The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-11-02
THE BARNARD COMING.
A New Effort to Import a Brit
iSh Institution to New York.

There is revolution atioat that threatens
to play hob with the peccant men who fire.
quent saloon bars and with the white
apToned men behind the bar. Incidentally
1t will doubtless cause the wives of tippierS
to do little playing hob on their own ac-
count, says the New York Mail and Ex-
press.
The barmaid is coming-in fact, she is
here-and next week she Will be here in
numbers.
The forerunner of them all was and is
Miss Sadie Taylor. plump young English
thing, who draws beer and mixes cock tails
in Broadway saloon. On Monday her
sister reaches New York from London,
having in charge fifteen English barmaids
Of true Cockney lovelinesS. Four of these
will officiate at the bar Of wel!-known
Broadway buffet. The Others have all
been 'bespoke' for downtown tipping
places near Wall street.
The bar-keepers are indignant and pre-
diet the failure they hope for. One of them,
Chesterfeldian man, said:
1t will lower the tone of the profession
and introduce spirit OF levity and persi-
iiage into what should he serious occasion
that of drinking a mixed drink"
Another said: ! have this to say-see?
No man rs is Il gentleman will buy drinks
from foreign cheap-labor woman who is
comm over here to take the bread outen
This from the viewpoint OF the white
jacket.
But there is another side to it, as there Is
to most questions The English bar-maid
is unique. Her duties are to draw ale,
measure Independents and siXpenp 'orths
of whisky. gin and rum. She attains her
highest art when she puts lump of sugar
and some hot water and gin in glass and
calls the product Gin 'ot, SIR
Then she wears flowers and powders her
il.p md ot,fr 10 o.
in the bar-parlor. And this is all that is
asked OF her.
For another thing she lives in the house
like the c. ok and housemaid, and there is a
sensible safeguard in this arrangement.
Take her all in all. the barmald on her
native heath is we'll blown person of a
certain age, with smile for every one and
right arm strong from working the beer
pump.
A Cedar-street publican tried the plan
with disastrous results. He lost $40, GOO
over 1t. Then a Broadway publican tried
it. He hired a half dozen American women
and put them i'll white aprons and behind
the bar. This time the results were disas-
trous TO the customer. Peccant men who
drink cocktails and sours went in and said:
Gimme ManhattanW
What did you say?" she asked.
"ManhattanW
"Manhattan-I, yes-one beer!'
Manhattan cocktail. if you please" the
man said firmly.
Then she laughed and snickered, and
dived under tho bar and ished up the Bar
Keepers. Guide and Drink-mixer's Wade
Mecum."
Man, oh, of course, it Is under cock
tail" Then she found the recipe.
The man drank it and paid, and went
away and looked up a doctor
That establishment went the dusty way
to failure. 1t doesn't seem as though the
bar-maid could be acclmated, but at all
events this present attempt is playing hob
among the bar-tenders. and there may be a
strike in consequence.
General O'Beirne was Informed that the
coming OF the foreign maids is a violation
of the contract labor law. He assigned In
spector Conklin to receive" and ENTER
tain" Miss Taylor and the others ON arrival.