They really go for the social part, and sit and talk, or read the papers.

Of course a man gets drunk, sometimes, but usually it is not a regular customer, and even such cases would be fewer, it we didn't tax whisky so outrageously that the dishonest barkeepers are tempted to doctor their whisky with drugs which drive men frantic if they drink.

But most of the men are too sensible, and too poor, to drink so as really to harm themselves." "Peter, Peter! To think that three years in New York should bring you to talk so! I knew New York was a sink-hole of iniquity, but I thought you were too good a boy to be misled." "Mother, New York has less evil in it than most places.

Here, after the mills shut down, there's no recreation for the men, and so they amuse themselves with viciousness.

But in a great place like New York, there are a thousand amusements specially planned for the evening hours.
Exhibitions, theatres, concerts, libraries, lectures--everything to tempt one away from wrong-doing to fine things.