1908 The Hoffman House Bartender's Guide by Charles S Mahoney

vent you from selling out and sub-letting. You don't know what you may want to do or wliat you may have to do, and it is best to be on the safe side and not be tied up by a landlord so you have no option. There are a great many leases which are liable to carry c.xtras in the way of taxes, water tax and insurance, and in order that there may be no misunderstanding it is best to have all these things spccilically stated in the original document, so yon will know just how much you will have to pay out in the course of the year. No sane man would sign a lease unless he is posi tive he will be able to secure a license from the Board-of E.xcisc or the authorities in whom the power to grant and issue licenses is vested, so that point will come under early consideration. There is also the Board of Health to be consid ered, and it is just as well to find out how the building stands with that department, irrespective of what the landlord says. And now, having your lease and your license, the next step, naturally, is to furnish. That will depend entirely upon the neighborhood and the quality of trade to be capered to and con trolled. If the neighborhood is high-class the fit tings must be elegant and costly, and in these days of extravagance a bar room the equipment of which costs $10,000 is not unusual.

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