Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1887 — It’s an Art to Mix Drinks. [ARTICLE]

It’s an Art to Mix Drinks.

“Oh, yes, it is a good deal of an art to mix drinks properly,” said the barkeeper, as he set the cockta 1 on the mahogany and put fifteen cents in thei drawer, “come barkeepers make big wages, too, because they can mix a drink in a fancy shape, but that’s nothing compared with what some men make that can mix the liquors themselves. Almost any man can put a lib tie Angostura and syrup and whisky in a glass and stir it up, but when a man can put some raisins and pure spirits and a few drugs in a barrel and make pretty good liquor, he‘s an artist and a dandy, 'those fellows come high, but tbe wholesalers have to have ’em. I know one big liquor house, in Chicago that pays a man SIO,OOO a year to make liquor for them. The other houses have tried to get him, but his firm won’t let him ge. Yem take a man that can have the head of the house say to him at supper: ‘ Casey & Curacoa want 100 barrels ’7B Maryland rye right off,’ and can go and make up the whole order out of raw material and get it barreled by six in the - morning, and he’s the life of the business; $lO,a year ain’t much for him * — Detroit Journal.

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