The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-07-16
THE sum nER THIRST.

How It Is Quenched by Various
Kinds of Drinks-B0urbon and Beer
Superseded by Lemonade and
Iced Liquids.
st. Louis Post.Dispstch,
The present hot term has developed an
universal thirst that surpasses any thing ever
known in the history of the city. The various
drinking resorts are full all the time and
the dispensers of liquids are the hard.
est worked men in the community, Oceans
ofliquid refreshments hourly disappear down
parcned throats into psrboiled slomschs,
and the usual salutstiOn of friends meeting
Is always followed By an adjournment 10
places where the Rhine wine sparkes and the
fosming lager flows. A singular illustration
OF the fear that the torrid heat has engender>
ed is the almost total abstinence from heat
ing drinks.
Old topers are "lettipg up" with great
unanimi.y, and old rye is neglected and de-
spised. Occasionally u man walks into sa-
loon, orders hs usual three fDgers and gulps
it down, but ne generally produces vetita-
bic sensation. Less hardened drinkers look
upon him with awe as man who courts
destruction and ia practically taking his life
in his hands.
The usual rushing summer trade in beer
has fallen on and the saloons all report light
tills and no demand for lager. AT Bessehl's,
o beer headquarters, the trade is very light,
and the man that sings out two beer" SO
unsteady isgetling out of practice.
In answer 10 n question about the sale this
morning Bessehl's barkeeper said that they
were very heavy.
'How does beer CO."
"Very slow. Folks seem to be afraid of
IT,"
"Whst drinks are in briskest demand"
'Soda water, lemonade and that kind of
things. Straight wLi.ksy is "eetting the
shake to considerable extent. Every body
is very thirsty though, and we have all we
can attend to-"
A. the Southern hotel bar where the
"guvnors" and colonies and majors all i'm.
blbe, the gsnymede reports the market Nc
bulled on the straight stuff. "Yet q great
many people driok straight whisky here"
he said. at makes them perspire freely
and they think that is good sign. don't
take anything myself, but if l did l think
l would let bug juice alone this
weather. No. we don't do 30 much in
iced drinks and lemonade though
they ore looming up come ("
Al the saloons around NJ rket, Locust and
Olive streets buttermik is coming into gen.
eral favor, and no bar is complete without a
three gallon milk can in the rear. The drink
is tart and pslatable, aud the saloonists report
that during the hot spell 1t i, running beer
out Of the market.
At Faust.s and other places the trade in
beer is not as heavy as would be expected,
and the general expression is that il is TOO
heating for use at present. A prominent
brewer said this morning that this ia not sheer
weather."
1--WE like it hot' he said, shut not too
d-n hot A fall of or 10 degrees in the
thermometer would be lots Of money in our
pockets There is less lager consumed in
St. Louis this week than in any since summer
set in, and the longer the hot weather las.s
the lighter is the consumption"
Mixed and iced drinks of all kinds are oil
the rage, and lime punches and cobblers oil
all SORTS are rushed for with avidity. The
soda fountains are reaping hsrves,s and the
down town drug stores report the sale 81
unprecedented.
The fountain soda enables man to drinl
almost anything no likes, and "soda with 6
stick in ip' 10 being punished fearfully, The
street vendors Of lemonade are also growing
rich, as most of the beer drinkers have gont
over to them.
The fellows with the glass globes filled
With water, chunk of ice that never melts
and few cuts of lemon that did duty for
week are disappearing, and most Of the
stands make good lemonade to order at Av,
cents glass. An article not much BETTE
10 retailed In saloons for fifteen cents.
The street vendors are doing a rushing
business, and one man on prominent Fourth
street corner says he took up SO for lemon.
ade alone on yesterd =. MI ersl waters art
Also greatly used as THIRST quenchers.
Belchers water is reEsining its old popular
ity. So ne enterprising individual has f.tet
up bath house near the spring and the waite
being used freely for having and drinking
purposes.
The ladies don't exactly drink, but they
are the cause of heavy run on iced creams
rult ices and other sweets Of this sort wnicl
makes the hearts Of the confectioner glad.