Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1922-12-01
CAME BY CHANCE
.,,v Yorker's Explanation of
wv orinin of Ice-Cream Soda.
=, Who insisted on Cooling
Cu'''', c.odited With the Invention
- the Popular Beverage

e the day and generation of
l"s .fountain feeders. With pro
tne 'o has come the rapid rise Of
nv'' sandwich section Of the marble
ie .ho unch that is quick but not
oSi' rho soda fountain has covered
ilee nntrv along with the car, the
'a l,,ocroph and the film. They have
P u loon accepted, it seems, as among
~ araotest Of life's safe improve
nents, -, 49, sod, f,,,r.
..,n has shown the greatest recent
harcp An interesting sequel to the
lahtoontb amendment is a definite
,'s,ond for the installation of a milk
IN in the middle of every modern
s.nntaIn, With the milk pump has
.,na tbe urn and demand for fresh
,roved coffee, for fresh orange juice,
,rd for stacks Of assorted sand
riches. The latest soda fountain has
.,oro attachments than an autOmo-
bile. -.
But despite all these minor addi-
.,rs q soda fountain Is still a soda
onntaln and not a restaurant, or a
,.n,, stand. or a coffee counter These
n.ro NOT interfered with its main
a,IsVion II still does its biggest
hnsIness In the sale of those original
American connections commonly
called soft drinks, remarks a writer
IN the New York Sun.
Not so long ago there was no such
thing as an ice-c"eam soda. The
nride Of frst-class fountain was not
IN the number Of its strip pumps nor
in rs lars of crushed fresh fruit.
Rather was rank gagged by the num-
her of kinds of mineral water kept
m draft. Plain charged wafer was
moi served out as vichy or settler or
ANYTHING else a customer happened to
ask for.
THE soda clerks Of today don't
know any better, most of them" said
an old-timer. "They think al car
donated water Is about the same
thing.
why, one place on Broadway must
have had eight or ten mineral waters
on draft all the time. Nichy and
KISsingen. Kaiser and Settler, Deep
Rock half a dozen others. They came
in by the barrel, mostly from Sara
tOga,
Every place else had them, too.
The older stores, the bar Mt the Hoff-
man house, the Fifth Avenue hotel.
marie. 1t was the regular thing to
take a couple of glasses Of mineral
water or soda, or even phosphate.
which was then rated as n tonic, in
the morning.
This demand for an early drink
YES the thing that led to the diScov-
cry of ice-cream soda. OF course.
Philadelphia claims that ice cream
soda was invented down there. and
went so far as publicly to give Robert
Green credit for starting it. They
gave him the credit after he was dead.
But they can hardly make a clear
case, and I hold to the Eighth avenue
version Of its invention. New York
has Just as good claim.
The thing was entirely accidental.
Early In the morning a customer came
INTO lower Eighth avenue drug store
and asked for a glass of soda. The
proprietor apologized because he had
no Ice and offered a plate of ice
cream Instead.
That was no substitute for the
'nmg wanted. The customer wanted
Ooa' and insisted that the ice cream
ne put into 1t If there was no Ice
available. That was done. The re
sui was remarkable, and ice cream
SOFA has been spreading over the
country ever since.
"Sundaes are a much later idea.
Inc sale Of them began, | think, by
al eHort to eVade in a legal manner
ue OLD Sunday closing laws, when Ice
"eah parlors were not open Drug
STORES were generally not closed, and
mere Ice cream was camOuhaged and
sold as 'sundae.'
but nobody ever believed that sit
ung at soda fountain would take
lahK as great popular diversion all
o'eF the United States. In less than
une generation that has happened.
Times change"