The evening world. Newspaper, June 11, 1921, Page 6

ag THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, JUNE 11, ea SL CLONER CBE Ef AST semmeneD NER oN oe 1921, QUEBEC LIQUOR LAW ONE OF CLOSED IN MONTREAL @ontinued From First Page.) eral law and ie dry by her own choice \—and there one may purchase alco- belic beverages with little more dim- eulty than before the new act became effective. ‘The sole noteworthy re- striction is that the purchaser may ‘uy only one bottle of “hard liquor” at one time in one place, but he may purchase as much wine as he likes, WHERE SPIRITUOUS DRINKS MAY NOT BE HAD. Firtnermore he may buy wine or beer by glass or bottle in any hotel, res- taurant, steamboat, dining car, club or other establishment recognized by the commission as serving meals, He may not, however, buy a glass of strong drink in any of these places, though there is nothing in the law to Prevent him from taking it there “on the hip” and serving himself—nothing, and regarded a commission let it be kown that it meant busineas ever in such a dras- tie act. So far as beer anr ale were concerened the commission decided to let the brewers handle their own business, under license and super- vision, of course, because these malt Nquors were considered too bulky for handling by the local Government. COMMISSION TOOK OVER GREAT STOCKS OF LIQUORS. With the filing of the vendors’ statements and simultaneous surren- der of their holdings the commission came into possession of several mil- lion dollars’ worth of Mquora and wines, In case of the great whole- salers and also in those of the large hotels in Montreal and elsewhere it was evident to the commission that to seize thelr stocks physically and place them in a warehouse, as the act provided, would be to cause great damage to fine wines, thousands of gallons being in huge maturing casks. So the commissiogs bought those stocks in bulk, paying the ven- dors only their cost price, and im- mediately resold them to their own- ers without moving them from the premises, The stocks of the whole- salers were jeft to be drawn from as the commission needed them for individuals, and those of the hotels, restaurants and clubs were left for disposal by them to patrons taking their meals in these places. Stocks of small dealers, such as grocers, retail wine merchants, sa- Joon keepers and the like, were col- lected and placed in warehouses In ‘that is, eave the “corkage” a hotel or restaurant is likely to charge him. As an indication of the volume of business being done in Montreal, for instance, weekly returns from somo of the shops established by the com- mission run as high as $16,000 or $16,- 000, and have touched $18,000 on the day before a holiday. One little shop in Peel Street, which may be taken ax representative, rings up Setween $2,500 and $3,000 daily on its cash register, In considering the foregoing firuren reader must remember that when the commission came into being on May 1 last and, empowered by the new law, took over every drop of wine and liquor in the Province, it id so at the prices the vendors had paid for these beverages, many at war prices, and was compelled to fix @ high price in accordance, Further- more, about three weeks ago a Fed- eral import tax of $10 per gallon on alcoholic liquors was ordered by the rnment at Ottawa, which junt doubled the former tax. When the time comes that the commission @hall have exhausted the stocks thus purchased and go into the impor- tation business on its own account, prices wil! be materially reduced. At present the commission is doing a mal! amount of importation in order that its customers may have the brands they desire, becatise the com- mission is determined that it will do everything in its power to make the le content with the new law and administration. ‘The liquor situation of to-day in Quedec came about through an elght- year process. Eight years ago the Provincial Government at Quebec ap- pointed a Liquor Commission, being urged to this by the temperance peo- @, who complained of the abuses in liquor traffic and the great num- ber of drinking establishments, The Commission, composed of Judge A. G. Cross and Judge ‘H. G. Carroll of he Court of Appenis and Judge A. jer of the Superior Court, made a keport suggesting curtailment of the number of drinking places, the sup- jon of bars and an experiment along the lines of liquor legislation In Sweden and Norway. In these two countries the State controls the liquor traffic. si But this