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York Barrooms Too Economical.

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Day
27
Month
May
Year
1898
Copyright
Public Domain
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rnere is scareiy a note: ín riew York, or a barroom, for th.t matter," said a man who sells the liquor and knows what is done with lt, "that uaes the same whisky in mixed drinks that is used when whisky alone is ordered. An inferior brand is almost invariably substitut'ed, and this is done not at the cheaper places, where one might expect to find it, but at the highest-priced hotels. The motive is, of course, economy. The barkeepers argüe that in a cocktail an inferior whisky is quite as good as one of better quallty. That is, of course, false. I know one hotel at which the whisky is deservedly well known and liked. But the cocktails, in spite of the fact that they are made by a man who has been in the place foi more than twenty years and has not forgotten his skill, are always inferior. The reason of that is to be found in the fact that the whisky is of such an inferior brand that it ruins the mixed drinks. But the man who drinks it plain has nothing to complain of. There are the same causes for complaint in two-thirds of the New York bars. Men often wonder why cocktails are inferior and the rest of the liquor

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