New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-03


by saying that he liked the word tavern. for
into a tavern I can bring my wife and my
daughter any other lady Of my acquaiut-
ance." He thought that it was to be preferred 10
cafe" n name for place in which one met
for social time and for drink and a bite to
eat. He continued:
EARL GREY's IMPROVED sYsTEI.
ownership Of drinking places I do not wish 10
ever. which was the gift of genius Under the
Gottenburg system, which prevails In NORWAY and
fInpoEes sel P,hiisTed ,n5nr tho Earl CirnF'
system the manager also gets q percentage. but
you have the most potential motive Of personal
profit which leads the manager 10 discourage the
In this NewYoTk. for which you are respons,ibe
as ] am we ind multitude trained IN various
tude Of men who toll. What is to become Of them?
other place to go I can drop into Of my clubs
] am a member Of the Metropolitan, Century Union
ife and nd fI,@ - children where IS he 70 turn Bv
neyitab be necessity to the saloon And If YOU
place the saloon under the ban. make IT one
Are you going to make the conditions of tho
bad that the man cannot go without losing his
self-respect? If you do. YOU are going to max" It
perance question IS as far from solution now as
it was twsnty years ago; with The. the addition that
hypocrisy.
AS proof that the system Of Walk up to the
bar and Join me in a drink on the decay.
Bishop Potter cited the experience Of a ply
sician up the State who covered a number of
small towns. Thirty years ago, according to the
bishop. the physician had to take drink with
the men about the country tavern or be consid-
cred stuck up" He not asked to drink to-
day and If he was seen taking a drink he lost
caste as a physician
DR. Potter then told Of Of his clergymer
who was going on a frosty morning last winter
to visit at Rye. He passed his ticket to the
chopper at the gate who looked at It and
marked:
"Rye-thats what you want on a snappy
morning like this"
Then the bishop added this comment with the
solemnity of delivering text:
Let me tell you, gentlemen. YOU will find that
the plan of drinking rye and gin to get warm
on a cold day a dead failure.
81 wish, he continued. that had the power
to a wand this audience and trans
port you all to the Tivoli Gardens I'm Copen-
hagen. l went there when abroad last
year, and was greatly pleased with what saw.
If YOU q swell you get dinner In the
garden for 81. If you a workrgman, in
the same garden. with fine orchestra playing
at your back you can get something to eat and
He gave a detailed description of what the
gardens did for the wOrl1ngrnen and said that
faith and cooperation accomplish these
results in New-York."
THE GREATEST SOCIAL MOVEMENT"
In closing he said that the opening of the tav-
crn is in many respects the greatest social
movement New York has ever known. Men who
are absent from here to-day must take this
movement into account K they would save the
Republic II cannot be saved by theories alone,
but by putting great ideals into the home We
must see that the men have recreation which
| takes men not a way from, but into more infor-
| NAL relations with, their wives and children"
! In opening the dedication service Joseph John
son. jr, the manager, outlined the object OF the
tavern He said: 1T was an experiment for the
purpose OF Iessening the evils of intemperance.
Only the purest drinks will be sold. While the
prices VIII be the as in other saloons, the
quality will be better. The stockholders. most
Of vhon1 are members of the City Club will take
/ profits on a $4,000 capitalization up 10 per
cent a year All profits that sum willago
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