The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-10-12
QUEER NEW YORK T1PPLERs.
Men who Besot Themselves in Ways That
Are Fantastic.

n. Y. Cor. Pittsburg Post.
Queer tipplers Why, there is nothing more
mysterious than the methods of tippling by
some of the drinking men of New York. There
is one man who used to come to town once
month and engage a room at certain hotel,
and the first order he always sent down stairs
was one for fourteen bottles of ale. These he
would drink with as much rapidity as possible
and then fall into torpid sleep. Fora number
of years this programme was kept up once each
month. One day the ale topper was going to the
depot in a cab on his way home after a singular
spree of this sort, and when the driver opened
the door of the vehicle upon reaching the sta
ton he found the man dead inside.
One of the hardest drinkers in n club noted
for its copous indulgence in lubricative bams
aternates ale with brandy. He arrives at the
club at 2 o'clock every afternoon, and from
that hour on to dinner time, at Z he drinks
bottle of ale followed few moments later by
glass of brandy, and then ale sgain making
sort of liquid sandwich, with the brandy acting
as meat, The surprising thing about the man is
that he has been keeping up this arrangement
of beverages for thirteen years, and, while he is
usually incapacitated for any serious work, and
is certainly very fatiguing as companion, he
nevertheless does not die. Apparently he has
as large a capacity for his ale and brandy as
when he first exercised his talents. There are
many men that put red pepper into brandy as
a regular thing, and knew one man that al
ways put glass of gin into his soup, and who
could not eat meat unless 1t was bathed in some
sort of liquor. There is the regular champagne
tippler who consumes quarts of that expensive
and feverish stimulant every day, and then
again there is the man who could easily afford
the wine, but who almost browns himself in
bottled beer fancying that to be less injurious
than any other intoxicant. | have seen men
who never drank anything but sweet liquors,
such as anisette, curacao, benedictine, and
kimmel, and managed to keep exceedingly be-
logged by these alone.
The queerest of all tipplers, however, was I'M
doubtedly young man living at one of the
fashionable hotels, who died about year ago
as result of excessive inebriety. This indi-
vidual drank whisky, but his method of doing
was insane in its uniqueness. First he placed
about dozen very small pickles, some red pep
pers and cloves into q soup plate, and then
poured over this mixture whisky enough to fill
the plate. He then seasoned the whole arrange
ment with salt, vinegar, mustard, and tabasco
sauce, after which he ate of it with spoon,
using up an hour or SO in the performance,
and smoking very strong cigars in the mean
while. No one ever saw this young man take a
drink at bar, and only his closest friends were
aware of the way he managed to sink into a
drunkard's grave. His was the worst example
of a fend's stomach that l have ever heard
about, and while there are many of the hardest
drinkers who sooner or later reach the red pep
per and tabasco sauce eXpedients fancy this
| poor devil is the only sot on record who took
whisky and pickles out of a soup plate.