Show IS SPENT YEARLY FOR DRINK BACK OF THE YARDS YARDS' T Chicago o Feb 23 Residents of or the tho district known as Back nack of ot the thc yards ards spent a year ear for drink according to testimony given en toda today In the stockyards wage arbitration by Elbert Beeman Bee Bee- man In char charge e of or welfare wel wel- fare tare work for Wilson Co The section embraces square blocks of or tenements occupied al almost almost almost al- al most exclusively b by born laborers 40 per cent of or whom are aro employed In the packing house In indu In- In du s try The witness read from a report prepared b by Young Mens Men's Christion Chris Chris- tion association workers worker In 1912 which showed that the tho gross cross re receipts receipts receipts re- re of ot each saloon In the district district dis dis- average a year ear This district now no has hai saloons or 75 more mOIo than In 1912 Mr Beeman n introduced in evidence evidence evi evi- evi- evi dence a r 11 large Q map of or the territory snowing showing there are 7 75 more than retail stores where food tood is sold Witnesses for tor the tho packers de declare le- le dare clare that the saloon aloon Is responsible for tor much of or the tho poverty an and distress dis- dis tress tres among amon- the born foreign un unI unskilled un- un I skilled laborers employed in the tho stockyards |