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THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A WINE BUM
In police parlance a wine bum Is an
alcoholic degenerate vtUo hn» suuk Into
the lowest depthn of habitual inebriety.
KpcndM every nickel he can brc steal or
borrow upon a vile inioxfeatiosr bev
itiirc masqueradiuK under the name of
wine, nod Mib.vist* upon this, and the
(toupbouMcn and the scraps from the
free lunches of low class barrooms. His
Dome In the so railed wine cellar.
The following: description of the life
ami environment of the wine bum Is
the personal narrative of a man of edu
<tttlon and a member of a family the
name of which is prominent In Ameri
can history. He sank to the irutters,
but performed the rare feat of redeem
f i-ji himself.- and Is now a clean , cut,
well ;; roomed, pros per oils businessman
of !>an Francisco, to whom the mere
KUKgCKtion of alcohol is abhorrent.
DO you know what a wine bum is?
Do you know that in San Fran
cisco there are men sunk so far
in the depths of alcoholism that
the ordinary whisky sodden drunkard
is respectable in comparison?
I know whereof I speak, for I have
been a wine bum myself. I have lived
for weeks, day and night, in the vilest
wine cellars, with none but other wine
buniß like my self : for companions, al
though I was -raised in the gentlest*
atmosphere and provided with a col
lege education.
If you are bound to become a drunk
ard, drink whisky, or brandy; but never
touch the vile liquid dispensed in cer
tain dives in San Francisco under the
name of wine. Cocaine, morphine and
opium are preferable.
But let me begin a little farther
back.
I became addicted to the excessive
use of alcohol when I was about 25
years of age. I held one excellent posi
tion after another and always rrtade
good as long as I left liquor alone. The
moment I went on a spree I lost my
position, became desperate and sank
lower and lower. Twice I took liquor
cures, the first of which kept me
straight for a little over a year, the
•econd for a less time. Finally, after
employer after employer gave me up, I
Crank harder and harder. I drifted
from one city to another, hoping by
niy ability to make a fresh start eome
where in a strange place where nobody
knev* tae. 1 always made money until
I wenT at the rum again. Friends and
family all gave me up.
I reached San Francisco and made a
THE SICKROOM BOOSTER
Charles Cristadoro
{(\ /OU know I have been a widower
V for years. I married an Irish
girl, as fine and big hearted a
woman as ever trod God's green earth.
She was a match for me and don't you
forget it I always got as good as I
Bent In the way of a joke.
"In those days I kept a fine store
house back of my kitchen, rat and ver
min proof, well stored with provisions,
for I bought my supplies at the whole-
Bale, prices and often would have In
the winter, time a whole pig or sheep,
quartered, no end of groceries and other
things in the storehouse! ".
"But my wife was one who never
turned a hungry person from the door,
and as a result she had a pension bas
ket sort of grocery line that cut into
Hour, tea. butter and other things like
a .hot knife going through cheese. It
was all right. Then . she had sewing
societies comftig to the house, and one
day when the society was in session
I came home early bringing, with me;
a young, live t pig i in a sack. It was'
scrubbed as clean as wpx and wore a
green /ibbon on its neck. I went in
by the kitchen door quickly and, open
ing the sitting room door, turned the
little squealing porker loose. Well,. be
started things all right, but it raised
an awroi rcw. The folks did not like
it. So it was some time before mat
ters v.-ere smoothed over and the . so
ciety was again at our house. They
liked to come, for there were always
unlimited tea and stacks of sandwiches
ready at hand for all to partake of as
often as they pleased. My wife always
saw well to their comfort, and most
of the meetings were s held under her
auspices, so our house was headquar
ters.
"Easter Sunday was coming along
and, happening to be home the day
before, when- the much coveted bonnet
came home in a nice white box with
the milliner's name plastered all over
the outside, I saw my wife put It away
carefully in a cupboard of her room,
after taking just one furtive, soul sat
isfying peep into the box. •
"My wife calling upon, a! neighbor, I
fresh start.. I \vas doing well until the
old story was repeated and I awoke one
•morning- in Oakland -with.' scarcely a
stitch on my back. ! Again friends'
helped me, and again I fell. J founds it
impossible to get liquor anywhere until
a vagabond, met me on the street arid
introduced me to a wine cellar. Then
I began my cs-reer as a wine bum. I
had pawned, or sold or been robbed^of
everything I had except the clothes on
my back. I exchanged my Btill fairly
good suit for rags and a little change.
The latter I spent in the wine cellar to
which I was first introduced, on Pacific
street, and there I stayed for days.