suggestion was not acted pon by the Government of the day and those in favor of prohibition launched a movement which eventu- ‘prought the city of Quebec under he law known as the Scott act, which fs @ permissive act, permitting local ption. Montreal rejected it, but it be- ame operative in the city of Quebec pn May 1, 1918. The Scott law forbade the sale of spirits save by prescrip- ion of a physician. WHERE THE OLD LAW PROVED A FAILURE. The result of this was that certain clans in the city began @ profit- trade in prescriptions, the law ‘was not enforced and vendors paid little heed to it. In a word, the Beott Act did not work as the pro- hibitionists had hoped it would. A change in affairs which would affect and benefit the entire Province ‘was ween to be imperative, and it was flso recognized that whatever change should be ordered must take strict fcoount of the temperamental char- stics of two radically different les ving in the Province, the ch and the Anglo-Saxon. A law must be framed which would serve for both and admit of an infinitesimal amount of abuse and evasion. ‘When the present Premier, Louis A. Taschereau, came into office in Wuty, 1920, one of the first things to tim was the liquor question. le and this advisors realized that ithe incentive to gain was the prin- source of troubles in the sit- uation and that this could be over- tome only by creating the Province es a vendor. Thus came about the (present act, known as the locad law, which was passed by the Council and Assembly of Quebec on Feb. 25, 1981, becoming effective May 1, last. ‘The new law follows somewhat the Swedish and Norweg'an enactments ‘and creates a commission which it clothes with absolutely autocratic wer to deal with the liquor prob- jem. It is a law aimod at the viola- Ror in no uncertain terms and affixes punishments to make the bootlegie> ‘pause. If he ie caught he has no al- ‘terdnative of a fine, he must go to fail for a period of not less than a ‘month, and the court may give him ‘three. The commission appointed under the taw consists of Hon, George @imard, former Provincial Councillor, Chairman; Judge Carroll of the old commission, Vice Chairman; Sir Will- Yam Stavert, formerly assistant man- ager of the Bank of Montreal; A. Caron, a manufacturer of Montreal, ‘and Napoleon Drouin, a manufac- turer of Quebec. The head offices of the commission were established in Montreal, with a branch office in and as soon as the commis- wee named it had to begin work at top , an the act was effective 4m every locality which was nol (hen under the Scott law. One of the first provisions of the make a statement to the commission Montreal and Quebec. In the latter city the warehouse was installed to supply the commission store, which dispensed and still dispenses spirits upon medical prescription, as the Scott act prevails in that city. With this liquor on its hands, esti- mated to-day to be worth mbout $6,- 500,000, the commission proceeded to establish “stores” for its sale. The law permits it to establish them “in such cities and towns the commis- sion may choose, and to the number that It decides." At present there are between fifty and sixty in the Prov- ince, thirty in Montreal, three In Que- bec, one in Huss on the Ontario bor- der, two in Sherbrook and Three Rivers and the others scattered. It is contemplated that when the commis- sion reaches its “peak load” there will be 100 such stores throughout the Province. Although the commission is the sole liquor merchant in the Province, it permite a liberal resale of wines, liquors and beers by authorized per- sons upon payment of certain fees. ‘These are, in the order in which they are mentioned In the act: 1, Any person in oharge of a recognized hospital, who may charge the patients for what is dispensed to them. He pays no license fee. 2, Every person having a trad- ing post or industrial or mining establishment in New Quebec or other territory in the northern parts of the Province, who may sell to employees and to the peo- ple living in the territory, The fee for such license is $100. DRINKS FOR THE TRAVELLER PROVIDED FOR. 3. Any person in oharge of any hotel, restaurant, steamboat, din- ing car, club or other establish- ment recognized by the commis- gion as serving meals. The sale is limited to wme or deer by glass or bottle and muat be drunk on the premises during the meal by the traveller, boarder or club member and his companions. The Neense for this privilege costs a hotel or restaurant