The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-04-01
FLOATS IN LIQUOR.
An Appalling Account of Alcoholic
Drinks Used in Greater New York.


sued a special edition of mammoth size,
devoted to the gloritication of the
| Greater New York as an industrial CEN
ter. Among the industries which came
in for Il share of the gloritication were
the breweries and the wine and spirit
trades. Regarded from a strictly COM
nercial point of view, the showing made
! here was, of course, a very fine one.
Such an immense amount of capital in
vested, such an enormous output of
manufactured products, were enough
| surely to make the hearts of the citizens
of the Greater New York swell with
pride. But let the Tribune tell the Won
| derful story:
"The aggregate investment in the
brewing industry in Greater New
York." it says, has reached many mil.
| lions of dollars, and constant employ.
ment is given to not less than $4,000
| people; $4,000 horses and wagons are
employed in handling the raw mate
rial and the finished product to and
from the breweries.
What becomes of the 10000 bar
rels of beer that are annually produced
| in Greater New York? A competent
authority, in answer to that question,
replied: Greater New York drinks it.
Of the $1,000 barrels of foreign beers
imported into the United States, about
| 10000 barrels were consumed in Greater
| New York. In addition, there was an
| indeterminate quantity of beer con-
| sumed not made within the city. These
| items are estimated to about equal in
the aggregate the quantity of New
| York made beer shipped to other points
Of consumption, leaving 100000 bar
rels as the average annual consumption
of the city. Reduce that quantity to the
more familiar basis of measurement,
and it equal 232, 100000 gallons-or,
say, 3,72O,OOO,OOO glasses-or 1910
| glasses annually for each one of the
| 100000 men, women and children that
may be considered as living within the
! limits Of Greater New Yorli-3% glasses
| every day of the year for each one of
them" What a noble and inspiring
record this is, indeed! Three and a
half glasses a day for every inhabitant
of this greater city, all manufactured
and drunk right here on the spot, too!
| What great people we are! How
| proud we ought to be of ourselves!
But that is not all the story by any
means. We do great deal more than
that. We manufacture and buy and sell
wine and spirits, too, by the hundreds
of thousands of gallons. Hear what the
| Tribune says about this: 'Dominick
Lynch and his wine cellars were con-
| spicuous figures in the business of the
| city 90 years ago, but nowadays he
would be quite lost to sight among the
| $50 importers and $50 other wholesale
dealers in wine and spirits who strive
| together in keen competition for the
patronage of the 10000 retail establish
ments of one sort and another where
| the products of the winepress and the
still can be procured by the thirsty
| public of this great city; and his few
| pipes of aromatic sercial and rich col
ored malmsey would be swept along I'M
noticed in the tidal wave of 10000, 900
to 100000 gallons of wine and spirits
| that annually pours into Greater New
York. Of the /, 400, 600 900 gallons of dis
titled spirits imported into the United
States during 1895 $4,000 gallons came
through the port of Greater New York,
besides over 100000 gallons of American
whisky reimported from Europe, and
about 10000 gallons of California bran
dy. Add to these figures about $780,
! 600 gallons of domestic whisky received
| during the same period, and the meas
ure of the annual consumption and dis
tribution of Greater New York is
| reached. lnasmuch as New York draws
to itself so large a proportion of wine
and spirit impOrtations, it is but nat
ural that foreign manufacturers should
make special efforts to keep their par
ticular brands constantly before the
| buyers of this market, hence many of
! the larger European manufacturers
have resident agents in the city, who
add largely both in numbers and in
tiuence and in capital represented to
the distinctly local interests already
mentioned. Likewise the great distil-
! leries of the middle states, and the wine
I producers of California and the region
| about Lake Erie, find it greatly to their
! advantage to be represented at the me-
tropolis of the nation, and their agents
are active and persistent in their efforts
to convince the wholesale buyer and the
great drinking public that no goods
from over the seas can rival in purity
and excellence the sparkling catawba of
western New York, or the handmade
sour mash"
The spectacle of that tidal wave of
100000 to 100000 gallons of wine
and spirits" annually pouring into the
Greater New York, Isl enough of itself
to set every breast aglow with poetic
fire. Such a magnificent spectacle, sig
, riticant of so much of progress, pros
perity and happiness! And besides all
this, there is the sparkling catawba and
"the handmade sour masd" Who
would not live forever where such allur-
ing prospects invite ?-Christian Work
Athletes with and without Alcohol.
An eX-president of the Cambridge
University Athletic club, whose letter
appears in the Temperance Chronicle,
says: 81 am not n tectotaler, but
a very strong advocate of temperance.
A.