The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-02-03
NEW YORK ISN'T IN IT.
Figures That Show Anaconda to Be
Ahead at Every Turn.
SOME LIQUOR STATISTICS
y Comparative statement indicat-
ing What This City Would Do
i'm the Way OF Drinking
We're She N lew York.

4 few weeks ago the New YORK Jour-
nal printed page of matter relative
10 the liquor traffic in New York. The
tables and statistical matter show fig
urcs that are astonishing. The page Is
also embcllished with cuts and pictures
showing. by comparative size. that the
liquor consumed in New York in one
year were IL placed in one huge vat.
would be such a vast quantity as to
almost preclude the possibility of cal
culation one OF the pictures shows
an enormous barrel. supposing to con-
tain the liquor Of different varieties
consumed in one year. In the center
Of this barrel is n cut Of Trinity church.
The apparent ratio OF size is about 16
Of LIQUOR TO one Of church.
Another cut has vat Of all the beer
that went down New Nork's throat in
a year. In the center Of the beer key
il New Nork's city hall. 1t bears about
the same relative size as dog does
- an elephant. \ third picture goes
10 show that the saloons of the great
American metropolis. placed side by
side. each occupying % feet front,
would extend a distance Of 30 miles.
\ very interesting array Of figures,
comparing Anaconda's liquor trade TO
that of New York. is given below.
While the statistics at hand bearing
mcager it appears that Anaconda is
far ahead Of New York as punisher
OF different varieties of liquor.
New York. according to the Journal.
has a population of $4,000; Anacon-
da's population may be placed at TO-
600 This shows that Anaconda is
about one-one hundred and ninety
sixth the size of New York. New York
has $3.50 places where liquor is sold.
while Anaconda has 50 saloons, and,
making a low estimate eight grocery
stores where liquor may be bought.
This gives a total of 60 places dispens-
ing liquor If Anaconda were as big
as New York II should have, retaining
the proportion. 196 times co. or n,f6O
saloons. whereas New York has only
$3.50.
In New York there are 224 people TO
every saloon; in Anaconda there are
only 100 % people to every saloon. In
Anaconda, allowing five persons to
family, there are 4li5 male adults for
each saloon, while New York has SO.
Therefore II must be seen that while
IL takes SO men to support saloon In
New York. Ala men perform the same
feat in Anaconda, and probably do II
better than the larger number in New
York. Considering the fact that there
are some men who do not drink, and
some who drink very little, ii must
keep the rest hustling to support their
allotted saloon.
The saloons of Anaconda, placed side
! by side. % feet frontage for each, would
reach for distance Of 1.500 feet. Not
a great distance, ii is true, but if Ana
! conda were New York. one would null
tiply the 500 feet by l96 and thus
obtain Ssh miles Of unbroken saloon,
or 20 miles more of saloon than New
York has.
In one year 10, 531. 600 gallons of all
1T, A. - OnG1In1p1 hN New
York. OF this quantity each saloon is
entitled to 1885, gallons. OF beer and
malt liquors New York poured down its
parched throat les 96O.177 gallons Each
| Of the $40 saloons sold or disposed OF
$685. gallons of this. If Anaconda
| were New York she would have 11,16O
saloons, each Of which would have sold
or disposed Of 1895 gallons of liquor,
| a total Of 229.71S.370 gallons, or 59,lS1,-
| 970 more than New York did. OF beer
| she would have gotten away with
! POI. col $40 gallons, seeing Father
| Knickerbockcr and going him 5s,6il,393
gallons better
II would seem impossible that these
enormous figures could be correct They
are based. however on the New York
papor's figures and. by arhthmetical
deductions. the results as shown above
are obtained. The Journal has at its
command the most carefully compiled
mental and other records which are
correct beyond doubt. 1t is, therefore,
Unsuitable 90 take the Journals figures
and work out the results which seem
| best 10 1T the case.
| The Journal goes on to say that IL
| every person in New York drank equal
| quantities of red eye, he or she would
| consume about 80 quarts or eight gall
| Ions How the Journal arrives at this
| conclusion is a little deep, for. IL New
York has 1851 900 Of population and
| each drank 32 quarts il would decrease
| the supply only 62,62i.000 quarts or 49,
| CSC 600 gallons. 1t will be seen from
! this that there are still several mill
| ions Of gallons TO be accounted for.
| AIC-t likely the Journals statistic
/ maker lost a figure somewhere and for
| got 70 20 back and pick IT up. Never
! theless. if New Yorker can drink %
| gallons. or 320 quarts, OF intoxicating
] liquor in year. it is a safe bet that
! "a wild ard wcolly Auacondan can call
him ana raise him a few hundred gal
/ Ions.
! Thirty thousand persons were ar
| rested for drunkenness in New York
| last year. That Is about 3i2 persons
| thrown into durancc vile by each Of
! Gotham's $3.50 saloons. Now II Ana
| conda were TO do the thing in New
| Y1rk's shoes she would arrest 3is
| times n eco which would result in Al.
| 100 druule being hauled up in police
| court u would take New Nork's liquid
| 90 yCss and SO days 10 run through
| a faure. At the rate Of one gallon per
| minute. by a simple calculation IL will
! apr.4r that Il would take Anaconda
| about ilgi. years 70 1T out N" supply
| through one faucet chat n lets out
| now iu one year through ll,5G0 faucets.
/ n cost every human being lu New
| York s7l 81 during 1895 10 he allowed
g. drink himself drunk several times.
| The AuarDndau. being more liberal.
| would pay about SS9Gs Tho Journal
| shows a stream % mon and women
| whose manhood and womanha9d have
| bon wrecked Iy imhibiug too freely.
| Til. men and men. single file. would