Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 167, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1912 — Frisco Laborers Find a Wine. Cellar [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Frisco Laborers Find a Wine. Cellar

SAN FRANCISCO.—That men may drink champagne on a steam beer salary has received convincing proof. Around the ruins of the Grand Hotel at Stevenson and New Montgomery streets were a lot of $2-a-day laborers the other day who were nursing assorted “heads,” but who were very happy Just the same. -~~ - During the work of clearing the ruins an old rock crusher that stood on the lot was toppled over under the instructions of the foreman. The foreman the day being hot, then adjourned to a nearby buffet to quench his thirst. When he returned to the field he found that every man jack of his laborers had disappeared. Their coats were still hanging around on fences and the foreman was puzzled, nob having reason to believe there had been & walk-out, until the pound of popping corks, coming from the near distance, mingled with gusty laughter, attracted his attention to where the rock crusher had stood. - -i

He hurried over there to discover his entire crew sitting around the floor of the wine cellar that bad been exposed, drinking the cream of the choice stock of liquors that had made the old Grand hotel bat famous. After the wreck of the hotel in 1906 no one gave a thought to the' wine cellar and the stock of old wines, assuming that the stock had been ruined. Colonel Kirkpatrick of the Palace, when advised of the find mid asked what disposition he wanted made of the wines, said: “Let the laborers dispose of it The wine is theirs by right of discovery."