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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 12, 1883

Grog-Shops and New York Poverty

In a recent lecture on "The Glory and Shame of New York," Dr. Crosby said: "The shame of New York is summed up in a single word, 'grog-shops.' Of these there are 12,000 in New York, or one to every 100 inhabitants. Now out of every 100 inhabitants 67 are women and children, and of the men 15 seldom or never enter a liquor saloon; so that really we have a saloon for every 18 drinkers. To sustain these places, each of these 18 men must on an average spend $7.00 a week—or the larger part of the average earnings of the workingmen of New York. The poverty of New York is no longer a secret."