1935 Old Waldorf-Astoria Bar Book

BAPTISMAL 25 courses. A famous picture of a naked girl in the waves, sold under the name of "September Morn," was perpetu– ated-at least it was so thought-by a Waldorf cocktail. However, that cocktail was not a brand-new composition -simply a Clover Club cocktail in which Gin gave place to Bacardi Rum; the real Clover Club being composed of the juice of half a Lemon, half a teaspoonful of Sugar, half a pony of Raspberry Syrup, one-quarter pony of White of Egg, and a jigger of Gin. The Spanish-American War produced distinctive drink nomenclature. The guns of Santiago awakened reverbera– tion in the Waldorf Bar, and shook up what was termed a ··,Santiago Sour-not, however, strictly a cocktail; no more was Hobson's Kiss, reminiscent of an episode that, alas! served to discredit the hero of the Merrimac. Then there was a Schley punch, a Shafter' cocktail, and another which took its name from Admiral Dewey, victor at Manila Bay. And when these are named, one has not really begun on the list of appetizers available to those who resorted at regular times to what was long the most famous exposi– tor of the American School of Drinking. As I have said, their nomenclature deserves to live in history, of which it is a part. More, if only to clarify that portion of history with data furnishing contributory evidence-if further proof is impossible-their composition is important to the his– torian, and some day will so prove to the antiquarian, who will no doubt find material for study and zealous contem– plation, if not amazement, in the fact that men once were able, year after year, to get outside so many kinds of more or less ardent spirit, and in such quantity, and still survive. Well, they didn't all survive. They made patients for the specialists at Carlsbad and other European cure resorts,