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providing personal service in one ' hotels have suffered from prohibi-1 and pride, almost all off them'.
Notwithstanding the fact that
)rohibition having long' since
knocked the saloon business
asunder, the Bartenders' Union'is
still in existence; but an inquiry
there were hundreds of bars, saloons and roadhouses, all flaunting a wetness upheld by the Constitution of the United States, the State of Maryland and the
into the fate and whereabouts of j drinking proclivities of a nation, fliat once numerous citizen, the I And in these various emporia of
Hbartender, reveals that he is bartending no longer.
Throughout Baltimore count3r
dampness, fashionable and humble, flambouyant or restrained, toiled numerous men as salaried bartenders.
Where are those men today?
Has prohibition been a blessing or a curse to those whose livelihood it aimed to destroy?
The answer to these questions cannot be given with exactness, but this much is certain: well over half of the legal survivors of the legal drought are still catering to the public in or about the localities where they formerly tended bar. That is, they are
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Such a condition not only seriously handicaps the progress of the automobile as a comfortable, profitable means of transportation, but also holds back commercial, industrial and agricultural advancement in practically every section of the country. It is costing taxpayers millions of dollars annually.
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When the Volstead law was passed all the boys who could get away went to Havana and the Bahamas, to Canada and even to Europe. They were mostly unmarried men — the ones who stayed at hame have had some pretty hard sledding. The greatest optimist known is the bartender avho sticks to his Union. Today the Union functions in a difficult way, that of getting its members good jobs, whether in the catering line or elsewhere— some are night watchmen, bell hops and taxi drivers.
If it is true a bartender's instinct causes him to stay in the catering line, what forms of catering are old wielders of the ivory stick on the foamy suds now principally engaged in? First of all, says a gentleman who ought to know, liquor selling, and after that waiting on table, with taxi-cab driving a bad third.
"Yet I do not believe," asserts this authority, "that any man who has been twenty or thirty years behind a stick would make the most successful type of bootlegger today. Consider the origin of the word 'bootlegger.' it was first applied to the reckless characters who invaded the Indian reservations in the '10s and' '80s with whiskey concealed in the legs of their top-boots. This was the only dry territory in those days outside of the State of Maine. Those who sold whisky to the Indians were hunted and, shot down like rats by government officers. There was less graft in those days; the officers usually did their duty. But even today there are chances of a brush with zealous enforcement officers, and the real bootlegger must have daring and skill and enterprise and also capital. The typical old-fashioned bartender is fitted for little but retail selling; the real bootlegger who smuggles liquor across the border out of ships in the dead of night is a younger and more intrepid man.
"Nevertheless, the number of bartenders who still sell liquor is very large. In practically every 'near-beer' saloon, now usually operated with a lunch counter in connection, is a bartender who will sell you liquor if he knows you. Also, nearly all retail bootleg joints not bearing saloon insignia are manned by old-time bartenders. Soda-water fountains have a different class of servitors, however."
Many former bartenders, of course, are waiters. Some have even risen to jobs as purchasing agent, and in a few cases ex-bartenders are managing hotels. The average pay in these jobs is fully as good as they formerly received !X behind bars. I don't think thatj T hotel bartenders who stuck to the
tion. But, of course, the adven—No wonder they don't want to be turers and wanderers and gamb-J waiters and bell-hops and slusii lers couldn't stand this work and peddlers. The ones who went got out. You'll find many of |into the soft-drink business made them today working at their old!a terrible mess of it. The ladies
trade in every part of the world Many others have become bookmakers, touts, jockeys, fight promoters, here and in foreign countries.
In Tiajuana, Mexico, just over the line from California, is perhaps the greatest colony of ex-bartenders in the world. This place is known as the Monte Carlo of North America, where everything forbidden by American blue laws flourishes openly— horse-racing, gambling, vice, bullfighting, cock-fighting. Tens of thousands of respectable Americans visit it every year. It has more saloons to the square than butte in its palmiest days, and more redeye to the square yard than any other spot in Christendom. They mix every drink there that was ever known in the States, and a lot that never were and never will be known here. It's a Meka for the really gifted bartender.
"Bartenders," states a man who has employed hundreds of them, "were a peculiar race of people. They were the most open-handed, generous people you could find. The bartender who saved any money was as rare ^ a white elephant. They mixed, with people as easily as they mixed drinks, but they were not servile as a class. Outside the hotels, most of them would noi take a tip from a stranger. The> were always ready to lend money to a friend. They had dignity .*-...... >.... .*- .*- -». -?. -?..... *-.». -*. .*. ..*.»-.»................».......
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and male softies they waited on thought their manners bad. The smirks they tried to put on didn't fit them. Their jokes provoker only consternation. So the ones who couldn't get employment in the illicit places and who were too old or tied down to get away in many cases went down the ladder. Lots of them are running elevators today or working as night watchmen.
But there are cases where ex-bartenders are doing well in legitimate lines. The mineral water business, for instance. A number of the outlawed fraternity make quite a good thing out of agencies for ginger-ale, lithia and other bottled goods handled as side lines in the old days. And
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if they also handle a little hooch on the side, who can blame them ?
Several of the sterling old characters who presided over bars at exclusive hotels and clubs and cafes in the old days have capitalized their acquaintance with wealthy men and now act as purveyors of the finest imported stocks for private cellars. They make only a little on each consignment, but their callings are dignified and ) safe. Others, through ability and influence,! have gone into prvate-detecttve and secret-servce work, and still others are taking trips around, the world.
The finest type of the old bartender was a man for whom life had few secrets. He, if any one, got the truth from people. His
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bearing was impressive, his impulse kindly, his aspect melancholy. Often he was a total abstainer, and he seldom drank on duty. His was one form of personal service. Administrator of release and surcease, alchemist of good-fellowship, high priest of reality, to him a thirsty republic raises its Coca-cola glass and salutes, "Hjail and farewell!"
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