The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-13
WHAT Hi DEADHOUSE IS.
4 PEEP INTO THIS THE WORST or
Low GROCERIES.

why tire Liquor Dealers Association u,,
started q Crusade Against It-Its Patrons
the Most FriEhtfuI or D-ipsomantscs, the
Liquid which 10 ptspenses = slew Poison.
II Supreme Court Justice Truax orders Deputy
Excise Commissioner billiard to revoke the II.
ccnso Of Louis Koppelmnn, as Lawyer Thomas
a., Fennoll Of tho Liquor Dealers Association
has asked. and thus encourage the beginning Of
A crusade against tho ~"deadhousos" OF tho
town there win be weeping and wailine IN Park
Row and along tho Bowory and on the extreme
east and extreme west sides Of town. The
doadhouses arc more generally known az
'morgues' BY the patrons md tho people who
1.-Two near thcm. They are % called because
tho patrons goncrally arc at for nothing olso
than the real Morgue whore the bodies of tho
dead are takon and because these Ehiskey
morguos are generally the last resting places Of
tho patrons before the real Morguo is reached.
Tho morgues arc generally to DO distinguished
by hugo signs announcing that all drinks are
ave cents each. Then follows o list something
like this: Pure kentucky whiskey, 8 ceuta.
Finest Old Tom gin, 8 cents. Best brandy, o
ccnts. Sherry. port. and clarot, 8 cents. All
mixed drinks 8 cente." Over tho screen doors
can DO seen rows Of barrels nicely Vanished
and labelled Pure From each barrel hangs
9 length or 20 VI rubber hose and on top Of
each is generally q copper measure and q cop
pcr.funnel A brass spigot completes tho outfit.
There is always . husky, toushlooking indi-
vidual behind the bar. He generally has q
broken nose. His face IL always bruised. He
usually has four or i've scars about his person.
and he's uglier than sin itself. Tho proprietor
10 usually q sQuatty, pot-bellied individual, with
rum rocking from every feature, and especially
from his knobby nose. At the bar will be
seen q row Of customors. Some Of them are
young, most Of them arc thieves. Two-thirda
Of them are buns. who make o miserable living
begging In tho streets or holding up people OF
robS.ns ''slsepers" as drunks who go to sloep
screens reas d 70 1s' S SSsnt aG s2s Sc sec tho iSo 1eaf patrons SSss ss B
s ses Pia oSs as II e sec sSu them ssa y :9SG H pIi.s g. i tSsS III H
than tho end OF the bar nearest The door. You
insid sn &c e as soon that e. y one SCI ct liz K; s scSRh q M lsis o Sa,
been standing at the bar has inserted himself
way to st out OF the place is to buy a drink
BSt dom under any circpmstances drink your
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q YOU would see a sight that you win prob.
you may SEQ thereafter, so into the place q htti'
other end Of the S. room ON As your eyes get sccuS
toned to tho darkness you will see o row o.
a II dis : sSsSa F SSis, q so nSsE Bnoaa aas some T 1ss, h se%'
sTinsiRg and matted. II You look long enSoaSi
ASS w a1e I si.r ahs. t som sse g shsm sua ars ais So@ sse .
moro than likely some are blind. The faces ar
s sssR ssa. T tho clothes a,sS. q On T .Se t hS9E slS sss rs sss ~; Es
rags. They pay have been dresses once, o
s sss I.s or x Msls.sssas around or ir sSs Seasi ssl ss HSM sasI
MnSeks can't fail to remind 70, q dpstaSs bOTS'
laughs that remind you Of The stories Of u
iiIttle further these faces and the EN- em aedas
todies will rise up and come toward you an
ydar s sissSss. filthy PsS snas t @if sseE r you 1s fse :
and the cultural voices win plead. for drink
These arc truly the dEegs of humanity:
arc patrons, but have not become ..asteadies
gang that dts ali day and wait; for q drink 9 Q
which. These are the things you will sec
The old bag shakespeare. who was murdere'
* h, F re- hyy, The q ,h Ripper p was 2 patron on Of on
Ssist. ~fson.another cause than intrigue ShiskeJ
The morgue whiskey Joint = Tie tAst resort :
most inevitably come the real morgue and POI
.of's field. The victims are not even useful 9
The vanished barrels that were. told abou
pure Iqu u'ATTh The stun Is M made aGy in i cellar eiha j
some instances. 1t Is made OF bad alcohol an
colorinS matter. The one essential IL that
that. It is so rank and dificult for even tn
steadies to swallow that they call It "hop-up.
1t Is q fact that good customers in morgut
have occasionally been permitted to "tube II
for . nickel. Tubing 1t means to put. dow
your nickel, walk to o barrel, and put tho rul
Der tube In your mouth and drink as long G
you can stand 1t; It Is also a fact that SON
fnIA n 0lnaa ~ n fnnnAl fhAg n N fn
mel. o copper funnel is handed over and the
60 to a barrel turn the spigot, and let II
This information was gathered yesterday b
Q SCN reporter from o member Of the Ltqut
Dealers Association who was asked what just
fcaton there was for the liquor dealer begil
ming a crusade on tho morgues OF the town. Z
said: TT Is not O matter Of business excel
in this; 1t is the morgue that gives to the saloC
business the worst part OF Its reputation.
thing for our reputation"