The E-Sylum:  Volume 8, Number 4, January 23, 2005, Article 11

PAVED WITH ... SILVER DOLLARS?

Len Augsberger writes: "Has anyone ever heard of a bar in
New York City where the floor was made out silver dollars?
The following passage is taken from Jacob Riis' "How the
Other Half Lives." Riis was a crusading journalist instrumental
in the reform of building codes in the New York city slums,
c. 1890:

"The very floor of one of the bar-rooms, in a neighborhood
that lately resounded with the cry for bread of starving
workmen, is paved with silver dollars!" (chapter 18) "

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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