Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 153, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1919 — REVELERS HOLD SERVICE O’ER REMAINS OF J. BARLEYCORN. [ARTICLE]

REVELERS HOLD SERVICE O’ER REMAINS OF J. BARLEYCORN.

New York, June 80.—Mourned by one of the greatest crowds of “high livers” that ever struggled its way into cases, hotels and plain thirst quenching emporiums, hard liquor retired from public life in New York at midnight. The 'popular restaurants and cases on Broadway were aglitter with Tights and filled to capacity with gay crowds that rivalled those that have attended the city’s traditional New Year’s celebrations or even the armistice night outburst. Tables in the large hotels which had arranged “farewell” celebrations, had been sold out more than a week in advance of the event, and belated celebrators, who had not made reservations, stood in lines before the doors hoping that some of the guests would be “carried out” in order to make room for them. Score* of “Wake*.” Scores of wakes were held in honor of John, but at all of these the “corpse” was the liveliest member of the party. In the Bronx four thousand men and women marched in a “funeral” procession behind a hearse, Which contained a large demijohn of “remains” in a black casket. Hymn* for Dead. “'Funeral” services were conductieA at the Schnofer Club over a fined effigy of hard liquor, at which an organist played all of the hymns for-the dead that could be found in a large collection of hymn books. The passing of strong drink had its pathetic as well as its mock-seri-ous and its purely hilarious sides. Saloon* Swamped. Lined before the doors of closely jammed “family liquor tsores and other saloons in the poorer sidestreets were hundreds of liquor addicts, seeking to add further to the meagre supplies they had been able to lay in for the “lean’’ season, before which they hoped gradually to “drop the shackles.” Before many saloons, the crowds became so dense that the police were obliged to establish waiting lines. Up to midnight only fourteen persons had been arraigned in court on charges of intoxication and all were given suspended sentences.