The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-11-19

day. IN the entry is the cigar stand.
then comes a large room with three bill
lard tables set up and the rubbish of
plaster repairs and alterations still
staining the floor In the rear is a. par
titiOned room with a plain board bar
shelf with glasses and liquor to be
bought. We were going to put in a
fine hardwood bar and fixtures" says
the bartender. I'VE had the bargain all
made with the wholesale agent 1t was
to cost 81 ,000 and we would take all the
risk. but the agent declined to furnish
it finally. Then we were going to put
up a blind tiger" But what's the use?
This is all right
Right opposite the postofffce, on Fifth
house last summer The restaurant bar
and shelves are still in place, but there
are no festive ham sandwiches and
toothsome pies on them now. The front
room is bleak and bare. Save for these
skeletons of trade there are no remind
ers left Of the rushing business that was
open and ab0vebcard in the SWeltering
months But in the rear room, until
last Saturday, there was blind tiger"
1t was typical of all that We're. Here
the bumptious scribbler left his mark
upon the bare partition more than else
where, perhaps.
This is a stahI" reads one inscription
among the rest The others were:
DO not feed the tiger anything but
money. Ferget IT.
This tiger is not blind in both eyes,
Why you needn't come round
eli Ki, the wild man.
Klauer's at NO. 526 Kansas avenue
sported a blind tiger until a few
days ago. There is an open bar in oper-
alton now.
Two doors from the Sixth Avenue ho-
tel is another resort Back of the cigar
stand and billiard hall a big placard by
an open door into the rear room reads:
''The Capital City Club" Contrabaud
fluids are dispensed over an open bar.
Several loud" pictures adorn the wall
behind it.
House, on the north, is the fashily
adorned Apex cigar store. In the rear
room is an open bar nowadays. Until
Thursday morning last it also was a
blind tiger"
= Up on Kansas avenue, between Sew
enth street and Eighth avenue, the Roy
al Billiard parlors are in full blast. Here
is a back room with oil cloth covered
bar and shelf. Last week it was a blind
for the real blind tiger, that held forth
on the second floor Immediately over
head Not long ago a doorkeeper was
stationed al the foot Of the stairs, who
would close and lock the door if an
alarm was given, leaving to view the
deserted barr0om down stairs just as it
was left after the last raid. This morn
ing, after the latest raid, the open bar
in the back room was in active opera
ton, and the upstairs apartment closed
On the Royai blind tigers side, on
view last week, there was an echo of the
election in the scribbled words:
VIII bet as follows:
$5 Mckinley is elected
$5 Stanley is elected.
S5 Hazen is elected.
IS Nichols is elected.
Take all or none
Another resort has reopened since the /
events of the last few weeks have said
open sesame In the rooms on the
second floor over Keene's drug store at
503 Kansas avenue, is a spIendidly fur
nished resort. AT the head of the mar
row stairway the door leading into the |
rooms is kept locked The door has a
window in it which has been boarded |
up. An aperture about two inches |
square is opened by a slide for the door |
tender to take a look at applicants for |
admission. In the large room |
are billiard and poker tables /
and a roulette game goes on. |
IN the next room a hardwood bar and |
'efrigerator shines with its new coat of |
rarnish and the bartender is silhouetted |
against a gorgeous, reddish pink felt 4
wallpaper. There is also another side /
'oom containing card and drinking ta-
lies.
These are some of the principal resorts
IN excursion around the city reveals
Che blind tiger as an institution was
hort-lived. It was conceived and put
nto execution in a time of turmoil and
rouble, but since the hands of the law
ire bound, the scales dropped from the
yes of the sightless animal, and anoth-
r chapter in the clandestine rum traf-
ic of Topeka is ended