Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-11-05
THE BACCHIC REVELS
Celebrating the Doom of Reform.
How License Han Riot Amer Van
Wyck's ElectiOn---SOns OF BeliaI
Everywhere Drank TO District At
IOrney's TocsIn ITO He'll with Re



torney's TocsIn ITO He'll with Re
form"
From the New'York Herald
The tocsin of Asa Bird Gardiner, sound
ed 10y long haired youths, women wearing
tigers on their hats and loud lunged per
sons who blew horns filled all the Tender
loin Tuesday night. Van Wyck was elect
ed and the habitues of the district where
the fierce red light has paled of recent
years were in high feather. Those whose
faces were familiar on Broadway before
the days Of reform came down from their
uptown hannts and mingled with the
crowds 1t was the Tenderoin rediyyus.
The gentle philosophy Of running every
thing wide open and on the level filled
Broadway and Sixth avenue with riotous
joy.
Every saloon keeper held levee and
every one whose sealskin coat was plush
and whose yellow hair had dark streaks in
it joined in making merry. 1t was kind
of Tenderloin Walpurgis Night. The
streets were jammed with persons filled
with strong drink. An alcoholic wrath
seemed to hang above the old Tenderloin.
The 'good times were coming back
again.
Tigers Bacchic Revels.
The celebration began as soon as the re-
turns indicated that another period of
Tammany rule was at hand. There was
! little to hinder the bacchic revels. The
police were busy at the polling places.
They were tired out, too, with their long
days work keeping order on election day.
Many of the saloon keepers by means of
the dining room subterfuge, managed to
to do a flourishing business even while the
voting was going on. When the election
was over there was no let nor hindrance 10
the flood of beer, whiskey and champagne
which ran its riotous course through the
old Tenderloin.
The bottles which popped and the VINE
which fixed seemed TO sound the slogan
of Asa Bird Gardiner. The doom of reform
was sung to the accompaniment Of jingling
! glasses and the unsteady shutiling of
drunken feet.
The doors of every saloon in Sixth ave-
nue. and Broadway, some of which are
known as the resorts of the disreputable,
were thrown wide open. The screen doors
were kept constantly ajar by the maudlin
host which scrambled for admission. The
bartenders frowned upon those who de-
manded mixed drinks. There was no
time for the dett manipulation of the in
gradients of cocktail. 1t was beer, cham
payne and whiskey straight.
"Whiskey amt good enough for night
| like this was the cry,
The vintages of France were drunk by
men who leaned against saloon bars and
pounded with their fists upon the polished
counters.
The Broadway Garden was agloH. The
band played paean of joy concerning a
fervid occasion. About the tables men and
women, yelling confusion to reform, sat
with their elbows upon the wine and
whiskey drenched cloth. The place was
damned to the doors. Amid the clinking
of bottles and the smash of an occasional
glass upon the floor arose the words of
that noble sentiment which first fell from
the lips of Tammany's district attorney
elect.
Hot Time In the Newmarket.
Down in the Newmarket there was a
function of the Tohellwith cOterie. 1t was
largely attended. The women who said
that they guessed that they would take
wine did not have to guess again. The
band played music which made the pulses
tingle and the feet to whirl. 1t was very
warm there. The galleries were crowded
| Inc Saloon was Jamneu. L ne HOOT was
covered by whirling forms. Everybody
was glad for the return of the good old
times before Dr. Parkhurst began a crusade
against vice. The bitter memories of the
Lexow committee were sweetened by the
anticipation of four years of Democratic
rule.
"We've got a chanst to live," said the
men with the checked clothes and the polks
dot collars.
"Its not so Slow" said they of the new
Tenderloin, who had come down for a lool
at the domain which had been theirs.
The early hours of yesterday morning
were devoted to celebrating the new regime
The champagne bottles seemed to be the
sign in the sky, and the small bird which
does not fly was an emblem of hope. Cab!
with eloquent feet projecting out of tn,
windows piled up and down. A procession
of boisterous persons blowing horns anC
bearing brooms upon their shoulder.
marched up and down. After closing
hours the saloons conducted a rushing
business by means of the side doors, ant
the "speedy damnation" of that ancient
enemy, reform, was drunk in many a glass
with beaded bubbles winking at tn,
brim."
Several hundred young men proclaiminl
themselves as students of Columbia univer