The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-02-23
ELI IS SAD, FOR M0RY'S TAVERN
 PLANS TO CLOSE

New Haven, Feb. zZ.-IHe dH- nouncement made exclusively in the famous old Yale tavern. ''Mory's, IS to close its doors Sept. l, has attract ed great interest here and about the country. The New York Evening Post last night contained the follow ing:
 "Mory's" is to close it's doors Sept. I. Conditions at Yale have caused a falling off in business at the Tenn pie Bar"
 Never again will the ''heeler" be able to send 70 Tempora! O Mory.s!' to the long-suffering Record editor. Never again will Prof. Bailey's stu dent of social conditions be able to compile a chart of the average" am- ount spent on drinks by the Yale un- dergraduate. No more hours will be wasted in bibulous carpentry on hard wood table tops. The zest of the temperance argument in Dwight hall is gone. The pride of sophomore hood is departed.
 No more memories of Carrie and the Hatchet, no more Toby's, no more cup men, no more Hogans, no more scrambled eggs and sausages, no more dope fests'' in the springtime, no more welcome for the lonely grad, no more quartets-no more "coffee from my own estate.'
 No place in New Haven outside of
 
 closely associated with the life of Yale than Mory's. There the boy from prep. school got his first impression of the godlfke sophomore. In fresh" man year one looked forward to the next years privilege of being able to you proudly took your sub-freshman n friend for supper there-chop with peas and a Toby of ale for the guest; scrambled eggs and sausages, and d Toby of ale for the host.
 For it was that chop that formed the imm ediate secondary function of Mory's. Mory's is primarily a bar ''The Temple Bar.'' Secondarily. 1t is a house of chops-of Southdown chops, invaria bly, and inseparably ac- companied by sausages and baked po- tatoes-and, occasionally, by peas.
 When Table Scarring Began.
 The third material element of Mory's is the table. When the orig : inal proprietor in careless moment, allowed some egotistic youth to prove the folly of a name by inscribing his initials on the top of the polished ta- ble he wrought far better than he knew. For the precedent took root, as precedents will in tradition -wor- shipping community, with the result that every successive owner of deco rative initials tried carving them deep in that brown surface.
 On the walls now hang the origin al tables-ikons for the disciple of MOry's Though he can never equal the handicraft of his forbears. he can at least emulate them, and try to make the tables of the present wor- thy Q hang on other walls as lesser divin1ties for future generations.
 Tobys, tables, chops-these three, and who dares say which was the greatest?
 Together, set as they were in a background of open fireplaces, Welsh rabbits, and old college prints, the warks of Mory's. Other fads may have crept in-shredded wheat and cream, a championship New London crew or two on the wall, telephone in the corner-even glass of milk for the Philistine. But the original three endured.
 That Glorious September Week.
 Mory's stands at the corner of Temple and Center streets, one block from the Green. Annually, the night before college opens it is in full glory. Trepidating freshmen, shfvering at the thoughts of the rush" to come, are taken there under the wing of their bodies nourished and their nerves steadier before torchlight pro- cession, wrestling matches, and a night of bolted doors and vengeful SOphOmOreS. For week or so Mory's keeps up in full swing. There are many acquaintances to be enter tained new men to be made to feel at home summer experiences to be talked over Then, gradually these more formal sessions give place to the informal; the long tables are de- serted for short ones in the corners, parties of ten or a dozen dwindle to groups of four or two. Louis Linder has time to leave his duties and have a quiet smoke and drink with his old friend of go, S.
 The night before the Harvard game Mory's is crammed to the ut most capacity of it's three small rooms. Here the tavern appears in a new capacity-the centre for the entertainment of out-of-town guests. The secrecy of Yale societies prevents that welcome for: which Harvard clubs are famous. Mory's virtually shares with the University club, Heu- bleins and the Hofbrau House res possibility flor offering such hospital itu If Mory'S is the captre of Nau