Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1873-09-09
LETTER FROM NEW. YORK.
gg,sp,psranee IN Ns,s Yors.

! LEI LILY Lib e hUM NhW YORK.
Temperance an Ne,o York.
NEw YoRK, August 90, 1873.
DEAR ssPIRTr,:-sE ee,y Lody IN Nc,o YORK.
sarnhs Some drink water; others, spurious
liquors. When one visits friend, ,.littlo
.Johauie is summoned from the street, whore
he is engaged tying AN old broom to al dogs
tail, to go for lager. Buff the guest refuses
toslnbibe, :the host is surprised, adjusts his
spectacles, and likes frightfnl stare on his
guest, whom he thus addresses: Don't You
drink FIfm sure you're no New Yorker? q
Wei, LII make JofInnie get you some hot
Lemonade. This hot lemonade lis quite
nauseous to a Southerner's stomach.
a saloonskeeperr toldme that it is
no uncommon occurenceto sell twenty pitcher
fnlls of lager to one family during the day
There's Dutchman frequents q Third Ave-
nue. saloon, who drinks one hundred and eight
glasses of lager-beer in twelve hours. These
Saloons are fttedsups in the grandest style, and
have free lunches, of I1imburger cheese, boz
logna-sausage, schaoarts-Jrod and clan chow
der, to draw custom. Ono block, near Ave.
a and Third street, contains twenty-five of
such places. IF all of our lagereebeer and
liquor saloons were placed in line, what a
mighty line that would be-! Every bar~reom
hasa sssn,ple or reading>room, in the latter
department, such choice literary Journals as
the Police Gazette and Days Do,ngs sre al
ways found. As darkness shuts out from
sight the busy scenes Of tho day, laborine-
men may be seen bending their steps to the
nearest darkroom, where they entertain their
fellow.workmen with songs, tales, arguments,
ETC., but Dot without, ever and anon. tax ing
a drink of whisky, whereby to reachth acme
of pleasure. Here they tarry until the awee
hours" remind them that the time of adjourn
ment is at hand or, perhaps, tho bartender
sees that the frevelers no longer have money,
when he returns thanksin thefollowing words:
Say, got enough of yer music if
yer don't give us rest, II haul in "a scop'''
Such thanks are rendered to the peor drunk
ard, who leaves his last dollar in the bar.room
4 remember an incident which fully illus
trates the heartlessness of the rum>seller;-a
hod-carrier, who had received his fortnight's
pay S33 90, was passing bar>room when the
proprietor called him IN, we'll knowing that
the poor laborer would part with all his money,
it once in the clutches of an acute rum seller.
The unwary man entered the bsr-roo1n, where
he remained two days-livipg ON drink until
penniless he was given up to policeman
The wife of this friendless creature came to a
beneficial society, of which your correspondent
has the honor to be member, begging for
money to buy bread for herself and little ones.
She applied to the bar~keeper who had the
earnings of her husband, hut he rejected all
her prayers, by saying: "Womau, 1 gave
your husband S33 90 worth of drink, now let
the policeman stow him away for two weeks,
and he'll have sense" The husband and
father was sent to Blackwell's Island for dis,
orderly conduct and vagrancy.
The keepers of club>rooms also sell spirits
to the members. Some time ago, man who,
judging from the beautiful, rouge tint of his
nose, was lover of the "wco drop" betook
himself TO an adjacent club ROOM This mans
wife is Of masculine proportions and woman's
rights proclivities- Thinking that her better
half should be at home, engaged in his legit>
innate and paternal duty-rocking the cradle
she threw old table cloth over her head,
picked up sieve with which she had been
boiling flour, and started for the club, room.
An ltaiian with disheveled hair was irving
to serenadc the members of the club with the
squcaking strains drawn from broken hand
organ. The enraeed wife stepped boldly into
the club room holding the sieve with a firm
grip. Bacchanalian wit Immediately stoppcd
as the woman Of ungainly proportions and
angry countenance made her appearance in
the room. Che club men were so much in.
toxicatcd and frightened that they took the
tall intruder to be the wife of the italian out.
side, and that the sieve which she held in her
hand, to be tambourine, stretched forth to
receive their pecuniary donations they con-
tributed Sc SO. This was more that tho
woman expected. but with business like
shrug, she deposited the change in her pocket.
All at once, she perceived the ruby nasal
organ of her beloved spouse, buried in the
depths of glass of lager; making fearful
plunge she gained his side, and sent the sieve
with terrific crash upon the upper par. of his
head. Bone is stronger than thin wire, so
the sieve passed over the fond husbands head
and there it stuck, but answered the purpose
OF good-sized Shakespeare collar BY way
OF adding to tho wardrobe of her partner, the
wife wrapped the table cloth around the sieve,
tied it tightly. like any woman would do with
a neck-tie. and led the innocent victim home
amid the jeers of his companions. He was
seen next day with his head in a sling. His
wife's thinking of selling him as curiosity
to Barnumi
Radical who lives down town, won't
drink any thing stronger than root beer, such
is the strength of his political convictions
His reason is philosophical as we'll as lin
guistic: "You see Radical comes from rddir,
so does root>beer u Poor man! with all his
tenacity to first principals, a frightful disease
with French rnme-Credit Mobilier-at-
tackled his principles. TIM happy to state
that dose of that radical cure, called Back
Pay Grab, has fully restored him, and I
hope that with great care and little Congress
Water, that he'll be able to take part in the
campaign of 1870.
We'll, are there any temperate men in New
York? Yes; few hundreds from the thou
sands of incorporate ones! It is quite CONS
mon to meet a boy of seventeen abusing his
parents in the most shameful manner, while
his fiial affection is warmed with alcoholic