The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-07-15
DEF'YING THE LAW.
LIQUOR TO BE SOLD IN ATLANTA
UNTIL OCTOBER.

UNTIL OCTOBER.
Prohibition o. Dead Letter Already-How
the Prohibi tionists are "Whipsawed" at
the Kimbnll-High License Better.
The Kimball House bar furnishes the
sensation here this morning, and pro-
hibition is dead letter in Atlanta. at
least, this is. true until the 9th Of Octo-
ber. I wired you Tuesday night that
the Klmball House bar had secured the
license Of w. S. Mabry to sell liquor
and beer by the quart until the 9th Of
October. Yesterday was election day
in Fulton county-for fence or no fence
and consequently no liquor could be
rsold. This morning the kimball House
is thrown open to the public, and
anita can no longer be called a dry
town. You have heard Of whipping
the devil around the stump" IN great
many ways, but for bold. open-faced,
cold.blooded evasion of the law the pre-
sent sale of beer and liquor in Atlanta
IS without a parallel. A door opens
out of the Kimball House bar into an
adjoining room, which mas been stored
with full supply Of wine, liquor and
beer in barrels. The room in turn
opens into another, which is stocked
with quart bottles and TASKS and a
large refrigerator holding four kegs OF
beer. A table runs the length of the
refrigerator. serving the place of the
customary bar. and behind this two
men are kept busy jerking beer. The
mode of procedure is this: In the KIM
bail House bar-room proper halfa dozen
clerks are kept busy behind the bar,
rinsiDg out pitchers and glasses These,
as fast as prepared, are placed upon the
counter. A man enters with one or
two friends, takes up pitcher and steps
back to the adjoining room and gets a
quart of beer for twenty cents. Return
ing to the bar he and his friends provide
themselves with glasses. and standing
in a group they dish it out and make
merry.
The pitchers used are the ordinary
white earthenware straight pitchers
used for serving ice water in hotels, and
will hold half a gallon. A man can,
therefore. regulate his purchase by the
number or drinking capacity OF his
party. Twenty cents is good price
for a quart Of beer, but man with
monopoly in dry town needn't be
particular. Then. too, a quart fills
four Of the glasses now used for beer
and sold for five cents, so that the beer
bibber cannot complain. Frequently Il
man come in alone and, as he cannot
get less than a quart, unless he is
pretty good Dutchman, he needs help.
It is not hard to find; for men with
nothing else to do are standing, around
ready no 6e iinYit ted 10 cups to-
help a man out who has more than he.
can drink. The. drinkers do not conhnc
themselves to beer. Quart TASKS Of
swhiskey play a prominent part in the
programme, and this is consumed in the
same way. or by parties who stink off
into closets and take turn about at the
flask. And the drinkers arc not con-
fined to drummers. bummers or any OF
that class who usually get the credit for
such things. The representative men
of Atlanta. bankers and merchants, can
be seen armed with pitchers and joining
the march, to the beer kegs.
I stood by the beer jerkers a few
minutes this morning and watched the
strange procession. 1t was not COM
posed alone of pitchers procured at the
bar. They came from all points and
every station of life, and the quart
pickle lar. the cut-glass decanter, the
tin buckets and the old family water
pitcher were buried together in one
common beer.
Tomorrow Philip Breitcnbucher, Ken
nv & Werner and p. J. Kenny's bar
rooms will be open for the sale of beer
and liquor by the quart, they having
bought licenses running to different
dates.
Men who haYc been cut off froll their
beer for q week flock to this naughty
place like bald-headed men TO a ballet,
and the bar has been crowded all the
morning. BY noon they had emptled
twenty-five kegs OF beer and the rush
was unabatcd. It cannot be called an
evasion Of the law, for there is no eva
sion and none is attempted. 1t is a
plain and open defiance. The prohbi-
tionists are chatting under it, and it IS
not improbable they will attempt to put
a stop to it. The liquor men are con-
fident Of their position, and claim to be
proceeding under the law by competent
legal advice. 1t is the talk Of the town,
and there Is no disgusting the fact that
if: the present procedure can be kept up
as long as the license lasts, prohibition
is dead in Atlanta until October
9th.-Augusta Chronicle.
4 Rascal.
\ colorcd preacher named II. II.
Wilburn, who has bee wanted by the
sheriff at Memphis for some time. has
Just been brought in hand-cuhed. The
good shepherd was found al Duckhill,
mississippi, where he had organized an