Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1901 — INDIANA SALOONS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA SALOONS.

Statistics Show Lake County in the Lead.—Number Increased. State Statistician Johnson has prepared a table showing the number of saloons in the counties of the stale, the larger cities and incorporated towns. He prepared the table from statistics secured from county auditors. On December 31st last tbere were 4,392 saloon licenses in vogue in Indiana, one for every 673 people. Brown and Stenben counties are the only ones that have no saloons. Hendricks county now has four. Marion county leads with 648, one for every 363 people, and Vanderbnrg comes second with 249, one for each 244 people. Lake county, in which are located Hairtmond, South Chicago and suburbs of Chicago, has 219 pnloons, one for every 173 people. FiLy-nine of eighty cities in the state that have reported to the statistician have 2,643 saloons, against 2,188 in 1897, an increase of 466 in three years. The licenses amounted to 63 cents for each person. In 1897 there were forty-five saloons in hiuncie, while at the close of last year there were eighlynine. New Albany shows an increase in the same period from seventy-iwo to ninety six. Fort Wayne showed a decrease from 206 to 175. Reports from 204 incorporated towns give 696 saloons, one for every 296 people. The receipts for licenses amounted to $72,213.60, or 40 cents for each person. The records of Indianapolis show there were 160 saloons in 1897 and 644 in 1900, an increase of 184 in three years.