ially those in the poorer sections, and notice the
liquor shops of various kinds, from the Broadway rum palace to the "Gin
Mill" of the Bowery, or the "Bucket Shop" of the Five Points. There are
7071 licensed places for the sale of liquor in the city, and they all
enjoy a greater or less degree of prosperity. Very few liquor sellers,
confining themselves to their legitimate business, fail in this city.
The majority grow rich, and their children not unfrequently take their
places in the fashionable society of the city. The liquors sold at these
places are simply abominable. Whiskey commands the largest sale, and it
is in the majority of instances a vile compound. About three years ago,
the _New York World_ published a list of the principal bar-rooms of the
city, with a report of chemical analyses of the liquors obtained at each,
and proved conclusively that pure liquors were not sold over the bar at
any establishment in the city. A few months ago a _World_ reporter
published the following estimate of the business of the bar-rooms in the
vicinity of Wall street, patronized principally by the brokers:

Hot Hot Whiskeys Brandies. Wines. Mixed Ales, Bottles
spiced whiskeys. straight. liquors. beers, Champagne.
rums. etc.

L. Dardy 56 59 62 15 23 30 105 6
Mike's 65 110 70 20 28 23 90 10
V.B. 43 62 112 30 35 27 110 5
Carpenter
Young 35 40 52 10 12 15 65 2
P. Murphy 34 49 63 12 15 25 45 2
Schedler 51 48 112 35 52 45 315 18
Delmonico 213 205 315 90 135 180 210 35
Riley 105 123 180 25 30 62 80 6
Sammis & 23 31 30 8 10 15 35 1
Sharp
Van Riper 27 22 19 10 13 18 40 1
Ed. 18 29 38 12 15 20 60 2
Schultze
Delatour's 15 20 45 27 30 12 25 2
Gault's 28 32 125 23 35