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breakage of the bowl, and, consequently, only a man of sensible judgment should be employed to do this kind of work.

6. WHY BARTENDERS SHOULD HAVE THEIR OWN UNION FOR PROTEC TION AND ASSOCIATION. In many long years of experience, I have tried sev eral times to start an organization for the mutual ben efit and protection of bartenders. The first attempt was made about 1875, in New Orleans, in an effort to procure for themjsufficient wages, to give them a good, decent living, proper hours of labor, and for their gen eral elevation as members of society. The effort at that time resulted unfortunately for the reason, prin cipally, that the old, skilled bartenders, who retained the same situation for years, had passed away—men who supported well themselves, their families, and their clubs—and, in their stead, was a younger element in this avocation who, not knowing their work thor oughly, were careless and indifferent, and unable, drifted about from one place to another. The conse quence was that they never became members of the club, and would not have been of benefit, had they done so. Under such circumstances, it was impossible to organize a beneficial society. At the present time it is entirely different, for the reason that our business is regulated by prescribed rules; and bartenders should now have an association of mutual support, as well as the people of any other avocation. Nearly every man in the hotel and res taurant business belongs to some club or protective so ciety; the cooks have their unions; the pastry cooks also a home and an association; the waiters have an