The Evening critic., 1884-02-08
HE WAS oNA BIG BENDER.
ne Never Touched n Drop and Vet
He Was Intoxicated and Woke Up
with N Headache.


In tho world-in fact you look as forlorn as
ono Of snell's trampc," was the salutation
Bill mot with to-day as he came slouching into
the onlce and dropped onto a pile OF exchanges
like limp rag.
"Do look very badf
"wolI, should say 30. What's the matter
with your Are you getting tho smallpox,
measles, or scarlet feverP"
"Worse than that. I'D rather have the
smallpox, scarlet fover, measles, ague or bono
felon than feel as do. I've .been poisoned,
that's what I,vo been-poisoned, tell you, by
bad whisky
.You hadn't been drinking have you2"
"rve been on n bender, got TO bed at 8
o'clock this morning, couldn't eleep, Jest ttossed
ABOUT and finally got up with
A SweIied Head, u Parched Tongue
and feeling OF goneness all over me, and
had 70 rush out into tho air."
"Went TO got cocktail, suppose, TO
atrlghten you up. I'm ashamed OF you.
Thought you belonged to temperance So
ciety."
$50 do, and didn't violate my pledge and
didn't rueh out for q cocktail and didn't
taste drop, neither"
CHOW in thunder ala you got drunk thcn, or
poisoned, as you call itf'
"smelling OF It,"
"oh come, now, that's too thin. own up like
a man and resolve not TO do It any more"
"What'll ! own up for2 l tell you got
drunk smelling OF It,. Say, were you over In
one OF these
AlI.NIght tDrlnking-ET0uscs
on the Avenue at three o'clock In the morn.
infgI" fgi,on,,.or,w,..
"Then you don't know what You're taking
about"
'I'll tell you. Nc and a chum OF mine who
knows more tarred ropes than do, wore talk
Ing over things last night and he a1ked me II
had ever been In IN all night drinking. g.house2
told him hadn't, and he said II I'd lend
him half dollar he'd show me around, and
perhaps might pick up a murder or rob.
berry, or something for the paper. The upshot
him at one o'clock onte-meridian standard
time, and then we were to see the sights"
swell, you kept your appointment l sup
pose? What was your eXperience?"
"Expefiencei Why, enough TO last me for
year. tell you saw sights, and got my eye
teeth cut. You SEQ, I've boon pretty good boy,
II do say It myself, and didn't know boys
could got into such places. But ble1s your
heart,
There arc Dives in This Town
where kids, as well as big mon, can got In,
and where they drink their beer and other
stun as long as they have money to pay for @ Il.
my chum. thought he was pretty good
fellow, but found out that he was going to
the bad. 1 did get little suspicious OF him
when he began to smoke cigarettes. That's
the beginning, toll you, and pool and beer
follows"
''Never mind moralizlng-go ahead with
your experience"
"weii, the first place we struck was regu-
lar den. My chum pulled the bell, aud Il
darky camo 10 the door. He knew my chum,
but looked sort OF queer at me. My chum
through halflighted hall and around into
tho bRr-room. Jewhillikens, what q SMELL
Why, you could have cut out
Solid Chunks of Smoke and stink ~
"Here; use moro delicate word. Say
STENCIL"
"No won't. 1t was solid stink, that's what
1t was, and you couldn't make anything else
out OF It,. There were at least twenty people
In there, from the boy OF 10 to the man OF 80,
and the smoke that filled the room came from
bad cigars, worse pipes and still worse cigar
cites. There was sawdust on tho floor, dec.
GRATED with stumps OF cigars and guilds OF
tobacco-oid soldiers who had done full duty;
puddles Of water on the floor at the bar, while
the bar itself was
Wet, Sticky and Nasty.
Two boys and some men were standing at the
bar drinking beer, whisky or gin; others were
sitting at dirty table engaged the same way,
and two or three others were at what they
called the eating.Dar chewing on hard sand
wiches, pies, the look OF which were enough to
give fellow the stomach ache, or pigs feet
BAIL 1t makes me sick TO think or 1t. My
chum, he walked right up to tho bar like he
was used to II, nodded to the barksep, who no
clean Off the bar with dirty rag. Gimme n
pony beer. Whatll you have, Bill said my
chum; He told me beforehand ! must take
came flve-center which didn't light. My
chum drank his beer, chucked down the half.
dollar had lent him as though It was his, put
the change In his pocket and then began to
chin with the barkeeper and couple OF fel
lows he knew"
"what kind OF people were In there 2"
'All sorts. There were two fellows sitting
on high-chairs and leaning back on the bar,
that have seen at the Police Court for steal
ing; then there was bunco steerer, half
.a.Na N.Il 4
looked as II they were going to the devil
pretty fast, some fellows who were pretty well
dressed and others who didn't look as II they
had had a change OF clothes for week. A
party would pass out and another come In
and go the barkeeper was kept pretty busy
They were all there for the same purpose-tc
drink, TO smoke or to eat--and
The Fumes Were Just Sickening
But, OF course, they were all gentlemen, for tht
barkeeper always said, How are you, gentle
mep?' and the fellows who came In said
How are you, gentlemenT and all that sort OF
thing. stood II as long as could, and nftel
awhile got my chum away. felt myself get
ting drunk, but was in for 1t, and guided by
my chum we visited other places
"You don't mean to say that that dive wa
''If you mean were there others like It,
say 1t was not only duplicated, but threepli
Gated, Complicated, hveplieated and plicate!s
up into bigger numbers. We didn't go TO all
for my chum said we couldn't take them al
in In one night. Some were
KEsA Little Better than the First
the bars were little cleaner, the pies ant
sandwiches and pigs feet looked little NOR
palatable, and, perhaps, the beer aud whisk!
was little better, but the effect was the SAM
and the fumes were almost as bad one plac
as the other. The nearer toward morning I
got the worse was the air; for, you see, th
places had been shut up longer. In one plac
which was considered high.toned I saw tw
Congressman on bender drinking and
Cracking Jokes with Night-Liner
| who had been taking them around; young mel
who had good beds to go 10 at home cheek b.
1 Jowl with FOUNDERS and rowdies who didn'
| seem to have any place to sleep, and younl
| society ducks elbowing gamblers and aus
picious characters. tell you, an all-nigh
| clearinghouse is a queer place and my chun
/ says the same thing goes on every night"
| "Why don't the police break these places up
Don't they know OF their existence and tina
the law is violated?"
| "Oh, don't know. My chum says they do
| but since he's got to smoking cigarettes an,
| playing pool and drinking beer don't trus
| him as much as did. Perhaps he lies. Blu
| can tell you this,
Ifthe Police Don't Know II,
| they are as blind as bats and as deaf as posts
There's one thing, though, that gets me. IT
/ puzzle can't work out"
Estate the riddle, and perhaps can help yo
| out2"
i and the fumes made me feel as II mad bee
| poisoned and as II l had been drawn through
| knot hole; In other words, awful rocky a
rye heard fellows who have been on spre
| say, how must the follow feel who not onl
1 smells II, but drinks tho stun and stays In tn
smoke and stencil for hours, as some OF then
1 dor"
''Give 1t up. guess it's indescribable."
/ --s---- .Nns
SILVER GREEK, N. Y, Eahs6,5 1880.
aENTs-I have been verI .lsw,6n have trie
| everything, 10 no q1Nshnge. heard you
Hop Bitters recopli4fh fhded by so many. l con