Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-03

| cheap nor Qlnner later at the price OF
| a glass of beer, cents. l can see ne
harm in his taking the glass of beer.
1T contains 96 per cent of water
and only 4 per cent of alcoholic stimu
liant. make it point to serve a good
free lunch, with fish chowder, clam
broth or something else hot and nutri
tious from IL until o'clock for the
workingmen, who are already flocking
here in droves, and from 5 to IL O'Clock
at night they may find a similar lunch
You know it was Jesus himself who
said that it is not that which a man
putteth into his mouth that defileth
him, but rather that which proceedeth
out of his mouth No, have no in
tention of combining Scriptural expo
sition with the service of a saloon, but
this you may depend upon-I do not
intend to tolerate blasphemy, profan-
ity or obscenity in this saloon. 1 In
tend to run a decent place, and 1 want
no other class of custom"
How do you expect to stop that kind
of talk?" / asked the saloon keeper
moraliSt.
Il don't anticipate any serious trou-
bic in stopping it, and another thing
won't do is to serve liquor to a man
who has had already enough or too
much. Both my bartenders have had
strict orders never to serve an intoX-
icated person, and 1 am personally in
charge of the bar from half past 8,
o'clock in the morning often until late
at night
But suppose blackguards come in
and refuse to be good, what will you
do to stop them?"
"Oh, well, had one little experience
the other night for illustration. A big
teamSter, who comes i'll occasionally,
was intoxicated, and refused TO serve
him whisky. 1 tried to make him con-
tent with some clam broth, but he was
ugly, and he started to curse and call
me foul names. I came out from be-
hind the bar and said quietly: Gus,
you mustn't do that here. 1 won't
have that kind of talk. 1t doesn't go in
this place while run it
'Well, he sat down, swore he would
have whisky and became more abusive
and foul than ever. So 1 just went
over to where he sat. 1 grasped his
forearm and put bit of twist on it,
and he came up standing easily
door. 1 didn't put him out 1 took
him out, and, as he lives near by,
just took him home. He was as mild
as kitten when left him. Now, I've
an idea he won't be offensive that way
again."
AS Mr.. Macdonald spoke of the "bit |
of a twist he had employed he illus |
trated the hold graphically enough to |
prove that he must have been one of |
the church militant.
Mr.. Macdonald expressed his views |
on the Raines law and on the Baptist |
doctrine of close communion with
equal candor.
II think the Raines law abominable,"
he said, but am going to live up to
It. No, not so much because I could not
keep open after 1 o'clock in the morn
Ing if 1 wanted to. They all do around
here, and this place stands all right
with the police, guess. But, you see,
live with my family in Long Island
City. That is an hours journey from
here and 1 am glad enough to close
when the proper time comes.
'There will be no rooms for rent over
his saloon. I purchased the business
III Dec. s, 1902, and gave $1,000 for it.
Ind have spent $500 already stocking
t. The building was new last summer,
md the fittings of the place cost about
5000. 1 have taken the saloon on a
seven year lease. 1 do not expect ever
o preach again as pastor. but some
lay L may lecture, and if do the topic
will be something like Men as They
Are'"
While the talk progressed the cash
egister was ringing in the next room ,
light merrily. Dennis Hines and his
ssiStant bartender, who from the ,
epth of their experience are teaching
IT. Macdonald the mysteries of mixed
Kinks, were kept busy serving the for ,
Ter minister's growing trade. {
Il never even drew glass of beer s
rom a keg until this week." said he, I
much less tried to make a cocktail, !
ut these are things an intelligent man l
earns easily enough" 7
Turning to the cash register, he &
pened it, and the figures showed that 4
Il customers had been served for the 7
ay, and it was only 2 o'clock in the q
fternoon. Il
1.-The night trade is of course the n
rgest," said the new proprietor. 1--WE +
re averaging from 1000 to 1900 Gus n
'mers daily, and the pint trade'-in n
cities, you know-amounts to about n
twenty-five day. 1t is good stand, /
ear Willis avenue, and the new rapid n
ansit rood will run right by it. Many o
the workmen employed on it come r
ire now. 1 am gaining trade from G.
her saloon keepers already. How do o
do it? BY selling better whisky for
cents, by giving larger 'pints' of Ii
Ter for 5 cents and by setting out a 8,
'od, honest lunch II
Mr.. Macdonald seemed to detect o,
thing incongruous in the converse p,
IN ON church doctrines momentarily p.
terrupted to serve men and women n,
no, in the language of the unecclesi- q,
teal, were rushing the growler." :,
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