Blue-grass blade., 1891-06-06

the patrons of saloons prefer it
this way because they want to
sneak into these places as pri-
vately as possible; but if l were a
keeper l would strike for
that higher toned class of liquor
drinkers who say this is a free
and they don't care who
knows that they drink it, and l
would strike out like Jim Apple
ton, of Chicago, and 1 would have
me daisy saloon right in the mid
die of "Silk Stocking Row. or
l would bust a belley-b band trying.
The man that has the boldness
to try it will gain the admiration
of the best class of drinking PEG
pie. and the hearty endorsement
of the Prohibitionists, and though
the Blade does not usually ad-
vertise that business it will give
him a good send off without a
cents charge.
You may say that you have
some first-class saloons here IN
hotels that are nice looking bust
ness houses, but they lack manly
independence, and a man vino
goes into one feels like there is
a kind of a sneak thief arrange
ment made for him TO get into it.
First he can step into the Office
of the hotel, and if he sees any
body there that he would not like
to see him 60 into a saloon, he can
stop at the counter and examine
the register to see ifa friend he
was expecting from New York
has arrived. But if the coast
seems clear he can start toward
the saloon and if he discovers any
body that he had not noticed that
he would not want to see him, he
can stop at stand on the way
and buy newspaper or a cigar.
Then further on, as the hallway
gets narrower and darker, are the
billiard room and the barber shop
in case of sudden surprises, or in
case the man who wants to get in
the saloon is going there for his
first time, and his nerve fails him.
He can turn in and get his boots
or his moustache BACKED in the
barber shop, and get over his
tremulousncss and gain courage
to violate his conscience and the
wishes and hopes of his mother.
While this is all very nice fol
that diffident class of saloon cos,
toners, and is an exact and acu
rate account of how it is arranged
at the biggest saloon in Lexing-
ton, it seems to me that if | were
a saloon frequenter [ would moi
want to have it arranged so thai
had to sneak like a setting
turkey into the saloon where
was to get my toddy, or straight"
And it seems to me that there arr
enough of our frst-class peopl,
who frequent saloons, who have
gotten over all that Sunday-schoo
squemishness about mothers
prayers, and wives tears, ant
stuff of that kiad to{ support a
Itleast one saloon inf fine style
lxhAra a.man. could walk in lik
he was not afraid, just like h
goes into a dry goods store, or
post Office.
This sneak thief way they hav
of getting a drink here is cowardl,
and contemplate and disgusting
There is hardly saloon in an,
kind of a public place in the cit
that does not have a cigar stan,
just inside its door, so that whe
fellow is caught going in there
by somebody that he does no
want to see him, he can lie out 0
it by stopping at the cigar stan,
and be seen lighting a cagar, a
the objectionable party passes tn
door. That the reason the ciga
part of the establishment is mad
so conspicuous.
Washburne and Jim Appleton
are right. If the saloon bushes
is just as thoroughly lawful a
any other business. as the govern
ment, national, state and munich
pal has decided, a man has a RICH
to put a saloon Just anywhere h
could put any other kind of
house. You have right to oh
ject to a powder magazine or
dynamite factory being put nea
you because they are dangerous
you may object to a gas works o
a tannery because they smell bad
and lots of people in this towr
only a few years ago, objected +
the business house of a man VIII
is now one of our arristocracy, be
cause he dealt in pole-cat skins
and you may object to the estab
lishment of a boiler factory nea
your residence because it is noisy
but all of the authorities have de
: cided that saloons are not danger
GUS, and do not smell bad, an
are not noisy, and dog my cats
| would not have one, if L were
rich saloon-keeping alderman i
this city, like we have here, jus
as big and fine and prominent a
Alderman Berkley's dry good
store. and l would build it RICH
, Lao;I, lie Storn II xyont.l 4,