Show thenamae the name Is familiar BY FELIX B and ELMO EIMO SCOTT WATSON WATSO tom and jerry TAKE AKE some egg whites egg yolks powdered sugar brandy rum and whiskey mix it all up and you have a tom and jerry take the name of americas greatest bartender jerry thomas mix that up and you again have tom and jerry yes it was jerry thomas head bartender of the old metropolitan hotel at broadway and prince street in new york city who concocted the drink that im morta lizes his name because his parents wanted him to become a minister and because he was the author of a book the famous bartenders guide he was called professor thomas T that h a t was not such a jerry thomas farfetched far fetched title for a bartender of the who could write a book imagine a bartender of that era who could just write jerry thomas was born in new haven conn in 1825 his parents mr and mrs william daniel thomas sent him to college so he could be a preacher but at the age of 20 he quit school and left parental parent a influence to carry carr on an experiment to determine whether college me men n could imbibe alcoholic liquors in unlimited quantities his conclusions were in the negative but bul he stayed close to the subject he loved by becoming principal bartender in a new haven saloon in later years he became head bartender at the famous el dorado in san francisco where he invented the blue blazer then he went to st louis where he invented the tom and jerry he tended bar all over the united states central america and parts of europe startling the europeans especially with his worth of silver bar utensils and his unlimited repertoire of mixed drinks patterns Butt butterick butterich eric patterns at terns hundreds of millions L LITERALLY of butterick patterns have been used all over the world they have been a boon to hundreds of thousands of mothers in making clothes at home for their families now whom do they have to thank miss butterick mrs butterick no neither the inventor of this low cost dressmaking aid was a man ebenezer bu butterick tt erick after some experiments peri ments he cut his first salable patterns june 16 J 1863 the first P patterns were I 1 it folded by members of his family in september he had to take extra rooms in a building nearby and five girls were hired to do E butterick the folding but ebenezer still managed to keep his beard out of the way and kept dept on with the cutting the business moved to new york and continued to grow to the point where single cutting machines cut out thousands of patterns of each size at a single stroke the word butterick in electric lights on the top of the 15 story butterick building completed in 1904 was then the largest electric sign in the world but the building was not finished until a year after ebenezer butterick died released by western newspaper union |