1. "The Excise Excitement: Views of Hotel and Saloon Keepers," New York Daily Tribune, November 23, 1877, 8.

2. Ibid. 

3. Ibid. 

4. "The Excise Excitement: Views of Hotel and Saloon Keepers," New York Daily Tribune, November 23, 1877, 8. 

5. "A Restaurant 'Beat,'" New York Herald, 5.