Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 194, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1911 — FAMINE IN CIRCUS LEMONADE [ARTICLE]

FAMINE IN CIRCUS LEMONADE

New Yorker Gets Away With Forty* sevefi Glasses of Concoction— Owner of Pushcart Loses. New York.—Well, as "Loole Zleb mer, ( rear admiral of the East Side Land and Water Wireless News service, reports, It was this way: "Dugan was as dry as a fish, but Bloomstein could not . quench his thirst. ’lce cold lemonade! It’s ice cold! Keep cool! One cent a glass,' was shouting Harry Bloomstein, the lemonade peddler, as he pushed his small cart containing a large glass cask of lemonade in it along Pitt street the other day as he stopped In front of Dave Reiff’s barber shop at No. 47 Pitt street “John Dugan, known as ’Red’ Dugan, the coach driver, had Just returned from a trip on Long Island and stopped In front of Reiff’s shop. *1 am as dry as a fish,’ said Dugan, and rushed over to the lemonade man: 'How much is a glass of lemonade,' said Diegan t + " ‘One cent a glass.’ ‘“Such a small glass,' said Dugan. "But Bloomstein answered, ‘Never mind, the glass is thin and holds more than a large glass that Is thick.' " 'Your glasses are very sihall; X can drink forty of them.’ ‘“Yes, he can,' said the barber, ‘and I believe, the whole Jar.' "Keiff, who knows Dugan and the great appetite be has and who come time ago ago ate over forty-six baaanes from Bromsky’s pushcart, knew what he was talking about “ ‘Ah, I can’t believe it mister,’ said the peddler, ‘he cannot drink all my lemonade.’ “Another who knew Dugan’s wonderful appetite said, ‘And If he don’t finish and drink over forty glasses I’ll pay you, and if he does you don’t get paid.’ “ 'All right, all right,* said the peddler. “The crowd watched and all eyes gazed at the lemonade peddler and Dugan, who kept right on drinking until he finished forty-seven glasses of the lemonade. You ought to see the face change on Bloomstein. The others who waited to buy a drink wont dry."