The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-12-17
NEWARk,S SUNDAY BEER.
The Mayors Fruities. Efforts NJ Ciosins Dnr-
rooms and Music Halls.

Newark's streets we're alive with pleasure
seekers yesterday and thers was rush to the
lager beer saloons In the centre Of the city
saloon keepers kept the blinds down and the
front doors closed but In the outskirts there
was no attempt at Observing Mayor Yatess re-
quest to pay some respect TO the Sunday law.
Police Sergeants Walker and Kocher patrollcd
the streets from morning until night, and took
the numbers OF the houses in which the law was
fagranty disobcyed, and they warned butcher.
grocer. and cigar dealer 10 pull down the
blinds" Obedience was promised. but IA soon
as the sergeants were out OF sight the doors
were opened. and business went on as boldly IA
on week days. The saloons on the hill" did
profitable business several thousand men hnv-
ing gone from down town TO drink lager in the
shadow of the breweries. Springfield avenue
bore the appearance OF a festival in the after
noon. The sidewalks were crowded with men
and women on their way to the parks and the
halls in the western ends of the Sixth or Thir-
teenth Ward. and carriages and coaches
whirlcd rapidly In the same direction. The
usual sacred concert" was given in Voght's
Union Hall the attendance being unusually
large. Wine and lager were drank 10y men and
women.
The main topic wns the probability of Mayor
Yates stopping the SUNDAY concerts apd drama
chances Of the Newark Savings Institution being
able to pay over fifty per cent to It's deposit tors.
Both were considered doubtful. Mayor Yates
The proprietor ~ the Academy OF Music in
| which Il wus announced that 90 The Hypo.hon-
dra," a German drama. would be played last
| evsnng. published In the Fieie Zeii,ne yester-
day that II Mayor Yates stoppr the perform
| ance tho admission money would he returned at
| the door. The result was that large number
S,ended the psroTnanre IN m me Acad,my r sx ,S
| audience out The doors We're opened soon
| after o'clock and n steady stream OF the
wralthicst Germans in Newark poured in Many
| hung about the door for over an hour. wniting
| for the appearance OF the polite. Chief fof Police
| Mills said that he had no, received any order
| from the Mayor and TINT he would not interfere.
| Hall. Plane street was lined $50 hy Police Jus
tce. Jcssup. last week. for allowing variety
| performance two weeks ago sunday night. No
| other complaint was made against saloon keep
ers or proprietors oi amusement halls.
One of the Excise Commiss ioncrs said yester-
day that the memhcr- Of tho Board Messrs.
| John y. Foster. e. B Smith. and b. J. Ford. are
strlHt tempcranre men, and thai they have vlr-
| tually resolved not to license any saloon here
| after to which variety theatre ia attached.
This will strike Waimanp's Metropolitan the
Oieon. the New jersey Theatre The London.
| jacques Levi :. and other places. Commissioning
Smi!n ,I was spp9in&ted & It. Is Hnderst9od throueh M
tors temperance organization.
The Temperance and church people are much
dlssa'.i.s,ied VIII what they, eon,lsmgtu9,gn-ly
are uniting to compel him to enforce the Sun
Jay lazy strictly. and close all the snloons ef-
| tian Temperance Union Of Newark will wait
| upon the Mayor and Chief Of Police Mills this
| evening and present petitions; TO which 5000
| names are afiiNel. demanding the enforcement
| of the SUNDAY ordinance. TIE Union has ap.
| piled for \ charter. and II the authorities Will
| not listen 10 them they will employ mon TO make
| complaint against saloon Keepers, and prose
| cute them in the courts. A notice was read In
| the various churches last evening that "a grand
| mass meeting of those who favor the closing Of
| the saloons on sunday Will be held in the Gin
| ton street VI T.. Church this evening,
| Mr.. Mm. Soutar Pres sident Of the First New
| ark Reform Club, said; " We will aid the women
OF the union all we can. They liitod Us out OF
the gutter and saved us from drunKard's life
A few years ago was drunk nearly. every day
| and my family suffered because | spent my
| earnings In the rum shops. But these good
| women oams TO me. helped me- prayed with
| me. and at last i conquered my appetite foI
| strong drink. To-day am successful in bus
| ness. my home IA "A happy one. and my wife
| and children arc well clothed and well fed
| while | am respected by the best men in the
| city. There are numbers OF men in our clut
| who can say the same. To the women OF the
| union we owe all We hive and all We are, and
God willing We will work with them until deatt
| in the cause OF temperance. II will not do tt
| sneer ut the women and their work. because
| its good results are known to NewarkerS The
| best men in Newark are signing their petit ions
| and before another fortnight We will make th'
| lager beer men and the rumsellers ieel the pow
~ Of the temperance ana God-fcarins people.