1931 Old Waldorf Bar Days by Albert Stevens Crockett

Bar Patterns Lennox, sportsman, and his partner, Frank Huntoon, frequently seen in the crowd, represented Wilson's Whiskey in these latitudes. That was before Huntoon took up aerated water and made a fortune out of it. Herman Ellis, also a patron of the Bar, had dipped into the same fizz water, and found it fine for accumulating wealth. He had previously made one fortune manufac– turing all-tobacco cigarettes in Baltimore. A jeweler named Billings, who had a fine .shop just across Fifth Avenue, was said to be one of the best patrons for Champagne cocktails that frequented the Bar. A little man with a pointed beard turning gray, often noted in the Bar in company with M. M. O'Brien, pres– ident of a well known express company of the day, seemed to know almost everybody present, no matter when he came in. As a matter of fact, P. J. Casey, long titular "Mayor of Long Branch," knew almost every– body of prominence in New York in those days, and everybody liked him. Casey was an official of the West– ern Union Telegraph Company, and when Long Branch was a political center and had a race tra~k and gam– bling establishments, and important message.s were con– tinually being received or forwarded, he had charge of the office down there, rendering such a high quality of service that many financiers and politicians felt them– selves indebted to him. Indeed, many of his wealthy friends were really fond of "P. J.," as they called him. In the summer of 1907 or 1908, he turned up in London, in company with Miles O'Brien and the latter's uncle, Judge Morgan J. O'Brien, whose guest he told me he was during a European tour. "P. J." in official title, [59]