The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-02-03
EASY TO GET DRINKS.

Tramps or Anybody Else Can Satisfy
Their Appetite for Liquor.
2 ''To be a successful tramp requires as
much ability as success in any other
great field of existence, said one well
Yersed in the ways of the homeless
yagrant ''The characteristic specimen
of this class of humanity has often been
painted as one who is thrown out Of en-
ployment by business depression, and
compelled to accept the alternative Of
starvation OF vagraney. After contend
ing against the pangs of hunger for
awhile he accepts the bitter alternative
and takes his bread from the hand Of
the charitable well-to-do. Now, while
there are without question great many
men whom misfortune or iH-luck has
consigned to the ranks of the tramping
fraternity, they just as certainly consti-
tute the great minority of the III"
The tramp philosopher began to warm
UP on his subject, and ejecting tobacco
Juice yiciously from between his teeth,
continued: ''Who ever saw an emaciated
Yagabond applying at the Central station
for nights lOdgingl The s1Yenty-fye
or 100 men who shuttle in there every
night are usually sleek fellows. There
are no burrows of care to mark their
brows, no haggard looks or signs of
restitution beyond the general run of
mortality. They usually pick up enough
TO eat by begging or other device, but
the capacity in which they best reveal
innate talent is in getting 'suthing to
drink Probably nine out of ten of
them have a higly organized appetite.
They can get along on single meal a
day If necessary, or sometimes even
less, but their digestive apparatus would
rise up in insurrection.. without the usual
fluid offering.
''How do they get it, Oh, in thou
sand ways. The saloon is the natural
home of the vagrant, and the 1, 400 sa-
looms in the city can shelter a great
many loafers. OF course, in the first
class places this is not allowed. The
impecunious and thirsty tramp, however
duII-Witted, can make himself useful to
bartender in variety of ways, and he
cheerfully performs a 10-cent job of
work for scent drink. In the lowest
resorts his presence is rather en-
Couraged. Bar-room acquaintance are
easily formed, and the tramp of any gift
Of CAB and adroitness can easily work
his whilom friends for a s1fficiency o.
the stimulant to satisfy the demand OF
his appetite, at the same time adding to
the gross receipts of the saloonist tie
is ever ready with the utmost alacrity tC
heed thM call of bar-room frequentel
to step up and have something. The
gang of buns that infest the dock:
usually drink at the expense of strang
ers or sailors who chance that way witt
plethoric wallets.
Then there is the vagabond in whom
assurance is the winning card. He will
step up to counter that has just beer
patronized, and while the tenders at
t4ntion is directed elsewhere, pour the
DRAWINGS of the glasses into one mug
and obtain a drink very respectable in
size. l have seen fellow seize three
glasses in his hand and by a simple
tWirl of the wrist drain them, without
splitting a drop, into fourth, then with
the other hand raise the glass and swal
low its contents at a gulp. The de
iected tramp, without any address o.
pluck, can resort to the oyster can and
pour into it the lees from the
empty beer kegs standing in Oper
air. By passing from one salooI
to another a wealth of beer may be thus
derived A half-dozen seedy individ
nails nT1rSlad il srstannatiPallV- j4lv.APfqt
arrested on Michigan street for intoxi
cation. He had gotten gloriously tigh'
on his liquid gleanings, and was sent t.
the workhouse. This catastrophe re
suited in dissolution Of the partner
ship A man may squander vas
amount of money for drink if he has it
but when it is gone there are devious
ways in which it is forthcoming, if only
little ingenuity or talent be applied. ,