Saloon for Sale

Last week Prosecuting Attorney Edward O. West of Bergen County, N. J. put down his Bergen County Record and blinked his eyes. He had just finished reading:

FOR SALE--Saloon with property; old people want to retire; doing a $40,000-a-year business; never any liquor difficulties; catering to a select trade; a live wire can clear at least $20,000 yearly. This is one of the outstanding opportunities of a lifetime. BERGEN BUSINESS BROKERS, 221 River St., Hackensack.

One Louis Cannel of Bergen Business Brokers blandly told the saloon's address --No. 491 Broad St., Carlstadt, N. J. (German community)--and blandly explained: "That place is an exclusive section. . . . Provided the new owners dispense the same high quality of liquor as handled by the present proprietors there is no reason why that should not make $40,000 a year, taking $10,000 in Christmas week alone." He said the difference in the advertisement between business done and what a "live wire" might clear was not protection money. Said he: "You don't have to pay when you run a place as high-class as this."

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