Morning journal and courier., 1883-02-28
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 The campaign which has been planned and begun by the Church Temperance Society in New York bids fair to be one of the most notable attacks upon the evils of the traffic in rum that have been made for many 8 day. The Society has gone to work boldly and vigorously and good men and women all over the country will wish it abundant success and will watch it's efforts with deep interest.
 In order to impress the public with the necessity for doing something maps have been prepared and statistics collected show ing startling condition of things. There are over 10, 900 rumshops in the city of New York, one to every 125 inhabitants, and one to every 25 families. There are 1, 100 bakers. 2,O0O butchers, 4,o00 grocers. Of the 10,- GOO rumshops 5000 are licensed, and mod crate estimate gives the illicit shops and places where rum-which is the comprehen- sive term for drinks of all kinds-is sold at 1000. The statistics show that there are A. 319 hotels of all grades; that there are 3, 722 places where ale and beer only are ssld: that there are 534 shops, drug stores and others where liquor can be had, which, with the es- timated illicit 1000, give total of 1o,075 Various shops and stores where bread, meat and groceries can be procured foot up 1926 In other words, there are more rumshops than food shops in the great city of New York by 2,749.
 A map shows that section of the city bounded by Broome, Division, Norfolk and the Bowery, in which there are one hundred and seventy-fve lager beer saloons and seventy-six rumshops. On one block, be- tween East Houston and Stanton streets, there are-seventeen houses, of which eleven are gin mills. On the block between Bayard and Division streets there are fourteen houses, in eight of which liquor is sold. On Cherry street, between James and Oliver, there are ten houses, in nine of which are saloons. On the block between Catherine and Oliver there are eight houses, six of which are devoted to the sale of whisky. On James street, between Batavia and North Chambers, of the eight houses four are rum- shops, and on Chatham street, between Roosevelt and James, there are eight houses, in four of which liquor is sold.
 Sixty million dollars year are spent in New York for liquor, nearly two-thirds of the arrests are what are called 'trum arrests, D and thirteen of the twenty-two members of the Board of Aldermen are liquor dealers. No wonder the Church Temperance Society thinks it time to make an effort to decrease these ominous figures. The movement is 8 liberal one, whose main object is to secure temperance-not total abstinenoe-among the people and sensible enforcement of the excise law Instead of one saloon for 125 people the Society thinks one for 500 enough and will labor to largely decrease the number of rum shops. Many influential and wealthy gentlemen are members of the Society. Bish- .op Benjamin B. Smith is it's president and for vice presidents there are forty bishops of the Episcopal Church. The executive officer is Robert Graham, who has been very suc- cessful in similar work in England. A mass meeting was held in Stainxay Hall Monday evening and the movement was given g good start. If the plans formed are carried out much good will be accomplished.