What did I eat? I didn't eat. I got a
plate of soup occasionally and some
times a saloon keeper would, give me
some beans or scraps for sweeping out
his place. Whenever I got a few cents
££r any odd job, back to the wine cellar
I went, and bought "wine." This stuff
drives you crazy. I have been told that
it is nothing but impure alcohol, diluted
with water and colored with logwood,
I believe that, ily past whisky drunks
were nothing to these I'had now.. When
I could not get a cent, I sang for the
entertainment of the other bums and
they would stake me to a pint or a
quart of the wine. The stuff . that is
cold in these dives costs five cents for
a pint, 10 cents for a quart. As I al
ways had a good voice, and as the keep
ers of the cellars saw in me a means of
bringing them trade, they let me sleep
on the floor, occasionally fed me and
even, at times, when nobody was look
ing, gave me a little wine.
Once I spent two months in the* same
place. It was always filled with the
bums, most of whom .were friendly
enough to me to see that I was always
Koaked with the -wine, when I did not
How Mis Wife Placed Him TH for Tat
slipped into the roomj took out the new,
fresh, crisp, flow It bedecked headpiece,
and in its .place put* an'- old,' rusty.
dpwdy bonnet that had been- kicking
around the attic for years, arid then
carefully laid the* new creation in an
empty bureau, drawer, where she never
would think of hunting for it."
"Easter morning came, and the > first
and then the second chimes rang" out.
1 was down stairs and. deep ( injmy pa
per. There were some quicker move
ments going on in the room above" it
was all but time to leave— and then
came a frantic yell and the circus com
menced. I slipped out of'the room ami
out into the back yard. \. I could hear
my wife hunting me high and low and
setting the house in an; uproar.- ,' She
was . mad clean: through, v and the ; last
bell ringing! When \u25a0 It 'had -gone , far
have! a nickel <or a dime from my, odd
. jobs] \u25a0'\u25a0; !,-The bums; get their money in
many.; ways!*; Some steal it. V Others
sweep \u25a0 out -barrooms, or empty' rub
bish. Most of them/though, beg it on
the streets. .When a wine bum is broke
and no one will treat him, he goes out
on the street and begs a nickel ; or. a
-dime from' every. passerby, '."for a cup
,of coffee." '.' -.When he .thinks he has
enough he goes back and .stays with
the wine until no more is in sight- and
then. he repeats the operation. If you
walk along Kearny . street, -. especially
at night, and are asked by a miserable
looking vagrant for "the, price of a cup
of coffee and a piece of bread," you
may generally make up your. mind that
the ; beggar is a wine bum. The wine
cellars I frequented \were -on Pacific,
Sacramento, Dupont and adjacent
streets; ; the same streets were most
of the hypo fiends and dope fiends' and
other Chinatown outcasts hang
They are foul dens, as foul as those
who support them. \
I_ never bathed in' those days, al
though in my younger days I demanded
my. dally plunge. I never changed my
clothes, unless it was to part with some
article of apparel to get the price of a
drink of wine. Then I got worse rags?
Once when I could not get wine, even
for my singing, and was crazy for; the
stuff, a fellow bum put me on to the
trick of going, to the .wharves where
empty casks are sent. to the wineries.
We crawled under the empties, turned
them over or bored holes' In theni and
drained them of the dregs.
But my singing, usually kept _me. in
wine and soup, although there wasn't
much soup. When I ha^ wine I didn't
want to eat. I kept: filled, with wine
all the time. Once, in"- the beginning.
'. enough 7 l : turned^ up: laughing I ; and 're
stored the lost masterpiece of the milli
ner. She jiow; had two scores; to settle,
the pig. and the; bonnet. - .'..-".\u25a0 j
, '^A few days- went' by.^when a'.'mes-.
\u0084sage came down; from -my i wife "at. the:
house that Father Flnnerty, of a parish :
10 miles away,' -wanted me, being , a ;
--'\u25a0, builder,' 1 - to l'_ cojne ";, down .;. a t-Aonce y. and
'-. meet ; the / parish^ r board t v who i were^io
-. discuss plans for ; a. new; churcli. 11 ;^ Look-;
V tng ; up . the ; timetable ", l\ found 4 1 !; could,
j aboiit : make it, land- off ;I ; .;wfnt;S r Just:
catching 'my -; tralniby) a *tiair. • ' \u25a0' ;', -.'•": \u25a0\u25a0\u25a0 '
"It: was ,a\: small'; town 'and mot ; far.
away was the J parish^'church" ; and the
- priest's adjomthg. .C: Bold* and
.^expectant.Sl: marched \u25a0; along) and rang
the : door : ; bell." t "'; <A V 1 maid^came|Hb>» the :
door.^l'Yes;; the If atherjis^in^hisf study,;
. 'walk " i h.Vi'C 1 i found* thej priest i a'iwide-;
'. awakelrislimani^wJth^a'quick^origue.fa
':, dancing (eye, and ia; touch i of jthe jbrogueTj
"1 am So;-and-so,^and*I}HaveTc6rne$to :
meet^your iparish ' board,'".' asl- 1 rurider-'
when my. shoes were still pretty good, I
sold" them for 10 cents to buy wine. . I
was living iii " the wine cellar, and did
not need shoes as much I. did wine.' \u25a0;•
f";But\i: : dld not", always sleep in\ the
dens, ij Often ,1 ' slept in dark ; spots ; In
"the streets."" One of 'my favorite' places
was.adark hole near? the "German say
ings barik;in j California street. I lost
-that when a building' was put up thtere.
