Nebraska advertiser., 1877-12-06

and he didn't "eare who knew il.
Not far from Trinity Church there
Is fin superb marble building res
taurant and oar OF great popularity
with merchants -and brokers down
town.
Between twelve and half past one
its first floor is a gastronomic pande
monium.
It is worth a trip from Harlem Il
look at it.
Pie and whiskey. oyster pate and
gin, cake and cocktails, sand wichef
and seltzer, but chiefly everything
and whiskey, with now and then 8
pony of the very best brandy" or q
mere taste Of absinthe," disappear
with astonishing rapidity.
Brokers boys rush in. seize sand
wich, cram it down, call for whiskey
gulp it in. grab check, pay for L
light cigarette and fly like lightning
The huge doors flap and tinp like
the wings of all enormous roc.
Walters fit about the room bearing
| trays with bottle and glass.
There's no rest for the barmen.
Bottles here, deeanters there, tumb
Eers everywhere.
The bulls drink because they have
Won, the bears because they have lost
Stocks are sold between drinks, bar
gains are made across bars. money is
borrowed and certificates loaned over
the bottle, and the whole of it is done
in a hSrTy.
At times from two to thrte 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 magnificent barroOm.
II Is just so further up town in the
hotels, the clubs. and the elegant ga
looms patronized by the young bloods
of New York.
Each place has its patrons, and IFS
hours of push and drive.
In the great barrOOms up town
rarely find more. than half a dozen
drinkers between 10 and 5 O'clock
From that hour on till midnight the
places are filed.
The barrooms near Wallack g, the
Union Square. Booths. and the Fifth
Avenue theatres do but little business
in the day time; but iH the evening
they are spasmodically extremely
busy.
The patrons of these theatres are
our "best people"
From the iDvariable rush of the
Whiskey Brigade between the acts
the unavoidable inference is that oul
"best people" drink.
Even without the valuable testimo
ny of the medicine men, we know
that to be fact.
Some go mOdestly into the adjacent
drug store, and call for the refreshing
Vichy others seek a neighbOring
chop house, and indulge IN glass O.
ale; but the vast majority do nothing
of the kind. They join their friend:
in the lobby, walk direct to the near
est barroom. say "What'lly you take p
call for whiskey, drink it solemnly
with one long swallow, pay for it, and
walk back TO the theatre redolent o.
Glove. lemon, or parched corn.
This habit is not confined to old
men nor TO men in trouble.
Boys hardly out of their teens drink k
brandy and settler. Young men with
their friends take whiskey, or per.
chance open a small bottle. Middle
| aged men, who should be strong and
lasty, take what they are pleased tC
call a 'bracer," and so far as | car
see, the exceptional person is the male
person who does not drink at all time.
and under all circumstances.
1t stands TO reason that this sort o
thing must produce some impression
on the human form divine.
The doctors say itinduces paralysis
indigestion, headache, rheumatism
and weakness of many kinds.
Not being a doctor, don't attemD
to indorse their opinion but this
will say, that among all the hundred
of drinkers-regular topers, no
drunkards-to be found in the first
class saloons of New York to-day, i
would be impossible to find dozer
men who vii say that they drink be
cause they are fond of liquor
They drink because it seems to be
the thing to do. MONSIEUR Y.