The New York herald., 1875-09-13
SUNDAY WEIISKEY.

WORK OF THE VIGILANCE COMMITTEE TAKING
IN THEIR sIGNs'-A FEARLESS POLICE CAP
TAIN.
meeting of the American Temperance Union
held at Robinson Hall yesterday afternoon. large
number OF people attended, and addressed by
Colonel j. f. Hoy and others Rev. Mr. Woodward of
Brooklyn, said that tho Vigilance Committee still
tnued its arduous labors. Last Sunday it obtained
proofs Of tho sale of Intoxicating beverages duplicating
fifty. two places in New York, among them Gilmore's
Garden and the cottage in Central Park where pre-
tended nothing but milk is sold This last considered
Of peculiar atrocity. Yesterday seventeen
places in the city visited by the committee and
proof Of liquor selling procured in each instance.
Evidence was also obtained against eight
places in Brooklyn yesterday. A vigilance
committee is being formed Hunters Point where
it is claimed there is Grand Jury that will ndict
every guilty Of selling liquor Sunday. The
against the Tribune basement propretors had alb
sorbed three hours of the committees time, although
he was sorry to say that little progress had been made
He hoped that the would be finished before the
falls, but the Of the speaker indicated
that his doubts on this point very strong. In
regard to the future, he said that the skies were
Frightening The enormous force of public opinion and
the interests of morality were with the temperance
party, and in tho end they must prevail Behind the
Commissioners stands Grand Jury that, he happy
to say, was not afraid to ndct every saloon keeper
brought before them for the committee would exercise
ample precautionsto make the proof overwhelming
every instance that they prosecuted
The chilly air of yesterday and the indications of
storm prevented much travel to the usual out-otown
Sunday resorts, and the bosterous fellows who render
Coney island and such places pleasant on the Sab
bath remained the city and lounged around the
streets is too quite probable despite the cheering
tone adopted in Robinson Hail. that this element did
not so thirsty during the day. and that the liquor sell
ers did not iail OF doing thriving business. Down
town the most casual observer could not help seeing
the evidences OF Sunday traffic i'll liquor About one
o'clock the policeman duty in Park raped
the door Of an ale vault which was being freely visited
A boy came promptly forth and the officer pointed to
printed placards which notified the passer-by of
! the business carried on within. Tho signs were at
once removed. Near the foot OF Chatham
street several places in operation,
| or less disgusedy, the door of one being
| open portion OF the time. The German places the
Bowery were generally open, without any pretcnce of
reserve; put the nlpping AR was evidently reducing
their profits and turning the floating scrip into the
pockets of sellers of hardn beverages On the Third
and Sixth avenues the side doors werc almost univer
sally open although in many places scout stood by the
door There was no practical difficulty in the way of
| obtaining much liquor AS could be paid for
! Captain Williams, of the Fourth precinct, said
Instructions had been received from headquarters
in regard Sunday sales and that the men pro-
ceedng in the old routine Dealers forced to take
in movable signs placards put up their shutters or
draw down shades and manifest generally OBJ
servance of outward decency within tho hours laid
down in the Excise law
Captain Lowery of the Sixth precinct, said that in
the present state Of the law decency of appearance
all that could be maintained on Sundays. Policemen
could not enter liquor shop to obtain evidence of the
violation of one law without themselves violating an
other. The Sixth ward had hard namc undeservedly
hard in his opinion The people poor and greatly
mixed in nationality but they hard working and
generally law observing people A slrct enforcement
| of section of the Excise law, which compels
the closing of liquor shops from one to five O'Clock
/ A. NJ. every day. produced most happy effect
! in the diminuton of crime and the number of
for drunkenness 1t strictly carried out in
the precinct, and he intended should be- The sup
|
fertile cause OF assaults and sabbings. "When the
law is changed added the Captain, $50 that can
stop the sale of liquor IN this precinct receive
orders do So depend upon it shall be stopped
! am wholly untralnmeled here and would carry out
the orders to that effect fully and unreservedly. do
any favors TO the liquor sellers and when can
legally stop their Sunday sales and ordered TO do so
AN ARREST AT SANDY spEScERs
| An officer made a hostile entrance INTO Sandy
Spencers restaurant at tho corner of Broadway and
Fulton street. last night He was d-haired and dig
nied, to solemnty. He entered noselessly, and
mttero6 tho mnnosvIabIe Come ., .What for and
| where 2" said the bartender 'Ah!" answered the
solemn guardian didn't see yez sellin beer jist
now2 Come!" ''Pve only just come on, pleaded tho
! bartender but his buecoated tormentcr only re-
/ sponded, "Come!'
SO the unhappy John Zeller once the king of base
ball players to the Fourth precinct station house.
where his appearance gaddened the eyes of Captain
| all doors be opened wide, that all passers-by
might enter tho banquet, even though they might not
drink beer Then all those people who had eaten but
were athrs eNcepI tne man Who hau s'Vou az 'o oar
and drank tea went sorrowlully away, and mournfu-
ness overcame the walters in Sandy Spencers saloon.
ARRESTS LIQUOR DEALERS.
! BY orders of the Board of Police Commissioners
Captain Allaire, of the Fourteenth precinct, made
descent last night upon several liquor saloons, and
arrested the propretors for violation of the excise law
in selling liquor sunday. The following persons
were arrested Peter McGinn, No IL Spring street
Luke Hackott, No. 2l East Houston; Jacob Eager
No. 104 Bowery; Thomas Stanton, No ~ Spring
street; Adam Wolf, No. 26 Spring street, William
Scherenback No. 30 Blocker street, Agnes Colson,
No. $40 Mott street. The will be arraigned at
the court this morning