New York by sunlight and gaslight : a work descriptive of the great American metropolis ; its high and low life; its splendors and miseries; its virtu . ss and drunkenness and Temperance Societies of the city, on the otherhand, do not number 20,000 members. The contrastis startling, but becomes even more so when it is re-membered that the persons arrested are only a smallpart of the vast number who daily pay tribute to thebar-rooms and rum-shops of New York. The Boardof Excise licenses 2430 places where liquors are soldby the single glass or drink, or about one bar-roomto every si
New York by sunlight and gaslight : a work descriptive of the great American metropolis ; its high and low life; its splendors and miseries; its virtu . ss and drunkenness and Temperance Societies of the city, on the otherhand, do not number 20,000 members. The contrastis startling, but becomes even more so when it is re-membered that the persons arrested are only a smallpart of the vast number who daily pay tribute to thebar-rooms and rum-shops of New York. The Boardof Excise licenses 2430 places where liquors are soldby the single glass or drink, or about one bar-roomto every six hundred inhabitants of the city. Theserepresent every grade of drinking establishment, fromthe magnificent Broadway saloon to the gin-mill ofthe Bowery and Sixth avenue, and the bucket-shops *of Baxter street. All these places enjoy a greater orless degree of prosperity, and the proprietors growrich, unless they cut short their lives by becomingtheir own best customers. For alcoholic and maltliquors sold over the bar, hundreds of thousands ofdollars are spent daily. It is estimated that in thevicinity of Wall street alone, 7500 drinks are taken. 532 NEW YORK. and 150 bottles of champagne are disposed of every-day. The bulls and bears require heavy stimulantsto keep them up to their exciting work, and their dailyexpenditure for such purposes is about ^2500. Prob-ably this may account for some of the queer scenesto be witnessed in the Stock Exchange. The quantity of beer consumed in the city is aboutthree times that of whiskey, which is the most commonof the alcoholic drinks. The true-blooded Germanbeer drinker will consume from one to two dozenglasses of his favorite beverage in twenty-four hours,and his American and other imitators follow closelyin his footsteps. The larorest bar in the world is that at the AstorHouse, which transacts the bulk of its business be-tween the hours of nine a. m., and five p. m. Its receiptsaverage about $700 a day, or nearly ^220,000 a year,Sunda
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