Show Old Stories R Revised ois d I Lp to flights jn in a Bar Room once thC Was a 11 Traveler who hap happened Into a small town just about the ti O that a Gentleman who had grown strong sUong to work was opening a place tOO ton iv fot Uti Je Ie of oC Wines Vines Liquors and CI CIP P ev eVer r saw the Wines but lie he ery stock or old Sour Mash III flUt Of oC Wood Alcohol Prune Juice and Pet or Weare We are told In the popular Standard wort bY T S Arthur that the Travel ea back to the town about a year PT and ad then a year after that and aCt 0 untIl he had kept tab on the Parlor for about ton years He Hes good gd many or of the Best People s IM e go to Ule bad one alter after kz III U the Rum Fiend managed to toa a a side kIe hold on them gf you OU have seen the Drama k has bas been done In every Town nil It In North America You will re reber ber how Simon Slade who was a ame me leading man In the first act b bI hAir neatly combed and a Suit Sull kept going di Stuff until In the last act h lie lied d an awful Cul of the Whiles and wv rowing Furniture at the Sou This bOOk Nok th the liquor traffic a ahard hard hird panning It points out the fact that one who ho dailies with the Es nce for any flY ot of time will end up with a S Sale Je or the D Ts This Mine Traveler who tells teUs about the Grog ery an and the former generation of oC who vho drank Med ford Rum instead of Mamle Mamie Taylors happened Into another Town only a few years ago It was a thrivIng little Suburb not far Car removed from a great City The Peaceful Residents would squat In front ot of the Hardware Store for hours at a time laying out Work for the Admin at Washington A Grab So was th the limit of Revelry although there was some excitement whenever a 8 Medicine Show came along Into this drowsy little Hamlet carne came a Barkeep with a Black Mustache He had convInced the Authorities that he possessed a good Moral Character and so he was gIven a License to sell bar barter barter ter or give away anything that could he be kept in a Bottle without burning holes In the Glass He rented a Corner from one of the Pillars of the Church who needed the Money Ione r and fitted up a Swell Joint The Furnishings included al an Ice Box with silver handles and a PIcture of John JohnL L wearing his DIamond Belt The Traveler was mighty sorry to see this Pitfall planted right in the heart hoort or of a Community where so many I prominent Business Men could find time to go In and the Box and feed nickels into the Slot Machine He 1 knew that in a few tew years all ll of them would be confirmed Drunkards of the kind seen in the Tableaux at the School Entertainments But what do you think When the Tra Traveler vE happened through the Town a year car or so later the Saloon had dis disappeared disappeared appeared from the corner and in its place was a very attractive road house The reason he knew it was a Road House was th that It s said id so over oer the door and ort off at one side aide was a hitch rack people could leave their Rigs while they were Inside getting Stewed Why did you close up your saloon and open ODell a road house in the same Building asked the Traveler or of the former Agent of Ruin Because a great many people who are too nice to go Into a Saloon will stop at a road house and load up on Peaches for hours at a time was the reply The great purpose of the pres present present ent fastidious Generation is not to cut ut It out but to do It In such a respectable ble manner that one can get a fine large Package without being ashamed of ft Another year passed and when the traveler returned to the Village he dis discovered covered tha thai the Road House had be q Riding and DrivIng Ing Club The Barkeep was no longer longerI longera a Barkeep but was now the Steward and on the wall were pictures of Horses What Is the difference between a Road House and nud a club asked the Traveler of the Steward Oh all the difference in the world replied the Official At a Road House you ou get loaded in a Road House while at a Club you get loaded at a Club You feel about the same at the cold i I I f li liI I I Iv S Sr SJ F I r 5 J k 5 S i 5 t 5 S 5 S T S SS S T H t 5 5 5 S S Q I 5 5 S L N 5 1 tL 9 m ici T W gray gra Dawn of the morning after acter but the Family Is rather proud to know that Father was at the Club the night whereas it would feel disgraced