The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1922-08-23
SOMETHING ABOUT new
YORK'S water CURE
Search for Unconstitutional Liquor a
Disappointing Errand
(By a Metropolitan Obscrver)

IlpiIloil anu INC" DIX Is lllaC CIle
average New Yorker refused to take
the then impending law seriously be-
cause "it could not be DONE"
That is not true. New York City is
about as dry as any other community
of the United States. But this must
be understood to mea nthe New York
0 fthe real New Workers, those who
have their homes in this huge city
and are not sojourning for indefinite
periods for the sake Of merely being
identified with its life.
The New Workers. New York is
magic city. 1t exists even though it
is difficult to describe. There has
gone forth to credulous world that
New York means the Great White
Way, now a misnomcr, or some Of
those numbered streets evasively
classified rs Thirties. Forties and
Fifties, or both. The New Workers.
New York is alike unto the Parisians'
Paris. In either case these real cities
are discoverable only by the serious
traveller and the thoughtful passer-
by.
There are many unrelated hodge
podge districts within the city proper
that are commonly considered New
York when they are not New York at
all For what happens in these re-
spective districts New York takes the
of the forrer than of the latter, the
layhan draws conclusions that are
otf-color. One hears of "wct- Broad
way" and of "humid Sixth avenue"
and of "dewy Forty second street."
One hears about the barrels of "reli-
gious wine" flowing around Hester
street, or the beer that can be found
in Teutonic neighborhoods on Second
and Third avenues, or the alleged
Chianti of Mulberry street or the imi-
tation st. Julien to be had at French
restaurants just as one hears about
the perfect coffee" that one may OBJ
tain at Brazilian coffee houses run
by Greeks, perhaps, who know moth
ing about South American geography.
The Fvewink Fiction
There is tction aboard in the land
that the mere eyewink, if accom-
panied by the savoir faire that char
acterizes the man about town and
which stewards and walters regard
as the sine qua non of safety, Vol
steadily. speaking, will be the magic
wand that produces any and every
drink, but the fact is that in real
New York one can wink until dooms-
day and fail to get anything more
than Croton water. Water is the
regulation metropolitan drink; it is
the American drink of the average
American. In this respect New York
is United States.
The wink, of course, is metaphorical
No such thing is needed No honest
to-goodness waiter would know what
to do with it. He might think that
the patrons eye suffered from turn
ed eyclash. At such places where
drinks are purveyed one must ask
what is wanted even if it is not seen
anywhere around. Whether it will
ftorthcome depends upon the impross-
ION that the patron created upon talk
ing his place. And after that he will
be sold, if the sale follows, what is
called drink, under many guises
and disguises. These transactions
which take place daily by the hund-
red thousand-arc like art purchases :;
the price day be too high or fraud
may be practiced.
Srch transactions, however. are
really not intended to transfer good
and rare Intoxicating beverages to
the first caller therefor. no matter
the considcrat tion involved, but rather
to produce "local COLOR The cav
dog and the chap who likes to appear
as the experienced and blasc man
about town would be disappointed if
he did not get this mental prismatic
effect, especially if he wishes to show
off, as usually happens to be the case
1t is either the friend from the cold
home town" or it is the girl of the
hour. In any event he likes to cX-
rand with the consciousness of being
superior person, who knows the
ropes. who snaps his fingers at the
idea that there is such a thing as for
hidden fruit
Advertising the Trade
New York being commercial
town, New York sells this local color
to all comcrs, indiscriminately. Ii
may be color with kick butt is not
the sort Of drink that a sensible man
would care to have after having tast-
ed it once. The method may vary
and the methods are innumcrablc. 1t
may be a "confidcntia" address; it
may be password; it may be the in
PRODUCTION to a "waitcr with mole
under his left eye" who answers to
the name Of Antoninc and "controls
his own special SUPPLY; it may be a
signed card by q known patron. In
general, however, it's q most ridicu-
louS tSort Of interchange, i'm which the
blbulous one cuts the most ridiculous
figure.
"Boozc must be sold or there
wouldn't be so many arrests every
was observing recently.
day, citizen Of q nearby state
hooZc IS sold, no one can deny that.