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Show HIl'lY DEC HAS SOLD LAKE OF COLD LAGEH CniC-VGO.'jan. 12. AMarman Illnky rink Kenna f.athed a diamond bade ca Tathhouse John" Coughlin In the Council' that maie the "Cathhouse" casp for breath. ' - , "Where'd you ret It?" he asked." "From me friend, the brewery," chuckled Hinky. . "Your friend, the brewery? I don't understand." Well, they gave me this for belnj the champion beer-seller of the First ward, see?" "Back up!" exclaimed the "Bath, house." . i "Twenty-five years ago I was selling-papers selling-papers on the streets and now they are throwing- diamonds at me, John, This is surely a great country." Hlnky'a beer-selling- record Is 81.000 barrels in five years. A huge sign with the inscription. "The largest and coolest cool-est glass in the city," swings over the door of the "Working-men's Exchange." Two men In their shirt sleeves are kept busy day and night filling the glasses . for thlsty patrons. There ere about SOO : glasses in a barrel of the kind the A1-, A1-, derman serves. At 5 cents a r'ass, each barrel brings Kenna 115. This- Is a profit of $10. a barrel.' Thirty-one thousand multiplied by ten shows the Alderman's profits in five years to have been J310.000. Ilia expenses ex-penses for light, help, rent, license, fuel and lunch are about $1000 a month. For five years the total expenses would be JG0.00O. This leaves the Alderman the tidy sum of. J259.QQ0. or JW.QOO . yew profit on beer. There are no robberies, fights or disorders dis-orders in the "Workingmen's Exchange." Ex-change." The fixtures nd glassware are not worth over J400. i - . Thirty-one thousand barrels of beer, placed end to end, would reach nearly twenty miles. They would fill 800 ordinary ordi-nary freight cars, or six trains of fifty cars each. Between 9,000.000 and 10,000.-000 10,000.-000 glasses of beer were drawn from the 31.000 barrels. ' ' ' ' : " The Alderman; visits the 'Workings . men's Exchange" about twice ayear, |