The sun., 1879-04-28
NEWARK KEEPING SUNDAY.
TWOASSOCIATIONs TRYING TO ENFORCE
THE NEW SUNDAY LAWS.
An Attempt to Prevent tho Sale Of sunday
Ncwspapers-An Places OF Business Closed
-Thronss Going to East Newark for Beer.

terday made their second attempt to enforce
the Sunday laws OF New Jersey. Their action
grows out Of that OF the Law and Order
Association, q body OF temperance and church
people. who some time ago attempted to
enforce the laws regarding the sale OF liquors
on Sunday They entered complaints against
many liquor sellers. who felt aggreved
that they should be singled out from
others who did business on Sunday. such
as BARRIERS. butchers. milkmen. druggists. and
newsdealerA An association was thus formed,
with the avowed determination to make the
Sunday laws OF the State odious. aud the mem
bers Of this association announced their pur-
pose to prosecute all who broke the laws. The
laws now stand substantially the same as they
stood In 1898. after the revision Of what was
called the Vice and immortality Act OF 1890.
when was passed An act TO promote the inter-
est OF religion. and for the suppression OF vice
among all ranks Of people within the State"
The law prohibits the sale on Sunday Of ntox-
icatnR beverages. cigars. meat. milk. and. In
fact all commodities the travelling OF citizens
In vehicles OF any kind. except to and from
church, and the transacting Of all kinds Of
business, or work. except that Of charity or ab-
soluto necessity.
One week ago yesterday the Protective Asso-
citation made a beginning in their work OF re-
parison with that OF yesterday. The citizens
saw that the men were in earnest. and on Sat
urday. as was told in yesterdays SUN. they
made preparations accordingly Milkmen
and butchers worked until late at night sup
plying their customers The cigar stores did
| a thriving business. Never had so much bot
tied beer been sold. The liquor dealers bottled
hundreds OF pints Of liquor in suitable TASKS
and thus Newark prepared for Sunday. Tho
newsdealers decided ut n late hour that they
would sell no Sunday newspapers The Newark
News Company sells each Sunday 400 copies
Of THE SUN and 1880 OF the Herald. with
corresponding proportion OF other New
| York Sunday newspapers but for yes
| terday none were ordered. In Newark
there are three Sunday papers-the CdU
Register. and the Freie Zeit,mg the leading
| German paper. The latter printed its sunday
edition at o'clock on Saturday evening. and
| distributed II before midnight The Register
printed no Sunday edition. and the Call made
| preparations for It's usual edition at the usual
| time. II deemed itself secure. because under q
special law OF 1874 and general law oi 1876 IL
was made a legal newspaper Of the State. and
| by the act Of 1876 all previous enncfments that
were inconsistent with or in conflict with the
provisions Of the old law were declared 10 be- Of
The Citizens Protective Association began its
| work early. A number Of constabes were em-
| bhDfu fNpttlhlll " lul II sup ~ .Alf hhll- III
newspapers. and they seemed determined to
| earn their money. As early as o'clock yester-
srse @ depst 'ne Whiting MIN on or rnf be az me
| train. while others watched the stores OF
the newsdealers to see that no news
When. at s o'clock. the train hearing
the sunday papers drew NO at the depot. SIX
constables and nine members Of tho associa.
tion were waiting for II; and ne the bundles Of
THE sun. Herald. Times, World. and Mercury
were thrown to the platform. they sprung for
| ward and surrounded the packages. not tUnrh-
| ing them. however They were somewhat sur
prised when several men with number OF
| newsboys got of the train and walked
claimed them The consta6ies had had expected
| that the News Company would receive tho
| papers and attempt to take them 10 their
| distributing room in a wagon. and their plan
| was to seize wagon and papers in the street
| They. recovered from their SURPRISE and or
| dered the men who had come from New York
| IN charge nt the newspnpers not TO touch the
| bundles While n dispute was going on. one of
| the men opened his bundle Of newspapers and
began to give, them away TO the many
bystanders He was quickly ordered TO
that II was illegal. All this time the
members OF the association were urging
| papers and arrest the men in charge of them :
but the officers OF the law were in. no harry to
| precipitate matters, and they evidently had no
heart in the. affair Moreover, they were in
doubt AS to what was legal and what was Illegal
| fingers for the sake OF any association said one
| oithem, and the others endorsed the spok kesmnn.
Finally truce was arranged. and the bundles
| OF newspapers were removed TO a yard in Ferry
street not far from the depot: and then one OF
the newspaper men. accompanied by two con-
stables. went 20 the Academy of Music, the head
quarters fthe Citizens Protective Union. where
Justice Frederick Faust, who had been acting
for tho association since the trouble began held
his court. The newspaper man said that he
wanted TO know what would be legal under the
circumstances. The Justice said that no news
paper could be sold or given away in Newark
on that day. either on the streets or In stores
A. the solicitation OF the man who had the bun
die OF newspapers. Justice Faust gave him a
permit to remove the bundle To private house
on Commerce street. where they We're to be- held
until the next morning; The following is copy
OF Justice Fausts legal document:
Bearer Of THIS desires TO remove his new,pspes to
bring them TO another place with the entend 10 have
them sold tomorrow providing he does hereby
Respectfully yours, + flusr, Justice OF the Peace.
1t was claimed that under the Constitution.
Justice Faust had no power 70 issue any such
Brown Brown OF the Newark News Company Company removed moved
the newspapers TO private house. much TO the
relief OF the owner of the yard in Ferry street,
who feared that he might be arrested by the
association Tor harboring newspapers, II was
then 8 o'clock. Meantime the man in charge Of
the New York Mercury. "A bundle Of which had
been thrown from the train title apart from
the others. shouldered his bundle and started
away rom the depot with it, constable or
What - said the man. can't I remove my
own property2" The constable hesitated, fear
ing, 10 do something, illegal and then he, APP
pealed to a police officer The officer said he
would not interfere and the MelctOV man glee-
fully hurried away with his bubble while the
constable looked after but did not follow him.
Then there was calm for little while. and.
II being nearly 8 O'Clock. the constahles began
70 Rrumble; for they had been hired only from
3 to in the morning. and they were in bad
humor. especially as the citizens were out
spoken in their Indignation at the prevention
OF the sale OF the newspapers.
It's all very well to talk" said a constable.
but I've got enough. | don't want TO get in n
muss for the sake OF that committee. I'd like
to know where we will get our pay for all this
extra dirty work"
The calm was OF short duration. and was
broken by chorus ot newsboys crying the
New York papers. The Newark Call had
been selling all the morning like hot
cakes. 1t being the only paper that
could be procuredi but now the New
York papers appeared on the scene. Tho bun
die OF MercuyS had been carried to HUNS din
ing room. folded, and taken into the outlying
wards, thus thanking the association detectives.
who were on the watch and the other New
York newspapers had mysteriousy disappeared
from the house in Commerce street and at 94
the newshoys were out in force. The papers
sold rapidly. The citzens fockcd around tho
boys and struggled for II paper Policemen
bought them, five being sold In one station
house. But the constabes were on the watch
and they pounced on the boys Newark boys
were Permitted TO sell. but newsboys from New
York were ordered to stop and return to New
York. One how about II VaarS old WINS seized