BANISH CHERRY FROM COCKTAIL IN GOTHAM

Fruit Growers Alarmed at Ostracism of Succulent Ingredient of Mixture

[Special Dispatch to The Call]

San Jose. Dec. 24. [1908]—News has reached the fruit centers of this city that the cherry and the olive grown in this valley have lost caste with the New York cocktail mixers. In the city of the Great White Way no wine clerks drop cherries or olives into cocktails now, unless someone asks for them, and local growers and packers are somewhat alarmed over this situation.

The proposed increase in freight rates will mean a great burden on this valley, but the ostracism of the cherry and olive by the drinkers of the east is viewed in the light of the straw that broke the camel’s back.

It is feared that the New York custom will spread westward. Many women view with alarm the banishment of the cherry from the Martini or Manhattan. It will deprive them of the opportunity to utter that venerable bromidion: “I don’t care for the cocktail itself, but I like to eat the cherry.”

Of course, the innocent cherry must be repopularized. But how?