The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-04-07
THIRST in GOTHAM.
THE AMOUNT OF LIQUID CONSUMED
DAILY IN THE METROPOLIS.

of Water, MIX, Wine, Etc, Which
Pour Down the Throats In Greater New
York-Mathematical Calculations That
Produce Startling Results.
A river of 10000 mouths that flows
$50 gallons each minute, or 100000 gal
Ions daily, is running down the throats OF
the inhabitants of Greater New York
That is the amount of beverage consumed
each day. If all the fluid were formed to-
gether, it would occupy 1O7, 900 cubic feet
of space, weigh 6,420,000 pounds and
make good load for an ocean freighter
$50 feet long.
These figures are as correct as they are
astounding, for they come from the best
statistical sources.
In the river are included all of the various
liquids that find their way--with willing
assistance-into the stomachs of New
Workers, including water, which cannot
be separated from the rest, as it Is neces-
sary part of all. 1t enters into all the spir-
ituous and malt liquors, is tho vehicle Tor
tea coffee and cocoa and Is nearly all OF
carbonated drinks.
Excepting water in its pure state, which
ie one-half of the entire consumption, we
find beer at the head of the list We are
told by Germans that 1t is the great civil
lizing drink, and we know that its con-
sumption is increasing beyond the increase
Of population. Here in Greater New York
the annual sale of beer ten years ago was
5000, 900 barrels. Now 1t is 100000
; OF this vast quantity of beer 2l2, 900
gallons are consumed at home each day,
or more than / 800, 900 of glasses, varying
from the "ponies, that hold about gill,
ND to the "schooners," that carry almost
quart. This quantity of beer makes u bulk
Of 20, $40 cubic feet. If we should build
barrel to hold Greater New York ono day
supply of beer and place it beside the obe-
lisk for comparison, it would be found to
be as tall and about three times It's mean
diameter--a large barrel to be emptied by
a community each day, but the communi-
ty is equal to the task
When we come to the beverage milk, we
must have a separate can, so as not to have
the portion that we drink mixed with that
which we eat, for Ie are now considering
only drinkables. A large quantity of the
milk consumed goes into solid foods, like
butter and cheese, and into general cook
ing, besides being frozen into the temporary
solid luxury, ice cream.
u
utilized each day as drink, either clear
or mixed with other beverages. Our little
people, not yet educated to the use Of beer,
are the principal consumers Of these gal-
Ions, which measure IS, 700 cubic feet.
II we follow the example set by the beer
barrel and make can for our milk and
place 1t beside Castle Garden, 1t will be 30
feet In. diameter, and it's top will reach the
rood.
Then there are the whisky and kindred
spirits.
II we make demijohn for our daily
supply of straight and fancy alcoholic
drinks, it must have q content Of 936
cubic feet which will hold 1000 gallons.
This lis the amount consumed each day in
the year In Greater New York.
This supposed. demijohn will be 10 feet
in diameter and 80 feet high. II placed
beside The Herald building, its cork would
be but.a little below the cornice.
II, 10 balance this, we place n siphon ON
the other. side of the building to hold the
90, 600 gallons Of carbonated waters that
are consumed daily, we will have bottle
with a content of 5000 cubic feet which
/ will measure Is feet in diameter and stand
with its top as high as the root, or 30 feet
above the ground.
6redUeS NSH Il DIX thoO WiHo, onS
.corks are popping at the rate Of, about %
oninute fnom, the various sized bottles. IL
these BOTTLES were all quarts, there would
be 10000 of them, and their contents
would measure b34 cubic feet.
II one xineglass is made to hold all
this, It muss, be 80 feets deep and "a feet in
diameter. There is no more fitting way
to. emphasize the size of this glass than by
placing it in the appraised hand of Liberty,
and thus change her frsm torchbearer
lighting the world TO a cupbearer about to
drink to the health of the world.
Greater New York drinks coffee, tea and
COCOA TO the extent of 81, 800 pounds daily.
The coffee weighs 40, 900 pounds, and q
canister to hold it would have to be IL
feet high and feet in diameter. If this
canister was loaded ON a wagon, 1t would
require the strength Of 12 good horses to
haul it over tho most favorable street in
New York.
As TO tho ten, we daily consume $4,000
pounds Of 1t, or the contents OF 27S ten
chests These would make most delight
full pyramid to the eyes Of John ChinamaR
il piled with 81 chests In the bottom layer,
then narrowing the width Of one chest on
each succeeding layer until the top layer
of nine chests was reached. This pyramid
would be 15 feet square at the base and
11H feet high.
The daily cocoa can for Greater New
York would contain one cubic yard, for
we consume as beverage 800 pounds
each day. Then there is as much more
used in manufacture.
As the excise law provides certain regu-
lations for places where Intoxicating liq-
uors are sold, we get some interesting fig
ures from the records.
There are $4,000 licensed buildings
where LIQUORS are sold In Greater New
York, and II these buildings were placed
side by side they would reach a distance
of 1913 miles, or six times around Manhat-
tan Island.
These buildings, all together, contain
1,64O, ZOO, 900 cubic feet. So II they were
massed into single cube It would meas.
ure 1880 feet on each side.-New York
Herald.
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