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Show TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND persons i on an average through the year each Sunday resort to the various lager beer gardens and other places of recreation and refreshment in and around New York city. The average amount of money each one will spend on that day will be one dollar, making ijVJOO,-000. ijVJOO,-000. Two hundred thousand multiplied multi-plied by fifty-two, showes us $10,400,- 000 spent annually on that "day of rest'" in and around this gjeat metropolis. metrop-olis. By 12 o'clock on Sunday night these 2o0,000 persons will be 60, 000 sober, 95.000 in high spirits, 30,000 tight, 10,000 quarrelsome, and 5,000 in a state of beastly intoxication. Is this 1 "a temperance cily?" New York Sun. |