The New York herald., 1877-12-17
THE EXCISE ORDER
How the Usual Sunday Bev-
erages Were Obtained.
HOBOKEN'S OPPORTUNITY.
Unwary Dealers Who Fell Into
the Hands of the Police.


saloons siil did little business ION the sly" u
would hard 10 say, and equally difficult
statistical feat would have been 10 enumerate all the
people that walked in rather upsy conditon
through the streets. The law outwardly re-
spected last sunday. Front doors were risor-
ousy closed, but side doors, apparently were quite
useful MS ever IN admitting into the inner sanctum
the well known cronies OF the place or even sIran-
gers whose appearance disarmed the suspicion that
they police temperance emissaries. The
amount OF drinking must havo been considerable
During q briei walk Sixth avenue the writer
less than dve slightiy inebriated persons
pass along
WHAT COOP DOES IT DOT
The Impressions OF various observers as to tho 70
suits OF the sunday law differed greatly An officer on
THIRD avenue, who was asked whether he beloved
there much beer and liquor selling, re-
pled:--.I should think SO, II can judge anything
from the look Of people have the streets
to-day.n
"Have you seen many drunken persons, onlcerT
swell, II not drunk" the policeman returned. With
smile, Eat least slightly inebrated. To tell you tho
truth people wiz have quor, and they Will have 1t
the police can't prevent them."
"Arc your Instructions to-day to arrest saloon
Keepers whose side doors only are opens"
s'Ycs, sir; II any place open in any sort OF
way we're bound TO enter It, and II VIC find anybody
drink ng there, TO arrest the owner"
"And do the force generally carry out such harsh
instructionsf"
ave have to. You thcre are lots OF applicants
before the Poco Board and wcve got 10 look out for
our places. You can't find $1,000 year 30 easily
in any othor line OF business"
While this officer th gave his opinion that the
Sunday law, IN own experience, did not diminish
the amount of drinking, because people "woud have
liquor when they wanted It," conductor on the Third
avenue line uttered quite different views Ho said
that while he usually carried number Of drunken
men on his car, he had noticed that Sunday
last. when the law was vigorously enforced
not one tipsy person rode with hn, and this expe-
rence had been repeated yesterday. \ conductor on
the Eighth avenue line, again, gave his testimony 10
the effect that during these two Sundays tho number
OF drunken men in tho cars was about the same as
USUAL added that during the late hours OF the
evening, when these persons returned from their
drinking expeditions to Hoboken and Jersey City and
rode up to their respective homes, 1t was oven
greater.
GOING TO JERSEY FOR THEIR DRINKS
81 remember It was just the samo way during the
last period OF these raidsn remarked this conductor
who appeared to be an unusually intelligent Observer
people, whom they found that they couldn't get all
the liquor bcer they wanted IN this city, would run
the Hoboken and Jersey City saloons, and then
come home late ut night as drunk Us lords"
"Why, are lords generally drunk"
The conductor laughed and SAID s.well you see.
Pm Engiishman, and my experience tends that
way. fyou want to speak OF anybody who is really
royalty jolly drunk, you always say, AS drunk as
Tho writer yesterday afternoon watched the nobo-
ken and Jersey City ferries with view to ascertain
whether the observance .e OF me sunday lay would
hnunts Of Jersey side. The statements Of the
ductor soon confirmed. Thero wero ooon parties
| Of registering young sparks crossing over 10 Jersey
! City who were bent upon that KIND OF spreo whose
greatest glory consists 10 going from one
that the further they went the arunkcr they would
get On the Hoboken terry there was much larger
Here could be staid easy going, paunchy parties
OF Teutons who were going to take their wives and
| theatres OF Hoboken. The mild, lovely day really
| made the excursion but litto different from their
wonted HoboKen jaunts TO tho Eysan Fields during
the summer
| The hotels werc little affected by the enforcement
Of the Sunday law. The big, fashionable, 0rst rate
uptown hotes-for obvious reasons they need not DO
mentioned here by name-paid even before these
| raids enough doierence to tho Anglo-saxon rev.
erence Tor the Sabbath to drape their bars,
and compel their guests and patrons to do their
| tipping in lttie private room. In these hotels
there was need Ior change yesterday, and none
was adopted. The little private back room was
stcal,h,ly visited all day long by those In quest of
whiskey, brandy, GIN, champagne cocktails or any
OF the other countless c0ncoctions OF she bar,
and there far away from the nosng policeman, these
favored lew could iurtvely pour the loved ibatons
down their parched throats. stranger who did not
know these private drinking rooms from individual
finding thom; but II he were only not TOO modest to
ask need not long search for The secret bar And
this was true OF neary all holes. which, from
their nature, are not the homes OF temperance prin
c,ples OF the hotels, where the private room
Is usually only visited by few people IT was easy TO
perceive that closing the saloons had brought
quite unusual rush to boar upon them.
sKPULcHkEs.
Tho saloons generally presented the usual Sunday
law aspect Closed and barred without and wth
was puzzs IN ,se Vas really ciosea was the
first question the observing passcr-uy might ask him.
self TO determine that you bad hrst to Investigate
whether they had q back or basemen. other
entrance Ever and mon yoo could see some thirsty
way arer knock demurely Al The side doors Of those
saloons that were possessed OF these advantageous
features and disappear behind the "picket" who had
gently and softly opened the door anu closed u again
behind MIN. Comical the rage Of the
who going from place to another, could
effect entrance IN eitner. and who did not con
cea disgust the outrage thus infected upon all
| the hner feelings oil MS nature There was d bg,
ponderous German servant girl on Sixth avenue who
could be seen mean dering with huge jug--unGllcd.
alas Iron place TO another Gretchcn was not
TO the dodge Of the side doors, anu sue Was evi
IDENTIFY almost at her w,ts' ends whom shc came 10 an
oyster saloon out OF which she presently emerged
with peeiui lace ana foamng p'tcner In
deed, the oyster saloons and restaurants all did
nne business in alo and beer. Near Centra Park
there quite large number OF socalled "reircsh-
ment" place, which make the sole OF craek kers cakes
m,lk for the children OF visitors to the PARK
clever preext Tor selling liquors. beer and vine 10 The
visitors themselves
BIER IN PLACE OF MILK.
Yesterday being u very hnc day and the Park con-
tanning large crowds OF sghtseers, these places were
unusually weii patronlzed A gentleman entered one
OF places ami asked whether he could have
ana glass OF milk Tor the little boy ho was leading
by tho hand.
~ can't give you any milk today" the
piled.
'Cant you give me anything at all"
81 can gvo you some beer" The proprietor re-
spondcd, with suppressed laugh.
The VISITOR hesitalcd, aud hnaliy concluding that II
his Guild could have no mix lac must console him
sell with beer nodded assent
"Are you not afraid the police will be after you"
the proprietor was asked.
q rel Ice
but tand he pointed al somc boxes OF stale crackers
restaurant"
A. another rcfreshmert place near the Park the
propretress great, stout country woman Of the
Empress Augusta stood watch in front OF her place.
A man Was seen Issuing smoking cigar, and with
that pleasa complacent, satisfied expression On his
countenanoe, which (f the temperance advocates VIII
pardon the statemenu 50 surely betokens that tho
owner had sootned aching VOID within. The man
nasseu along shorl DISTANCE. ana the writer then