The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1879-05-22
CORRESPONDENCE.


LEAvExwokIH, May Is, 1879.
Book Beer Day has come and gone and We are com
PEELED to fall back plain lager and soda water.
The great public throat Of Leavenworth is always
parched and dry hence it takes rivers of the creamy
fluids to assnage the everburning thirst of the dem
izens of the metropolis The amount of lager drank
here is simply astonishing to an unsophistieatel
youth, fresh from the ''rooral decstricks"
gaze At the beer kegs
And they gaze back at me-
And mentally exclaim-
Gosh how kin sich things be r.
We ruined by Niger cheap labor.
And while this bibnlous, frothy subject, will
state that there has been laser beer war here as
bitter-both the beer and the war-as the famous
"war Of the Roses The fight has been between
foreign brewed beer and home brewed beer; that H.
Cincinnati St. Louis and Milwarke beer W. Leaven-
worth beer with victory for the latter The Leav-
enworth brewers assert and truly too that they
and do mako just good beer s made in the cities
above named. Now, l am no judge of beer, but
friends of mine who do drink it, tell me that it s
harmless beverage, not intoxicating until you reach
the thirtieth fortieth glass; that it is touicTeu
tonic suspect; and that the Leayenworth brand is
just good as the imported MIXTURE Hence the sa-
looms handle the homo beer with the exception of
few who keep the imported article, to please a
tain class Of customers who 60 upon the principle
that you can never purchase anything 90 good at
home you can buy abroad. Some day, when
have leisure intend to test this beer question thor
oughly and will give you the results. will sample"
the different styles of beer in the city, and learn by
practical experience which is the best to take
beverage I do not know how beer will act on o
"green hand but rs intend to stop before reach
the maximum Of drunk, no bad results can ensue.
Wanting some information on the much discussed
and unsolved proplem, Does Lager Beer IntOxicater
asked an old German friend brewer, if lager beer
did really make people drunk. Said he:
"vell, dot defends ON vedder you trink much as
you get trunk. neffer vas trunk NIT peer"
"Just so, Peter replied; "but how much does it
take to make man drunk How much do you drink
dailyr'
"vell, expose dot Itrink, efery day. dirty, maype
vorty glasses But if makes tam hog of mineseffs,
und gets full, maype gets trunk, too"
So rest my case on the assertion of this reliable
brewer, who has swallowed thousands Of gallons Of
lager and haShever been intoxicated, according to
his own story, because he has never 'made q tam
hog Of himself" and got full"
Leavenworth is cursed with the worst sidewalks
ever in a city which makes such pretensions to
aristocratic greatness and social refinement These
man-traps are found all over the place. There are
some good walks here but the majority are bad be-
yond the Imagination of those who tramped over
them starless, moonless and "gasless" night for
the street lamps not lighted all the city, the
excuse being that the city is not able to light them
is too poor to throw warning ray Of light over the
thousands of holes in the rcketfy rotten treacherous
sidewalks. That broken legs, arms, and even necks,
do not occur here often, from this is wonder
to me. do not see how man chock full of rotgut
navigate the walks here even in daytime, with