White Rose Cocktail (1934)

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      City Loses Favorite Bartender As 'Artie' Shoemaker Dies
              The Washington Post  (1877-1954).       Washington, D.C.: Sep 22, 1934.                   p. 7 (1 page)
_Inventor of Drinks Saw_
   _Service in Old and New_
   _Drinking Eras._
         The skilled hand of Arthur Shoemaker, whose talent as a bartender and inventor of drinks brought pleasure to hundreds of Washingtonians in the days before prohibition  and after repeal, has been stilled by death.
   Mr. Shoemaker, 66, died at Emergency Hospital early yesterday after a month's illness.
   Known as "Artie" to his friends, Mr. Shoemaker was one of the city's oldest bartenders--linking the past and present of legal drinking.  He died just as he was beginning once more to excel in the profession in which he made an enviable reputation.
   Inventor of the "white rose" cocktail, he mixed drinks for the great and the near-great at Losekam's famous cafe, on F street neart Thirteenth, in the age of fast-stepping horses and ostrich plumes.  He worked at the old Shoreham Hotel, Fifteenth and H streets, and at Shoomaker's Bar, on Pennsylvania avenue, near Thirteenth street.
   The open bar was declared illegal and the mint no longer was green in julep glasses, in public, at any rate, so Mr. Shoemaker changed his occupation and operated the charge of the billiard room of the City Club.
   When legal drinking came back, the mixer stood behind screens.  Mr. Shoemaker adapted himself to this new era, and went with the Hi Hat Club, later shifting to Maryland Club Gardens.  He remained there until his fatal illness.
   Surviving Mr. Shoemaker are his widow, Mrs. Blanche Shoemaker; two sisters and two brothers.  Mr. Shoemaker and his wife lived at 901 Thirteenth street northwest.
   Funeral services will be held Monday at 10 a.m. in St. Patrick's Church.  Burial will be in Mount Olivet Cemetery.