Diplomatic 'Relations
Eisewhere Are Resnnied
WASHINGTON, May 11.?A move
ment toward recognition of the Car?
ranza government of Mexico seems to
be gaining hoadway among the nllied
powcrs and some of the smaller na?
tions.
A dispatch from Paris to-day quotes
Alberto J. Pani, Mexican Minister to
France, as saving ho had received noti
(ication that he might present His cre
I dentials at tlie French Foreign Office
I on May 13. This notice came, the
i Minister said. at the moment the Mexi?
can press was announcing his depar
j ture for Spain because of inability to
| present his credentials.
Simul'taneously it was announced in
Mexico City that General Heriberto
| .Tara, Mexican Minister to Cuba, with
his legation staff, had enpaged passage
j from Vera Cruz for Havana, and that
Dr. E. G. Ensenat, the new Cuban Min?
ister to Mexico, would lcavo Havana
I for his post, thus resuming diplomatic
relations between the two reptiblics
which were broken off several months
ago.
It was also announced from th
Mexican capita! to-day that Dr. Favio
Lozano, Minister to Mexico from Co
lombia, would leave that country on
May 22 to resume diplomatic relations
between Mexico and Colombia.
It is unofficially reported in Mexico
City that Candido Aguilar will resume
his post as Secretary of Foreign Af
fairs, and that Mexico will soon name
ministers to Guatemala, Germany and
the Scandinavian countries. Salvador
Diego Fernandez, temporary head of
the foreign department, is s'lated, it is
said, for Minister to Belgium and Hol
land nnd later to take up the same
duties in London when England names
her minister to Mexico.
Permits to cross the Mexican border
by both Americans and Mexicans are
to be granted in the future hy the
State Department, it was announced
here to-day. Persons who intend to
remain long in the interior, however
were. urged to obtain passports and
not to depend on permit cards.
It is not believcd here that the at?
tack on Camelo Cirruti, of the staff of
the Italian Embassy in Washington,
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Carranza's Proposed
Anti - Strike Law Is
Protested hy Gompers
New York Tribuv.n
Washinqton Bureau !
WASHINGTON, May ll. Samuel
Gompers, president of the American
Federation of Labor, has written to
the Mexican Senate, now in special ses
sion, protesting in the name of pan
American labor against the onactment
into law of the labor legislation sub
mitted by President Carranza, it was
learned here to-day.
President Carranza has asked Con?
gress to epact a labor law that will
give the government power to seize
any industriol plant that suspends
operation either by reason of strike or
lockout and operate it for the benefii
ot the state. Neither the labor unions
nor the emnloyers are strong enough
in Mexico to combat this move on tho
part of Carranza. and Mr. Gomners is
endeavoring to hlqck nas^ace of the
measure. He points out in his tele?
gram that enactment of this law would
prevent collective bargaining and would
disarm the worker of the only weapon
he has to secure justice, the rieht to
striKe.
Labor leaders in Mexico are alarmed
at the spread of Bolshevism in the re
public and have sent urgent requests
to labor leaders in this country for aid
in combattmg this evil. It is charged
Carranza has fallen under the swav of
the Bolshevik movement, and fear is
expressed that still further troubles
are m store for Mexico as a conse
quence State Socialism is an- ideal of
a number of Carranza's advisers, not
ablv General Alvarado, who put an
elaborate programme of Socialism into
eftect in Yucatan when he was Gov?
ernor of that state.
Mexican Troops Sent
To Hall Bandit Ralds
NOGALES, Ariz., May 10.?Mexican
troops are being rushed to Agua
Prieta nnd Nogalcs. fTonora, and other
border points to protect them from
band.it raids similar to that which oc
curred at Cananea. This inform?tmn
was 'received to-night by United States
? Consul F. E. Dyer at Nogales, Sonora
; from Acting Governor Pina, of Sonora
i who is at Hermosillo.
j General Plank, in command at
i Cananea, Sonora, has taken the field
j in an effort to round up the bandits.
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i Costa Rira Repulses Invaders
jNicarar . and Mexicans Are
Rouied by Loyal Forces
\ SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, May 10.?
Piesident Tinoco on being informed of
the crossing of the nothern frontier
by hostile forces issued a manifesto
in which he declared:
"An army of Nicaraguan and Mexi- ,
can buccaneers, with a few Costa
Ricans. backed by President Ohamorro
(of Nicaragua), has invaded the coun?
try.
General mobilization followed. The I
first skirmish occurred between out- i
posts, resulting in iifteen casualties to |
tho invaders and three to the govern-'
ment forces. The invaders were after
ward reported to have fled to the
frontier.
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