RETURN OF BEER

Hokitika Guardian, 8 April 1933, Page 5

RETURN OF BEER

SCENES IN U.S.A.

HUGE SALES ARE EFFECTED

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NEW YORK, April 7. The thump of bung gtarters on countless keg s drummed the long ]ost beverage back to America to.day when law-

ful 3.2 bee r gushed in. The territory wag populated by seventy million people, iis nineteen -Stat,e s .and the district oi Columbia lifted the ban which

was more than thirteen years’ old. Jubilation and jollity wCr, e widespread among the friends of the beverage, hut its loes voiced criticism and warning.

Five minutes after beer legal at midnight, _ a- big truck, gay with lestoons, rumbled to the service entrance ol th e White House at Washington, bearing two cases, the brewers* gift to Mr Roosevelt, the President, wh 0 had retired. H e has indicated thi.t he will give the beer to his friends.

On Broadway, New YoTker s parade* behind a hearse lettered “Near .Beer is Dead/’ while a band, i n bright Bavarian uniforms, played dirgeg and drinking songs. “Surprisingly good,” said Chicago beer connoisseurs, as they sampled the new beverages, while one hundred thousand cast's and two hundred thousand 'barrels sped to points of delivery. Cheering throngs crowded the downtown streets, hotels, and eating places.

Th e German societies in St. Pan], where the bee- flowed freely at midnight, toasted Mr Roosevelt and “Happy Days.” Brewer, s in Chicago estimated that five million dollars had gone int 0 circulation there immediately, while a newspaper said that about forty thousand persons had got jobs in Illinois as a result of beer. From the first few hours’ sale in Minnesota, the Government garnered one hundred thousand dollars in revenue. The price varied in New York from two dollars for a case of twentyfour bottles to as much as 35 cenrs a bottle. Milwaukee, the home of famous beers, welcomed beer with German bands playing “Ach Du Lieber Augustine”

Philadelphia, pronouncing its new brew good, cheered as ten breweries opened their gates to let the flood out. In Reno, the brewery’s entire supply of 3,700 gallons was sold in the midnight rush.