to know that he h had d been sitting around In a common Drinking Place When Then the paid his third re return return turn visit to the Town the club had disappeared and was now a Bicycle cle Rest The Wheeling Craze had come comeIn In and the astute Proprietor had a boy I out In front to check the Bikes The Patrons did not line liD up at the I Bar as the they r do In Saloons The They sat at little Tables ables The difference be between between tween a Saloon and a Bicycle Rest waS wa that In a Saloon the Lunch did not cost anything The Manager lanager of the Resort explained his System to the Traveler It I find th t man many persons who have been car ullY brought up do not like I to go into a Barroom said he so I I have it carried In from another Room I Wh Why should I ruin my fellowman b by giving It to him in a Growler when I Ican Ican can serve it to him him In a Stein and get 10 cents for It Then this is not Retail a Liquor Es Establishment asked the old fogy Tray Trav Traveler eler who was certainly getting ac acQuainted acquainted with a new set of Curves By no means replied the Manager At t a Retail Liquor you ou cannot get your Tires blown up free of 0 charge When next the Traveler came along that wa way the Bicycle had died all ax aw awful awful ful death and was no longer used ex except except by the Working Classes He was afraid that possibly the Man Ian Manager ager had gone back in into to the Saloon Business thereby spreading sorrow and desolation throughout the Community But lut not ilot so When he down downto to the corner he found himself at a Summer Garden The Back Yard lm had been sprinkled with Gravel and was tastefully decorated with Evergreen Trees growing in Tubs Tub TubA A bunch of sat on the Stage at one om end of the Garden and tore off Ragtime while Otto and Louie Loule and se ral other members or of the Union jumped from one table to another serving servIn ing In High Balls and Remsen Co CoOlers lers I am am sorry to see that you are still pe peddling dUng the accursed stuff which men shoot through the Oesophagus to steal away any their Brains said the Traveler who stUl had some of his antiquated prejudice against Strong Drink You are dead wrong replied the Proprietor I am now the Director of an Amusement Enterprise We play Classical Music ever every Thursday Even Evening ing and many a Citizen of Spotless I Reputation who never leaned his Chest aga against n a mahogany slab in his whole life comes here and sits under a Tree to listen to Vogner and gets piped to the Gills I have to run this kind of a Place In order to get the quiet Family Tr Trade de The boys boy tap a fresh tresh Keg every el eight ht minutes and I am being backed by a Trolley company compan the Directors q cf whiCh are o cons cohs le ious that they 11 W l n Booze IE S Th ThO Old Tr veler thought that he hid had a few things about the Curse of Ale Alc hot but he found himself guessing I sin am getting a new line on the I I crowning Evil ErH of our OUI Age said he heIt heIt It seems that the Habit is comparative comparatively tive harmless if you listen to music while up In aU all or of his writings on the subject o 01 Rum Selling he had described a reek reeking ing Tavern where villain villainous ous looking Men sat at Rou h Ta Tables Tables bles and poured down fiery Beverages until they were crazed after which the they went home to murder their Rela RelatIons I Instead of which he now found some 0 of the married represented in the Blue Bock holding informal informal mal Receptions ns and cutting Into th Grape Nobody seemed to crave Rum but there was certain certainly 1 a fierce demand for forthe forthe the cool Bronx Cocktail the imported German Stuff with the foamy collar on onit oi it the tall kind with Grass growing out of the Tumbler the little Irish I Ice Iceberg e eberg berg the Pus e Cafe the Br Brandy Float lat the New Orleans Sour th Fizz the LExin Lexington ton Toddy Today arid S I 5 5 5 s S 4 t 4 L I I I c 5 S 5 4 S 5 I Iy S y 1 13 a 3 t S I 5 5 i iii S S ii I S 11 t I SS S N S 1 A S I 5 S S liI t G S iro T f S a lot mo more e th that t Slade never got goton on to or he have 11 lived ed to ap appear appear pear in the last Chapter of the Book I The Old Traveler r went aW away y a good gool dEcal deal b by the modern Frills and that h hd d been added tt t the simple mot method hod of