Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-12-14
DRUGSTORE TlPPLING.
What . Drug Clerk Has to Say Of
the EVIL Effects Of the Practice.


"No. sir, I cannot sell you any liquor TO be
drunk in this store"
The speaker was clerk in prominent drug
store, and the remark was addressed to q we'll
Creased middle-aged man who had first ordered
some soda-water and then asked 10 have some
spiritus frument put in the glass.
"Wel," said the would-be customer in an
angry tone Of voice, 81 know drug-stores where
can get it." and he went out Of the store.
'That's very true" remsrked The drug clerk
to STAR man was standing by, ''but he can't
get IL here"
Are there many drug-stores where prao-
tice is made of selling iquor?" asked TIE star
man.
That II question which no druggist likes
TO answer. You see We take out two Licenses
for selling liquor. Under one we can sell any
quantity from half pint up to Ave gallons.
eonld have sold that man half pint Of whisky
and allowed him to drink II right before my
eyes without violating this license. Under
another license we can sell liquor in quantities
less than half pint for medicinal purposes,
not to be drunk on the premises. Now, il Q
man will swear that he IL sick he can get liquor
In any quantity he desires, il the druggist will
sell 1t TO him, and many druggists hate to offend
good and regular customer by refusing to let
him have drink when he assets that he Is
sick and needs it as q m sdicine. Then IL they
50 some have regular clientele Of dram drink
ers."
But don't it injure their business otherwise
u the fact becomes known that they sell liquor
in this way?"
Certainly it does know drug stores where
very little prescription business is done because
1t IL known that they sell liquor by the drink.
And some OF these stores once enjoyed good
reI utation. Sometimes the clerks are at fault.
They Will sell the liquor when the proprietor
| Is not about, and I have known cases where
the clerks would close up the store at the
regular hour and then take a few congenial
friends into the back room and drink whisky
| and play poker all night. But this sort
OF thing will break up any drugstore
in the long run. A druggist has got
reputation. People distrust q store where it
| is known that the clerk or the owner even
drinks whisky. They will not trust prescrip-
ton where there is any liability of a mistake
| In its compromising. A man must be mighty
| careful in putting up prescription. There are
vastly different in their properties and effects.
One may be harmless while another may be q
deadly poison. Even with the greatest care
| mistakes are sometimes made and you can
readily see how much more liable to mistake
man is If he has one or two drinks in him.
Still, az / said before, there are Q good many
drug-stores where 1t is q regular practice to
sell liquor over the counter. When the medi-
cal congress was here you know there were
country, and got q pretty good idea from
those who came into this store OF how drug
stores were conducted in the various states.
Now think in Iowa drug store is nothing more
than a bar-room. for Iowa is prohibition state
and all the drinking is done in the drug-stores.
In some parts of West Virginia, in some Of the
New England states, and in many Of the west
ern states the same condition of things exists.
have never sold drink over this counter
L har han hAr
now-and / never will. think that drug store
drinking has a very bad influence on the COM
munity aside from the injury it does to the
business of the store"
do you think it has q bad influence on the
young men?"
No; it isn't the young men who generally
tipple at drugstore. They want to appear
manish, and they go to q bar-room. It's the
mlddle-aged men; those who have q reputation
to maintain. and who want to drink on the
quiet Many of these if they could not get
their liquor at a drugstore would 60 without
it, and, Of course. be the better off, It's all
wrong to sell liquor by the drink in a drug
store, and l, for one. would be glad if it could
be entirely broken up"
Mr.. Mayer VIII Shake Things Up.
MANY CHANCES IN B. AND o. OFFICES Ex-
PECrED UNDER THE NEW ADMINISTRATION
The talk in Baltimore is that the new presi-
dent Of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, Mr..
Mayer, will make sweeping changes in the
higher offices when he takes hold. A dispatch
to the Philadelphia Press says: C. X. Lord,
who was promoted from general passenger
| agent to third vice-president by President
Spencer, il likely to retain his office. There
is talk Of the return of ex-vice-President Thos.
". Hing to the company in the position of first
vice-president in which event one Of the vice.
presidents may be dispensed with. Second
Vice-President Orland Smith will likely be sac
ri6ced. and as Mr.. Lord has always been q
favorite with the Carrots he may be promoted
director said to-day: This reorganization
Is necessary in order that the shall be entire
harmony OF views among the officers in the
management of the property as well as in the
stockholders direction" He said further: $50
far as the New York syndicate is concerned,
final and satisfactory arrangements have been
made with it and it has ceased to have any
| other relation to the company than that of q
well-secured creditor"
The day the new board Of directors was
chosen. resolutions were adopted to guarantee
two new loans, one Of the bonds to construct
the branch from Roselle to the Arthur Kill
bridge for about $500 900, and the other for
$1,000, 600 for the branch to shorten the dis
lance in Pennsylvania, which connects the
Baltimore and Ohio aud Reading
1t Is understood that Mr.. Robert Garrett, ow-
ing to his present state Of mind, has not been
consulted In the new arrangements and that
be knows nothing about the changes. Mr..
Mayer, the new president Of the company, il
the executor Of the estate Of the late Harrison
Garrett, Judge Prick represents the interests
OF Robert Garrett and his sister, Mary Garrett,
and Messrs. Prick and Mayer are accordingly
the controlling powers in Baltimore and Ohio
affairs.
NJ. de Lesseps was Mistaken.
THE NEW LOAN A FAILURE AND THE PANAMA.
CANAL LIKELY TO COLLAPSE
A Paris dispatch to the London Daily Ne,cs
says. During another exciting scana NJ xho