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Show NO SALOONS IN TORONTO. Where are your saloons !" a Kansas City raaa inquired ef hi guide In Toroato. Cans- j Ja. a few days ago. Tbe Kaosas City man wasn't looking tor saioonB. particularly; that is. be was.lt buDtirc tbera. but be bad long been accustomed accus-tomed to tbeto. ConsetiueBtiy be oouied when be mw none. "We ban't any saloons," tbe Ts.t? j man leplied. "Tbe ouly place wbere you cao.fit ; -' a, glass of ale or beer, as you Yankees call u, , ts tn the hotels." Ta Toronto every man from tbe Waited States is a Yankee. "Five years ago." the Toronto man tontia-'led. tontia-'led. "we bad several hundred saloons. Tbea the people decided that they would lid tbe ' ty of tnetfl. Tbey tried bijb li'enae. but 'b saloons con'.lnud to im reite. Ltt sprhij i a law was parsed thi i licensei may be ' granted only for barroom in hotels. Toe I cost of a licence vsrie fi-om $-00 to $TU0. ( ' according to the number of rooms in the hotel. ho-tel. You must remember every thin is muc'j -beper in Canada tban io tbe lolled States, so 9700 is a good sym. of money. Ocly a regular hotel of at least rrtteu vwiui exu hs-e a; bar. Too rent a building a'nil We Cfteen rooms furnithed as a bliiid. for every place fs impeded once a week by a mii'tkipal . beard, end if you. are .fvuoJ ctad.cg tiie law you lose your l.cen.e and tbo officers march you off to jail." .There are several breweries ia Toronto, but tbey can't even give beer to their employees. em-ployees. There are now. fewer tban twenty places la Toronto wbere one can get a drink, aad it it a city ef 300,000 people, according to the census taken )st April. - Toronto has ninety miles of street ear line. Workingmea and children get seven tickets for a quarter. Kansas City Star. |