1931 Old Waldorf Bar Days by Albert Stevens Crockett

OldWaldorf Bar Days

FIN DE SIECLE*Orange Bitters

One dash Amer Picon Bitters One-third Italian Vermuth Two-thirds Plymouth Gin Stir

FLOATER

There is equal authority for a contention that this was called after a racehorse owned by the late James R. Keene, or after an individual numerically important, and who was transported into various precincts at different hours of Election Day and thereby enabled to vote early and often, as the saying was; or, the Floater may have changed his residence from a strong precinct of his political faith to one that was weaker, in order to make his vote count where it was needed. James R. Keene had a horse that was named Voter, and another that was called Ballot Box, and it may be that persons familiar with the race-track will dig up one that was called Floater. Anyhow, if there is such a horse it was named after the creature whose vote on Election Day had a plurally peripatetic quality.

Fill glass with shaved Ice Three-fourths Gilka Kiimmel One-fourth Brandy One-halfltalian Vermuth One-half Orange Juice Shake

FLORIDA

FOURTH DEGREE Origin somewhat mixed, but traceable to patrons of the Bar who belonged to some secret society or other. Solon thinks it was a compliment to a Mason; maybe it was an Odd Fellow. However, let others fight it out.

One-third Italian Vermuth Two-thirds Plymouth Gin Dash of Absinthe [ 136]