New-York tribune., 1904-10-23
GATHERED ABOUT TOWN.

Ths drinking places Of the Great White Way
again last week demonstrated that they were
abreast OF the times and that they keep up % the
news. In three CT tour places the drink mixers
had no sooner read Of the epidemic o. deaths trom
drinking bad whlskey In the Stryker's Farm dis
tFiei OF the West Side than tho idea of new
drink came 20 them They mixed II In different
ways. but they all chose the Same name-''WoOd
alcohol cocktail" Then they waited tor some
steady customer 70 ccme in that they Tnlght eSer-
else their grim humor.
Got any wood aleOhol?'' asked regular drinker
IN an upper Broadway establishment. who had
tender
mixed dFSosffa EbeksT n & Ssra ned II dsshSs &
slntne 70 make Il hot and spTinkilng OF req pen
and man did not want mo-e than one OF them,
but they viii be in demand for week Or two for
thing new, especially Il It has a timely name.
There is rapidly approaching completion on
Broadway hotei building which has certain pecu-
hares Of architecture which attract the attention
OF many who pass The most striking thing about
IT Is the small number of large windows and the
large number Of small windows. The large win
doWS are single. rather than double, and either
side Of each large window Is a small one. One is
at loss to account for IL unless one happens to
see sign on the OF the building which says
1het ie the 50 and So Hotel win be opened shortly
rooms The small windows of course Indicate
They might have called it the Bathtub Hotel"
bbeM9Id!LKed an ola hotel man as ne stuGied tns
impressive evidence I've yet seen Of the American
# Vas 'T not So mSnT Tsars o at tbat when no.
tells Thought they were well equipped Y they had
on that flOor and We charged a quarter for towels
and service. THIS new hotel, with nearly as many my
travelling public has pushed the room and bath
n @ II T. keeps On S9S s GneTpbg t isis A95S and be
Gnd i plenty t!s' Of of oecupants' '''''-'
A general impression has prevailed among those
familiar with the foreign quarters OF NeYork that
the children Of Chinatown received the best treat
Tnent. The Americans who dine at Italian table
d'hotes which still hold share of foreign patron
age not sure that the first born son OF the
prosperous Italian does not receive more attention
Italians who have got ahead in Newly ork nave the
habit Of giving elaborate birthday parties IN hGn9s
Tenth-st. resort were surprised few nights ago at
ton which adorned an improvised dining table in
the big room of the house. 4 high chair stood II
they proved to be fun grown and women. with
the exception Of tiny three-yeaT-oid II was AlS
Not another child was inyted, put the youngsSer
Ia whose honor tnree Ganaies f spu''s'eu ." A4e'
There was wine Of many kinds. new color, or at
as babv drink with The rest and seemed to enjoy
IL hugely. The other guests PAID ann every "a a.
listening TO his prattle with every consideration
His health was drunk upward Of hundred ,tSI; sep;
him come true his life viii be a rosy one.
Assistant District Attorney Garvan. who has been
investigating the quality OF the whskey sold in the
Stryker's Farm section. and had to handle 1t with
rubber gloves ho said. told the other night that
the consumers of the stuff had apparently only one
test of the quality o. their whstey The fellows
who have been drinking this stuff. said MT; Car
van, demand something that uckles thelr tnFoats
and palates like a length Of barb wire. The way
they tell whether this lightning rod is ht 10 drink
according their ideas. is b sticking their tnuTn s
into the stuff If it does not eat their thumb nalis
OF it's good liouoT.'
The Rev. H. NJ. Warren, the "Hotei Chaplain" ="
meets many peculiar people in his religious work
among hotel guests. Some time ago he was called
up at midnight and on going to tho telephone was
requested to perform a marriage at Broadway
hotel II was raining hard. but the clergyman
promised to go downtown at once The bride ap-
peared TO be considerably older than the bride
groom but she gave her age as being some two
Years younger. a few nights later DIR. Warren re-
Ceved a similar message from one of the hotels at
Fifty -ninth-st. and Fffthave To his surprise when
he arrived at the hotel he found that the couple
" 20 demanded his services was the same he had
married only few nights before The bride blush
ingly explained that she feared that the first
rage was legal, since both had misstated their
ages. This time she wanted the clergyman TO
know that she really thirty-twO while the
husband only twenty-five. The hotel chaplain
performed the ceremony again. and left arm in the
belief that honesty would have been the pest policy
from the first, as it would have saved them q
double fee.