The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-12-05

but they both upset me; give me rear
full headache. But what are you gong
to do3 Must drink something"
In that way have spoken to not less
than twenty men this very day. VI the
twenty, fifteen said that drink always
gave them a headache; one owned that
he "loved the taste" one said ne drank
because he was "blae," and one confessed
he was ION tear and he didn't "care
who knew it,"
Not lar from Trinity Church there is
in superb marble building restaurant
and bar of great popularity with mer-
chants and brokers down town.
Between twelve and hslt.past one Its
first hsor is a gastronomic pandemonlum.
1t is worth trip from Harlem TO look
at 1T.
Pie and whisky, oyster pate and GIN,
cake and cocktails, sandwiches and seltZ-
er, but chiefly everything and whisky,
with now and then pony of the every
best brandy" or "mere taste OF absyn-
the" disappear with astonishing rspidlty.
Brokers' boys rush in, seize sandwich,
cram 1t down, call for whisky, guip it in,
grab check, pay for 1t, light . cigarette
and fly like lightning.
The huge doors flap and flap like the
wings OF an enormous roc.
Walters fit about the room bearing
trays with bottle and glass.
There is no rest for barmen.
Bottles here, decanters there, tumblers
everywhere.
The bulls drink because they have won,
the bears because they have lost. Stocks
are sold between drinks, bargains are
made across bars, money is borrowed and
certificates loaned over the bottle, and
the whole of it is done in q hurry.
At times from two to three hundred
men and boys struggle for service at
time.
No one Is willing to wait.
Each wants his bottle first; but though |
they all drink, | have yet TO see the first |
drunken man or tipsy boy in that magni-
fcent bar-room.
1t is just so farther up town in the
hotels, the clubs, and the elegant saloons
patron lied by the young bloods Of New
York.
Each place has its patrons, and its
hours OF push and drive.
In the great bar-rooms up town | rare
" find more than half dozen drinkers |
between II and 5 o'clock. From that
hour on until midnight the places sre
filed.
The bar.rooms near Wallack's, the |
Union Square, Booths, and the Fifth |
Avenue theaters do but little business in
the daytime; but in the evening they are
spasmodically extremely busy.
Tho patrons of these thesters are our
chest people"
From the invariable rush of the
Whisky Brigade between the acts, the
unavoidable inference is that our "best
people" drink.
Even without the valuable testimony
of the medicine men, we know that to be
the fact.
Some 90 modesty into the adjacent
drugstore, and call for the refreshing
Vichy; othars seek neighboring chop
house, and indulge in glass Of ale; but
the vast majority do nothing OF the kind.
They join their friends in the lobby
walk direct to the nearest bar-roOm, say
"What'l you take" call for whisky,
drink it solemnly with one long swallow,
pay for it, and walk back TO the thester
redolent OF Glove, lemon, or psrched corn.
This habit IS not confined to old men
nor to men in trouble.
Boys hardly out Of their teens drink
brandy and settler. Young men with
their friends take whisky, or perchance
open n small bottle. Middle-aged men,
who should be strong and lusty, take
what they are pleased to call "bracer,
and, so lar as l can see, the exceptional
person is the male who does not drink at
all times and under all circumstances.
1t stands to reason that this sort OF
thing must produce some impression on
the human form divine.
The doctors say it induces paralysis,
indigestion, headache, rheumatism and
weakness OF many kinds.
Not being doctor | don't attempt to
1ndorse Their opinion; but this | will say,
that among all the hundreds of drinkers
regular topors, not drunksrds-to be
found in the frst-ciass salons Of New
York to-day, it would be impossible TO
find dozen men who will say that they
drink because they are fond OF liquor.
They drink because it seems to De the
thing TO do.