New York | AdventAI

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 20, 1863

New York.

WE are told that there are in New York 100,000 German infidels; 350,000 persons who don't go to church; 13,000 families without Bibles; 60,000 children who never attend school; 15,000 vagrants and homeless children who graduate thieves and vagabonds; 6,000 sailors in port all the time; a floating population of 50,000; all sorts of bad books in circulation and in any quantity; 99,232 arrests by the police last year, three-fourths of which were traceable to drunkenness; 6,000 places where liquor is sold; nine theaters, having an average attendance of 15,000 persons and taking in $8,000 per night; 25,000 abandoned women keeping up their end of the so-called "social evil" (or one to every six young men in the city); 2,500 brothels; arrests in 1862 equaling one in every nine, and commitments to prison one in every twenty-two of the entire citizenship; the cost of crime, pauperism, and moral obliquity more than $3,000,000 this year; half a million of people living in tenement houses; 25,000 persons living under ground.