Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1878 — Trade Industry in Rum. [ARTICLE]

Trade Industry in Rum.

A New York correspondent writes: “ There are in New York 10,995 retailers of drinks, seven-tenths of them selling hot liquors. The proprietor of the Metropolitan Hotel told me last night that his bar receipts were $175 a day. If we suppose that the average receipts at the bars to be S2O a day, about $220,000 would have been spent every day for liquor in New York by tipplers alone. This is equal to $70,000,000 a year. It is computed that 1,260,000,000 drinks are taken in New York, and a tariff of 2 cents on spirits and half a cent on ale will aggregate $9,100,000 city revenue. We spend for liquors in the United States $735,000,000 a year, er nearly four times the cost of running the General Government; and yet the English exceed us in guzzling by $59,000,000.”