Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-08-28
THE FREE LUNCH QUESTION.
How the Bills Of Faro Have Changed
Getting the Best Of Bar Keepers.

Free lunch from IL to 2" 10 the sign seen
hanging at the doors Of many downtown
saloons. Although the reading of the sign gives
the impression that ''all are invited" that IL
not the case It does not follow because the
word Stree" is used that it means for every
body to enter and eat until his hunger Is salts
fed, for if such was the case it would take at
least one hundred long counters well stocked
with eatables to supply the demand that would
be made at every such place. The lunch in
Dictated is intended a. . "bait' to catch Gus
toners for the drinking bar. Some saloons
have free lunch" counters that will Guido
many lunches put up at ordinary lunch rooms.
The set out Is changed each day, so that the
variety is ample to satisfy almost any one who
frequents such places.
''The old standard free lunch won't do now"
said q saloon keeper in conversation with q
STAR reporter. There was a time when cheese
mustard and rye bread or crackers were upon
every free lunch counter, and customers ex-
pected nothing better. But now it is different
The drinkers are not Of the same class they
were few years ago. The persons who used
to drink at the common saloon were chiefly
such persons those who hung about the
streets and did nothing for living but gamble
or watch their chances to pick up sucker. In
those days people kept liquors in their own
cessity for visiting saloons to get drink that
there is now. Then there was not 80 much
drunkenness as there is now.
Rushing the GROWER" he continued "has
become quite popular in recent years. and in.
deed 1t has become so popular that there is not
30 much money made as there was when the
GROWER was seldom thought of. When per-
son Is thirsty nowadays and his funds are lin
tied he doesn't walk into saloon and call for
a glass OF beer, but he goes and gets GROWER
Inn hInaE nt 49, b.
sends around for nickel's worth Of beer,
for he knows he will get at least twice as much
beer as he could If he went in and called for q
glass, even if that glass was a stovepipe.
Yes, the growler is becoming too popular"
he continued. 1T Injuries trade. It's hothing
unusual to see q colored man come in with
tomato can and get cents worth of beer. You
see, the can holds quart, and drawing beer in
such vessel is very deceptive. The chances
are that the customer gets the best Of the bar
gain every time. Well, after making the pur-
chase he will step outside OH the pavement and
drink the contents of the growler, and some
times man will have the audacity to stand up
before the bar and drink the beer he has pur-
chased in the can.
There's cheating in all trades but ours" he
said, and then he winked as he told how he
sometimes fooled such customers by giving
them the drippings from the spigot. "But it's
good beer, ;" he added, 'only it's little stale :"
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