The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-01-08

ONE w EEK
OF SAHARA
BY Edgar G. Wheeler

raspberry drops and smiles!
At the end of the first lap
across the Sahara the Tacoma
camel awoke bright and early this
morning and felt his pulse.
II was beating sturdily, with
out q hitch. Proving again that
q camel can go seven days with
out drink.
"Ill take gin fizz,' announc-
ed thirsty one as he put his foot
on the rail at the Olympic club.
The bartender cracked a JOY
Gus smile as he cast his eye over
the shelves loaded with beef tea,
U-No, LOU, Golden Foam, grape
Juice. He poured out glass OF
buttermilk.
Not Prohi Lecture, But
Business? Why you can't beat
IT," he observed. ITS rushing.
They're taking to the new stuff
like baby takes to bottle. No
body seems to worry; everybody
seems to be happy and satisfied.
And we don't have to pay a ST.
200 license fee."
This is not a prohibition lee
ture, but it's true.
The dire predictions of calam-
ity, the doubts, fears and fore
bodings which have been on the
lips of hundreds for months, have
failed to materialize in Tacoma
at leafs during the first week OF
Sahara.
No More Brawls.
Have you taken a look about
the city since Jan. /?
There are faces that are less
pale and drawn. There are
laughs that are more frequent
and hearty.
And where are the brawls and
ugly cursings that used to make
the bartender irritable and sour?
He draws his glass of soda pop
with a josh and the man at the
other side of the rail quaffs 1t to
the memory of other days and the
health of 1915.
Everybody's feeling good, ex-
cept the grippites. The old flash
toned sport which ushered in the
new year has continued. The
city is looking up.
Police Station Idle.
At the expense of wet feet,
let's go tn rounds in the slush
At the police station all is US
quiet as graveyard. Yesterday
there were no names of offenders
on the court sheet, therefore. the
police court adjourned for va
cation. From 11:45 Thursday TO
1926 last night there was not a
single arrest--the longest quiet
period in the history of the police
department.
There have been Just two ar
rsts for drunkenness in a week.
The jail-bars have lost their
old-time friends and faces.
Dewey's Doubling Size.
But the candy stores and soda
fountains are the places where
the new faces are being seen.
Muehlenbruch's for instance, has
noted decided run on raspberry
drops and other sweets and tarts
which serve to oil up the jaws.
Dewey's, on Pacific avenue,
has rented the store next door and
Is doubling its capacity for serv-
ing candy and soft drinks.
All the candy shops are put
ting in new supplies for record
business. Soda fountains are
stocking up with the most IN
+ heard-of concoctions In history of
every conceivable variety--pink,
white, red or green, whichever
you may prefer.
( Order Hot "Chocs."
Chilly truck drivers draw up
! their machines at the curb and
order q hot chocolate or a ginger
ale.
And the movies-the weather
has been as bad as 1t possible
could be for them, yet they all
say they've been having a clear
weather business.
s Business is humming along at
ITS usual rate as II nothing out
OF the way had happened. Bust
ness men are optimistic. Bank
presidents are looking for gains
in their savings deposits.
A north end woman called up
Opie & Co. yesterday. why
haven't you lowered my rent, now
that the saloons have gone out Of
business?" she complained.
Just because nobody's rents