in a city $300, in a town $150 and $100 else- where. A boat license costs $300 and each dining car serving drinks must pay $100. City club licenses cost $400, clubs elsc- where paying $200. Dining rooms of other establishments pay $200 in the city and half that amount elsewhere, 4. Any person In charge of a grocery or store may sell beer alone, but not less than a bottle, and it may not be drunk on the premises. In the cities of Mon- treal and Quebec (so the law reads) there is required a duty of $25 and 125 per cent, of the annual value or rent of the prem- ises, provided that in no case shall the duties on such permit be less than $300 nor more than $500. In any other city the tariff is $300; in any town, $226, and in any part of the Province, 6150, 6. Any person in charge of a tavern, but in a city or town only, may sell beer by the glass, pro- vided it be consumed on the premises, A tavern in Montreal pays @ fee of $500 if the annual value or rental of the premises be $500 or less, and so on up a scale to $1,500 If the value or rent be $25,000 or more. In the City of Quebec the first fee is $500 if the rent or value of the premises ‘be $200 or leas, and rises to $1,200 af the value be $10,000 or more, In other cities and in towns the size of the license fee depends upon the number of taverns, decreasing as they increase, 6. Any person in charge of a banquet may eell beer and wine, to be consumed on the premises, upon payment of $10, unless the banquet be held in an already licensed place, when there is no extra fee. 7. Permission is given to sell in summer resort hotel or in an amusement park restaurant for six months or less at half the hotel license fee, and for a simi- lar period in a tavern similarly located for one-half the tavern fee. Arrayed against these permissions and fees is a list of penalties, not the least of which lics in this sentence from the act: “The commission may cancel any permit at its discretion, and this, as was called to the writer's attention, may be done with or with- out statement of reason for such cancellation. That the commission is determined to enforce the law is em- bodied in this warning it issued a short time ago to permit holders: MUST BE NO TRIFLING WITH THE LAW. “Permittees who, in the past, ¢ shown little regard for th law, a arned that they can- not entertain any hope of immu- nity in the future. Those who doubt their ability to resist temp- tations put in their way to violate the law had better devote their energy and enterprise to more suitable callings and leave this @howing all the alcoholic liquor be- ing to him or in his possession or ‘his control and put it :mme- im the possession the com- tory ast Tt was a co ticular field open to others Petter able than they to carry on ind in oon- such, because the Sectional View of West 39th St. House Where | | Sheets Are Walls Ne. B52 WS by World Stat? Pro “CUE DWELLERS” HOMES WITHOUT WALLS MUST MOVE Buildings Declared Unsafe After House Wreckers Tackle Them, Tenants in the double tenement at Nos, 352-354 West 89th Street, who have put up “tents” because the land- lord has torn down the rear wall of the building and exposed them to the elements and the gaze of neighbors, are dismayed to-day by the news that ‘Tenement House Commissioner Frank Mann has decided the building is un- safe and they must move, Commissioner Mann made his in- spection of the premises last night, when he learned of the extraordinary situation prevailing there and of the gallant fight the tenants have made to keep their homes, He found that the plumbing con- nections have been &hut off, steel girders that formerly braced the house have been removed, and the entire rear wall has been taken away. Three of the eight families who oc- cupied the houses have gone. The re- maining five have put up sheets, tar- gets short shrift under the new law He faces, in addition to costs, ‘im- prisonment for a term of three months which the court may reduce to one month.” So far, no three- month terms have been imposed. A| week ago @ man was discovered sell- | ing whiskey “off the hip" to farmera in the Bon Secours Market in Mon- treal, and he went up for a mon: instanter, A short time afterward a large touring car was caught on the Victoria Bridge, speeding toward King Edward's Highway and Rouse’s Point, which is forty miles away on American soil, The car was heavy laden with whiskey. Now It and the whiskey are the property of the Province of Quebec and the unlawful purchaser who waa