The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-26
DrydaIe, Sandbar Saloon VIII
Iage, Near LeavenwOrth.
Hundreds of Soldiers and Civil
ians Quench Thirst.
TOUCH OF ORIENT IS THERE
Japanese and FilipinOs Brought
to Kansas by Officers.
Ex-LeayenwOrth JOintists Con-
duet Thirst ParlOrs.

Ever know Kansas has Barbary
coast?
Almost that. anyway, is Drydale'
the sand-bar saloon village right @cross
the Missouri river from LeaVenWorth.
Old Barbary coast at Frisco as PFC
tured. existed for no other purpose
than to appeal to the passions OF man
and enrich the purses of few APP
parently Drydale has no other excuse
Tor existence and neither has East
Hundreds of working men, soldiers
and negroes crossed the recently con
structed foot bridge last SATURDAY
njobf IT, celebrate on the sand-bar
Occasionally a woman, white or plach,
skunk along the rails to ply her traue
and accost the intoxicated men 40
they reeled back to their homes "heh
the saloons closed at u CLOCK
soldiers in Uniforms.
Truly. nothing could be more pic
turesaue and stir "reminiscences IN OH
timers who remembered the saloolS y
carry days than a sight OF DryuaIe
saloons on a Saturday night soldiers
in inc uniforms of their government,
rode up to the door of one or anotEet.
of the five saloons First ChaHSE;
soldiers Haven, etc, ueu LlietI
horses and trooped to the bars. mere
ti1e,- remained until closing time, most
Of them spending the larger part O.
their months salary You away
find soldiers punched together IN
saloon as 1t is mighty hard on the eyes
for anyone 70 mix with them.
It's a motley crOwd-a buncn %
soldiers in a Drydale saloon Iner5 >
the raw boned. red checked couhC-y
boy. young in the service tllIi-EIS
derina a small beer in the early part
- an evening but ending with WHISKY
and a headache. There's the oShch
frov7, New York. born and reared IN
the same street with "Gyp the Iloo >
clare Themselves to be in the service
merely because the police in Anefl-
can cities don't care Tor thell - .1I,,
pany Others are bright youH5 III 80 80,
Some well educated. in the service 1or
adventures sake while still others are
- ,rer1 vvith a limited education but am
j,itiouS n. get to a high monsoon
office and retire on pig pehsion'
Touch of Orient.
Then. there are negro, Filipino ano
1,+sTssc servants brought from the
Pbilip1iues by the officers, the town
bovs'' way back in the shadows rear
fui of being seen by neighbor or a
parents friends. And last pu1 NJ
least. the Alizsourians from the 100
NILS who still drive their buckooards:
Jrive up to the saloons, buy Jus
and return TO their picturesque hOilS7
i'm the Missouri foothills
WAY back in the war Gays tne Pi
slavery .vmpathizers were driven 70
platte county while the aDoliIlOilis'S
remained in Leavenwortn county oHu q
nloodIess fcud still exists 10 some eA
tent between the two border counties
Vow Platte county is getting LeaVen-
worth's money and apparently sne .
haDpv. although many of her cltizenS
are crying loudly against the
grace on the sand-bar-
Notgomery Knows En-.
N-o- sbo,,ld one forget, the Drydale
saloo11xeepers and bartenders. hey re
Familiar faces. most Of them. t.
Teavenvvorth man or Bill Montgo-nery
or / p Coleman or Judge Lindsay.
Sfos+ 81 them are men arrested IN
davs of yore for running joints men
who eot scared out early IN the game
some operated saloons in Leave a
worth before the prohii3ltlon N ,l,s
ming 'eu along the same old Lnes,
electric pianos. lunch counters ana the
poorest cigars made
looking across the river one sees
+be Ii[hts Of L,eavenworth on the hills.
hears the booming of floating Ice
arainst the bridge tiers, sees drunken
men Keeling in the bushes aiohs li5e
banks, hears occasionally the ma ~,
whistles Of trains coming across the
Back TO Their Wives.
At - o'clock on Saturday nights.
the saloons close the doors a stream
OF orunker men reel across the bridge
where two Leavenworth policemen
look over and if John Barleycorh
hasn't too strong a hold of them, per
NIT them to to return home to heir
wives and mothers
Tonight a Topeka laboring man iron
ably will go home. give his wife most OF
his wages and take the family 10 =
movie show. At the same time many OF
Ieavenworth's wOrkrlen are crossing
the bridge to spend a night OF real
life" while their families remain al
home.