SIGHTS TO STAGGER HUMANITY.
SABBATH EVE IN GLASGOW. An evil with which "Glasgow has long beeifc troubled is the Sunday drinking club, while an outcome of .the same thing is; the whisky hawker, who caters for the Sunday morning thirst, and invariably makes an appearance at the Police Court on Monday, where fines of £10 are by no means infre* quent. " - . Glasgow is trying to emulate Liverpool, a city of similar size, which since 1899 ha® pulled down its yearly record of convictions for drunkenness from over 14,000 to abont 4000. Glasgow's convictions last year numbered over 13,000. To the outsider, the teetotallers* crusade^ it is stated, seems doomed to failure so long as the much-vaunted Scottish Sabbath obtains. The knowledge that there will be no chance of refreshment on Sunday leads to heavy drinking on the previous night, while the bottle to take home is quite an institution. The scene in Glasgow's streets late on Saturday night is one to stagger humanity. There is such a Saturnalia of hopelessly intoxicated men and women in the gutter, or fighting all over the roadway, that the apathy of the more sober Glaswegians at the sight is surprising to the visitor.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7416, 30 May 1902, Page 2
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