Beer Joints Liked In
British Columbia City
BUT VANCOUVER FINDS SOME
DIFFERENCE FROM OLD DAYS
VANCOUVER, B. C., Apr. 10.—
Four days since they were opened
finds the beer parlors in Vancouver
doing a thriving business. Almost
any hour of the day sees at least
forty patrons in each establishment
sipping their beer, and during rush
hours, particularly at noon and after
5 o’clock, when customers drop in
for an apetizer, there are very
few vacant seats.
If the present patronage continu
es, license-holders will have little
fault to find with the volume of
trade. At least, this is the general
opinion of the layman, who is not
versed in the intricacies of catering
to the public and does not have to
worry about “overhead” and re
ceipts aud expenditures.
Naturally the niggest business so
far was done on Saturday, opening
day, when everyone wished to “look
over” the new places and satisfy
himself that at last beer by the
glass was procurable. It is stat
ed on good authority that the re
ceipts at one parlor exceeded $700
on Saturday.
So far the ubiquiotus bobbed-hair
flapper is conspicuous by her ab
sence.
Old Days and New.
Taking a glass of beer under the
new system as compared with the
old days is a longer and more seri
ous business. In other days one
could dash into the bar. call for a
schooner, toss it off and leave, all
in the space of a minute or two.
Today, one has first to find a table
unoccupied, if he desires to drink
alone, flag a awaiter and then wait
until that busy individual has gone
to the counter, put in your order
and then return with it to you.
If one is well known in the com
munity where the parlor he is pat
ronizing is situated, the chances are,
that he meets friends and the in
evitable happens—more glasses of
beer. When one is esconsced in a
comfortable chair it is not so easy
making a “getaway” as in the old
days, when he stood with his foot
on the brass rail.
Gone are the pleasant chatter and
the skilful manipulations of the old
time bartender, who, with a run
ning fire of comment on the cur
rent news of the day and dexter
ous twist of the wrist, was accus
tomed to slide the heavy-laden
schooner along the bar to stop at
the exact spot where one was stand
ing.
It is all business in the beer par
lor today. A waiter, under the
watchful eye of the boss, so as not
to overlook an order, hustles about
the room. He pays for his beer
at the counter to a business-like
individual who rings the cash reg
isters and then returns to you with
your order and to collect.
“Ail Look Alike”
In the hurry of getting ready for
business few of the owners have
given much play to their imagina
tion in the furnishing of their es
tablishments. Nearly all look alike
—a big room with lighting effects
none too good, a row of tables or
built-in seats and tables, bare walls
and cuspidors, which do not add
to the attractiveness of the place,
perhaps others, where one can drink
beer in the common room or pay
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ten cents extra per table every time
an order is sent in, and drink in an
inner room, where there are soft
lights, a real Brussels carpet, nice
table covers of drank color in har
mony with the other furnishings,
and a general subdued air of a more
aesthetic atmosphere.
Customers complain that once
seated in a beer parlor there is
nothing to do but to drink beer.
Two well-known men about town
met after a long absence in one
yesterday afternoon. They had
much to tell each other. It seemed
that every third man who entered
the place knew them and wished
to stand treat.
Soon they had all the beer they
thought good for them and would
gladly have sandwiches, but the law
says nothing but beer and perforce
they had nothing but beer. When
they rose to go home they were
literally beer-logged.
Misappropriates Cash
In Small Way, Jailed
SEATTLE MAN WHO GAMBLED
LONG WHILE, CONFESSES
SEATTLE, Apr. 10.—Unable to
raise $35,000 bail, L. S. Brockway,
former confidential secretary to C. J.
Smith, late Seattle capitalist, was
being held in the county jail last
night—at the end of a long trail of
confessed embezzlements and fren
zied stock speculations with pur
loined money.
In offices of accountants in the
Central building, who were going
over his books, he was arrested yes
terday morning by Deputy Sheriffs
Wiliam Sears and Frank Anderson.
Specifically he wras charged with
embezzling $15,988.35 from the funds
of the Highlands, Inc., of which he
was a trusted bookkeeper.
But altogether, according to his
own reported confessions to Depu
i ty Prosecutor Harry Rhodes and
Luke May, criminologist, he has em
bezzled approximately $47,000 since
he first fell a victim to stock specu
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lations and began( misappropriating
money “in a small way.”
Companies who are declared tc
have fallen victim to his misleading
bookkeeping, besides The Highlands
Inc., are the Washington Securities
Annex. He served all three organ!
zations, it is said, as confidential ac
countant.
Method Used.
His invariable method of misap
propriating funds, it was charged
was to divert to his presonal ac
count money given him to pay taxes
on real, estate. When, in March
1923, he obtained a check for IflS.OOC
from the Highlands, Inc., to pay
taxes of property holders in that ex
elusive residential district, he used
$15,988.35 of it, it is asserted, to make
good a like amount he had embezzled
from the Washington Annex, a hotel
corporation.
In a reported signed confession
to May he is said to have explained:
“I learned that just prior to Marcs
15, 1923, the Washington Annex
shifted a mortgage from Charlotte
E. Hawkins to the Washington Mu
tual Savings bank and I knew that
an examination of the abstract
would reveal a tax delinquency on
the Washington Annex tor the yeai
1922, which was the means of cover
ing up the Washington Annex short
age.”
In desperation, he continued, he
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; diverted the major charge, The
Highlands, Inc., check to pay the
' Washington Annex taxes. He ad
; mitted to Rhodes, that he had inter
mittently juggled his accounts since
1912 to cover up rapidly increasing
embezzlements.
Altered tax receipts served tem
porarily to cover up the speculations,
it is said, but the pyramiding short
ages finally tumbled for lack of res
titution and caught Brockway—the
trusted accountant—in the ruins.
“I always thought I would make
a cleanup on my stocks and be able
to make good the shortages in that
way,” he said. ‘‘But none of my
ventures turned out. I lost all, and
here 1 am.”
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posed to the Earl of Balfour and Sy
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Algerian troops.
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