Telegram-herald., 1890-02-22
Is IA cAsG, OR 4 CIUBg
Some Say One Thing, and Some
Say the Other
A Reporter feaetr&tes - tne Dea al ths
.alm Gzazs" and Takes ga she
Nh01e Situation.


A TEIEaxAN HEEAtR reporter, feel-
lng weary aud nqulstee. bus not 50
very thlrsty. turned aside to the lett
and felt his way down d dark r.ckety
starr case 10 the Coalloa h3ek. ga
East Br.dge-st Turning one or two
angles IN Ehe dArkaess, he raped al q
door. ana received q quick response,
''Come rgit along ia He had braosd
h.s nerves for awful sights, for tht
descendants Of Blue Beard hai for
So Iue heen reported IS having
Their hAh-tat.Qn ln those sublegraueau
passages. The room vas au ogG nary
basement room about twenty feet
square, wlta TO lugress or esTess except
Tie door by Which Ae 1ad entered. aud
by which ne silently and ferveni.y
prayed lac mlgat be perml.t safely TO
depart. The walls We're e.4ltcl pro-
tusely with all sorts ol Ohr9mas. chiefly
oi the advertising SORT & stove WARMED
lho room very, very warm. even hot.
H. the center oi the room WAS "a g..
upon winch stood beer glass of Two
anu number of periodicals., such as
usually grace the taoits Ot barber
shops. Along toe south Ws.ll ran table
3r 'slde-b0agd' oi rude construction,
upon winch the most soui-tnuilug OBJ
1ect MAS a keg ot beer, Wl.h a drop OF
Two stu struggling Tor freedom nom
the snOot of the spgot >catteres
along tee table WAS tho library al tie
place. consisting % nickel and dla4e
novels. a number oi chain, complete
.hls inventory Of the furniLre.
lucte were lour occupants of tle
room. the principal spokesmen oi whom
were Mclntosh and Crawford, names
seen before u These columns.
The reporter declared has errand 10
be II see what he could, and expose
what he saw. The Spokesman 81 The
party talked very freely, and said sub
,tanti2liy a, follows.
''Now you look around and take this
All ln"-and here he offered the re-
porter glass OF beer, without noticing
the pleasant suNng of hls action 10 has
Words-"and tel me il We deserve 10
be hunted ike rals. We confess that
our habits would lot carry we'll IN
Sunday bat we are taking our
own quiet way 70 indulge our tastes, and
DO not think we have annoyed anybody
disposed % attend 60 tne.r own business
lou see, the convly.alty of a young
man about town Is very expensive, ana
we can't afford 10 lam around a some
90. by buying our beer ike this -
tapping the head of the keg-"we
pay only cent and a-hali a glass for il,
and We clam that II We keep the peace
and commit no crime, We are as
much within the law rs the Owashta-
nOng or the PeninsulaT Clubs. Ii is
true that our gymna,tic exercises have
made some noise. but We have taken
out our apparatus, and wlll give no oc-
caslOn TOR cayll any more on that score.
We are simply banded here for social
purposes, and we see no reason for lock
ing our doors against anybody but
those who may mean Us mischief"
The reporter siaid a few minutes
longer and retired TO the upper floors
TO inquire what the effect of the club
room had been upon the nerves of
other occupants of the building. lie
was unable to find anybody whose
peace had been disturbed. One mer-
chant said: "It is not the kind of occu-
patton that | should like to see my boy
engaged in, but If my boy were bound TO
drink beer habituallv, / should prefer
to have him IN some such place of hls
own. where | should always know
where TO find him. ] should think the
police would prefer to have them do
their drinking in this way, for when a
young man is carOusing about
town, from saloon to saloon, and in
worse places still, he is much more
/ dangerous character than he is IN a
place where the eve Of the police NAV
lie always upon him. Every one of
1 these young men j. a worker for his
living. They are not vagrants, nor are
they disorderly, rs far a / know"
At 3 O'Clock the next morning the
reporter revisited the place and found
that the boys had all gone but two. So
had the beer, and so had the wits of
the two that remained.
All the members Of tins social club are
under bonds 10 appear in police court
next Friday on the charge Of dIsOrdcrlv.
1t will be novel case. presenting Ger
tam aspects that would tax the wisdom
OF the wlscst men.
THE CASE y nv ERC IN