 The people who came here during those war years were petty foggers and scoundrels. They were people trying to get something out of the federal government. I'm sure that's no longer true in your time, is it? But they required a great deal of entertainment, so Washington became a very exciting place to live. By 1865, we had over 3,500 saloons. If you did not like the Star Saloon on this side of Ford Theater, you could well go to the Greenback on this side. We had more than 400 saloons.