in the machine is awaiting trial with the three months staring him in the face. Nor are the penalties light for other violators, Sale of any unauthorised liquor or to any interdicted persons or for any other consideration save money makes the culprit lable to a fine of $1,000 for the first offense, with three months in jail for subse- quent offense, Refilling bottles or changing labels, selling out of hours, sell- ing to persons not eighteen years of age and employing any woman in a tavern other than the tav- ernkeop wife are some of the offenses punishable by a fine of 100 with a month's imprisonment jor a second dereliction. A beer seller is responsible to the tune of not more than $500 damages for selling to an interdicted person and for $1,000 damages for any act of violence or damage which this person may commit. And if such a person takes his own life or is killed while intoxicated, the teller may have to pay $1,000 damages. CREATED ITS OWN POLICE FORCE. That the new law may be rigidly enforced, the commiasion has created its own ‘police force, placing its or- ganization in the hands of Brig. Gen Edouard de B, Panct, a goldier of seventeen years’ experience, who went over in 1914 with the first Canadian contingent and fought throughout the war; and ite fleld work under J. 1. Chartrand, who has had many years’ experience in police work, ‘The pres- ent detective force comprises sixty men on duty night and day in two shifts in Montreal, and forty in Que- bec, with about a hundred acattered elsewhere in the Province. These men are un-uniformed and have been ET.. tagrapher Yesterday. OT! STREI paulins and strips of old linoleum to replace the wall which covered bed- rooms and kitchens. The building is a four-story brick structure and is said to be eighty-two. years old. One family lived on cach floor in each house—five-room flats upstairs and three-room flats on the first floor. The building was owned by Frank De Malo, and, according to David Wasserman, contracting builder, who is doing the wrecking, forty violations were filed against the building. Plans were filed for alterations, The ten- anta were ordered to move. There is a difference in the versions told by Wasserman and the tenants. Wasser- man said the tenants were given @ month free rent in April, but refused to move in May, when the case was taken to Judge Murray in the 54th Street Court. He refused to evict the tenants and Wasserman began to tear down the rear wall. Meantime, Wasserman sald, the houses were sold to Frank De Rossi, who now owns them. According to Mrs. Bertha Acselrod, who lives on the first floor of No. 254, the notice to move was given in April after the April rent was paid. The landlord refused to accept the May rent. Mrs. Acselrod said she had searched for rooms but could find nothing for less than $0 a month, which she cannot pay. She has three sons, one in the army in Texas, who served in France and Germany. The rent of her present quarters is $22 a month. Mrs. Acselrod and her neighbors say Judge Murray assured them they need not fear the landlord would put them out, The tenants are: No. 854, Mrs. Acsel- rod; M B. Hentz, third floor; Mrs. Frieda Young, top floor; No. 352, Mrs, Mary Mandlay, second floor, Mra. Jehn Geler, third floor, a one or the other of the heads of the department. The powers with which these agents are invested are of a piece of the power which clothes the commission. Although by a docu- ment 6igned by any member of the commission they are empowered to make search and seizure, they can act in many instances without war- rant—if they suspect illegal traffic or Under the same ruling they may seize any vehicle, of land or water, in which liquor is being Ill gally transported, confiscating, of course, all liquor so taken. They are empowered, where admission is re- sisted, to force an entrance to any boat, vehicle or builling in their search for illicitly held Mquor pro- vided they suspect its presence, Just now there are pending about sixty cases of violation of the law which are in the hands of David R. Murphy, counsel to the commission. The convictions eo far obtained num- ber only two, the others awaiting trial. So determined was the com- mission to make it clear to the people of the Province that violators would be prosecuted, that on May 2, the day after the law went into effect, there were fifteen cases recorded. 