The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-22
The House OF the Thirty Barrels.

The House of the Thirty Barrels.
Mr.. BAEpEKER's accomplished travel
ling men have a new sensation to taste iI
Chicago and an important addition tc
that city Of lights. The Hon. HINKl
DINK has just dedicated another foun.
tain. His Workingmen's Exchange
where men too proud to work exchanged
nickels for stimuli, was trodden dowr
by the march Of Improvement. A new
building, hateful to the wandering sons
Of thirst, took the place of that temple
of reaction. Mr. D1NK had another
shrine, but it could not take the place OF
the first in the affection Of hinkydink.
cry. Chis on de blink, walled
the hinkydinkites. But their sorrow
was not for long. Opposite their old
refuge in Clark street. that strenuous
thoroughfare, did HINKY DINK stately
barrel house decree. II was opened last
week and will never close again.
There is the largest barrel house
in the world, 100 feet by 50, 5000 square
feet. a double barrelled house. Faithful
to mathematical exactness, we must
contradict the Chicago poets who sing
that the bar is 100 feet long. HINKY
DINK is our friend, but truth Ia more our
friend. The bar is "a feet long. In "a
hours a great exchange business can be
done on a bar 81 feet long. As Mr.. WEB
sTER would say, Rome and Athens in
their proudest days never had bar "a
feet long
Mr.. DINK is a philanthropist and soci-
ologist, He believes in feeding the
thirsty. His clients are careful dieti-
clans and students Of the physiological,
pathological and psychological effects
of alcohol. The bread box that tanks
the bar is larger than some houses. OPP
posite is n lunch BAR to which bowls Of
soup arise from the kitchen below Mr..
DNK's employees never bawl through
his barrel hall: We don't give bread with
one high ball" You can have all the
bread you want; and high balls are a
fummery distasteful to friend of the
peo-pul. Beers the thing. If we may
trust the Chicago Tribune's expert and
explorer, in front OF the long bar is a
trench, through which water is occa-
sonally forced to carry away the beer
foam An electric pump forces the
beer from twelve barrels at time in the
icebox below The beer glasses, tech
nically called tubs are imposing.
They look as large as an ordinary hat
to some observers. But appearances
are deceptive; glass may be thick; and all
is not beer that froths. Still, in Mr..
DINK's arithmetic ten tubs make a
gallon.
In the first twenty hours OF his new
benevolent institution, 4s barrels, IS $3.50
glasses, of beer were sold. There is no
time to count the money. Mr.. D1NK ia
a variously busy man and studies econ
omy Of effort. This is his method of
dealing with the daily tub money:
or three times = day the Alderman eomes in from
his other saloon, at Clark ana Van Buren, streets.
and emp.ies the contents of the money drawers
Into large sack. which he slows away In the safe
-Earlyjn the morning an agent from the brewery
comes and counts the dimes and nckels as there Is
little other money that reaches tho registers. The
Alderman knows from the indicator how much
money there should be. and he has time to count
Il himself The agent gives him or his secretary
. receipt. and every month . check is sent for the
amour, that remains after the price Of the beer has
been deducted"
As to tho tubs OF inhowing cash We
quote the estimate Of q statistician who
has the honor OF being an intimate friend
Of Mr.. DINKs:
- NK making money, Well. I guess III
had his place and the tradsrd retire In Ayear Just
ngure Il up. With his rebates and bis dividends
from tho stock he holds In the brewery his beer will
not cost him more than $3.50 barrel--and that's
putting II high. He will average $50 glasses from
Zach barrel so that thirty barrels day will mean
IN income Of $780, The beer will cost slo6. His
,ep lunch. and other expenses will be about .
,undred more. Ia he making money! He will make
100000 . year out Of this place aions-twtce the
'alary Of the President Of the United States. and
nut Of South Clark street barre, house. He win
ret thousand dollars month from the lodging |
rouse. too"
The lodging house upstairs has rooms
'or $50 men, all guaranteed to be filed
It registration time for Mr.. D1NK be-
ieves that men should vote as they
rink. Shower baths and other modern
are provided for the $50.
] am going to give these poor hoboes
he best home they ever had in their
ives says Mr.. DINK, bless his kind
leartl One OF his transformations chart
les is the gift of free morning drink of
whiskey, known as corpse
eviver,' to each ledger. The Chicago
Tribune's whiskey specialist has tested
his resuscitating fluid and judges that
! teaspoonful Of it would make China
nan whip JEFFRIEs." 1t is the stuff
hat makes men, so to speak.
With an income Of 500 900 a year and
he allegiance Of Thousands OF ben
'flciaries, Mr.. Alderman DINK may 60
ar In his career Of craftsmanship and
sociology. More and more the Hon.