New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-03
THE GERM-PROOF BAR
Where HighbaIIs Are Drunk
THROUGH Surgeons Gauze.

srhe germ-proof bar provided for in Alder
man Culbertsons ordinance, wherc you
will drink your highban thro'Sr surgeons
game and the vhiskey will h boiled be-
fore being served. may be expected L re-
duce the ills that tipplers are heir TO at
least % per cent.
The sight. unfortunately now too famil-
lar. of persons going along the street nope
lesslv under the influence of germs VIII be
banshed.
No more will the deadly microbe tnat
turks in the beer glass be able 10 trip ana
throw strong men. Strangled AT It's BIRTH
the malignant, pathogenic bacillus tetani'
whose habitat is in the gin rickey, no
longer will have terrors for imbibers of
tnat popular and soon-to-be innocuous
beverage.
Likewise the parasitic diatom genus ju-
lepus) which has the peculiar property or
causing the victim on whom il has fast
ened 10 see double will be stretched cold
and rfeless BY the new process Of crush
ing the mint by a sterilized hygenic trip
h$nmer.
Alfred in steriized clothing, with his
head and face swathed I'm baked linen, rub
her gloves on his hands. and breathing
through three thicknesses OF chemically
treated sauze. the scientific bartender will
take your order-provided. Of course, you
bring your own glass and a physicians
certificate that you are therapeutically
sound.
Putting your glass through a vapor BATH
generated from distilled water. he Will
draw three fingers of boiled rye from
test tube and add the ingredients called
for from other sterilized retorts and cruel
bles back OF the bar.
All the bottles will be handled by auto
matte machinery, and an inspector in a
diving suit will stand by TO see that the
bartender doesn't touch them with his
hands The piece OF ice in your glass, the
lemon. the cherry or the olive. as the case
NAV be- Will be wrapped in a separate
niece Of sterilized gauze and another piece
Of cauze placed over the glass when the
I drink is set before you.
drinkers have long been agreed that the
deleterions effects sometimes produced by
bar goods have their origin not in the
alcohol. as many ignorant persons contend.
but in the deadly cellular germs IN the
water in which the glasses are washed
/ These germs may ~ 1Hdiu'N "eoihSA ~
large measure by taking whisky straight.
and the more careful and scientific drink
ers do this.
But no amount Of precaution can Whohy
safeguard the most careful drinker from
the deadly glass dipped in water that
swarms with these malignant microbes
When IL is considered the i'll effects these
water germs produce the uncertain slehl'
m. pains In the head, the wabbly CONDITION
Of the knees and the impairment or Judg-
ment respecting the time OF night the
schedules of owl cars and the PURCHASING
power OF a dollar. no right thinking man
can oppose this ordinance OF Alderman Cui-
bertson to overpower and hogoiho 'he
whole germ family
Too long they have preyed on our uIinh-
ers and defeated the SOLDERING ana s'eauS-
ing effects OF alcohol Every man VINO has
had 10 go home after midnight ana eA-
plain TO his wife that the germs nave so'
him. and has been met with LOUD hoo's'
owes a debt OF gratitude TO MT Nuloert-
son for thus nooly' eSming to Ms suPP0i l
Let the war on germs 90 Oh.
Let IL 20 on until the last one ~ chaseu
from the water vat under the DaI' ana
our saloons once more take their pace
among the leading hygienic INSTITUTIONS Oh
the country.--Kansas city star