The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-29

san francisco is right behind New Or
ieoH9 IN respect to the amount of bard
iquor lts men put away. No hour OF ,he
oay is TOO good for the san Francisco man
'"H9 q morn Wheu he wants IT, and ne
,toesu ABIDE ny any drinking rules. The
oah Francisco drinkers do a coed DEAF
more mixing than is good for them and
TINS Is no doubt the reason WHY ia is Sa
common a thing to see well-groomed men
tahhed up beyond ali reason on The
streets OF san Francisco a lot of i'm
ported sparkling wines are consumed nv
oau francisco men, but they won't stand
Io' ue native wines of their own state
""'u IL comes 20 drinking them them
serves. They'll tell visitors how much
superior 10 all other wines. imported and
other"lse, their still and sparkling wines
are ana then they'u drop INTO a cafe and
take bottle of French Burgundy OF
champagne at dinner. on the who.e.
man can drink with more social impunity
out on the Pacific coast and especially
San Francisco, than i'm any other section
OF the country know of When "A man
goes TO the dogs through drink out in
san Francisco his friends shake their
heddS and murmur expressions OF regret
inat the victim wasn't better endowed by
nature with the capacity to handle liquor
and not have liquor handle him.
Another thing about drinking out in
| San Francisco There's a large absiuthe
clientele growing up out there l was talk
ing the other dey with friend who sells
liquor and cordials ali over the country
ana ne told me that San Francisco is the
biggest ansinthe-consuming community for
ITS size by long odds. in the country. He
told me, too by The way. that there's quite
a good deal OF the green stuff sold in this
town, considering the sobriety Of the place,
which is matter of talk among travelling
liquor men.
Worse Than Opium.
81 Cont understand how any sensible
man can make regular upple Of alb
sinthe. 1t is really worst than opium.
! The French know how to handle absenthe
sanely, just as the Chinese know how to
smoke their opium without becoming
hends and killing themselves with it, but
the American man doesn't know how TO
use either of these things moderately, and
he never will. ABSENTEE will eat the brain
out of a man who drinks it steadily within
a very few years. ] know a man who
drinks absinthe, and whole lot of 1t. in
order that his wife may not detect the
smell of liquor on his breath when he
salutes her upon his arrival home. He
| thinks he's sober after throwing three or
four hooters of the stuff into himself.
That's a characteristic of the man who
drinks absinthe. He always thinks he's a
straight and as sober a. a judge, no mat
ter how serratic his actions may be, So
that l don't fancy this man I speak of is
foolng mis- wife by drinking absinthe
was in the cafe of a Washington hotel
the other evening with this man-he's
Observation-Disclosures i'm the course of
couple of hours of talk he took three alb
sinthe frappes and two straight absiuthes
big, four-fnSered drinks of the green
fluid. He wasn't exactly intoxicated when
beady eyes, and talked rather haltingly,
| and he looked to me like man who had
just come out of a hop joint 1 wouldn't
take five straight drinks of straight alb
| snthe for one thousand dollars cash in
hand.
staid Old Philadelphia.
Probably you don't know that there is
a whole lot of heavy drinking among busi-
ness and professional men in the staid old
city of Philadelphia, Ell? Well, there is.
Philadelphians are crafty drinkers, and
they are very correct in their manner Of
drinking. Those little cabinet saloons,
where you walk up to the liquor buffet
and pour out your own drink, are scat
tered all over the downtown portion Of
Philadelphia They are veritable little
holes in the wall, and most of them are
purposely isolated from the main thor
oughfares-any number of them, in fact
land office business all during business
hours. Go into any of them at any hour
of the working day and you'll find plenty
of sedate. sOmber-clad men of middle age
"a deacon here and there l suspect-the
lawyers with their Philadelphia black
bags slung over their arms-facing the
wall and taking their little nips. These
men wouldn't think OF standing up at a
bar in a corner saloon and taking a smile.
I n
quite honest. If a man wants TO drink
and knows how to drink modera tely, it's
nobody's business but his own, and there
is no particular occasion for him to sneak
about it,
In the Middle West.
Chicago is a beer town mostly. So are
nearly all the cities in the Middle West.
Perhaps the most gigantic glass of beer
in the world for the money is purveyed
over the bars of Chicago's cheap grade sa-
looms for a nickel. They have quart COB
let's for the men who demand them, and
the quart goblet costs a nickel. l wou.dnt
vouch for the quality of the beer, how
ever Then there are three and two-cent
beer establishments in Chicago, and when
[ was last there l saw one place where
a large. flowing, foamy glass of beer was
offered on a sgnboard for cent. | should
be pretty thirsty before I'd undertake to
St Louis is a whisky town from away
back, and the morning drinking habit is
beginning to be accepted there More inn
ported champaSnes are consumed in Den
yer than in any other city of equal size on
the continent.
you'll be able 10 buy a good drink of
whisky now and then in Washington or
in New York or in Baltimore or in any
other place, but it's all a matter of luck.
The SWEETEST cafes don't purvey the best
whisky over their bars by a good deal.
There. are no barrel houses, so called, here
in Washington, but there are plenty of
Them in New York, and I've often seen
New York men who take few drinks of
what they think is good whisky every day
shudder when their eyes fell upon the
Bowery Signs Offering A large glass of
fine Kentucky Bourbon whisky for five
cents Well, they've no need to shudder.
That whisky is really good deal better
than a whole lot of the whisky that is sold
over pretentous bars In New York and
elsewhere for fifteen or even twenty cents.
IFS new whisky. that's all, but it's rarely
a doctored article.
where Brandy Il Popular.