Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-16
NEW BARR0OM RULES ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS
Liquor Men Themselves Pro- Red Mems Festival Crowded
pose Some Reforms. on First Night
AWAY WITH THE GROWLE Err JUDGE MANN IN THE CITY
Doomed for Governor Addresses
to Co. Daughters of the Conederacy.
KEGS TO STAY SIDEWALKS CIGAR CASE IS DISMISSED
Brought
the Excise Board Burial
New
Liquor Men Themselves Pro-
pose Some Reforms. :.
AWAY WITH THE GR0WLER
Likewise the Free Lunch Is Doomed
to Go.
KEGS TO STAY OFF SIDEWALKS
All These and Other Regulations
the Excise Board Will Be
Asked to Enforce.

To the man who gets nine-tenths of his
subsistence from that ancient and honor
able institution. the free lunch, these
are days filled with dark apprehension.
for the free lunch dispensaries are on
record as opposing table dhote ON
ner and being tremendously in favor OF
placing few dainty crackers and bit
of cheese in front of the man who wants
a premium with his beer. If a great
majority of the Federation of Retail
Liquor Dealers has any weight there will
be no more use for the signs which read
Free Clam Soup All Day To-day or
Free and Unlimited Sauerkraut and
the like.
Neither shall man drink from "a
bucket upon the street. This pleasing
sight marks certain neighborhoods as the
oasis where the guaranteed largest growi-
er can be filled for a nickel. Drivers OF
wagons are afflicted with this drinking
in -the-street habit and when one OF them
learns of "a liberal bartender he shouts
the merry word to his friends, and before
long the streets in this oasis are cioSsed
with the wagons of thirsty Souls VINO
crave to wet their clay.
Yet drinking liberties of this kind may
be cut down. All because the assocla-
ton mentioned has adopted few rules
for the twentieth century beer drlnker,
and seeks to have them Incorporated in
the stipulations which the excise board
will he asked to uphold rigidly In the
license hand-out shortly to take place.
No More of "the Growler."
And it's down with the growler. too. 1t
looks as if the honest workingman will no
longer be able to shake pennies from the
baby's bank and sent young Albert to
rI,n
nail. No longer will the bard of Willow
Tree alley sing:
"A light in the window. can in the hall,
Fl. cents will fill it, drink for us all.
The man who sits upon his door step
in red shirt and a derby and takes OBJ
servations through the bottom of beer
bucket will have to retire to the privacy
of his home and drink the bottled stuff.
wearing dinner jacket and pumps-or
else go down to the corner saloon, place
) cents upon the bar. drink his little glass
of beer nibble a. a piece OF cheese that
would not tempt hungry rat-from the
size of it-and bidding the man in the
white apron a polite goodbye. make
tripping and dainty exit at the swinging
doors and go outside and call down the
wrath of heaven In words choking with
sulphurous profanity on the collection of
ick-headed NUTS who murdered the
growler.
And all barkeeps must be males. Good
bye. bar maids: we'll miss you when
you're gone Neither can Jones shoot
dice with Smith for cigars. because the
barkeep has thrown the dice in the river
and games of chance of any description
are no longer to be played in booZariums
if the association has anything to say
about it,. They do not suggest just where
man can deal cold hands for the
drinks, but you cannot gamble where the
drinks are sold.
Kegs Off the Sidewalks.
And those mountains of beer kegs!
When the thirsty traveller spies the loom
ing heights of piled-up kegs before him.
he probably says to himself: They do
big business here. Look at the empties.
Me for the inside and he straightway
goes in and finds bill and Muggsy inside.
and after slapping them on the back.
says, ''Whatll yo have?' But there
won't be any beer kegs piled mountain
high if the association has it's way. Prob
ably they will be used for kindling wood
in the barkeep'S house: anyhow, they
won't take up most of the sidewalk.
And nobody shall have the appearance
of being under the influence of liquor
while on the premises. Fill 'em up, boys;
drink all night, so longs you don't feel
1t. When you do and the room begins to
go round and round. take one of DR..
Bluffs patent pifflicated plugs and stick
it in the wall 1t pins the room to it's
place and 1t whirls no more. Fine little
invention too. Let's all try 1t tonight.
Do not have any .cut-rate signs, either,
or any other unnecessary signs. It's vul-
gar Just imagine, would any real swell
drinking gentleman want to take his friend
into place where the front was covered
with signs advertising three-cent whisky?
And would ii not be nice If the boys stop
ped expecting Christmas presents at their
favorite bar? The association thinks this
Christmas business is nuisance, and is
beginning to suspect that many prominent
drinkers affiliate themselves with more
than one bar about Christmas time and
scoop in too many presents.
There are some other suggestions. too.
and the association wants to see them all
in force. They tend to making the saloon
q real necessity to any neighborhood.