The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1920-03-04
"HINKY DINK'S" FAMOUS
CHICAGO BAR CLOSED
GLOOM RElGNs AMONG HABIT
UEs OF REsoRT-PRoPRIE-
TOR TO SELL CANDY.
Hinky DinkIs plaee Is eIosed up.


Scarcely recovered from the shock
entailed by the advent of constitution
al prohibition. bibulous Chicagoans
were given another jolt that still has
them dazed when the words quoted
above flashed around the city For
the little feller's place as the fam
GUS bar room which Alderman Mi
chael "Hinky Dink" Kenna had oper-
ated for 80 years was known was as
much Chicago institution as the
stockyards or the ''Boul Mich"
The word was true, however, for
"Hinky Drinks" saloon, called the
Workingmen's Exchange, is dark and
the doors are barred Not only that
and this, perhaps, is the browning ca
tastrophe, but 'Hinky Drinks" swell
buffet a few doors up the street,
where the famous alderman had his
personal headquarters, is being con
verted into candy shop.
Admitting that national prohibition
had forced him to take the count"
"Hinky Dink" INDUCED in some remi-
niscences of his career as a proprietor
of brace Of Chicago's most famous
barrooms.
Worlds Largest Bar
The Exchange had the longest bar
in the world if ! do say it myself" |
said Kenna, and has had more dis
tinguished visitors in addition to
hordes of hos, than any other saloon
on record. Every man of note who
ever visited Chicago has come to the
exchange at least once in it's % years
IF history Why. the daily cost Of the
free lunch alone over there used to
De $50 in the good old times and we
never used less than 20 barrels of
Deer between sunrise and sunrise to
i'll and shove the tallest and coolest k
n the city across the bar. It used to
keep a small brewery busy supplying
IS
My other saloon-this one. where {
have my Office am changing into
candy store"
lie glanced sadly about toward the
Jack bar, now graced with rows of
soft drink bottles and candy boxes.
Il don't know how the boys will take
o the chocolate drops and spearmint"
he said. 'ibut there's nothing left to do 0
'ut this. The rent here is $500 a
month. but I've got to have some =
'lace as hangout. and this will con-
niue to be my office and headquarters c
Fhere ] can meet my constituents and
ak things over with them.
Proud of His Record. /
I'm proud of the way I've run my
ialoons, if I do say it myself I've
lever permitted a woman to enter
ither place except for charitable q
purpose or to sell some merchandise.
md no woman can say she ever
Fought a drink in a saloon l conduct {
3D.
And never allowed any music. :
With the exception of that furnished
W Victrola. which l bought to en-
ertain my friends. J
II saw all this coming-this dry
ation stuff First. those fellows
cwn in Washington began monkey
ne with the booze and then with the
eer Then I knew it was all off I
sed to own some stock in a brewery. d
nd at a directors meeting. / told the :
Their directors that the United states /,
would be bone dry within six years. L
hey laughed. and / told them if \
hat I said didn't come true. I'd eat
he brewery. smokestack and all.
aven't had to eat it-and there's no 4
Sc for it now, whatever. It's too =
oH hn e h.. !.
ouldn't have voted on the question B
Put well have to get used to the 3
eve order of things This business =
MT the only one that's changing. d
AXE politics / read in the paper re- r
sntly that out of II, 900 Chicago cleo -
on officials for the year 1920 nearly r
700 are women. It's a changing F.
orld. sure enough" Fl
Other Noted Bars. ~ ~
But other famous Chicago bars G,
sides "Hinky Drinks" have hit the CT
it, There's "Old Quincy No. g." 81
lunt Of city hall and county poll ~
clans. which is now a Knights of Fl
lmmbus employment agency for the ia
ldiers. sailors and marines: Rig "a "a
liners. soon to become the site of To
drug store its Lucullan free lunch X
hot roast beef and baked ham. long k'
matter of dim legend; Sti,lsons. be- =
'ed Of epicures, a coffee shop: Nor -
S on Randolph street, a doughnut
Owe. DR. Lanes lunchroom, |
lere they serve 'em sunny side up
d so forth and so on