50 GOVERNMENT “STORES” START WITH, As the Liquor Commission had to undertake on May 1 the entire liquor business of the Province, the popula tion of which is nearly’ 3,000,000, it was compelled to start with an or- ganization which, the Commission- ers believe, will suffice for some time to come. The opening of new stores to the number of about 50 will occur as communities request them, and aa there are usually four clerks to a store, 200 additional employees can handle the business, The headquarters of the commis- sion are at No. 63 Notre Dame Street East, Montreal, where there are 50 employees, The four warehouses of the commission, where bottles are wrapped and labelled and where cask wine is bottled, require the services of 160 persons and there are 30 more in the shipping department at No, 84 St. Paul Street Rast. The stores established have a total of 200 sales- men and the detective force amounts to about 200 more, This makes a to- tal of 640 employees, aside from ths Commissioners and leas than half a dozen bureau chiets. So far as galaries are concerned the personnel receives the customary wage for clerical and secretarial work. The pay of the Chairman of the commission is $14,000, that of the Vice Chairman, $9,000, and of the TO care and only mmendation of —o other three members, $8,000 each. For the stores established by the eR se ENT “TEMPERANCE AND LIBERTY.” commission a price list has been de- vised which suffices to yield the Province a profit of about 26 per cent. Reference to the price list shows that, save in the case of some wince, which are obviously placed within reach of the peasantry and the less favored of fortune, the cost to the conaumer is well above what it used to be. new impost of $10 a gal- lon and the generally increased coat of spirits, not forgetting the price at which the commission waa compellod in all justice to pay the vendors upon the take-over, is to be blamed for tho prices, There is assurance, however, that these will be decreased in time, PRICES THAT PREVAIL IN THE “STORES.” Just now in the commission's stores alcohol sells for $3.75 a quart. Good brandy costs from $4.30 to $3.05, Cham- pagnes range from $7.50 to $3.00 per quart, with pints from $3.96 to $2. Gin is quoted at from $4.35 for a 43-ouce bottle to $2.70 a quart. The brands with which we are most fe:ailiar in this country are priced from $3.15 to $2.70 per bottle, a fifth of a gallon. Trish whiskies are $4.90 for imperial quarts, the full quart of this country, to $3.20 per bottle. Scotch whiskey is Usted at from $6.20 (imperial quart), to $2 per bottle. Brands well known in the United States sell at figures ranging from $4.55 to $3.45. Canadian whiskies oost from $2.90 to $3.20. Amer- jean whiakies are not quoted. Rum sells at $6.66 a litre, and as low us $3.35 a bottle. Yellow chartreuse is listed at $4.60 a litre; green chartreuse at $3 a half litre, the costliest on the list, with the others, crane de menthe, creme de Cacao, Curacao and black- berry and cherry brandies at $2.90. Clarets sell as low as 40 cents a quart and as high as $1.25. Sauternes have the same range. Native port Is quoted at 2% cents a quart, mass wine (for chureh use), being 7 cents a quart. The vermouths, both Italian and French, have a common price of $1.65 the bottle. ONE BUSY “STORE” AND HOW IT 18 RUN. In Montreal one of the representa- tive shops run by the commission fs at No, 151 Peel Street, between the Wind- sor Hotel and St. Catherine Street. It is a small, single etore, but during three periods in the day its lange cash register Is ringing like a chime of bells. Here five clerks are on duty and the receipts from those three periods—early forenoon, luncheon time and late afternoon—average between $2,600 and $3,000 a day. The afternoon that your correspondent was in this shop there was 4 constant stream of customers. All the wares of the shop were in full view on the shelves, each bottle wrapped in brown paper bearing the label of the commiasion and the price of the contents. Men looking I!ke brokers (which is the outward sign of prosperity according to New York per- ception) came in in groups and pairs and singly, looked over the shelves, or failing’ to see just what they wanted asked for this brand or that. Sometimes it was forthcoming from rear shelf, sometimes the clerk in attendance would reply, “Sorry, sir; all out of that; more in next week. Then the patron would take another squint at the shelves and make a selection, Once in a while the clerk would call off the brands in stock of the commodity desired and thus help the customer to make up