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THE TEMPERANCE CRUSADE IN NEW YORK - INITIATING THE MOVEMENT AT HARRY HILL'S

The temperance movement in New York was begun on Sunday evening, March 1 at HARRY HILL'S Variety Hall, in Houston Street.

The gathering was orderly, no drinking was allowed, and no profane or indecent conversation was heard.

A "working-man" addresses the audience while Harry Hall the owner of the salon is seated "a little to the right, and in the rear of the speaker."

Harry Hill's located at 26 E. Houston between Crosby and Mulberry streets was a notorious saloon with a "bad" reputation.

Harry Hill died in August 1896. His obit in the New York Times says he was born in Epsom, England and was fond of betting on the horses. He immigrated to the US in the early 1850s. He was a "sporting man", a good wrestler and "very handy with his fists". His establishment was the "resort of sporting and betting men, and of the most desperate and criminal persons of the city".

His obit makes very interesting reading

A BEER SALOON IN BOTTLE ALLEY

"COMING EVENTS CAST THIER SHADOWS BEFORE" - WHAT SUNDAY CONCERT LEADS TO

Temperance leaders were trying to prohibit drinking on Sundays. The German American population liked their Sunday afternoons in the German Beer Gardens, drinking and singing with their families. The German Beer Gardens took to calling these Sunday afternoons "Sunday Concerts" or "Sacred Concerts".

This illustration alludes to the dangers lurking to a young woman who might spend her afternoon in the Beer Gardens and then end up a destitute beggar on the street with her bottle tucked in her basket.

The Alhambra Saloon was at 14th Street opposite Tammany Hall.

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