The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-10
coNcocTEp AT THE BAR.
Fhmous Drinks of America and
Their Origin.
G'rom the Philadelphia Timcs.)

whence comes the bartender?
Inc modern brewer OF the cup which
| cneers and sometimes inebriates is q thing
OF beauty and a joy forever by natural In
heritance. The original bartender was the
most beautiful boy ever born. Jove Sc
iected him from all beings Of his celestial
realm to act as his cupbearer. Ganymede
LOOK to his office kindly and from this day
MS successors have grown in numbers. in
power, in beauty and in the potency Of
the touch with which they inspire their
beverages
The literature of drinking has yet to
have justice done to it by a master hand,
but the subject is well worthy OF research.
Whatever author assumes the task. he
Will find his adjectives exhausted when
he comes to treat upon the glories with
which the American bartender has sur
rounded the achievements Of his art. Had
the cocktail. which he alone can brew and
to which he gave existence. been known
to the ancients. Ancaeos might have DE-
fed prophecy, and the world would not,
today, have, as an oft-quoted saying.
There's many slip twixt the cup and
the lip" The legend is familiar one.
After Ancaeos had succeeded Typhys as
the pilot Of the Argonauts. he was told by
slave that he would never live to taste
the wine Of his vineyards. When bottle,
him. he sent for the serf to laugh at his
Representation. The mental, however,
made answer, There's many a slip 'twixt
the cup and the lip" At that moment a
messenger rushed In and announced that
a wild boar was laying waste the vine
yards of Ancaeos. The latter thereupon
hastily set down his cup, went out against
the boar and was killed in the encounter.
II it had been an American cocktail which
hod hold tn, lie hon ha
never have thought. no matter what danger
threatened, Of setting 1t down before drain
Ing the glass.
The cocktail, by the way, was the inven-
tion Of Colonel Carter, of Culpeper Court
House, Va. Many years ago in that local.
ity there was a wayside inE named THE
Cock and the Bottle" the semblance Of an
old English tavern, and which bore upon
its swinging sign cock and bottle. mean
ing thereby that draft and bottled ale
could be had within-the cock" in old
vernacular. meaning the tap. He, there
fore, who got the last and muddy portion
of the tap was said to have received the
cocktail" Upon one occasion, when
Colonel Carter was subjected to the indig-
nifty OF having this muddy beverage put
before him. he threw 1t angrily upon he
floor and exclaimed: Hereafter / will
drink cocktails Of my own brewing" and
then and there inspired evidently by the
spirit Of Ganymede, he dashed together
bitters, sugar, oil of lemon peel and some
old Holland gin, and thus and then, There
was the original cocktail concocted.
The mint tulep is another delight for
which the American bartender is response
BILE. 1t got its name from Southern gen.
tleman who was great admirer Of Shake
speare's works, and who, upon an occasion
o,,;x IT r.; TIL
was SO moved by the result that there came
inc, the daughter of Lady Capulet, and the
sweet sweetening" of Romeo; thereupon
he enthusiastically named the beverage
mint Juliet" term which. later bibbers
have corrupted into mint julep.
Dextrous as Is the touch OF the Amerf-
can bartender when throwing his soul into
q punch, he cannot lay claim to the inven-
ton of that seductive compound. Strangely
enough, II had its rise in India, its name
being derived from the Indian word prnj,
meaning five, and having reference to the |
number Of Ingredients in the original mix
ture; spirit, water, lemon, sugar. ar spice. |
When 1t was first introduced into England |
it was named Contradiction" because it |
was composed Of spirits to make 1t ct ong |
and water to make 1t weak OF lemon juice |
to make II sour and sugar to make it |
sweet. BY this time 1t will be observed |
the spices have been eliminated.
To his English brother, uninventive as he
is, the American bartender must |
concede the credit of having discovered |
Tom and Jerry" That dangerous COM /
bination obtained its name from two char
acters In one-time famous play, Pierce
Egan's Life in London"
To the clergy can the American bartend-
er ascribe the indignity SO frequently put
upon his artistic ability when he is called /
upon to open bottle of beer which in no
way represents the possibilities of his &C.
MUS The famous Dean Newell was very
fond of fishing, and generally placed some
new beer in a bottle, and took 1t with him
upon his excursion. One day. being dir
turbed, he buried his bottle under the grsss
and when he sought 1t some days after
ward, 1t had so greatly improved that he
drank bottle beer
Now you know what you are drinking
il you drink!