his mind. The purchases of wines and whiskies were about evenly divided. NO SIGNS FOR THE THIRSTY WAYFARER, One peculiarity of the commis- sion’s shops is that if one did not know their whereabouts he could never find them, because the com- mission forbids ‘the display of any sign outside or of any commodity in the show window to indicate the business within. But this is scarcely a hardship, ‘because probably any man one might stop on the street could direct a prospective customer to the nearest oasis. Under the in- fluence of the law, man's proverbial aversion to carrying a bundle through the streets has quite disappeared in Montreal, but if it is persisted, the commission would gladly send the purchase home by parcel post. In fact, it does thousands of dollars’ worth of this shipping business and has devised a special package com- potied of two thicknesses of corru- gated paper for the bottle which in turn is surrounded with absorbing sawdust so that, in case of breakage, the other mail matter will not be in- jured. Liquors so purchased are for home consumption or for transportation, for instance, to one’s club, where one may keep what he pleases in his locker and have cocktails or highballs or anything he pleases made from his purchases. The club is looked upon by the commission as a man's other home, or other castle, as it were, and has no intention of interfering ‘with him so long as he keeps within the present law. “A LAW OF TEMPERANCE AND A LAW OF LIBERTY.” Chairman Simard of the commis- sion said to your correspondent: “We consider this a law of temperance and a law of liberty, The reason for its enactment lies in the fact that the majority of those living in the Prov- ince are of French antecedents and temperament. They are very conser- vative as to thelr personal liberty. They want to be able to take a drink when they want it without having to hide during the process, No law should say to me that I shall not drink because it is bad or because some one else doesn't drink. ‘There- fore, it was the will of the majority that there should bo no Prohibition, but that there should be temperance in drinking. “In framing the law the two tem- peraments of the two peoples living in the Province, the French and the Anglo-Saxon, were thoughtfully con- sidered. ‘Those who desire to have alcoholic beverages may have them under this law by petitioning the commission to open a store in their community, for example. A great number of the 1,200 parishes in tho Province have voted for local option and are dry or wet as they desire, !{ they yote to be dry the commission is prohibited from establishing a store there and the brewers are prohibited from distributing becr. But, careful of personal liberty, the law permits any man living in such a dry com- munity to come to Montreai or to any other place in which a commission store exists and there buy his spirits. If he disagrees with the sentiment which brought about locai option in his community he is free to have his drinkables, but he cannot buy them in his own community, It 's an emi- nently reasonable law since it forces nothing upon any community. But we have assuredly accomplished onw ye ey have destroyed the saloon. institution we are destroying scriptions looked much run down or unhealthy or in meed of artificial stimulation, They tooked a very Prosentable lot and prosperous, too. But each one had hig littie presori WHISKEY STORE FOUND IN HOUSE 200 YEARS OLD tion, not always designating the Hidden Wealth Revealed in | this to°tne “asponsee “ewhon is linited Homestead Bought by ouhieen, oo. ia, ‘Ong tusk wet Brossard, fimay joking thing of bluish paper, ‘Was Prohibition anticipated 200 with an apparently hasty scraw upon it, and asked the clerk for a second bottle. The clerk gave bim ohe look and said, "One bottle; that's all." The man turned on his heel, rather unhappily, but didn’t say years ago? The old Hicks homestead, south- east corner of Blackstone and Mitchell Avenues, Flushing, was built two centuries ago. Recently Lawrence D. Halleron, a real estate agent, sold it to Frank Brossard, who is to make it his home He started extensive improvements of the house and grounds. A corps of carpenters, painters, paperhangers and other artisans yesterday were repairing old walls, removing old wall paper and doing other work when presto! a hid- den door in the wall sprang open. And the hidden wealth—ffty-five bottles, dust covered, of the rarest of whiskey reposing in the secret compartment, What