The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-01-23
Drinking from the lBar.tenders
standpoint,

Col. F. Montgomery, OF the Logan he-
publican, has had talk with bartender,
and It was something beyond the usual
"Give me a ger of Old Rye" The COLI
onel put the bar tender through q regular
process Of interviewing and brought out q
number OF interesting facts, and we have
always presented our views of the liquor
business from the stand point Of the opposi-
ton, It is no more than fair that we give a
statement representing view from the bar
tenders stand point. This statement IL
uud doubtedly trustworthy, and the actual
words oil the deale Q are given. He says
that fer clean profit there is nothing like
it 10 the world. The best whisky furnished
cost 81. so q gallon; agsllon averages one
hundred drinks at ten cents ench, or $40, 90
We may bs allowed here to suggest that II
1t is watsred It will 60 still further. and as
II is all wonder If it was a. thoroughly
diluted % the 'milk mans" product
The business is good every day In the week
aRd every hour Of the twenty-tour. A Sd
loon opened early on Sunday morning will
take in SIS before the Sunday School bell
rings. As general rule bar room OPEN
ing into hotel is best, because customers
enter the hotel without notice from the
street. Especially is this the case on Sum
days. Such bar will pick up many q
dime from those going to church, while alt
the congregation will come in when church
is out. Than this crowd being . little un-
certain as to where they will spend the al.
ternoon will each take two drinks, for fear
they may not get back. The bar tender
then detailed to the Colonel how liquors are
''doctored" until very little Of the original
goes into the mouth of the drinker. Tnii
maker. the business nearly all profit. And
now here comes in an important adjunct to
the liquor business. A billiard table OF
something OF that kind retains the custom
ers and brings The second drink; but then il
encourages loafing and that your true bal
tender dssplses. The model customer il
your well dressed man who walks right IL .
calls for what he wants, asks the bar .s ndsl
TO 'join him." lays down the money, pick
up coffee grain and walks out. The 80
cIsl glass" where three or four men etanG
and talk, though profitable, as such will
treat before lesviag, 10 nevertheless nuis'
snce, because some of them are sure to be-
come boisierous and liable::lo injurs the rel
utstion of the house. 1t is not, however,
the naughty men alone who are concerned
IN this business, for the gentlemen who is al
the ''eontessionsl" says that, where the bal
is connected with hotel, ladies can BE- &C.
commodated. They walk up to the psrlOr,
ring the boil, aud send the servant Ladie.
always want hot whisky, or whisky st aiaht.
Drinks sent out are charged Is cents. The
path of the bar tender 10 not always one ol
roses. He regards drunken men hs au
sbominatlon. This high toned sensitiv.
gentleman, who deals out damuatiou by th.
drink, deepises the product Of his work. A
man who gets drunk at one bar aud then
reels iato another gets very shaby treat
ment. OF course a gentleman wants TO g.
on blow out once in while. Tue gen.
teel way to do this is to take room at
hotel with three beds aud three companion.
and order up fifteen cent drinks until oil
three are completely drunk and then 20 tt
to bed and sleep 1t off, The Colonel's frient
was confident that drinking would be KEEP
up as long as time endured, and bad nc
patience with the talk about ragged ohil.
} dren, suffering wives, agonized children ant
dying drunkards. lie thought when mar
had enough he should quit, and il he made
fool OF himself 1t was none Of the bal
tenders business. Was ever Q more graphic
sketch of bar tender given! Celone
Montgomery is entitled to the thanks Of th.
public for SO faithful portrait of thil
heartless and conscienceless wretch. We
were about to say beast, but no beast hal
ever yet voluntarily engaged 10 the liquor
business.
[Spring6eld Republican.