The sun., 1909-01-10
THE SALOON kEEPER'S JOB.
lie Has to Sta, on II sixteen Hours \
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| Tile relations between the brewer ard
the saloon keeper are close and compl-
Gated declares a saloon keeper himself
in McCiure's In looking at a number
! Of saloons with an eye to purchase had
/ found that every one Of them was really
owned by brewer.
| The system under which became the
Man Friday Of my brewery is practically
universal in New York. The saloon is
leased the tixtares are supplied and the
license is paid by the brewer
When bought my place discovered
t lat the brewery held mortgag of ~. 900
on its fixtures. These fixtures when they
were new had cost perhaps 5000 The
fact that the mortgage was so much larger
, than the value Of the property il covered
made il practically certain it would never
be paid of and that the saloon would re-
main the property of the brewery.
Another peculiar fact about this mort
gage was that il was dead-that is. |
paid no interest directly on il. To all
intents and purposes the fixtures that it
covered coust ituted part OF the brewery
I paid my rent to- the brewery, but al
though it was high for the locality 81 900
4 year paid no more than was stipu-
lated in the lease held by the brewery
from the owner.
The brewery cleared 500 wear from
dvC ncing my 81 900 license and receiving
hack from me SIS week for fortv-eigbt
weeks in the yer. hut the interest on the
iN;ures was apparently charged in the
profits on the beer. where it could un-
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have good reason 10 believe thev made
750 per cent. gross profit on the beer at
the price they sold il to me
"0ne Of the first things | discovered
aboIt the business CONTRARY to all my
a~rectations YVES IN long hours and the
'bsolute lfck Of leisure. NV saloon. like
III others in that vicinity, wes OPENED at
5 in the morning by the bartender and
porter.
AT =. sometimes later. arrived
from NV home downtown. and from
8 in the morning until midnight or
later | had to stay at my place At I
o clock | sent awav the bT -tender for his
dinner and some sleep until 8. and during
those five hours | tended bar myself.
From until midnight the bartender
as rule ran the place. In the morning
he and the porter we're kept busy cleaning
the place. washing dishes and rinsing
glasses. preparing the free lunch. serving
il from ii O'Clock on and waiting on early |.
customers There was q great dea OF |
transient trade ell THROUGH the daytime |
especially from teamsters who rrSsed
nv our piece and came in to get drink .
or q ciger while their horses got their All .
OF water at the trough outside
THE bartender's working day at the .
sa loon averaged therefore fourteen hours
from in the morning until in the after
noon and from in the afternoon till mid
night; my own hours we're even longer.
usually sixteen. II was seldom earlier
than in tho morning when got home,
and to be at my place again at gave me /
less than five hours OF actual sleep.
j picked out an experienced German
bartender who had been seventeen wears
in the business, was known 10 almost
everybody in the neiehborhood and had
already tended bar in my place for a
former proprietor He showed me rec
ommends' Of high character, but none
OF them stated that he was honest.
so asked him; Henry, are YOU hon.
est? He smiled a sad and derisive snile
As honest as any bartender. The really
honest bartender does not exist. You can
take that from me