The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1882-12-03
THE REVIVED SUNDAY LAWS
NO RESTRAINT ON THE DELIVERY o.
NEWSPAPERS IND ICE CREAM.

Superintendent Walllng had hardly arrived
at the Police Central ONCE yesterday morning
whom persons representing firms and compa-
niles which ordinarily ply their trade on Sum
days. rs we'll as on week days. and which are
not specially exempted by the Penal Code from
the operation Of the provision relating to the
observance OF Sunday. called on him to ask IL
they would be permitted to carry on their
occupations as usual. What had brought them
there was this order. which was telegraphed 70
all the police Captains on Friday:
You will Saturday Dec q notify all persons doing
business in your precincts that the Penal Code whieh
went into effect Dec. l. 1887. will be enforced.
The inQuiring visitors numbered as many -
400. They represented telephone companies.
leo cream dealers. horse railway and elevated
railway companies. news companies. livery
stables. barber shops. and tobacco stores.
Somebody from one Of the steam heatin9
companies said that the company could not
scribed by the Aldermen unless 1t dug up the
streets on Sundays: Excavation. he maine
ity He got no definite reply whom he asked u
the excayators would DO arrested to-day. We
as to al similar
BARRIERS and tobacconists he replied more defl-
ny saying The: sHS s1S
left TO Interpret the law for themselves.
:, Al O'clock "a the police Qsp,t,s;ins came z
ply 70 the obser7snce q SUNDAY and ~ e
oSs Ibsrsy T6sn he tod they muss
enforce the law. 30 far as could be learned.
for the c sSs tSer hs %
rsth rather he implied that they might Leave u to
Ions oi the code arriyed: Il deals chIedy With
upon the words works Of necessity" New
York court, Mr.; Andrews says. held that taking
q work Of necessity land would not hold that
pleasure excursion OF oyer-worked laborern
ahsp wss held es p1
work. A statute Of 1871 legalized contract. iOe
acknowledgements publissh,esd, on Sunday H..
On SUNDAY was illegal. and that the propistoF
ments in the SUNDAY edition. The code, Gr.
And are Temarks c9ntains no neT law SoT 9S
regard to driving on sundayNhaxs long been
practically dead letter here: The Question
courts AS to their meaning and upon the sup
port given to the police and prosecuting ofa-
to So Sass q tie peo 1Boara M an
drews says:
al Of 9 nssy IF s 9: :ss.
which plainly not works Of necessity charity and
as':
wSf link Should msd.
s a Sss ~ S s's' @
on for os :soU %
S s SS 1s s
on ' kSea s aa nss ms K hs s
and French met and passed resolutions direct
ali Captains to DO at the stations TO- day and -
that 1t Is enforced.
s!ie s said
ter tho Board had met again and sat for ~
Ms H.
called the reporters In and read this to them:
%ns sy a 'Hi e:
to s dsssfG ;h ~o sSr ID &
erered with on Sunday In the prosecution of their bus
ID l.: ssSn q % . :s ~
directed to notify the force accordingly
Superintendent Walling communicated this
action to the police. captains. The despatch
did not reach the police stations until about
IN Tss
A The majority q ths
empted by the action OF the Police Commission.
a and 10 we're s eGfs That s he1
could deliver newspapers 9, spa p to-day unmolested
said he supposed that those newsdeaiers who
knew about the change would tell these who
pies, Of newsdeaiers. Capt. Williams said that
The law. as interpreted by tho Police Commits
no bootblacks. street vendors. BARRIERS. cigar
dealers. or storekoepers except dealers In news
secular occupations to-day. The police Of the
twentieth street station said they would ar
Is NEW with
unqualified disgust. One. whose face was good
advertisement ofhis profession. said last even
s as o ehss
will be no shinin' in dis var establish ment to-
polished viii hab to oems ' De- 6sr p HeSss
hab done tole us dat, 'cordin' to do perversion9
H. Esfs Snn
boss. loses fo' dollahs to-morrer. m a Do'
man kant stan dat once week"
I9 ssn a s TGs q w so.s sss
m;Srrow" -, more cunning ling, member , Of the
neoancsment scrawled In bold characters on :
81 srS low We shall
A tobacconist, who owns sixteen tobacco
the sW SeS s al M0 viii
from selling on tho streets or cars. The Park
Commissioners will probably bo asked to de-.
eide whether tho Central Park menagerie shall
be closed OF not and wheth0r or not tho park
carriages shall be STOPPED.
A policeman went into one OF tho Western
U ,aE Telegraph Companys branch Offices last
closed at midnight Mr.. Irwin Of the Telegraph
Company went to soc Superintendent Wal ling at
his house. and Mr.. Wulling, sent out shortly
after midnight. n general order directing that
| the telegraph and li,:rict telegraph Offices be
left Mnmolested. . PoliceinsE also visited the
Bell Telephone offices and ordered :hem closed.
| Before tho order WAS cOuntcrmanded nrrar ge-
ments had been made to work with locked
| doors.
The. mail carriers will collect letters to-day.
and all the work OF the different Post Offices
| will DO done AZ usual. Stamps will be sold at
tho Sunday window in the main Post Office
| The New Code In brooklyn.