The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-11-01


dry"
Last January. after long agitation
by the Anti Saloon League, congress
finally passed the Sheppard DRY
District OF Columbia Bill" Previous
ly congress had passed the Reed
bone dry amendment that made alb
solutely dry prohibition states that
still admitted the importation OF
liquor for personal use. There was
no real effort made to make this
amendment apply to the dry District
of Columbia bill and everyone in
GLIDING the Anti-Saloon League
seemed satisfied The result is that,
beginning tomorrow. liquor OF all
kinds may be brought into the Dis
trict for personal use from even
nearby towns IN Maryland, but the
purchase or drinking OF it in public
will be prohibited.
Needless to relate there has been a
steady and not always unsurreptitious
boarding of liquor supplies, and, 1t is
limited, by not a few senators and
representatives as well as the plain
people. One prominent citizen recent
ly and many times as carelessly.
boosted over the mahogany that he
had $1,000 worth stored in his cellar,
whereupon all present looked up his
address in the telephone book for
future reference. Nor did the re-
cent bounding prices of liquor deter
the hoarders
One of the interesting features of
the drying up Of Washington is that
It makes it the sole dry national cap
ital OF the world Not a few who
have the city's interests at heart
NIT
visitors, particularly foreign digni-
taries, who look upon the offering Of
wine as the sealing pledge Of friend
ship and welcome, as it is expected
that the law will be construed to
bar even the serving of guests with
in ones home. The clubs of the
famous men that gather in the po-
litical pivot of the nation also face
gloomy future, for, while many
members make their only home in
the capital, the doubt over whether
club is legally a domicile, even if a
man lives at it permanently, seems
to render it illegal for him to keep
a personal supply in a club.
Many saloons have already closed
their doors through exhaustion of
stocks and a desire to be out of the
business as quickly as possible as
long as the inevitable is at hand but
there are probably enough still op-
Grating to take care of those who
wish to make the dousing of the
White Lights for the last time at
midnight a kind of a requiem For
the younger, needless throng it will
be simply the opportunity for zone
last grand souse." But for an older,
staider and more substantial group of
Washingtonians there will be memoir
les Of jolly times with jolly gentlemen
now passed beyond And so at mid
night passed some landmarks known
not only from Atlantic to Pacific, but
all over the world.
ShOemaker's, where the rickey was
born in 1858 and popularity known as
"Cobweb Hail." and which has an
international reputation, will not go
by the board on account of the dry
law, but will be continued as a soft
drink emporium, for a time at least /
Probably more famous men have pat
ronized Shoes than any other bar in
the country. Among its patrons have
been at least one president. senators
and congressman by the score, cabinet /
officers, diplomats, supreme court |
justices, newspaper men, government !
officials of high and low degree and |
dNLOiSs IOItl6utIb Oh uOl6s Wien VS. |
iting Washington, Outlines found
their way into the place where the
liquor was good and the company de-
lightful, while famous actors always
welcomed a Washington engagement,
as it gave them an opportunity to taste
the best whiskey that ever came out
Of old Kaintuck."
General Grant, when he was Presi-
lent, frequently dropped into Shoes
or little of your best Bourbon"
The politicians always flocked to the
place and around election time, be-
ore the reformers got in their dead
y work and made it a crime to
wager, the betting was very active
The late Colonel George A. William
on, who presided over the mahogany S
ar with dignity, frequently held t
arge stakes placed with him by rival c
oliticians a
One of the most unique wagers a
yer made in Shoes was the outcome S
f an engagement between two we'll h
nown Washingtonians as to whether b
ham cooked in ink was as palatable T.
s one cooked in champagne The
ANS were cooked in the rear of the VI
lace, eight quarts Of ink being re- h
uired for one and twelve quarts of 4