"At other times I slept under temporary
sidewalks in" front of buildings * .being
erecjted. If it was cold, several of us
would' huddle 1 t6gether to keep warm.
Not : long, ago, . when driving .past -one
•of the old retreats of this sort I saw
se yeral wine bums crawling down into
| their berths. r I could not" believe that
I was; ever one of .them. V
Every, now' and then tl run across
some old bum whom I know well; per
haps one who staked me to a" nickel
to buy a' pint of wine. I hate to give
hlmmoney. I know where it will. go.
But what can! do? ; >\;
Once a -friend of . the old days- man
aged \o , recognize me on the street,
picked me up literally out of the gut-,
ter, took: me to his house, fed. bathed
and clothed me and "gave me a couple
of dollars! \u25a0 ; I went right back . the
wine cellar. .The two dollars and the
sale of the clothes kept me in wine for
over'a week; plenty: of it, too. \u25a0When
ever I? went into a wine den I, stayed
there as long as I could get wine. Then'
I went -to another. .
The hold that miserable poison -has on
you, once in,its grasp, is something I
can not even now understand. , It sets
you crazy, makes you lost to all shame
and .unmindful of anything except get
ting some^more. . You do not want any
thing else. 'When I was a wine bum
ana a man would come to me and offer,
to buy me a drink of good whisky, I
would refuse it. I wanted only wine.
I have had delirium -tremens three
times. Each timel was cured by the
emergency hospital doctors. Then ; I
returned to the wine dens. Once, when
; I was "vagged" by the police, I escaped
punishment' because a friendly Avine
' dive keeper testifled that I worked. for
him cleaning up, and. I thus did not
fall under the vagrancy law. -I
\u25a0jiot on the streets much, as I sang for
\u25a0 my; wine most of the time, instead of
begging, like most of the others. So
I escaped being,, "vagged" oftener. Be
sides, as I never kept more than enough
clothes to cover my nakedness, I pre
ferred to. go to sleep in a chair or on
the floor of the wine cellar. That is,
when . I thought of anything at all - be
sides getting more wine.
I don't, know yet where that wine
comes from. It is as different from the
good California : table "ciaret as shellac,
is different from champagne. . Speak
. ing of ' shellac, I may say here that I
have met, in my degenerate days, men
.who used to drink;; not only shellac
but cologne; and wood alcohol. Wood
alcohol generally kills them quickly
; and so will shellac and "cologne,- unless
they get'prbrnprfnedical attendance;; or
unless they take^only v^Lvlittle' of | it.
Tne^so^called .whi^yiflla^a lot of them,
v too.* Doctors have"* told me that -nothV
ing but "the fact that :I was blessed
with an iron constitution - f saved me,
.1 1 was : so Var gone. ; : \u25a0"' ,? ; ;'
'Hypo, dope and cocaine, fiends' are
generally looKed.upon-.as thelast word
in drug degeneracy. Wine bums, in my
opinion, are fully /as bad. .They^ are
made crazy with the drink they live on.
It Is bad enough anyhow, but, it keeps
them from eating, too. As long as the
.wine bum has his wine he cares very
little'- for 4 . food. He's afraid^ that if he
eats 'he" wilj miss a drink. He . is the
worst ;typo of life's wrecks. :
> It was through \ friends of my better
days; that I was saved. "They would
hunt me up, always knowing, of course,
where! they would find me.; They would
I take me ; away, doctor, me , up and take
"care of me, even after I repeatedly went
: back to the wine. It Lwas only when,
they practically imprisoned; me for 1 a
' long. time that I became myself agaln.-
It was not an easy job, either.' I had to
put far t from the wine and kept with
out money. For, weeks, eyen with my
stand you- are to plan for a new church.
(Trie one already built was but half
paid for," and it was like drawing teeth
to keep up interest and pay a little
on*the. principal, and I guess. the priest
was pretty touchy about the state, of
affairs.),
" 'What is that you said? >, A new
church ! ; A new . church, is It, when
we are in fear of losing the one we've
got, because we can't pay for It? A
new church, is it!'' He was mad."' . .
"And then I began' to smell a mico
and had k to grin;. . -
. '."Go home, oldman, go home, that's
my advice,' said the father to me. /'lt
will be many a day before we are
building a new. church! By. all . ihe
saints in the calendar,, a hew Church!
