The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-07-06
LETTERS or A VoYAGER.
ON MAJ TIERS AND THINGS AS
THEY COME.
LETTER "

LOWER EAST Tenn, June 20, 81.
: To the Editor of the Morristown Gazette:
BEER VS.. COCKTAILS AS EYE-oPENERf
As | was registering my name a
the Read House, in Chattanooga, OF
the second morning of the late SEES
sion of the Tennessee Press. AssOcia
ton, gentleman, with something
of apologize entreaty in his tont
and whom / recognized as a mos
benevolent member of the ''quill,
extended himself over the counter
without seeming to have noticed
), me, and remarked to the clerk q
wish you would have Gen. Doak, o.
the american, called. / promised to
have him aroused at 8 o'clock
sharp" "Give yourself no trouble
on that point" blandly replied the
graceful clerk. 'Dr. White, Secre-
tary of the Association, has just
gone up with a cocktail to Gen.
Doak's room, and if that doesn't
arouse a Tennessee or a Georgia edi-
tor, there is no use in sending a
bell-boy to arouse him" / had Just
spread my name on the book as this
remark was concluded, and could
not refrain from observing, rather
SUB silentiO, "But, sir, you must bear
ia mind that Gen Doak never
takes a cocktail" before breakfast,
and on no occasion has he ever been
known to go beyond the proof
standard of the home brewed ale or
Merlein's lager beer. So you had
better send a more familiar eye-open-
er. I have been here but few min
utes, but have discovered that Gen.
d. wont 90 to Lookout to day. A
"cock- tail" would send him into
s'limbo" for twenty-four hours, while
q genial refreshing draught-or
even a half-dozen draughts-of the
elexir that flows from the Cincinnati
breweries will bring him down more
fresh and vigorous, more radient and
voluble, more powerful in speech,
Though I've got my figure reversed,
1 will say IT'D than q young giant
refreshed with new wine"
You see, my dear GAZETTE, l knew
what was talking about. When
the Association met in Knoxville,
two or three years ago, there was a
very promising brewery in East
Knoxville. Well, it so happened,
that upon returning from the newt
able and always inspiring trip to the
island Home" DQak and White
or shall [ say Farmer Doak and DR..
White with the instinct of old
foragers, detected what no other
member of the Association had OBJ
served, The result was they abso-
Iutely exhausted the brewery and
yet returned to Quarters" in the
city, about 6 p. M, as gay and bloom
ing as morning glories ought to be
at that hour So, you see, l felt con-
ident no Chattanooga cocktails !
we're to be permitted to usurp the
sway OF M0rlein didn't you
zee how nobly-with what unexcep-
,ionable propriety-they bore them
selves through all the tempting, try
ng scenes of city and mountain q?
My dear GAZETTE, | take the lib
,rty of using these two conspicuous
lustrations-in all the freedom of
regard and old professional
Issociation-to more specially note
he fact that, while Chattanooga's
-Whethep we consider
olidsor fquids-was bestowed with
'ut stint or measure, that hospitality
vas not publicly abused, and the or
,anization ''rolled out" Saturday
on the route to New York,
'earing the highest respect of their
most generous entertainers.
A MEMORY OF THE PAST.
l see that Knoxville has about
assed through its Water works tri-
ulations. More than twenty years
go, as you we'll remember, she vot-
d 100000 for the purpose Of con-
such an Improvement.
his, if mistake not, was under the
administration of Mayor VIM. g.
wan, of whom all fair minded men
his time must now admit that he
id as much and contemplated more
II the enlargement of the then /" old
,gy town" than any man who ever
ad control Of its affairs. The sum
oted, as above stated, was after
ards diverted as an investment in
5ock in the Knoxville and Ken
lcky (now K. and o. railroad. 1t
eems now the city is going to have
9th the complete railroad and the
nished water works so that all's !
ell that ends well. Let us hope
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