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Facuity and Proctors
One of Solon's specialties was a Mint Julep-a Julep
whose praises inspired grateful paeans during many
years and has caused many a memory to thirst in arid
areas and in dry times. It was a drink in which the time
element played an important part. The customer who
knew would give his order al)d wait. Preferably, he
would go somewhere'else and sit down and do something
to make the minutes pass, or else just enjoy thrills of
anticipation as to what that julep would be like when
he got it. Not until thirty minutes by the clock had
elapsed would he
reapp~ar
at the bar-side to claim his
drink. And it would come to him with frost almost half
an inch thick about the rim, icy cold, of course, and
with a mingling of scents, odors and tastes that com–
bined the perfumes of Araby with the nectar of Olym–
pus. But that Mint Julep was not, after all, Johnnie
Solon's greatest invention.
An ungrateful-or possibly ignorant-army of drink–
ers, past and present, has failed to do- honor to a man
whose crowning achievement has been at times on mil–
lions of lips, its name pronounced in all foreign parts
wherever hewho runs may read the sign, "American Bar."
It is my privilege to announce a fact which heretofore
only a privileged few have known.
THE BRONX IS BORN
Johnnie Solon is the inventor of the original Bronx Cock–
tail!
Other claimants may have arisen to the title. Publi–
cists and propagandists may have endeavored to shove
forward the name of some other favorite barman as the