Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1859-04-14
THE DRINKING GROGGERIEs OF NEW
WORK

YORK.
New Workers are dry set-nOt humorously
dry-but seriously 50. Our figure heads assure
Us that the city provides at least one wetting
place for every one hundred whistles In other
words, eight thousand liquid graves are on the
constant yawn for eight hundred thousand
thirsty bodies. None lacking liquor arc de-
barred from the eSNyply. To be sure the quality
Is not quite up to thoquantity; but the purse as
well n the palate must be suited and the terms
are propOrtioned to the tickle. Whatever the
drink may be the fiddle must be in it, Tastes.
however runaceOuntedf for, must not be quarreled
with, and, where people prefer tinted turpen-
tine to some less lively stimulant, their era
wings must be SfiLied. The man who tightens
himself with ale, and he who eascs OF on cam
phene, must each be humOred: while the man
who goes only 'alf-and-' 'af-seas-oyer Is entitled
TO equal consideration. ALI are admitted to
to the bar, and it Is important that none shall
be nOnSuited. Thus to HgRifate all claims
and en-gtH-eer for all tastes is seldom mn fat
GccomPlI. In isolated instances such rs Cob
blers and JUleps, the attempt results in a sue
cess. Thirsty, as we'll as drowning men, have
been known tO catch at strntcs. But pride and
poverty, pocket and paunch, are all to be ca
tered for, and at tho same counter Half way
measures Will not go down; there must be Just
as much liquor, with just as big name to it,
Finigsn" rs is dropped out for dime Mt :. The
ITEM" The patron Of the Pewter Mug
feels every whit as worthy Of good treatment
as the swell who smiieingly looks in his glass
at : The Grapes"
Upon philosophical grounds, then, those who
regard the profits rather than tho law have
studied to intertwins, in one attractive Gar
land, The Myrtle" Tho Prairie Flower
Tho FOrget-me- Not" ''Tha Grapevine and
The WOOdbine," with plenty of ''Dew-drop"
Many is :. The Spot" beside Tho Bank"
The Store The Office" The ParIor' and
Tha Hn,,azNooI =
or Hermitage" or, as though within the
Shades Of The Alhambra" itself one can
quaf mis- fill of fre-water such rs the Arctic
and The Adriatie' never saw nor The Col
den Swan" ever swan in.
Largely suggestive are many Of the titles
assumed by the GOthamte groggeries and res
taurants. All signs but these fail in dry
time; The hungering and thirsting seeker for
physical fodder exults to run against - The Eu-
Teka Lunch, and, though the Lunch is pre-
faced by word all Greek to him, he acts at
once upon the Il have found it" principle
such names as Oyster Bed s0yster Bay
II Live and Lot Live" ''Terrapin Lunch"
Hen and Chickens" ," ''0yster House." " Shad
and GridirOn." How sfectionately do they
appeal TO the passer by. They seldom fail to
strike sympathetic chord and move ones
bowels of compassion. Our streets are full of
mods and winks and gentle hints; quantity
wOrded some Of them, but all easily translated
into 'Whatll you take te drink ?'' From The
Ark" and 1.-The Pheni1" to Tho Temple
and thence down to the nero modern Excel
siOr," all ages here meet together to tempt the
intemperste. "Hsrd, hard, indeed, is the con-
test for freedom and the struggle for independ-
eneen' All countries, one would think keep
Offices here for their thirsty subjects away from
home. ''The Leeds Arms, +" Tam O'Shanter
House." English Ale House." - Harmonic
Halle, -. .'HOtel Windisch, f." 'Saracen's Head, -
d.
public, - Lone Star" - NelYetta Hall, - SEQ
lumbian Shades, " The Empire" The Krem-
lin" City of San Francisco "Valks Gar
den, New World, in addition to many
Halle and RestaHTaf,on with unpronounceable
names, each has its vOtaries and its victims
Instances, too, occur where great mons men,
OrIes are honored by preservation in spirits,
and little mems names remembered by the aid
of a similar process. Such are . The Shaks-
peare,' The Clinton Lunch 1.-THE Wash
ington Shades, The Santa Clans and, per
contra, Widow Forests ''RieII's Staa, .
- Dutch John of Brooklyn" Sol Kipp's Sa-
loon, ;" .'JOhnny's Place" .'Oscar Shanghai, -
and " Tho Widows House" Nor do imscin-
alton and invention in nomenclature rest here
Our Own" The Finish" - Holo-in- the
Wall, The Smile The Crystal" "Co-
hOchaink," :" '0ur House," ''Old Tree House, ~
Gotham "Adelpha Saloon" - Evening
Star Rams Head House, 1.-THE Old
House, these are but a few of the names of
the brandy and watering places of the mctrop-
oils. Let me, in a separate sentence, make
mention of The Boston House." to many,
doubtless, redolent Of delightful associations,
and dispensing to all alike what ought to
be the best New England Rum. / may, in
closing, refer to the "Hell Gate House as
being most appropriately named, whether re-
gard be had 10 Its antecedents, its surround
ings, or its pToclivities. Of it, as of all 'sich
like haunts, may be intimated, in VirgiIs
very handy Latin:
''Faciliis descensus Averni;
Sed reyOcare gradum-hic labor, hoe apus est -
IGOR. Boston Post. NOR'wEsTER.