Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1888 — Coffee Houses. [ARTICLE]

Coffee Houses.

An important adjunct to temperance reform is the coffee-house movement, ■which has now attained a good degree of success on both sides of the Atlantic. A representative of the New York committee on coffee-houses was recently invited by the supporters of similar establishments in Lond< n, Liverpool and Birmingham to inspect their working, and he has spent some time in England gathering suggestions which will operate to the advantage of the enterprise here in America. Lockhart’s cocoa rooms are well known throughout Great Britain, not only for their effective opposition to the saloon, but as financially successful even though very high rents are in some cases paid. That the nobility take an interest in the success of such measures, is shown by the fact that in the city of Chester, the Duke of Westminster, one of the wealthiest men in the realm, supports several coffee rooms in the interests of the •workingmen. Elsewhere in England cases of a higher grade are drawing in the upper classes. Richard Ashe Kino, a Yorkshire vicar, has resigned his living to write novels. Daniel Webster is practicing law at St. Clair, Mich.