New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-01-04

doubt and then disrnay. She stands there looking
at the glass until the manager passes
What do you mean by labelling this machine
'cocktaiI'?" she demands.
But 1t does serve cocktails. madam. he answers
'rThere is your drink waiting for you
Cocktail she cries; you call that cocktail
Then, where is the cherry?
Adjoining the cocktail berth there several
sections from which gurgle foaming beer after one
puts In nickel and pulls the lever On pegs above
the beer tanks are many glasses. short. fat
German in a broken voice demanded Elm beer
Then he the sign and with beaming face de-
posted his nickel. "Chust like the fiddle gum
chewing droppers' he said. He pulled back the
lever and the beer began to flow. There was no
glass there and it ran into the waste pipe below.
when is dat glass goin' to come out YETI the
German cried stop id! Stop i'd! Waid fiddle
undl de glass gedts here! Heinz" The flow had
ceased I'D elm fake. How was to drink
mein beer midout Elm glass?
The humor of # struck him when they showed
him the rows of clean glasses just above his head
which he had failed TO He spent a second
nickel without complaint.
The greatest trouble which the managers of the
place have with the drink department is from
small boys They steal up to the slot machines
and try to secure drink when one is watching.
The machines know great deal-enough not to
take dime when it is pot into a nickel slot and
, to turn back money which is light weight-but
they have the ability to recognize minors.
Messenger boys and street urchns soon discovered
this and in order prevent violation of the law
one of the ''omnibuses'-the men who remove the
dirty dishes-keeps a close watch the booze"
machines.
This surely is a wonderful place." said a staid
man of business. after he had looked over the
"Automat" What tribute to American inventive
skill,
American skill. did you say?" demanded his
table neighbor who spoke with foreign accent
This is German idea. There dozens of
these restaurants the Continent. and this one
was moved bodily from Berlin to the front of
the building" He pointed out the German notices
on the wall the peculiar mirror work in the inter
Tor decoration and other foreign attributes of the
place.
Well then il is a tribute 70 the prosressiveness
of New York to take up foreign invention before
any other American city" said the man who was
bound to make some sort of a tribute to something
out of it.
But you forget that an automatic restaurant
has been running in Philadelphia with success for
several months said the other.
I'm Philadelphia, Great scott'
THE Quaker automatic Is minus the liquor de-
partraent" he said by way of tempering the otners
disgust
But the New-York was not to be appeased
and was found an hour later dropping dimes INTO
a little red barrel in one corner or the establish
II was q small boy who found out how the thing
worked He rendered long on the question. Does
the grub come up from below or down from above
or IS some one behind the a-pushing II out?
There was no way of finding ont definitely on the
ground floor SO he slipped into the basement when
no ono was looking
The rceae was not unlike that IN an ordinary
restaurant kitchen There great range. pre-
.ided over a white-capped cook on which kettles