became of It? Chat ig still a deep secret! goodby, but “au revoir,” and he prob- ably knew that it would not be long o that clerk agal Steamer N, \U leaves Battery Stee} Steamer C) he secreted or that some one else secreted prior to May 1. When that stock is exhausted he can get no other save through purchase from the com mission, Then what will he do for a ? “The commission is determined to use all its efforts to prevent the sale of liquors outside the Province, to Amerl- ica, for example. Already requests for sales in America have been made to the commission, but naturally they have been refused at once.” LAW A FACER FOR “DRYS” AND LIQUOR DEALERS. Sir William Stavert, who has charge of the finances of the com- mission, owing to his long banking experience, said: “This new law is a courageous piece of legislation. It flies in the face of both the Prohibl- tionists and the liquor dealers. But both sides have recognized it as sane and worthy of trial. It is a demon- stration of the sanity and conserva- tism of the people of the Province. ‘We are striving to arrive at what| the whole world is seeking—temper- ance in the true meaning of the! word. | “Public opinion ts strongly behind | those who are trying to bring this! about. Even the great wholesalers | and vendors of liquors who were put out of business by the law are ready | to admit that conditions which hith- | erto prevailed were unsatisfactory | and that the present plan deserved trial. And they admit too that the present plan is bound to be a suc- ens if properly administered.” In the city of Quebec, and in super- vision of all liquor traffic in that mu- nicipality and the surrounding coun- steamer ONTEORA 'e we Sundays and Holldays UP THE HUDSON SUNDAY Music, Restauraat. Visit Orange Lake Washington's he ewburch or ri incl Lunchroom. Park—oe0e at famous fine . Get 2 dq varters thi | jand Falls |] Hight tryside Judge Carroll has his office. Hage suageyanree etores in that || NEWBURGH = $ Bf pound city just BEAD Lefetgert aa ical law | BEACON Tripe ja not In effect there, the physician's | prescription being t Poughkeepsie $1.60 alcoholic stimulant. Leave Sundays, rain or shine, liquor is the property of the comm! FRANKLIN, #1 4 3 M.; Weat 129th Bt, v4 CENTRAL HUDSON LINE sion and is dispensed by It. he | chief store is at No. 48 Palace Hill, a) big double store, with seven assist-| ants, under Manager Ripp, and all] of them busy filling physicians’ pre- | scriptions, The income of this store alone per day is between $700 and $500. Brandy, Scotch whiskey and gin are the most popular items pre-| scribed, as many as four cases of brandy, five of Scotch and four of gin being disposed of daily. The pie- scriptions are not alone from Quehec City, but from the countryside for a distance of twenty miles or more along the St. Lawrence. The wine sales in this shop average $50 a da and include champagnes. The sel! ing period ts from 10 o'clock in the morning till 7 in the evening, with a Saturday closing at 2 o'clock. LAW MUST BE ARBITRARY 8UT REASONABLE “T believe that a full year will be required to give this new law a rea- sonable test,” said Judge Carroll. “When I read or hear criticism lev- elled at the law in its details I am impatient. The law should be looked at as a whole, as a measure which has in it the spirit to accomplish great good, and not in details which have not as yet been put to the test, T am sure of one thing, that the law, even in its present form, Js bound to decrease abuses in the liquor traffic in the Province. A Hquor law must be arbitrary, but it must at the same time be reasonable, It is use~ less to Bay to people ‘You shall not drink!’, but you can say ‘You must drink in moderation!’ And that is the spirit of the new law. “Prohibition now exists in every province of Canada save in Quebec and British Columbia, and the latter has, of its own accord, followed our leadership and drafted a law like ours, which becomes operative on June 15. “One great good which comes of the law is this, that no individual has any incentive to increase the sale of INCLUDING SUNDAY, ” “Hendrick Madson,” “Albany.” Direct Rai! Connections, All through rall tickets between New York and Albany accepted, Music. Restaurant, Daylight Saving Time, TKeturh steamer same marked t, i1Dally except Sunday. . Tel. Canal 9300. DESBROSSES 8T. NEW YORK. S SUNDAY, JUNE 12 To Atlantic Highlands and Return LEAVING BATTERY LANDING AT 9:30 A. M., 1:30 & 8 P. M. (Daylight Saving Time.) liquor. Also