Ha! ; Ha 1 Ha! Some one has been rig
ging: you, so the?- have. Ha! Ha!' Ha!'
f "And il told", him '1 i thought so my
self, and saying \u25a0 good day to . the I holy
father I wended my way/to the depot.
I studied the timetable." In an hour or
more another- train left home for where
I was.rand then- there was one back in
the evening. v: That would.suit mo; fine.
Taking > a te,legraph blank I a
message to my wife, saying I had fallen;
on the station '\u25a0 : platform £"and % brok
en my leg, and askingher to "come with
the -doctor. Then ; I j walked .'about the
village and ; studied architecture, such
as it was; and amused myself as best
I.could until the train was due. ' \ -
-. "I lit.a ..fresh ; cigar i'arid"; when the
train pulled In ;I {was blowing rings of
smoke Z into the cool evening air and
strutting up and down the platform as
big! as life. , [\u25a0'*, '. ; \u25a0
.- ;"They were on the train, the : doctor
and;my - wife.^the; doctor> as , mad' as a;
j March • and; my ; wife 'In ; tears.'" I
\think she spoiled | f our for' ; five ' handker- '
; chiefs ;onr the I way .down," Tand^; Doctor.:
Johnson ; -had \.' his ry hands" full keeping
her i out ' of "hysterics.. ""We; had at great
rscene"on the. platform' and all: the train';
rfolks/ enjoyed iit; -I^ ,imagine.V;lt> was
' some i moments r before'; my 'wife •* recov- '
and ;then,with*a"; sobbing voice!
.asked/me; about- my.broken s leg."
v^",?Dfdvl.' hot; break ; ;it?VVSure f '. I^said"
o'Aiid Bow > is it you are walking about?' •\u25a0
2'Well,^ it vis} this* way,'/ahd^ going >into^
details} as r.to \u25a0 niyvfall'Jand^fractuied?
: ;limb,; ; r«told her it was .all; wellhnoAy.
X But ! ( how could - this ;all" ; be? "She did not ,,
•J seem : .v to if grasp t -theV: situation '.[ in ':'\u25a0. her '
perturbed j state -/of "j mind. ' .I ; replied f
J.thatl the! priest <she^ 'sent ;Vme> to.v.whoj
\u25a0-wanted ;a , new; church ,'lbuilt.v had '; per- \u25a0 'J
a^ miracle falnd'.-lt'^was-t He riwhoj
'?', had I cured me. \r"* She •'{: then 're"alized' ; the'
situation; and! the"; messTshe^had;gotteriv
\u25a0^herself 4 into rby.sendirigl m'e'£there* on.Va'j
jgo.ose Jchasei'i 'But '» Doctor;'' Johnson : was
t t not; so' easily^ placated.'": He 'sent: me 'in a !
tibill; for $50* noxtsdayTand \l< paidiit.^
".What'elseTcbuldjl-do?"'" .What'elseTcbuldjl-do?" ' :.\: .\ *
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strong constitution, my nerves were all
gone. It took ages, 'it seemed to me,
for my , nerves Jo get straightened out.
'My' condition 'was, worse than it ever
was in the earlier days of .whisky
drinking.; -The .process of recovering
seemed worse 1; than the worst days of
the drinking lind its immediate effects.
It"; was a long process of doctoring, of
opeiv air. exercise, of good surroundings.
In my wine bum days I would often
sit 'for hours. drinking, then would fall
asleep, only toj awake and drink more,
and still more. ,i .
.You can see ; the wine bums any day
around. Pacific and the other streets oft
Kearny and;Dupont. Some of. them are
6o soaked with the poispn that they
carry the jodor around with them at all
.times. Their ragged, faded clothes reek
with the wine that they have spilled In
the moments of 'their Yworst drunken
ness." "\u25a0\u25a0-,/ . : \u25a0 . :, \u25a0 ; ' '- . v _
That such wrecks are numerous right
here In fair San Francisco seems im
possible. Yet any one can find them.
They; are familiar to the police and, to
the: police- reporters of the papers. I
do" not think, that desperate criminals
, and jyeg-gmen are as common in their
ranks; as in .the" ranks rof - the "hop
heads" and "hypo fiends," but they are
as sodden and miserable a lot as can
.be' imagihedJ - Few v of them, have any,
regular place to* live outside of the
wine cellars. They^ sleep wherever
they can find: a place; where the police
will I not find | them, -j Some of them do
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It was little short of a miracle that I
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•nothing 'as. compared to 'my wine bum
ming : day3. . During tiTe. periods be
tween my whisky sprees I nearly al
ways felt the craving to get back to
the liquor, i I. have no, such desire to
return to the wine; My experience was
a.dread nightmare, too horrible to con
template. .
The whisky bum sometimes has spells
when he can leave the whisky alone
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