get getting getting ting Corned Up He thought he had struck the but he had not for when he went back to the town once more the Craze Cruze had come alon along The former Barkeep h had put up an Electric Sign to show th that t lie he was con a Theatre The Traveler ascertained that the dif difference ference between a Garden and an Out Outdoor Outdoor door Theatre is that in a Garden you OU lold the Drink in your Right Hand while listening to the Germans wh where whereas rE rEas as In an Outdoor you hold it itin itin in the Deft Hand while watching the Acro Acrobats bats Hl He found that some of his old Friends who had been very much op opposed posed to the opening of a Saloon in their very midst loved to stroll into the Pavilion on n a summer night so as asto tt to get their Minds oil off their Work By tIlt the time everybody tt t the Table fablo had bought twice and the show had ed down own toward the Moving PI Plc tures ever every t tired ired Business Man In the place had forgotten all about his work A good many of them remembered their Names however The Traveler who was revisiting the year after year to observe the devastation of the Saloon Evil ever get a 2 good seat or catch the e of a 3 As for the Saloon Evil lie be that there was no Saloon In the Neigh Neighborhood Tile taxpayers were opposed to t although they had no ob jc to a Temple of Art where one might sit git comfortably and amid get pIckled saturated sprung ossified petrified and lit up like a Cathedral Hp He feared that he would be unable to write the true story ston of Ten rf n Nights ill iii a Barroom without Ith ut involving the on cn tire Social Life md and mentioning the names of aU all those prominent In ti th Learned Professions BEsides he could no longer find the Barroom The Stuff was now coming from somewhere downstairs on It a Waiter Did h keep on go going ng b back cl the same samO u the Traveler in the Book Yes Ye for he liked to see see a Good Sho himself and hE found that he could d drop op In any anytime anytime time and order a Horses Neck and watch all the NicE Folks from the Re Reside side ce Streets hoisting the Bubbles without in an any way compromising his Reputation as a Reformer About three e years ears aio when huvis he vis visIted ted the Spot which haa once been de demi by the sale ale of ordinary k ky lIe he mme came across a Garage witha a Repair Shop and ie ned the Resort h had d taken a new im importance as an Inn for the entertain entertainment ment mant of those who owned Touring Cars CarsOn 5 On a pleasant pheasant evening all the Head Headliners Headliners liners ill In the World of Fashion would b gathered gather d around sm small n tables on tile big and no matt matter or how much the they threw In it was all ali ri right ht because tle they had Chauff Chauffeurs urs to load them up and take th them m home But how could the Traveler write about Ten Nights in a B Tf 1 an any one had come along and called the place a Barroom lie he would have been arrested by the Park Parle Policeman who stOod out in front to keep the Common People from aV at oUr tin crowned Kings nd Queens ens The final visit of the Traveler was til till one that tint nut him down and out outOn outOn On the v very ry Corner where had been a Saloon luring Juring Strong Men Mento tt to Ruin Ruhl was now t l dandy dond big Hotel The man man who hind had been mer merely y a 3 tough Barkeep was wa now In charge of ofa a ver very r select Establishment which had hd no Barroom Wh whatever te r although t boasted a PRIm Paint Room and ami a Ji kell keller r and a Room and n a Gen Cafe in hI any on of which you OU could have It up for you at anY 1 of tile the Day Da r Night I ht while those WhO could no longer sign their Names 1 merely made signs at the Ben Bell Hop i Also a Ladles Ladies Tea r a Room where it served in Cups the same as Boull BoullIon lon Ion lont S i t Owner Oner of this Exclusive Hostel Rostel r rr was President of the Local Asso tion organized to prevent Saloons from into that part of Town By Byars years ars of good behavior he ha lived down his earb Reputation of be ben on engaged In the Liquor s S Time The Old Traveler looked i over the S ground anti nd thrOw w away Ills bis Note Boak Hp found that he could not about Ten Nights In a Barroom because the S Evil EU had been exterminated Copyright b by George Ado |