New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-03-29
NEWS FRoM THE SUBURBS
TEMPERANCE WORK IN NEw-JERsEY'
MIYBEE AND ENGLISH LEAVE BLooMfitLD-AN
APPEAL FROM TRENTON.

MAYBEE AND ENGLISH LEAVE BLooMfihLp-AN
APPEAL FROM TRENTON.
Messrs Maybe and English closed saer T werA co
next TO Beverly, Burlington County, M making 1
hundred more have signed the pledge n mJk pnm
her of confirmed drinkers and many moderate crate
drinkers are pmong the etron s1gseiSi in con-
Droblem of closing such places Is oothe
Solved. What outside pressure IN h tne
form of legal measures could no. Snec atron se
Womans Christian Temperance Union was formed
on "wednesday The Reform Club. now numbering
$40 is arranging for hall in which TO gtin
mn and press forward the work already begun 10y
Mbee and ENGLISH SeOrged d sS@ on
speaker addressed meeting at library lali t
night. union service under the auspices =. sao
Reform Club will be held at the First Presbyterian
Church on Sunday afternoon. All the clergy,
form to the work Dr. ": n ~; Talgn Is 5a
yor of the Iabors of Maybee and English. The Rev.
j. Nardiello the Roman Catholic priest, while not
directly identified with Reinforcement yet publicly
and privately has favored it. Romanists and FRO
testants have alike attended the meetings. purse
OF $3.50 was voluntarily made up at the meeting on
"Wednesday night as a compensation TO the temper,
ance evangeiiss. This with the collections, is al
the recompense they received The citizens pay ~
the rent of the hall. No agreement was mage at
the outset as to payment for services To IRlB-
UNE reporter Maybee said on thursday
have been engaged In temperance work for several
years. I began at lansing, Michigan, where good
Christian woman made sober man: Then went TO
Iort Plain ~ y where had previously failed in bust
ness owing 10 the drinking habit and the place became
entirely revolution'zed. Then I went 10 the yansus
towns along Hudson. Two years ago formed com
paDy of four and began work In New7ersey went to
Deckertown, in Sussex County, with only ~, and our
meetings there uccessu and aferwad we visited
Newton, Belyidere s:anhope, Dover Boonton Fleming
ton Trenton, Somervle Plainfied and MOntclair. We
have had invitations TO visit Newark and Jer
sey City. - e, =,
Hartford, of Orange, comments on the increase OF
places for the sale OF liquor and says that the city
government has been too lukewarm in It's admin
istration in this direction. ntemperance was rob
hing children of home and parents, turning them
outcasts upon the world. filling prisons and aims
houses, running young men, bhghtlng hope and
ambition and sapping the foundations of society.
The Mayor adds:
The city of Orange without iquor-shop would be
paradise without beer factories would prosper dis
pues between employees and employers would be less
frequent, and hundreds of homes would be places OF
happiness instead OF misery Our poor department would
exist only in name. Reform in politics would be more
than catcwOrd IL not for the saloons for whose
favor great as well as small politicians strive
The Womans Christian Temperance Union; of
Trenton has issued an appeal TO the voters of ren
ton, which sets forth the admitted evils OF IN
temperance and says there are 203 drinking places
in Trenton and its suburbs. The address con
tinues
from this waste the homes where Injuries never
come and where the accessories of life often wanting
We appeal you do what yon can save this immense
OF money to your families to bring TO them The com
forts that viii purchase ana the happiness iha w
bring with IT, We appeal to you the voters IN re two
parties TO do whar oa car to induce your parties to take
up the question OF reform the great question OF the DAY
We urge you TO attend the primary meetings OF your par
ties aud SEE that good, capable, energetic men are
nominated for our COuncmen and city officials, of
temperate habits aud temperance principles and of I'M
swerving integrity and honor; men whom you VIII be
proud to administering municipal affairs and men
who will close IN all cases the many unlicensed liquor
ceiling places and do all in their power to check the
progress OF the liquor evil and make our CITY temperate
peaceful and prosperous.