The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-12-19

| The strccts directly upon the river front, OF
near It.. Along the cast stdo of tho New
Bowery and the Bowcry. hvm New Cham
bers street up to Rlvington. there are OIL,
$40 feet where the Excise Board. according
to the Posrs construction Of what IL "lnw
full" could grant license Of any sort. Al
Chrystic street and Grand. ut the Bowery
and Bnyard. and Mt East Broadway and
Clinton, there are little regions containing
respectively $50. 600. and $50 feet OF street
front. where saloons. restaurants. or gro
ccries might exist. But $1,000 out Of the
lOs, 200 feet, more than eighteen miles out Of
the twenty miles OF street ..ont In this SOC.
ton Of the town. NJlld DO prohibition
territory. with the New York system Of
license no longer In force. liz same state
Of affairs would exist In every part OF the
metropolis IN greater OF less degree.
We have entered into these Interesting
calculations to show clearly the character
of the Posts assumption as to what consti-
tutes immediate vicinity" Now let us
SEQ how 1t applies It's utterly unwarranted
and ridiculous assumption.
Its method In discovering saloons in the
Immediate vicinity Of school is to take
RoBrNsoN's atlas and measure elk hundred
feet across streets. over intervening build
ings and solid blocks OF buildings, from the
nearest point OF the structure In which
the saloon, restaurant, or grocery store Ia
located to the nearest point Of the school
building. II the distance by the map Is six
hundred feet or less. the saloon. restaurant.
or grocery in question Il set down In its list
as menacina the school in question. ire
apectlve OF the true Typographical relations
of the two places. We regret to say TINT
even in pursuing this simple and conven.
lent method OF making case. tho Evenino
Post Is astonishin2fy dishonest In Its meas
urements. Tho figures OF distances alleged
In its lists, so far as we. have attempted to
verify them. are utterly untrustworthy.
In nearly forty instances out OF a possible
one hundred 1t helps along its case by
undertaking the actual distance. and this
by advertisements varying from ten feet
to twenty-five hundred.
The dishonesty Of it's measurements Is not
less marked than the disingenuousness Of Its
method OF measurement. The reasonable
way to ascertain tho distance from school,
house to o saloon. AZ establishing proxfm.
ity for practical purposes. is to measure the
nearest route by sidewalk from the former
to the latter. and not through solid build.
ings and blocks Of buildings that intervene.
To assert. for example. that the res
taurant in the basement Of the Pres
colt House. on the west side OF
Broadway at Spring street. rnenaces tho
morals Of the Marion Street Grammar
School merely because the nearest part Of
the Prescott House Is 600 feet from the near
est part OF the school building. by limo
across Broadway. through four
solid buildings. across Crosby street.
through three moro solid buildings. and
then across Marion street. would seem to
be the elimination Of absurdity. Yet that
Ii what the Post does. and It IL o fair sample
Of great part Of It's reckonings. The near
est distance by sidewalk from the Marion
street school to tho restaurant under the
Prescott House is $50 feet: and even II the
latter establishment were o menace and
danger to any public school. 1t Is practically
as remote from the Marion street school as
It IL from Mr.. GoDKIN's office at Fulton
street and Broadway.
We have gone through this pretended list
81 100 saloons. or actual list Of 70 licensed
places Of the various classes. which the Post
offers In support ofits charges. with growing
disgust at the fmpudence Of our unscrupu-
ous Mugwump contemporary. Wedo not see
how 1t can impose on anybody who will take
The trouble to investigate personally half
iozen specified cases chosen at random.
Here. for example. Is the first school offered
~ the Post In evidence. as threatened by
Tx saloons in the immediate vicinity"
III
Esv saooas licensed L.,
BY present Board. "a
1l6 Henry streot........85 Monroe street.. 900
159 Madison street. .l75 |
l56 East Broadway l2S |