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feet. Behind this thirty bartenders labored night and day to appease the clamoring delegates to the great convention. Three thousand pieces of crystal glass were used besides nearly 300 colored decanters.The usual receipts of this bar were less than $200 per day, yet the sales during convention week ran up to nearly $5,000 per day. The Nicollet hotel, the headquarters of several state delegation, added two bars to its capacity and increased its sales from $125 to more than $1,000 per day.A representative of the Lever visited nearly twenty saloons at random and found but one that had failed to double its capacity, while the majority of them had tripled and quadrupled their daily receipts.The boom in the business of the houses of prostitution we s tremendous. On Main 6treet, within a single block of convention hall, are half a dozen cut-glass houses of ill-fame that were crowded to bursting every night during the week. Sixty-three men, mostly delegates and alternates,were seen to enter--’s $50,000 resort on Wednesday evening inthe space of twenty minutes. The street was literally choked to bursting with hacks, carriages and drunken, yelling politicians.Three uniformed policemen patrolled a distance of two blocks vainly trying to keep the mob in order. The doors of these resorts when full were locked and frequently twenty or thirty men were seen patiently waiting on the doorsteps for admission. Shouts for Blaine or Harrison mingled with the tumultuous maudlin curses of the drunken throng.The Theater Comique, a dive where lewd women in cracked tones chant songs bf mother, home and Annie Rooney between drinks, was utterly unable to accommodate the hosts of visitors at its evening sessions, and was compelled to hold overflow meetings every afternoon. There was but one evening during the week that this foul roost failed to take in more than $500. The Winter Garden, the Washington avenue concert hall and the Fourth street dance house made similar elaborate preparations with like results. A half dozen brazen women conducted a “six day female walking match” in the old panorama building, and a nightly prize fight, with admission at $1, were among the entertainments provided by the people offf XIthetorReltioitakwhiprhwrccantioiapt*‘aithesanReitheGrehenhe IGreHethahueoftbepuidoSta1orgthea
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Saint Paul Great West
Saint Paul, Minnesota, US
Fri, Jul 15, 1892
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