The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-13
HOW SOME SEEK
 ID SOBER UP
Chances Men Take In Turkish
 Bath
DRUGS WITH LIQUORS
Customers Bribe Attendants to Get Drugs or Liquor-Danger In the
 Hot Room-Fooling With Shower and Plunge.
From the Washington Post.

From the Washington Post
 No Turkish bath could exist with out the patronage of the rumnies, of course; but I wish some of 'em would behave durn 'em!" said the manager of Turkish bath and he looked per turbed as he said it. Right this min ute I've got two doctors working over one of them in a private room down. stairs. An hour or so ago the doctors told me they didn't know whether they'd be able fetch the man through or not, but one of them just phoned up to me that he guessed the rummy would be all right, and advised me to send him to his home or to a hospital right away.
 50. I'm taking the first long breath I've had for about six hours. It doesn't do a Turkish bath any particular good, you know. to have it spread round about people dying in it.
 This rummy who's kept me dancing for the last six hours for fear that he'd cash in did one of the usual idiotic things that it is impossible to guard against. He'd been hitting only the high knolls for week or so, so that when he skidded along here he was nearly dead. not only from the hard wet things he'd shot into his frame, but from the need of sleep.
 Bound To Get Sleep.
 He couldn't pull the sleep thing, though. on account of his nervousness. and so he began to send out for trional in 2O-grain gobs. Now the rule here, as it is at most Turkish baths is that when patrons send at tendants out for medicines their orders for such stuff must be O. K'd at the desk by the day or night manager. This of course, Is for the purpose of seeing to it that the irresponsible rum my doesn't toss death-dealing chemi- calls and things into himself in over large quantities.
 This chap knew all about that rule though and when the first 20-grain dose of trional failed to hand him some sleep and he gave it all of four minutes to act too-he sent the attendant out for 20 more grains of the same. Additionally he foxily told the attendant that he needn't get the order for the second dose 0. Kd at the desk and slipped the at- tendant a bone for dispensing with that part of the rule.
 The attendant got the man the second dose and the rumny gulped that and waited fully three minutes for action on it in the sleep line. When there wasn anything doing in the way of slumber after the second dose he sent out for the third and then the fourth and then the fifth making all told, just 100 grains of Jrional for himself, all projected into his diaphragm within the space of about 70 mnutes-and if that wasn't enough to slaughter a lumberjack, considering that about fifteen. grains of trional is about the average dose to put a grownup per- son to sleep. I'll never touch a second. z After hurlng the final relay of sleep stuff into his torso the rummy collapsed and two doctors have been engaged in yanking the man back from the jaws of death ever since! I've fired the attend ant who got the hundred grains of tri- onal for the man, of course, but that won't get me anything. The next souse who comes along and offers an attend ant a bean per errand TOT doing the same kind of thing will get away with it just the same.
 I've read of the difficulties that the commanders of warships have to keep booze off of their vessels but the naval shippers ought to try running a Turk. ish bath for while if they want to find out what sure enough booze blockade running means. I've had pickles stay here three and four days, getting moro soused all the time, yet I've observed with my own eyes that none of the liquor came from the bar, and all of the at tendants have supposedly been under watch all the time There's some class to a mystery of that kind, but l don't like that kind of class.
 Dangers of the Hot Room.
 But the rummies themselves are ca- pab1e of giving trouble a-p1enty and more without any conniyance whatever on the part of the attendants. For one thing, most of them seem to have a fixed idea that the longer they stay in the hot room of a Turkish bath the better it's going to be for them and the sooner they're going to be able to walk the world, all sobered and pinklewinkied up.
 "The hot room is no place at all for a rummy when he first hits Turkish bath It's liable to do all kinds of things to Iim--weaken him to the fading point give him nice case of heat prostration, cause syncope and collapse, and saw and split him up generally. The fellow who has been on a spree has no business in the hot room at all, I say until after he's had some hours of rest around the place and been massaged and manhandled by the operators and been put under the cold showers and so on.
 But the large nix on all that from the rummies. The hot rooms the place for them, and they make for it, or try 10 make TOT It, dl the SLarL They want to fight If the way to the hot room Is barred to them. Then. as soon as the attendants take their eyes off them, they elink into the hot room and sprawl out there, and no amount of watching will keep them from staying in the hot room for two or three hours at a stretch
 At the end of that time they haven't got enough vitality left to fight a water bug; they've put themselves back about a week in their ambition to get over their toot, and plenty of them thus get them selves into such shape that they have to be carted out to the hospital if their lives are to be saved at all.
 Then there are a lot of them who wander around the place like maverick souls, trying to find other ways of kill ing themselves. One of their favorite methods is to get themselves scalded to death under the hot shower. They know their business, you know and they haven't got time to wait for one of the at
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