The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-31
To Mr.. BEDFORD Of Lynchburg.


For the instruction of the innocent and
the reproof of the scorner this request
Is printed here;
ITO THE EDITOR OF TEE SuN--Sr. I notice In
your columns that the Fairbanks cocktail is now
being served. 1eiSy a hs rtender. and always on the
lookout for something good. would thank you TO
kindly send me the recipe. HARRY REproRD.
"LYNcHBURo. Va. July 20"
We strive to please and it's no trouble
to show goods. This is the formula Of
the genuine Fairbanks more properly
Charley cocktail:
leo cold buttcrmilk In a tall glass. Swis deiio-
erately. A long pull. Repeat
Wicked men. some OF them in white
Jackets, in st. Louis and elsewhere have
given Mr.. FAIRBANKs's name to sbhorred
and hellish allegations called cocktails.
We understand that legal steps will be
taken to protect the dryest Of great
names from this unfortunate associa-
ton. Yet this is one penalty Of fame.
Mr.. FAIRBANKS no more wear cocktails
in his inside than BRYAN wore paper col
lars on his celebrated neck. Possibly,
then, MIR. FAIRBANKS has no mean of
disattaching himself from the unwelcome
honors thrust upon him by the Vets.
At any rate. the gradual ~fairbsnksing
of the community is shown. curiously
enough, by the spread Of certain names
in the firewatery world and elsewhere.
Thus. a Scotch highball in a long glass
is a Scotch Charley A Coney Island
glass of beer is a -woolly horse" In
Buffalo gin and milk is fa~cetiously dubbed
Tom and Charley" A new Tampa pane
tela is styled Long Charley which IL
also the Terre Haute synonym Of what
the Hoosiers have been in the bad habit
Of calling a .Prince Albert" In Kansas
buttermilk ia fairbanks" In Danvers,
Dedham and eastern Massachusetts, gen.
orally, "the warm Charley" has expelled
the glad hand" For there as every
where he goes he is Surrounded by a
cheering, shouting, g~esticulating mob Of
well wishers, who insist On shaking the
hand Of the man who is second in COM
mand of the United States" Second in
command, by the way, is a phrase that
might not be received enthusiastically at
Oyster Bay.
For the benefit of Mr.. REproRD OF
Lynchburg and the discontinue Of all
the makers Of mocker we present calcu-
lations made in 1908 by the Hon. STEVE
SUMNER, an eminent milk driver, sociol-
ogist and buttermilk boomer of Chicago:
Averag daily drink OF q man .............s quarts
Cost OF three quarts OF beer....-.....0 cents
Cost of three quarts OF buttermilk. ..,.. ~ cents
Annual saving by using buttermilk. u...... s2i.so
Let Mr.. BEDFORD and those who think
with him give the name Of the destroyer
OF cocktails to a cocktail. The mar who
puts IL in the power Of every citizen to
save his constitution and s21. 90 a year Ia
a moral and political force to be loved
by the good and feared by the wicked.
And Mr.. SUMMERS figures are conserva-
tive. We are assured that nobody in
Chicago can get along with less than
four quarts OF beer a day.
No doubt Mr.. REDFoRD, like so many
Of the best chemists in his profession,
speaks from his absorbing interest in its
science. 1t will be a grand thing when
all the makers Of cocktails turn, as many
Of them do now, to the buttermilk pitcher
fortheir own refreshment. We hear those
threats unstained by hot and rebellious
liquors pour out the good old hymn:
" FARsASxs. FAIssANxs, Hes 40 smooth as silk;
FAIRBANKS. FAIRBANKS. He loves buttermilk:
Down with the cocktail and up With the can.
And Buttermilk cHARLxr. tho Pee-pul's Man"
Serious, simple, sweet, the beverage
and the man are ha~rmoniously mated:
and those who love the n must love
the other.