HOTELS FEAR
DRY REGIME
SPELLS RUIN
NEW YORK, May 7 (by Associated
Press).—Hotel men of the North At
lantic states, excepting groups with
headquarters in the metropolis who
profess to see nothing but ruin ahead
if prohibition is enforced, expect to
be doing business at the old stand in
the days impending when the mahog
any bar and the concoctions more or
less mysteriously mixed by the white
aproned dignitary behind it become
matters of history.
Despite predictions of the city and
state bonifaces’ associations of New
York that large numbers of hostelries
will be forced out of business by the
advent of the “dry” regime, the ma
jority of persons well informed re
garding hotel affairs hold to the opin
ion that no such situation will develop.
All along the coast and westward tc
the Appalachians, they declare, pro
prietors of city, town and country
hotels, both of the commercial and
tourist types, are mapping out means
of obtaining from other sources reve
nues equivalent to those derived from
the sale of intoxicants. Popularized
dining-rooms, tea and dance parlors,
soft drink grills and even the plebian
soda fountain are innovations planned
and, in some cases, already in opera
tion with success surprisingly grati
fying to their owners. I
And a revival of automobile tour
ing which had less than half the nor
mal volume last summer, when Amer
ica was at the height of her war ef
fort, is expected to prove a potent
outside factor in tiding the majority
of hotels over the transition period
slated to begin with enforcement of
war-time prohibition July 1.
Significant as straws that point the
way of the wind in the “bone dry”
crisis are editorials in several of the
leading periodicals devoted to the
hotel business, and reports of adver
tising agencies whose trade is drawn
largely from “automobile” taverns.
The hotel editors, while hoping for
the best—and “the best” admittedly
from their point of view would be a
failure of the government to enforce
the emergency prohibition measure,
together with a court or popular de
cision nullifying the national prohibi
tion amendment—advise their readers
to look the situation squarely in the
face and prepare for the operation of
bar-less resorts.
All sorts of substitutes for revenues
obtained from the liquor trade are
suggested and the "five” proprietor is
urged to quit worrying and get to
work.
The advertising man, summarizing
their canvasses, declares that "space”
contracted by the hotel interests far
exceedes that of last year, in fact sets
a now record. The tourist houses in.
particular, they state, have plunged
heavily into publicity, frankly antici
pating a bumper season of automobile
traffic and planning, through in
creased patronage and expansion in
many case3 of meal serving activities,
to recoup the losses which will follow
the banishment of Old John Barley
corn.
From "automobile rows” of hun
dreds of eastern cities the word has
gone out that people stand ready to
buy almost anything on four wheels.
“The war is over,” is the popular ory,
and enforced stay-at-homes of recent
open seasons are planning to see
America. Tourist hotel men, it is de
clared, have seen their salvation in
the travel boom already apparent in
the steadily increasing volume of
spring traffic, and improvements rang
ing all the way from enlarged bed
room and dining-room facilities to in
stallation of attractive lunch rooms
and cafeterias have Deen the result in
many establishments that hitherto
have gone along in a conservative,
old-fashioned way, depending on the
bar for the bulk of their receipts.
While hotel men in many sections
have referred vaguely to “assurances”
that war-time prohibition would not
be made effective and have proceeded
with the acquisition of liquor stocks
as though no “dry” period loomed
above the mid-sumer horizon, boni
faces in the New York district, in pub
lic statements, have bitterly assailed
the Prohibitionists.
Thomas D. Green and John McE.
Bowman, president and vice-president,
respectively, of the New York Hotel
Association, described the attitude of
the anti-liquor advocates as “not car
ing what happens, so long as it
doesn’t happen to them.” At a time
when business is “just beginning to
flock into legitimate channels,” Mr.
Bowman declared, the hotel business
is “confronted by the spectacle of
ruin” if prohibition is enforced, but
he asserted he did not anticipate suc
cess in what he characterized as “this
latest attempt of religious and politi
cal fanatics” to take away “more in
dividual right.” However, he pre
dicted many hotels of New York city
and the surrounding territory would
be closed July 1, or soon afterward, if
the war-time “dry”law is put into
force.
George A. Farnham, president of
the New York State Hotel Associa
tion, "refused to believe" that either
the emergency or constitutional pro
hibition acts would become operative.
New England hotels, on the other
hand, are reported to be counting on
the automobile travel revival to off
set the losses under a no-liqour status,
while in Pennsylvania serving of iced
beverages to tourists and devotees of
dancing craze is expected to provide
substantial revenue. Philadelphia for
nearly a year has permitted no vend
ing of liquors in dancing parlors, and
back in the mountains, where bars
have been few and far between in re
cent years, the prohibition law will
have little effect on the conduct of
hotels.
Along the coast, from Atlantic city
south, the hotel men are working
out substitues for the bar and the
grill room. “We will give them danc
ing, morning, afternoon and evening!”
said the proprietor of a great seaside
caravansary, adding his expectation,
which seemed to be typical of other
bonifaces in resort cities, of heavy
patronage and good returns from teas,
ices and other light beverages to be
dispensed in the terpsichorean halls.
Among hotel men and observers of
the business generally there is agree
ment that consumption of intoxicants
has been restricted by the high prices
resulting from curtailed manufacture
and increased taxation growing out
of the war. If the necessity arises,
they admit, the task of leading to the
tea rooms and soda fountains that
portion of the public which still clings
to drinks with a “kick” in them will
be a simple one, compared to such an
undertaking without the involuntary,
yet no less liberal education in tem
perance and abstinenece imposed by
the world conflict.
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The town of Seward has reelected
all last year’s teachers in the public
school.
The town of Wrangell is agitating
for a float for fishing boat to tie to.
Even Nenana has a dancing school.
Teaching of fox trotting is a spec
ialty at the school.
Mrs. Helen Van Campen, the noted
authoress, has taken a cottage at
Seward for the summer.
Mrs. Harriet Pullen, of the Pullen
House at Skagway, is securing final
deed to her ranch property at Dyea.
The 13-year-old daughter of Charles
Adams, a railroad employe of Skag
way, was the last victim of the flu
there.
The stockholders of the Valdez
Packing Company have purchased the
old cannery building at Alitak and
will erect a two-line cannery there
this year.
The A. B.’s held what was called a
rabbit dance at their hall in Seward
this month. Ladies were supposed to
go to the dance dressed to represent
rabbits.
It is understood that mail from
Eagle and parts of the country trib
utary to that place was held up for
some time recently on account of a
shortage of stamps.
Hydaburg is to have an electric
light plant. This town is owned and
manged by natives. A sawmill outfit
was also recently shipped there and
is being assembled.
A nimrod at Wrangell recently mis
took a tame moose belonging to a
neighbor for a real wild one and pot
ted him. He settled with the neigh
bor for eight dollars in cash.
The Whitehorse Star celebrated its
nineteenth birthday last week and is
very optimistic over the future of the
Yukon, and also has a lot of faith in
the new Teslin Lake gold strike.
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