New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-07-19

.-,.s;ro library. No rum shop is more com
tf ttt'la Gets The news of the day here as resduy
bfse .bsre he has the stimulus of his coffee after
..ss,iura labor, and above all some gFatiiicauon
= n unconcious but iccessant nhnperngs ior auuse-
~ ard beauty. The great attractions OF the liquor
49, arc oone--company, cbeerfulness and excite
- He Gets them here without the depraving
sssnces and free from the temptation Of alcohol, so
| sful 10 The aboriDg man. NO one can imagine, ex-
- soms few OF strong, sanguine and nervous or
IT;1stops. what a tremendous inducement there is
an excilable, over.worked laborer to drnk-to get
lnk-st the end ofhs day. His feelings are depressed
LIN exhausiiDg drudgery his physical powers able to
bar at strain Of itemeni, his heart and imagna
on hupeering for something out OF his dull life and
Issre in moment lie finds his exhilarating water OF
aEe' in the fatal cap.
Who wonders that Intoxication always recruits us
,tks among the labores and that all the worst evils
be pcor-idleness, sensnaty, Penury aud ciins
ninety nine cases out of hundred begin with tue
htquentirg Of liquorshopsl Is il not prachcal SEN
sbe plan to moe, these passionate sPpefes ana ioag
Ipgs with beautiful iDdulgences 10 drve OUT the
IeFer appetite by creating higher! .
With reesrd 10 the "MeChanics' Clue-ro0m IN
pss,on IL strikes as as an ioprovementh IL Is not
.Iresdy Intended that they should admit families.
We know it viii be singular step in American man.
,ss mi2g.e women and men m such places Perhaps
can not AT once be done. Sull, place is by far
80 social il the two sexes can be brought together,
~ the refining Influences on tue men, as well the
h, pleasant effect of keeping families together to
!, carefully considered. Many solitary young
rscaIic would be right glad to leave his brandy ana
Is only 10 sit and look at a company Of healthy and
Edgbtly lasees, such as might gather there from
rkchaIics' families, and imagine as lie heard the
psno Til nDder pretty fingers, that one was playing
bx him at length IN his own snug home. Ii is right
no that women should share something Of these i'm
proyemeDts being put operation for the working
classes.
ser.ni class than that in City most needing such
A.. 81. g.. hon o,1H ar
nborer here, who most attracted the pothouses;
and is they who forced by poverty into the most
flhy and disagreesble homes. We need most in
NV York 10 elevate the lowest class, for they are
nressed into the most unnatural conditions. No one
On have az idea unless practically familiar with the
as Of tie drudging, miserable, squald lives and the
&c homes of the foreign hb0rers. One is never sur
ysed at heir habit of frequenting grog-shops, and
ier love for strong drink What have they OF social
-eeturts or of homer
An attempt is now being made in quarter Of our
y where many of the workiDg-peope reside to open
A Coffee and Reading ROOM The plan is simple
merely TO provide for the young loafog apprentices
ard Tor the older xingmen who in the practice
N fteoueniiDg iquorshops-a pleasant room for con-
yersstion end reading, where they can get cup OF
taa coffee IL they DESIRE The room aud fixtures are
M 10 ont ino the hands of Superintendent who is to
make lis living from the sale Oi cohee ana Tea, &c
ILe public expected, will furnish the books, mag
syipes and papers. We are happy to acknowledge
ibsrecept already Of fifty books of an interest
ipg character from the MessIs. Appleton, unsolicited,
e he mere public suggestion of the plan. As yet the
ererprse is in embryo but certain to be carried out
h il hoped by those engaged that it will be only be-
rinipe or the opening of such rooms IN every poor
susrier Of the Cityat t perhaps by persons inter
Led Ia the elevation Of the working classes and af
s4wad on larger scale by any who may find 1t
paying business.
Such "Club.rooms" as that being opened in Bos-
bp We trust will be eventually everywhere started by
mechanics themselves in association, so that IN that
dsss as now in every department Of American life,
numbers and cooperation may give what individuals
tould never obtain. c. L. B.
No IL Clinton Hal, Asfor place.