New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-12-17
LOCAL MISCELLANY.
ENFORCEMENT OF THE SUNDAY LAWS

No orders were issued to the police yesterday re-
garding the enforcement of the Penal Code lo-u"e
The Police Commissioners were IN thelI for
| Police Headquarters but they had no neeeins ,J,
| the transaction of business. IheIe was ga oa
of citizens to superintendent Walnhgs olloGi, is
on the two previous Saturdays, 10 make q ,bo
or TO state grievances. Mr.. Wang SAID late IN me
afternoon that both the police ana Ilp Ci',nv -,
seemed TO understand at length how me law nus nus
| be enforced on Sunday. Only SIX mJnncuons W.
served on HIM before p In lhose VIZ 20 pince-
by Jacob H. Marks, cigar dealer, at No. log G,L
ST.; John j. DAILY. confcctioner NJ NO doo hil
| ave: Harry Hill, proprietor OF Concci' i',I
| i'm Houstonst; Charles \. Bradenbergi PT0pIltGo u
of a Bowerv museum; the owners oil o Ile ,drd
ond fortvtbirdst and Francis Greenberg, clothler'
at No 557 Elghth-ave II ~ said that other nv
tlons which had been issued were served on poilCo
men The proDrietors OF the Manhattan Iron WORKS
asked that their employees be permlited TO supply
their furnaces on Sunday with the necessary .l
"ore coal and limestone" 10 prevent Tue
contents of the furnaces from becoming
"chled or sti1ened" II is alleged n tne
complaint that the business of manufac urlng pig
iron cannot be carried or II II Is not perissIpe "
keep up the fires OF SUNDAY - IL. ,,o..,
The managers of the Manhattan Railway COM
pany Yesterday granted the request OF me SUNDAY,
Closing League that the trains on the elevated
roads should not be run faster than ee miles an hour
on Sunday in the vicinity OF churches near Wnlch
they pass The usual speed IS from fourteen 10 n.ee
miles an hour Vlce-pTesident GallaWaY III n iet,eI
to the League saws that the sunday trains are run
only in response TO the public demand, Inc re-
CENTS on SUNDAYS only DaH rs MUCH us oh
other DAYS and hence Sunday trains are OF very
little advantage 70 the company. IN announcing
the conces ion asked for he says; We speak OF TINS
as an experiment. cause, a you VIII readily see
the slowing OF trains makes more OF them ncces-
sary" cu D,a ,,os-
Alderman Levy. at the meeting OF the Board yes
terdav introduced "A resolution requesting that lhe
members of the incoming Legislature, as soon alter
assembling as pOSsIb c, repeal mo whOle oI tho
Penal Code Mr. Wells said that the Board was 700
much addicted to passing resolutions lhsltuC;ihB
State aud National legislators. me sage cousis vi
the Board had no more weight with those TO- whOm
they were addressed than the iale wind: Inc Ma
tOnal Government did not recall MI Lowell hoF
did the State Legislature request the parton Oh
sergeant Mason who fired at Gulteau
although requests had been preferred III both
cases by the Board of Aldermen. There were
many objectionable sections in the Code. ana ne
donbted not that the next Legislature would
remedy the matter Mr.. Halves said that he was
onnosed TO the repeal OF the entire Code. Ihere
were many things in it that were good: these
should be preserved and he opcctlonapie ones
stricken out or amended. President Sauer remarked
that the resolution passed last week covered the
whole matter. MIR Martin SAID thar he was opposru
10 several sections of the Code such as those when
allow the arrest of bOotblacks etc, but he dd not
believe il necessary to repeal the WnOle Coue MI
Levy then Withdrew his resolution. ,
H. L. NaudcTveer, proprietor OF the :, opera
cig9r-store. at Court and Fulton-sts., Brooklyn,
Yesterday applied to Justice Pratt IN the ieclal
Term of the supreme Court for Il temporary lnJunc-
tIon against the Police Commissioner and an order
to show cause why the police should not be permit
nenty restrained from ,crierlnG With MS dllSl'
ness on SUNDAY Justice Pratt denied the MOTION.
lie said il was scarcely he proper way to bring the
question before the courts.