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

UNTIL OCTOBER.
Prohibition Il Dead Letter Already-how
the Prohibitionists are "Whipsawed" at
the Kimbnll-HiSh License Better.
The Kimball House bar furnishes the
sensation here this morning, and pro-
hibition is a dead letter in Atlanta. At
least, this is true until the 9th Of Octo-
ber. l wired you Tuesday night that
the Krmball House bar had secured the
license Of w. S. Alabry 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
77Seld. This morning the kimball House
is thrown open to the public, and
sganta can no longer be called dry
town. You have heard of ''whipplnS
the devil around the stump" IN great
many ways, but for bold. opcn-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 has been stored
with a 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
ball House bar-room proper halfa dozen
clerks are kept busy behind the bar,
rinsiDg out pitchers anu glasses These,
as fast as prepared, are placed upon the
counter. \ man enters with one or
two friends, takes up a pitcher and steps
back to the adjoining room and gets &
quart of beer for twenty cents. Return
inc to the bar he and his friends provide
themselves with glasses. and standing
in group they dish it out and make
merry.
The pitchers used arc the ordinary
white earthenwarc straight pitchers
used for serving ice water i'll hotels. and
will hold half gallon. A man can,
therefore. regulate his purchase by the
number or drinking capacity OF his
party. Twenty cents is a good price
for a quart of beer, but 4 man with Il
monopoly in dry town needn't be
particular. Then. too, quart ILLS
four Of the glasses now used Tor 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 quart, unless he is q
pretty gopd Dutchman, he needs help.
It is not hard to find; for men with
nothing else to do are standing around
reads)to be invited to; ;iqin gl.oupsfor to to
help a man out who has more than he
can drink. The drinkers do not conilnc
themselves to beer. Quart TASKS OF
whiskey play a prominent part in the
programme, and this is consumed il the
same way, or by parties who stink OIL
into closets and take turn about at the
4 flask. And the drinkers arc not con-
I fined to drummers. bummcrs 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 jcrkcrS lew
minutes this morning and watched the
strange procession. 1t was not COM
posed alone Of pitchers procured ut tho
bar. They came from all points and
every station of life. and the quart
pickle lar. the cut-glass decantcr, the
tin buckets and the old family water
pitcher were buried together in one
common beer.
Tomorrow Philip Breitcnbuchcr, Ken
nv & Werner and =. 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 OIL from their
beer for a week flock u this naughty
place like bald-hcaded men to a ballet,
and the bar has been crowded all the
morning. BY noon they had emptlcd
. twenty-five kegs OF beer and the rush
was unab;tcd. 1t 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 prohlbl-
tionists are chatting under it, and it Is
not improbable they will attempt to put
stop to it. The liquor men are con-
:, lidcnt Of their position. and claim to be
proceeding under the law by competent
Ieual 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
18th. Augusta Chronicle.
\ Rascal.
\ colorcd prcachcr named ii. ii.
Wilhuru. who has bee wanted by the
sheriff ut Memphis for some tame. las