Mr. Dyer on Drunkenness and Vice in New York
Mr. Dyer paints the following sad picture: The rum holes, lager beer saloons, distilleries, breweries, houses of degradation, gambling houses and theaters of New York, would occupy both sides of Broadway from the Battery to Central Park, more than six miles. The inmates of the prisons, reformatory and charitable institutions, marching one yard apart, would form a procession several miles long. Thousands of children have already become drunkards. Children from the age of fourteen years down to infants of four years are daily met in a state of intoxication. Very many of the scholars often come drunk to the mission schools. The little creatures have many a time lain stretched upon the benches of the Howard Mission, sleeping off their debauch.