New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-03-18
CIDER SALOONS.
BROOKLYN HAS TWO OF THEM. AND
THEY ARE SAID TO PROMOTE THE
CAUSE OF TEMPERA NOE

The cider saloon is institution thar has
modestly been working it's way into the hearts
OF ahu-rum citizens of Brooklyn for some time.
II is SAID that the bland and grateful juice Of
the apple has converted more topers over there
! than the eXhortatiOns Of the Salvation Army
while the kidney and liver patent medicine
/ people gnash their teeth at the thought OF tls1
I business the cheap drug of nature is losing for
them. A prominent clergyman Of the Heights
/ warmly approves of the cider barroom. and Is
| somewhat Of patron himself. He does not of
! course recommend hard cider nor that diaboIic
concocuon founded on apple juice and COM
monty known as stone fence"
! Strange to relate, the chief introducer of the
temperance beverage in Brooklyn Borough is
! an eX-police captain OF Manhattan who in the
days of Lexow was charged with various
heinous crimes, was dismissed from the force.
and narrowly escaped imprisonment after trial.
The ex-captain is a burly. blue-eyed Irishman,
whose manners ara as ameIorating as his cider
When he started his dispensary customers
frequently in with sly winks and de-
manded this that sprituOus drink They
couldn't for long time believe that the place
just what it represented itself to be. After
ward some persons tried TO erect stone fences
on the bar with the aid Of whiskey TASKS This
and kindred practices were strictly discouraged
AT present the only way a perverse mortal can,
so to speak, immune himself within the saloon
is by carrying there whiskey foundation under
his wastcoat But the benevolent proprietor
always reprimands such evasions when aware
of them
The eX-captain disposes yearly Of more than
| thousand barrels of cider all of which is the
juice of russell apples and comes from a mill at
Sing Sing, Y. Y A good deal is retailed in kegs
to the ordinary saloons, there is a large family
trade in two-quart bottles; the is drunk
over the counter. There are two kinds Of the
juice; the strictly sweet is merely filtered through
wood pulp at the mill. the so-called hard,
containing or 3 per cent Of alcohol, is triply
clarified in a three months process by the pre-
else ex-captain. The swimming bladders
| sounds Of Russian sturgeon are used in cari-
fcation. The cider energies from its treatment
sparkling golden, ana with little tendency to
fermeut further.
The virtues Of maIic acid may he read 10y all
who enter the cider saloon Some of the signs
are: Cider EgEnogg 10 Cents; Try our Hard
Cider and Settler" Free Luncb-Clam Stew"
The free lunch is a not unimportant part Of the
institution, and is calculated to deprive the
workingman Of his excuse for going 10 a gin
shop. Two bartenders are sometimes kept busy
Plain drinks are ; cents. mixed drinks 10. The
family trade Navigation bottle costs II cents
There is a cigar counter In a word the place is u
saloon in every respect save that it is physically
/ impossible 70 become intoxicated there. At
night, when the clam broth bubbles, the bar IS
lined with men. and the genial proprietor sit
ting at a table surrounded by a sober phalanx
Of friends. discourses of things past and pres
ent. spectator might imagine himself peepinS
into saloon of the future Sober. admirable
devOtees Of cider!
There is another well known Brooklyn cider
saloon, the enormously girthed proprietor and
sole ernpoye u which is a child of Germany and
canny a Scotchman. He refused TO divulSe
details Of his business, beyond acknowledging
that he is patronized by the foremost jurists
statesmen. journalists, cIersymen ana physi-
clans Of the neighborhood. some If his signs are
/ in verse. whose feet it must be confessed
wabbe like a confirmed toper's in some contrast
with the temperate purport Of their message
The best sample IS the following:
OF all the Gifts from God 10 Man
Water ENcels the Rest:
But MOdesty Forhds That [
I 4 Ia he Rest