New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-04-05
NEWS FROM THE SUBURBS.
PRAYER AND LAW FOR TEMPERANCE.


WORK OF REFORM CLUBS AND LAW AND ORDER
SOCIETIES.
large and enthusiastic meeting Of the e, Reform
Club of Plaiufeld, n. j., was held on THURSDAY
evening in the lecture-room OF the Methodist
Episcopal Church One me noe Oh Ido tho
nent fund and another ST., 100 Representatives.
were present from Elizabeth and Westheld, ana
asked that the club send delegations To those
places A committee was appointed TO go to west
feld and hold meeting tomorrow evening. =, ne
Employment Committee consisting OF hnGTeW nm nm
der6eck, Martin w. Thorn aud L.. j. ulliles
was appointed to help members of the cub seeking
work to obtain il. and also to provide employers
who wanted the services OF temperance men WIN
such The new rooms on Front-st. were announced
ready for Occupancy and will be kept open day aud
evening for the ne of the club. Mr.. DE La Monta-
que hard drnker for forty years, gave an ,n,er-
estnQ account of the way i'll which he was leo 10
sign the pledge. He said he had thouRhtth matter
over for three weeks before making up his minc.
The meetings announced for Tomorrow were ten,
nerance praver-meeting in the Trinity Reformed
Church aud one in the Holly Tree inn; Gospel
temperance meeting in the Methodist Episcopal
Church, and one at the Trinity Reformed Ghurcn.
There wa, a large attendance on Thursday after
noon AT the first meeting of the Wemans Christian
Temperance Union of Bloomfield The ladies we're
enthusiastic and chose, beside the reguar oi1cers,
nine ylce-presldents from the different denOmina-
tions TO act as an executive committee. Mrs Den
man. Mrs Hammer and Mrs. Andersen from Newark,
representing various branches of the work, We're
present to inspire the new union by telling OF the
beginning of their city organization ana OF some OF
| its good results. A Temperance School or Band OF
Homo will be the first branch of work engaged IN.
A meeting for prayer and conservation VIII be
held each week As DOdd Hall was not IN readiness
the Reform Club held its Friday night meeting IN
| the Baptst Church. The Sunday afternoon meet
| ing wifi be held in the same church. The temper.
anc work is being pressed, not only on the line OF
moral influence but OF the enforcement OF existing
liquor laws. w., e
Ashurv Park has inaugurated a series of Sunday
afternoon PRAYER and experience meetings. A
juvenile Temperance Union has been organized
with large and growing membership. 1t meets on
| Saturday afternoons. The temperance people OF
! MorriStOwn are exercised over the discovery that
had Major Scott to lecture before large audience
| and now are making efforts TO secure Mabce and
| ENGLISH who have been meeting with great success
| at MOntclair and Plalnteld. 80,
The court room III Hackensack was crowded with
| peOnle Yesterday Some curlOuSly awaiting
| The disposition by the Court of their Applications
! for licenses and many were there TO hear ana see
! what Was gong on. The Law and Order Society
! was REPRESENTED by Counsellor Milton DeInarcst
| granting of licenses we're presented. The contest
! between the liquor dealers and temper
| ance interests was warm. Only two new
! licenses were granted-the Palisade Mountain
| House on the west side Of the Hudson River, and a
| hotel on the Pa>saic River, to he kept Oy James
! Mckee the horse-tralneT. great effort was agan
/ made TO procure a license for the Fort Lee Hotel
a resort for the lower classes of New DIRK CITY. III
was at this hotel where, Sunday last summer,
| murder was committed in effort made by spec
| ial policeman TO quel disturbance. The Court
| refused the license. In Hackensack the Law and
| order Association succeeded i'll oyerthrowing all
| the aDplicatiOnS.