1931 Old Waldorf Bar Days by Albert Stevens Crockett

Bar Patterns of the time, handsome and always correctly groomed, invariably chose the Bar as the goal of a solitary prom– enade down the Avenue. He would stop just long enough to have one little drink, and would then saunter out, strolling back up the Avenue. William H. Crane and Nat Goodwin, who had a drink named after him (q. v.), were "regulars," and Peter F. Dailey, popular comedian of the Weber & Fields show, and John T. Kelly, of the same Company, were often in rotund view, and occa– sionally one might spot the long, lanky figure of Dan Daly, another comedian, who helged make "The Belle of New York" famous. A much more frequent patron was Burr Mcintosh, who deserted the stage temporarily to take up photography and publish a magazine. John Ringling, the circus man, was an occasional patron of the place, but the stout, good-looking youth who wa~ seen there often during the last few years of the Bar was not one of his "attractions." He weighed more than three hundred pounds, but by everybody was called "Tiny" Longley. "Tiny" is said to have "reduced" since those days as a farmer in New 'England. BEER BARONS The big brewers of the country invariably gravitated to the place at more or less regular intervals. One would frequently encounter such local beer barons, for ex– ample, as William Lemp, George F. Ehret, Jr., W. H. Beadleston, "Rudy" Schaeffer, and Colonel Jacob Rup– pert, Jr.; and from over Newark way, a Ballantine would drop in frequently, to see how his product was going- and to take something else. Adolph\JS Busch, [55]