The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-18
RICKEYITES IN DESPAIR.
THE SUPPLY OF LINES ExAsPERAT-
IVGLY SNORT.
Fat Hen In Crash Salts search Broadway Cars
-Tuo Dealers Have Cornered the Few Lines
in MARKET and Are MolainE Theu while

-Tvvo Dealers Have cornerea the rev Hirscs
in Market and Are Holding Theu, while
the Hickey Thirst Grows AiarminGiy.
Heaven help us, We arc lost" Rasped the fat
man in the crash suit Ninety degrees In tho
shade and getting hotter, and not a lime In
sight"
what r. gaspod the crowd.
A is lost save honor ' sobbed the fat man,
land with the temperature at ninety, there's
no telling how long that will last"
The crowd gazed at him specchlcss. The bar
tender brushed a tear from his eye as ho turned
the c~ut-glass lime-holdcr upside down and tied a
big bowknot OF black Grape about the neck of the
Plymouth gin bottle. Tho boss tried to look
cheerful, but It was a sorry attempt, and by and
by he gave 1t up and said he guessed he'd close
the place.
Might as we'll" said the fat man in tho crash
suit; might as we'll, - and the crowd nodded
assent and one by one went out into the hot and
getting hotter world.
It was In a Broadway cafe. Daily for ten days
The ths,PT TSS i95 g, 1Im and t fSs Sa ssd sold R risie sTss srudS.
ingly and had made the customers sandwich in
other drinks between them. They had cut down
Daily the boss had haunted the fresh fruit
market. He had bought and bought all he could,
to a crate at n time. telling him there were
others entitled to lines MS well as he. He had
watched wat nnsS the hnd price rice ! 90 ;Hd from nnn 90 tS Senf IS a c SratS 70 sei;
them even at that price.
Nobody who drinks gin, r!ckeys will wonder
but what there are are held BY one or two deal:
to them in limited quantities., only. No more are
in sight. Somewhere on the big ocean there are
aboard. but nobody hero knows where they are
nor when they will reach here.
markets ieM around Hf here n.nef Th Msne co uiiSSstb% be- had fop
almost nothing, and even at that price half that
came went e, waste and spoiled on the deal-
Ex-Congressmap Joe Hickey was responsible; at
least; he has been generally credited With tho
The ex.Congressman discovered that q little
lime Juice in whiskeE or in gin made a palatablo
a bad thing for the human system in hot
weather. All mixed drinks at that time
were made after tho Only William system.
sweet. The ex.Congressman made public his
discoveries. The people knew q good thing
lines rose up and called him great. The dcspiscd
lime became a treasured fruit. Lime, growers.
they were still on the trees. Untold Joys came
to tho stomachs Of the fat men who wear crash
not uncommon for them to leave home and fam;
fly nowadays for rickeys. The rickey habit fixed
itself not only on fat men in crash suits, but on
middle-siZcd men, and on men in all conditions
OF life. but Broadway always held its place as
the centre Of the rickey, traffic. The reason for
ever tried TO palm of a drink under the honored
name of rickey that wasn't a genuine rickey
loaded with lime. In other parts of town this
thing has been done. Ignorant bartenders have
been known to put a spoonful OF sugar into a
Ftass e WAS s oardeTed. a o n%s Ga 5Dp q ba at Mnde 8
glass instead Of a lime. Still Others have mixed
'..bead" ON it. Others M the glass in which the
pass It out with a spoon buried in its depths.
Again. and most unpardonablc Of all. bartcnders
Inc freshly squeezed article.
Now, N srN reporter who writes this knows
sDmot the fou nSHne of Fi the drink ff hi has ha the Hem Hen.
Joe Hickey, Tolearn there is no better place to
60 than to the fountain head. The reporter has
therefore he speaks by the card. To make the
only original. genuine rickey. the one that makes
YOU feel like q June day in the middle Of August,
take a glass known in saloons as a rickey glass.
Have the bartender put in one chunk of ice.
a lime. a real. genuine lime Of D gree 1isS
hue, and cut it crosswise in the mid
glass and the ice. This halt. when he has
squeezed II. he must throw away. Have him
squeeze the other bali the same way and drop
in the ice. ASK him next. il he don't Know. for
gin or Holland gin you. can demand either. but
the other is the original rickey gin. Pour out a
quantity measure it in a whiskey glass. Pour
the gin into the glass with the ice and lime
Juice. .-NeXt call 1Or the carponlC water bottle,
press the stopper and watch the water fzz into
the glass until the glass Is full.
| There's your rickcy.
II a bartender offers to put sugar in It. shoot
him. Any first.class jury would bring in a ver-
dict Of justiiablo homicide. If he offers to
shake It up or TO stir it. punch his nose. unless
he Is bigger than you are. II he wants you to
drink it through, a straw, jam the straw down
his throat. He is liable. unless he IL n Broad
way bartender. to offer any number of suRges-
tions. Don't take any of them. but drink your
rickey, and you will Immediately begin the con-
s%truction OF another. 1t may seem tantalizing
70 tell how TO make n rickey when there is a
lime famine and rickeys are impossible, but that
condition is not going to last always. Those
ships will como in some day, and the fat men
with crash suits will again be joyful. Paste this
in your hat until then.
Half a dozen dealers told THE Sun reporter
yesterday that the demand for lines this year
had been greater than ever before. They said
that the scarcity began to be felt ten days ago, and
that not q lime had come into the market since.
All that are here now. they said. are in the
hands of n couple OF dealers who won't sell to
any but regular customers, and 10 them only at
high rates. One dealer said: II could get SIS q
can't He said, and the other dealers agreed,
that the famine wouldn't be over until the ships