The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-11-08

of the bar Is a lunch counter. Behind the
waiter is a sign which reads: Table
d'hote. a la carte handouts and every old
prominently displayed. is ~alluring to the
epicure. Any man who could not eat after
glancing al that list of d~eiicacies should
put back. 1t begins with Quail IN or
or and includes "Rubber-neck clans:
Mayor Pingree's potatoes" Mothers
There Is a touch of nature in another
sign. which reminds the midnight roisterer
Of the loved ones at home: II. reads;
Take home some lunch TO the family
Small tables are ARRANGED around the up
rights which support the building, ana
when a man sits down he Is reminded by
a card that he is AT the post" Above
him are candles on each side of the post.
and there is a hint of wild orgies OF the
small hours in the sign. which announces:
Grand blowout every night with the can
dies" a.
Close to the door is a table made from
a meat block on which a butcher once
chopped of veal outlets. and his is Ia
beled Don't beef around this block" No
one has beefed since the roof garden was
paintings and a museum of curios. The
painting Is hand made and represents the
nymphs In their great act of trying to get
satyr into the water without the aid or o.
net. The tag says it is worth $4,000. and
a card declares: This was done by n
union man: Three coats and two vests yet
TO go m" Close to this famous work of
art is a mans size thermometer. which
registers from zero to 10sS. including 81.
Louis heat and Bob Ingersoll heat. And IN
announces: This THERMOMETERS does every
thing but give milk"
In the annex. whic contains the art gall
leries and museum. there is a life-like repre-
sentation of a gambling house as they ex-
listed before Jack Shea was sent over to
the West Side. A poker table. on which
four ~life-size pokers are laid. is near the
door. and on the walls are ~festoons OF tin
horns for the tin-horn gamblers A loaded
dice, with the bricks plainly showing over
the briln. shows how skin games were once
run, and there are piles of chips. enough
to start fires for a year. On the wall a
sign announces: This House Is Closed.
Slip Your Money Under the Door"
Just beyond this touching exhibition is a
cage filled with Hagenback's wild animals.
On the cage is a sign warming the visitors
not to touch the beasts and that the house
will not be responsible for results. When
a Chronicle man gazed in awe on the me-
nagerie the hen was picking up. the pigeons
were asleep and the turkey was chasing
the duck. but the management explained
that the animals were not hypnotizef until
after the show. Several objects of great
interest line the walls of the museum. A
piece of iron found floating In the Atlantic
ocean had a place of honor. and two very
quiet stuffed frogs are said to be hop fiends
In private life.
The various clubs of Chicago are well rep
resented. The Marquette Club is hickory.
the Chicago Athletic oak, and the Union
League is just plain wood. The secrets of
certain orders are exposed also. for on the
wall hangs a carpet bag said to be a TX.
r." grip, and over near one corner is a
wooden man with a number of bolts in his
head and the strange placard. This guy
Is nutty.' In the chamber of horrors Is
seen a free lunch I'm which oats. chopped
feed and leather are prominently displayed.
and all the tools are firmly fastened TO the
table.
There is a souvenir spoon which was once
used to shovel coal. and a few bars of soap
to serve as dessert. Altogether this base
ment roof garden possesses many points Of
interest which It's more lofty competitors
do not boast.