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Show WOULD THIS WORK IN SALT LAKE? A Saloon Where Only One Drink Goes and No Swearing Allowed. Edward McAvoy, recently adjudged insane, in-sane, for twenty-one years conducted a saloon sa-loon at 158 South Halsted street. He enjoyed en-joyed the distinction of being a "Christian saloon-keeper." He had a good trade and accumulated a fortune. His customers were principally of moderate drinker and persons per-sons who had heard of his peculiarities and dropped in out of curiosity. About the walls, behind the bar, on the barrels of stock and on the opposite side of the room from the bar were conspicuously placed white cardboard signs with mottoes in big black letters. Some of these were: "Take not in rain the name of the Lord," "Right wrongs no man," "Do unto others as you would have thern do unto you," "Profanity and loud talk not tolerated here," "Obscenity the outpouring out-pouring of a low mind." McAvoy lived above his saloon aud was about the place pretty much all the time. He is a large, powerful man, with a full beard and stern bearing. His bald head ts covered w ith a little silk visorless cap w hen he was on duty. No person could buy more than one drink, and if a call for a second was made by someone who was unacquainted unacquaint-ed with the rules the individual was promptly prompt-ly told that he had enough aud to go out. A profane word aroused McAvoy like an electric elec-tric shock and the offender was ordered out of the place and advised if he must swear to ro into the alley or acquire a vocabulary of Sanscrit expletives. No drunken man could buy a drink in the house. No person ever knew McAvoy to take a drink himself. |