the physician's prescrip: DANCING "70 GOOD MUKio. tion, which was a thing abused qn¢ ic ‘Telephone forged, is eliminated as a liquor pro- FARE Way. Foe eROAD 78K0, ducer, Also there is elimination of | //| Resular 5 ———} SION i ip of 150 mil fig or ENG ole Sound Good music—Refreshments, Str. Richard Peck To New Haven Ly. Pier 40, N. Ry Houston 8t., 9.30 KYst'Seturn due New York, Pier 40, tre Me R iple’ time for sightseeing tn Aven, ‘tho’ voity or ilmal’ ‘ron In tisond Trip Fare (incl, Wat Tax), ® ad Trp . Bt aurcgaie’ gunday only mt the ier” private gain in the traffic. The law permits the concentration of the busi- ness in the large centres and practi- cal Prohibition in the rural districts. A safety valve for these districts is provided through a person's ability to go to a centre and get bis liquor, or that person may write to the nearest store and have the liquor eent to him provided he pays cash and transpor- tation charges, “Within a @hort time I expect to see the new law apply to the City of Quebec, It will either come about through referendum to the people, many of whom are eager to try out the plan, or, In case the plan is a great success, the Government may suspend the Scott act #o far as we here are concerned. Quebec is the only large eity in the Province in which the Scott act is in foree, and in its three years of application {t has brought anything but good results. It could hardly be expected to work sat- isfactorily where physicians’ prescrip- tions could be bought for 60 cents and when the law provided that the issue of a prescription for other than strict- ly medical purposes meant a fine of only $20 for the first offense and $40 for any subsequent offense.” The Palace Hill snop was thrice the size of the one in Peel Strest, 10, Montreal, but it was doing a great »! business one afternoon your corres- pondent visited it, It cannot be said that all those who presented them- selves at the counter with thelr pyp- ‘A PICNIC FORA NICKEL. DYCKMAN ST. FERRY FARE 5¢ sesimEtiaiie HIG ET A oclgee “SIGHTSEEING YACHT OUND NEW YORK—Ly, ind’ pefreskaneater FANSBURC 3 ou BE AR _ \NOUNTAN DAILY SERVICE teavi SPECIAL SATURDAY MORNING AN RMO! BS a 4 M. leaves Pler A, Battery, 1.30 P. M. utterly ts the bootlegger, What he sto steamer ONTEORA Wort" naa ft, 2.00 P.M 1s attempting to sell now is the stock SUNDAY SERVICE steamers CLERMONT «1¢ NASSAU ‘sve Battery 9 4. wt ROUND TRIP FAR! jeokdayn: Adults, 750; Cl : Adull MUSIC—DANCING— REFRESHMENTS Palisades Interstate Park Commission Telephones: Jotn 4326. Bowling Green 1675, 6, 7 and 8. day from points CITIES SERVICE TO PAY DIVIDENDS IN SCRIP. Ata lal meeting of the director: of the Cities Service Company yes day afternoon President Doherty's re ommendation that payment of all divi- dends on its stocks at the prevailing es be made In scrip instead of in cash and at was unanimously ap- roved. In tatement to board ir. Doherty said his recommendation waa based on the present demoralized condition of the olf Industry, when all oll corporations should not only serve their cash resources but their ol resources as wi He said that in the face of an acute oii shortage the company should pursue a policy of holding back all its produc- tion possible and lead in conserving its ofl In the groun o A M.; West 1326 St, A. M. D AFTERNOON TRIPS ttery 9 A M.; Woat 132d St, vos West 129th St, 9.30 A. M. ES: hildren, SOc. 11,00; Children, 50c, UP THE HUDSON S. S. “RENSSELAER” to, Newburgh and re PHONE OANAL 9000 HUDSON NAVIGATION COMPANY | Receives UU CO On ° |RiverLine Lv. Fulton St. Pier 14 N.R. 5.30P.M. Daily incl. Sunday New Bedford Line ly except Sun, L NR. Houston St.. 6 New London Line Ly. Pier 40.N_R. Hoo- ston 8t..0.00P.M. Pier TOE.R. Boa St., 6PM. Daylight Sav. Time Dall 40. TT TTT Special Excursion SUNDAY, JUNE 12 srt |BEAR MOUNTAIN and NEWBURGH Str. GRAND REPUBLIC Bt, 10.30 $6.78 BOSTON Inc.Tax METROPOLITAN LINE THROUGH THe CAPE COD CANAL iy tueluding '§ ay at) unidaye, 5 byt (Daylight Saving Time). ‘Tel. Barclay “EASTERN S. S. LINES —= Dron Dteamboat do | CONEY ISLAN D dune 14, 30 ips marked * do not go to 120th St, ‘Trips marked t do not stop at Pler 1, N, pe Telephone Whitonai Late, ee ‘MOONLIGHT SAIL | KEANSBURG AND RETURN Saturiny Evening, June 11, 1021, SLEAMER SMITHFIELD ata P.M Loaves Battery Landin, Fare 81.0 ‘Trip. MUSIC—DANOING—REPRESIEMENTS, 1.00 Rount SUNDAY AFTERNOON SAIL ‘To Newbu end Return, Str. “Newburgh” Music, Resta CENTRAL BEACH Cc aay dete TE UT ie a. a, con- +