The evening times., 1899-06-09
TEA CRUSADERS
Begin OPERATIONS
Church Army Starts a Tenn
perance Saloon.
A Movement That Frights the Souls
Of Beer Sellers.
Reform Plan-Inducements to
WOrkinRmen.


Of the United States Church Army a cru
sRde was begun yesterday to convert to
tea drinking all of the beer and liquor
drinkers Of this city. A tea saloon, at
which. the finest tea can be bought for
much less than the poorest beer costs, was
opened at rs Allen Street early last even
ing. Within three hours more than 200
persons had patrOniEed the new saloon.
This is the first effort made to establish
tea saloons in New York. At the Allen
Street place one can buy a large glass Of
hot or cold tea for 1 cent. and for 2 cents
families may get a pint ''growler'' filled
with tea.
1t Is confidently predicted by those back
Of this novel plan that many persons who
have been patrOnizing the saloons hitherto
will take to tea drinking under these cir
cumstances. This belief is shared by many
saloon keepers also. it is said, and it is
also intimated that several saloon men on
the East Side threaten to meet the new
competition by establishing tea depart
ments in their saloons and selling the bev-
erage, hot or cold, for 1 cent This plan
has taken no organized form as yet. how
ever, and what the regular saloon keepers
will do will depend largely upon the sue
cess Of this first effort to divert the thirsty
public from its former channels.
Cornelius Vanderbilt. Edwin NJ KLo;.
the Rev. E. Walpole Warren the Rv
William NJ. Hughes. and DR.. George +.
Shrady are among those who hive inter-
ested themselves in this new movement.
Roswell p. Flower became much inter-
ested in the plan short time before his
opI lav,t
to it. The new tea saloon has been opened
in a building formerly occupied as a red
light" dive. and still more recently equip
ped as a Raines law hotel. Under the per-
sonal direction Of Col. Henry H. Hadley.
lay director OF the Church Army, the
building has been attractively equipped at
an expense of 81 900, and has been leased
for three years. If the tea saloon proves
to be the success that Is expected. sim lar
saloons will be opened later in the Bow
cry. in Fourteenth Street. and at SOLO
point in the Wall Street district.
Colonel Hadley. discussing the plans of
the CHURCH. Army in this direction last
night said
I'VE Rescue Workers have a deep SYM
pathy for everybody who has a thirst
Ten million American people are today
satisfying their thirst in saloons. We be-
lieve that this experimental opening of
the first tea saloon Is the beginning of a
great. successful. practical temperance le-
form movement. We believe the expert
ment will succeed because il Is practical
and greatly needed: because We have ex-
perfmented successfully for two years with
coffee bars. and because our hearts. and
zeal are consecrated to this work, from the
highest standpoint.
Whenever we can we win exert our
best and most ingenious efforts to get beer
drinkers and drinkers of all sorts of in
toxicants to substitute tea, which ,ovr-
ishes and Quenches thirst. for beer and
strong drink. which start an UNIQUE n chable
thirst, irritate and inflame, and do not
nourish. Tea builds up-alcohol burns up:
tea quenches thirst-beer starts thirst.
By our ingenious tea bucket, with an in
side place for the tea, an outside COM
partment for ice and faucets for drawing
the iced tea and the iced water separately.
consumers may get 1t at the tea saloon,
always fresh and ready. as quickly as ;hey
can get beer, for cents pint, with no
charges for the ice or for the use of the
bucket. while il they send for beer at the
liquor saloon the beer costs cents a Pint
with no ice. which would spoil the beer
THE tea reform movement means not
only the endeavor to reform those who
use beer and the like by getting them TO
tea Tor alcohol. but to reform
from the improper way in which
they make tea. The United States Church
Army imports its own tea and refuses to
pack or sell any which after careful ex-
animation does not come up to the highest
tests. The best only is then packed. and
so carefully labeled that it cannot he brok-
en- or adulterated. We well know that the
Church Army must use and sell the very
best tea only or fail in this tea saloon en-
deavor. hence every safeguard is adopted
to protect US from our natural enemies and |
from carelessness.
Not one in a thousand working men or |
women who send three times a day for a |
pint of beer ever has $40 accumulated at |
once. yet they send cash for beer at s |
cents a pint land get no ice) "a cents per |
day. $7.20 per month. making $3.50 a |
year Now, for every laboring man or |
in the vicinity who will stop |
beer. ale. wine. whisky. gin, or |
any other strong drink and send to this |
saloon for tea instead. We will send 1t to !
them as an experiment. hot or cold, as |,
they desire. and they may pay us the 8 |
cents a pint for tea. which they have been |
paying for the beer-24 cents per day. |
We will take their first "a cents and add |
a dollar to it. and open a special account |
for them. in their name, with the savings |