Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1875-07-02

The N. n. Tribune Lager beer saloon.
Our seven thousand drinking saloons
not being deemed quite enough for the
needs of our city, one mole has been open
ed in the new and lofty building recently
completed by the NeU York Tribune Com
pdny. l will quote in this connection the
significant comments of the N. Y. Sun up
on the opening of this Tribune Lager Beer
Saloon:
"An important event of yesterday was
the opening Of lager beer cellar at the
base of the tall tower. There is something
poetical, even classical, in this, which must
appeal TO the Grecan mind of the young
editor. The tall tower starts with Bacchus,
and rises to the heavens, TO be capped by
Minervai Lager ut the bottom, thought at
the top. The first suggests the earth-born
desires OF men-rude appetites that clog
the vaulting soul; the second carries one
up into the region of pure intellect. Ii
would not be too daring figure to say that
the young editor bathes his feet in lager
and feeds his overworked brains on the
nectar of Olympus. While the clods of
earth pour down the foaming beer, the
young editor surveys the expanse from the
tall tower and drinks in the glories of the
surrounding ether. So it is In this world
of inequaity-one man is consumed by
thirst for lager, another by thirst for know
edge. One dives down into a cellar to
drain the foaming mug, another YEARLY
mounts the ladder OF high resolve to ex-
press from his powerful mind the essence
Of science and sweet philosophy to quench
the nObler thirst of souls yearning for
draught at that fountain. The idea Is a
pretty one, and has its sweet suggestions,
whatever the temperance PEOPLE who re-
member Horace Greeley may say to the
contrary. Moreover, Jay Gould has never
planted himself on prohibition ground,
and he wants rents"
This new Lager Beer Saloon is elegantly
fitted up and bids fair, from the opening
rush yesterday, and the crowds visiting it
today, to he the most popular OF lis class
down town. But alas for the memory of
Horace Greeley, who, writing of beer and
wines, said:
"They greatly mistake who in ibis coun-
try hope to live longer by drinking wines
or malt liquors than they would expect to
il addicted instead to distilled spirits.
True, there is less alcohol in the same
quantity of the fermented beverages, but
The same quantity triu not content them. De-
celve themselves as they may, 1t is the al
cohollc stimulus that their depraved appe-
titles exact, and, If INDUCED at all, they will
be INDUCED to the constantly receding
point of satisfaction. The single glass of
wine or beer per day which suffieed at the
beginning, will soon be enlarged or repeat
ed. 1t was enough to start the blood into a
gallop yesterday, but falls short today,
and win not begin to do tomorrow. And,
even were the fact otherwise, the wines
and malt liquors drank in this country are
nearly all so adulterated that drinking
them would be foolhardy, even if those
liquids, when pure, were naturally whole
some, instead of being the poisons they are
known to be-"
Alas, too, for the honorable traditions of
the "New York Tribune, Founded by Hor-
ace Greeley" as Mast humorously
adds, "Confounded by Whitelaw Reidr
NeW York Letter.