The Nenana daily news., 1919-05-31
FAMOUS WESTERN
 BARS WILL PASS |NIO OBLIVION

SAN FRANCISCO.-"The Palace bar turned into soda-water and ice cream parlor-GoshE" To men who are reaching the sunset days of their lives; who were a part of the hectic period of the Comstock mining boom and other famous bonanza days in the various sec tions of the unfettered West with its open gambling and many famous bars and hotels, it becomes an effort of the imagination to picture the transition which will take place July l.
 But the Palace hotel bar will make the change, it Is announced. The largest and most famous of the Far Western institutions of that character, whose net income is said to have been in the neighborhood of S175, 900 a year, where men dis cussed millions over their cocktails or highballs, and where many . gigantic mining, land, or stock deal was consummated, will fall in line. Behind this bar hangs Maxfeld Par rish's mural decoration. The Pied Piper of Hamelin," which cost the hotel management s25, 900. A com- panion piece, "Old King Cole v hangs in the knickerbocker hotel in New York.
 The Lick bar, rebuilt since the earthquake and fire of 1906, is as- sociated with the early days of the city, and about the name cluster many of the associations of the Nigilantes. who put an end to mur- der and lawlessness in San Fran cisco.
 The same may be said of the Exchange saloon, the marble floor of which was shipped around the Horn about 1845. It was the head quarters of the leaders of San Fran cisco affairs.
 In Bakersfield is the Southern bar. It was the scene of many q revel Of titled and highborn Eng. lishmen who used to ride in from the colony at Rosedale and. filling themselves with sparkling wine were prone to remember thei1 mounts by pouring bottles of cham. pagne down the throats of their horses. Tradition has it that Lord Sholto Douglas was one Of the gay blades.
 With the passing of the liquo, trade will go Jack Doyle's place al Vernon, known to all followers ot the prizering, and where nearly one hundred bartenders serve the crowds. Here in their heyday have passed Jefries, Johnson. Choynski Fitzsimmons, Kid Mccoy. Britt Ritchie, Young Corbett. McGovern and many other men famed in the history of the prizering.
 In Los Angeles, the Oak, situated near the courthouse, already ha: passed out. Its nickname of the Dynamite Reef" was acquired, not on account of any high-power stock II may have carried, but because II was the favorite meeting place for many of those connected with the trial of those concerned in the blowing up of the Los Angeles Times building ~.. .s' |. ~
 Other saloons of Los Angele: around which memories of various sorts cling were the Dead Rat known 10 police and newspaper men; the Pantheon, the heart ot Chinatown, near which more thar score of Chinese were lynched by a mob more than a quarter of 7 century ago; and the Bucket o Blood" a name to be found ir many Western cities.
 Texas. already dry, even now ha only memories of the Cactus, th' Parlor, Wigwam, Gem, The Ranch The Ruby, Astor House, Palace Coney Island, and Lobby, name which will endure in books of fac and fiction which have been write, about the early days when band of recreation-seeking cow-puncher gallored down the streets to fusillade of pistol shots and rod, their ponies up to the bars Billy Duncan's Silver Dollar ga loon, in Denver, which got its nam from the silver dollars cemente, into the floor; Tortoni'g, which wen Duncan several better and made flooring of twenty-dollar pold niace=