Show BREWERIES AND SALOONS since the opening of the present year there has been a great increase in the number of low beer saloons in this city and the explanation which is offered for the purpose of accounting for this undesirable growth is this the breweries are the real owners of these institutions and furnish the vey to stock and fit them up and pay p y the license the ostensible owner being in reality only an agent it is asserted that a man who is widely known as a good fellow among the classes who patronize such resorts and who can bring around him a large following of that kind can caa readily arrange with one of the breweries to set him up iu in business even though he be cannot command a dollar of his own money will be furnished fur dished to pay ay his license for at least the first quarter and to fit up a bar room A small stock of cheap liquors is also provided and the saloon is ready for business in a back room or an upper room or some refuge contiguous to the bar some sort of a game is generally established for the purpose of relieving customers of spare change commonly also what is known as a 11 chippy dive is operated in connection with the saloon that is one or more fallen females representing the lowest order of their class conduct their calling on the premises dividing the financial proceeds with the saloon in short in connection with these drinking dens whick have behind them the corporations who own the breweries may be found the most nefarious means of fleecing fleeming flee cing their patrons to the last cent one means of remedying this sort of thing has been tried with considerable sid erable success it is claimed n the city of philadelphia A law was passed forbidding a brewery or distillery to be directly or indirectly interested in the ownership or control of any saloon this provision it is said wiped out of existence in the city several hundred saloons of the lower class and it is believed that a similar law would result similarly in this city |