. New York of to-day . s $100,000 daily for ice cream. Counting two glasses to the pint, New York con-sumes daily, all the year round, an average of 14,-000,000 glasses of beer, at a cost of $700,000. Includ-ing the imported brands, 10,000,000 barrels of beerare sold in the Metropolis annually, each barrel con-taining 31K gallons. The citys soda water checks amount to $600,000for each 24 hours. This means 12,000,000 glasses. The Merchants Associatiok A very wide-awake organization in out city is theMerehant3 Association, of which Mr. William Fel-lowes Morgan is president. It is quite beyond th
. New York of to-day . s $100,000 daily for ice cream. Counting two glasses to the pint, New York con-sumes daily, all the year round, an average of 14,-000,000 glasses of beer, at a cost of $700,000. Includ-ing the imported brands, 10,000,000 barrels of beerare sold in the Metropolis annually, each barrel con-taining 31K gallons. The citys soda water checks amount to $600,000for each 24 hours. This means 12,000,000 glasses. The Merchants Associatiok A very wide-awake organization in out city is theMerehant3 Association, of which Mr. William Fel-lowes Morgan is president. It is quite beyond thelimits of our space to enumerate all the importantwork thiB association has accomplished for the busi-ness interests of New York within recent years. Itseems to bo run with a single idea of the welfareof New York and is entirely free from any politicalinfluence whatever. It opposes either party andsometimes both, should necessity arise, and gener-ally gets what it ia after. It is a power for good inthe business muni »fw MM nn*«t» j NiRht ac#ne—Bryan! Park. Furty-Secoru! Street and Siain Avenue, CHAPTER XHI WHAT DO YOU LIKE ABOUTNEW YORK? The following remarks were gathered by a bril-liant New Yorker, Churlcs W. Wood, and they arcwell worth recording. Now that you have visitedthe city, wont you also write the editor of New Yorlcof To-day just what you found most to like aboutNew York? We expect to print all answers in nextyears edition, for all hooks about New York haveto be revised every year in order to keep up with thechanges. 1 like New York, said a hardened Broadwayite,because it lets me alone. Theres just as in other places, but it all has to be explainedand accounted for forever after. Not that Id wantto do anything Id bo ashamed of; but it getB ona mans nerves to feel that everybody in town iswatching him. Id just as soon everybody would219 220 NEW YORK OF TO-DAY know everything there is to know about me, but Ibate to feel that it matters. I like t
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