The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-11-11

WHO ARE KNOWN AMCNG THEIR
FRIENDS AS TANKS"
Toners Who Seem to Retain Goal Physi-
cal Health and Uaimp2irc'i Wits
Habits of a BibuIous Duartettc
a Story-TeIIeT.
Cor. Brooklyn Eagle p!

Cor Brooklyn Eaclcl
Tho amusements of men are varied in tho
extreme Bat think the most iucOmpre-
hen ible of all forms Of amusc nent5 is that
rracticed by gentlemen who are known
among their more facetious frieals as
tanks" know Of men who for fifteen or
twenty years have leaned against the bar
regularly every night until they got COM
lurtably booty AMI then staggered OF to
BE- There is one well-known theatrical
manager whose cu-tom it La, been for many
years to spent ali his leisure time az the bar
OF the Hotel Brunswick lie Is man of
wit and, apparently, liquor has n beneficial
effect on hum 1t i, current impression
that for twenty year, he has never gone to
bed sober. HIS tpsiHesE takes a pleasant
form. for he Is alwayS brightest AMI most
a. reeahie when he i, half cas- over. APP
parently lie thrive, by tie lie, for his gen.
eral health en-, excellent an! his wit IN
i'll paired.
4 cornwall QUARTETTE.
know Of a little crowd of four men who
live in a hotel little further up town.
they all Of them have more or less means,
and they have been guests at this particular
hotel Tor many years. They have their
clothes made by tailor who occupies one
of the shops under the hotel; they are
shIvel in the hotel shop, and no one ever
SeeS Ju2ul venture ItfLteE LHtsL the DI5
Bro,.d way door. Il is on record that they
have occasionally appeared here on hot
nights auI stood looking out on Broadway,
but it IS useless to try and get them from
beneath the roof Of the hotel. Every one
of the four men has a good-natured red
face, AMI singularly enough they will dye
their muStache5 black
After dinner, and about 8 o'clock they
wander from the dininS-room into the corri-
dor where they loll about the benches
nO1 TO their friends, and roar at each others
stores until the corridor fairl rings. Every
fifteen minutes somebody comes along to
ak them to drink Then they all file
>oiem1ly into the bar-rOom, drink their
lqdor and file ou5 t. the bench again. If
no one turns up 10 ask them to drink within
tuc next fifteen minutes they invite each
other, take in Il ca ual friend and move into
the BARRON again. This SOss on without
the slightest change until or ) O'Clock in
the morning. Then they take rOusing Old
Hightcap and go off once more. They sell
dom or never go the theatres, races or
political meetings but spend their lives
within the four walls OF the hotel And yet
they seem to be fully informed every
subject, talk intelligentIy and clsvarIy, and
are popular with all the habitues Of the
place.
a POPULAR. STORY-TELLER.
Another man whom this quartette reminds
mo # wanders up AMI down ON tho west
side "f Broad way, between Twenty fourth
aul Thirty-second street. He is of the
he story tellers 1 over heard, and ali OF
hi, stories retail original experience of his
own with negro slaves before the war, on
hi southern Planta zion. He is agreed
lie man ana passes all his time accepting
invitations to drink 1t Is said that he
hasn't paid for glass OF liquor in fifteen
year.. Every bartender on his beat knows
him. and he is re ,ular clockworil.
About O'clock he drops into tho HoG-
m1u house, take n starter with the first
frieHI he happens to meet there, AMI then
move, up to Mlilar'$ Then to the ST. James,
Coleman. Brewer, AMI 50 on, until he finally
arrives at MiIigan'S, where he Invariably
tops. II it i, not , O'Clock by this time he
starts around town again. At O'Clock lie
goes home, AMI does not appear until the
next evening. No man ever saw him IL
hum0rsd, AMI lie IS extremely popular |
should think such cases as these wOuli fur
ni,h staggerers for the temperance and
total abstinence advocates.