To the question, “did you ever see Jimmy drink in the saloon?” the boys answered that it was a common thing; “but today when the bar-tender took Jimmy’s nickel, and he was full, he throwed him out. He said he didn’t want the kid to disgrace his place.” Three of the best officers were called, they went to the alley, and took Jimmy home. Three of the five boys who were assigned this case, belonged to a gang and were familiar with all the inside workings of a saloon, they were never slow in showing their appreciation of a saloonman who defended them, and who turned them down for entering the saloon. The method adopted by the boys was their work. They knew the proprietor of the saloon, and knew him to be a very kind-hearted man. No person ever asked him in vain for a donation to any cause. His own boys were model young men, stood high in school, and associated with the best of church members. Strange to say the two sons of the saloonman were regular at Sunday-school. It is a fact that when any society, church or other organization desired aid, this saloonman was sought after by a dozen persons. They knew he was easy. This man in his home, on the street, in the lodge room (and he belonged to many societies), in any public gathering, was recognized as an honest man; but behind the bar he saw nothing but money. He never thought he was doing a wrong by taking the last cent from a drunken man; it was business, and that was why he was there. When reminded of it he simply replied that, “I might as well have it as any one else, for someone will get it.” Often he said: “He is bound to drink and the best way is to let him drink up all his money and that is an end of it.” When the newsboys called upon him to plead for their friend, Jimmy, they were received with, “the utmost attention and kindness.” The following is what the chairman reported: “We said to the boss, we come to see you about Jimmy Smith and his father. You see Jimmy has been in bad company, the bad company was at his home, his father an’ mother. He learned the habit of drinking by tasting beer he was sent after by his father, and he said when he learned to drink that your clerk gave him a glass of beer every time he came after it. So the other day your bar-tender threw him out of the saloon. He had gradually taught the boy to drink, and when he began to get so that it annoyed him, he didn’t want him. We come to see if you won’t please stop giving Jimmy any more drink and tell your man to throw him out of the saloon before he drinks. We’ll stand for that, but we won’t stand for his pitching him in the alley when he’s got all of Jimmy’s money and is drunk. As to his father, we don’t want you to sell him anything when you see he has enough. Don’t take the last cent he has when you know he is full already. Send him home. His family needs every cent. And don’t sell Jimmy any beer if he comes with the bucket.”