Arizona republican., 1919-05-18
HISTORY PASSES AS
 CELEBRATED BARS IN WEST CLOSE DOORS

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, May IT, "The Palace bar turned into d soda water and ice cream parlor-gosh!" To men who are reaching the sunset days of their lives; who were a part of the hectic period of the Comstcck mining boom, and other famous bo- nanza days in the various sections of the unfettered west with it's open gambling and many famous bars and hotels it becomes an effort of the imagination to picture the transition which will occur July 1.
 But the Palace hotel bar, will make the change, it has just been announced. The largest and most famous of the far western institutions of that char acter, whose net income is said to have been in the neighborhood of S175,000 a year, where men discussed mil lions over their cocktails or hghballs and where many a gigantic mining land or stock deal was consummated will fall in line. Behind this bar hangs ! Maxfield's Parrishs mural decoration | The Pied Piper of Hamlin," which cost the hotel management, S25, ,000. A 1 companion piece, "Old King Cole" hangs in the Knickerbocker hotel in ! New York.
 The Lick bar, rebuilt since the earthquake and fire of 1906, is asso- | ciated with the early days of the city 1 and about the name cluster many of | the associations of the vigilantes who put an end to murder and lawlessness in San Francisco.
 The same may be said of the Ex-
 change saloon, the marble floor of
 which was shipped around the Horn about 1S49. It was the headquarters
 of the leaders of San Francisco af-
 fairs
 In Bakersfield, is the Southern bar It was the scene of many a revel ot
 titled and highborn Englishmen who
 used to ride in from the colony al
 Rosedale and filling themselves witt sparkling wine, were prone to remem-
 Der their mounts by pouring bottles of champagne down the throats of
 their horses. Tradition has it tha'
 Lord Shalto Douglas was one of tht gay blades.
 With the passing of the liquor trade will go Jack Doyle's place at Vernon , known to all followers of the prize : ring and where nearly one hundred bartenders serve the crowds. Herr in their heyday has passed Jeffries . Johnson, Choynski, Fitzsimmons Kit } Mccoy, Britt, Ritchie, Young Corbett
 McCiovern, and many other men fame' in the history of the prize ring. In Los Angeles, the Oak, situated . near the courthouse, already ha- f passed out. Its nickname of the 'Dy namite Reef was acquired not ol
 account of any high power stock D may have carried, but because it wa
 the favorite meeting place for man
 of those connected with the trial c
 those concerned in the blowing up c the Los Angeles Times building. Other saloons of Los Angeles aroun !, which memories Of various sort clin : were "Dead Rat" known to police an 4 newspapermen; the Pantheon, tn
 heart of Chinatown, near which nor u than a score of Chinese were lynche . by a mob more than quarter of century ago; and the Bucket C
 Blood" a name to be found in man
 Western cities.
 Texas. already dry, even now onl
 has memories of the Cactus, the Par
 Tor, Wigwam, Gem, The Ranch. th - Ruby. Astor House, Palace. Cone
 Island and Lobby, names which wi ! endure in books of fact and fictio - which have been written about th ! early days when bands of recreatio
 seeking cowpunchers galloped down il @ streets to q fusilIage of pistol shots an rode their ponies up to the bars. Billy Duncan's Silver Dollar Saloo in Denver. which got it's name frol l the silver dollars cemented in the floo
 Tortonis which went Duncan sever
 better and made a flooring of twent 1f dollar gold pieces, have gone, f. T Colorado anticipated national proh n bition.
 > Everywhere it is the same, and whi 'r many mourn the passing of the famol I- resorts all are preparing for the tran! .- sition.