HOTELS AND THE LIQUOR BUSINESS.
It is too commonly believed that a bar is an essential to a successful hotel. In referring to the experience of Pasadena, Cal., the Los Angeles Express says: In attempting to resist the passage of the prohibition ordinance, the liquor dealers made much of the argument that the passage of such alleged, suicidal legislation would drive out hotels and ruin all business. There were few hotels to drive out, and but little more business to cripple in those days. Under the prohibition law the hotels have multiplied and their business has increased. The Hotel Green, the Hotel Maryland, and the Raymond, three of the largest and most magnificent hostelries in southern California, if not in the world, have all been built under a prohibition government, and these, as well as a half dozen more of almost equal importance, are making money for their owners. And this is not all. Plans are being drawn for another hotel, which is to be erected on South Grand Avenue during the summer. The bare buildings without any extras, will cost a quarter of a million dollars. While this building is going up, the management of the other local hotels will be spending nearly as much more in making their various hotels more attractive to the tourists who will be here next winter.