The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-01-06
Foreign Notes.

30, when the attempt was made to enforce the
Sunday laws lately re-enacted in the Penal Code.
The Police Board had expressed their opinion
that delivering newspapers and ice cream and
running cars and ferries were works Of mercy.
Otherwise. they left the Interpretation of the law
to the policemen, and the Police Justices in
most instances decided that the policemen had
got it all wrong. after the fashion Of all bodies
OF ordinary men when left to their OVID judgment.
Many amusing stories were anoat concerning the
operation OF the law. One was that Dan Mace
had been twice arrested for speeding a trotter;
another that Mrs. Langtry's baggage had to be
transferred from the Albemarle Hotel in cabs, as
the baggage wagon was stopped; and a third was
that a member Of the Knickerbocker Club had
been unable to buy a toothbrush ct a drugstore,
which showed that the law was a serious incon-
Venlence to that numerous class who always post
pone the buying of "toilet' articles until the
Sabbath. Every Police Captains opinion OF the
law was the law OF his district. Captain Clinchy,
of the Twenty-second street station, allowed
ne"sdealcrs to deliver papers. bat not to expose
them for sale or to hawk them in tie streets.
Captain Williams. OF the Thirtieth street sta
tion. held that delivery included sale. and per-
mItted newsdealers to hawk papers, but not to
expose them for sale on the stands. Captain
Williams also allowed iuod To bo delivered by
carriers at private houses. Captain McEiwaiu,
OF the TwentIeth-street Stallion. ordered his men
to arrest all persuns carrying iund, unl-ss it
could he shown thar the food VA tor sick people
Who could not leave their houses. What l., 10
with the jewish merchants was the question
that troubled tue police greatly. They finally
decided that inofensive serviie la''ur permitted
TO lsraeliIes on Sunday did not include selling
good. in stores. and they ohuI HE cl1tlIn:
stores. Jewish laborers we've not indicated.
Butcher shops. fish markets aud milk markets
were closed promptly at 9 O'Clock. Ctptain
Villains stopped the sale of IMMORAL waters in
drug stores. and Captain McElwai stopped the
sale o .ther drinks except mineral waters.
Schultzs mineral water store. at Broadway aud
Seventeenth street, had up this sigu. ''Nu miu-
oral waters sold. BY order OF tito police" TIE
bar-rOusi in the Hoffman House was busy all
day, but could only be entered through the hotel F..
Tho barber shops of the large hotels weIo not
mOlested ard did u tremendous business. There
was a sudden developments of side entrances Of
cigar stores.
u uhudRCIS vi tHc iStIiC loltHIapn OWceb
were notified liz several precints that the boys
would mob be- allowed to carry bundles. No line
men were sent out by si,e Western Union Tele-
graph Company. Express wagons were stopped.
and one was brought to HE Thirteenth street Do
lice station with $1,000 in gold coin aboard. Tie
driver was kept ,iIi he could bail. The Office of
the Adams Company. SO Broadway. was closed
aud locked and the curtains pulled down Sunday
evening Business had TEN postponed t. Mon
day. Al the office OF the United States Express
Company. 81 Broadway, the doors were locked,
but employees were moving inside. In answer
to a rap ut tho door the employees said that they
opened the doors only for messengers of tho com
pany who might come TO the doors.
The proceedings in the Jefferson Market Police
Court are u lair sample of tho.e in the other po-
lice cour.s. Justice Blxby came into the court
with unpublished honis. lie was particularly in.
dulgeni 10 the boOt-blacks w!I had committed
crimes against religious liberty. y, length, when
one who had been ARRESTED inr blackinE boots in
Eleventh street. had been unchanged. The Judge
said to him, Z" Step aside. III, boy. and wait until
I can speak To you again" A. MON when there
was n lull in business, Justice Rixl,y beckrned The
OOy INTO III private ROOM anu "a uDNn Ia nave
his b'urs BACKED. While the boy worked the
Justice wrote out ths memorandum:
AT sha Grand Central depot there was nearly
twice the usual amount Of Sunday baggage the
only baggage taken away wac removed in private
conveynnces. The wntkrnon of the town steam
heating COMPANIES ~urked mort of the day. Pc
liceunen intcrfered with the men on four excava-
lions for ,he New York company and the fore
men wero taken 10 The new Church Street station.
The fnrrmen assured the Captain that the work
they were ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS o necessity, and
as soon as that was finished they would knock
off They let go and stopped work in the after
noon.
S:Ivile labor is prohibited where it is a serious
interruption of the repose aud religious" liberty Of
the community, excepting in works OF necessity
and charity. | cannot believe that the law con
tenplaied preventing HE b~lackIng Of boots.
Defendant (Chi,n) lie discharged.
(SIgned) BUTLER H.. BIxBY.
The whole Court thereupon employed Chila
for an hour. and he made 81 so nut oi l.s arrest.
A man was arrested while driving an express
wagon. laden with trunks, nn Sixth avenue near
rwenty-sixth street. Bixby endorsed on the
papers
The new law dues not prohibit public travel.
DRIVING Il wagon on the street is not an otfensr.
Discharged.
A newndealer was discharged. the Judge saying:
TINS law. in IN, opinion. is not designed 10 pre-
vent or prohibit she sale of newspapers. Is is
merely to prohibit general traffic.
The proprietor o 4 barber-shop VAS arrested
with bis chief assistant while he was shaving
guests Of the hotel where he had hs shop.
Justice Bixby AZ once discharged them. lie said:
Shaving is a matter OF necessity.
The Justices had in all &c cases under the Sun
day laws. He held only four prisoners. just
here the report stays but We are led to infer BY
the Justices leinsney in .he cases abovs cited
that these four must have been guilty of murder
at least. In which case, i. being in New York
where this occurred. they were probably detained
over night.
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