Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1883 — In a New York Saloon. [ARTICLE]

In a New York Saloon.

There is nothing cheap here, and few kings have taken their toddy in better quarters. You walk up brownstone steps under blazing lights into a room as bright and beautiful as any in New York. If at night, the blaze of light dazzles you, and .you might think you : had stumbled into a palace. A knight in plated armor stands before yon, bronzes and statues look at you from different parts of the room. The most elegant paintings hang surrounded by rich velvet upon the Avail, and great mirrors of heavily-plated glass reflect the many-colored lights of the cut-glass chandeliers. Everything is elegant here. There is no shoddy and no veneering. The room is paneled with carved mahogany, and the tables scattered here and there over the Mosaic floor are of the same polished wood. If you take a chair, it is of the bent woo'd of Austria, and if you call for a drink you will be served in a cut-glass goblet, and your change avill be handed you by a gentlemanly waiter on a silver platter. A silver cuspidore, shining as bright as Vanderbilt’s spoons, stands beside you, and if you ask for a pretzel to eat with your beer it will be brought you on a piece of porcelain decorated as beautifully as that on the President’s table. Cor. Cleveland Leader.