The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-10-16
Correspondence Baltimore County Union.
LETTER FROM BALTIMORE.
The Sunday Law of 1866 THE Annoy
ances it's enforcement will Entail
Building Improvements-TheG Gas
Companies, &C., &c
BALTIMORE, October 18th, 1885

BALTIMORE, October 18th, 1885,
Editors Union What is called the SUNDAY
Law is to be put into strict force here next
Sunday The law has been really in existance
on our statute books for a long time, butit-gen-
never to be put in all its exactons into force. 1t
acts more forcibly and deleteriously upon drug
gists than any others, AS a matter almost OF
necessity they are obliged to keep their stores
open in order to accommodate the public to med
icines such as are absolutely needed. They are
therefore obliged to be on hand whether needed
or not 1t really has been of more accommoda-
ton to the public than to themselves so Tar as
profit is concerned but often medicines are
wanted on Sundays not anticipated by persons
suddenly taken ill. Children, too, are frequent
ly seized with Group and other diseases on Sun
days, requiring only slight, simple antidote to
simple as the medicine may be, the druggist is
not permitted to give it out sell it unless pre-
ton the patient may die before regular doctor
can be found to write out the prescription Then
again it puts person to the extra expense of
paying physician to write out the prescription
as also the druggist for his trouble and expense
of the medicine. Such cases are of very fire.
quent occurrences. So it is with almost every
diction of the Sunday law 1t cannot be given
out or sold except as heretofore mentioned: The
only things they are really allowed to sell on
Sunday are ice and milk, which are not always
kept for sale by druggists To sell these articles
alone but few persons would keep their stores
open at ALL as it would not pay for the trouble
and expense. So the people would be deprived
of great luxury aside from that actually useful.
1t has, however, been determined upon to en-
force the law on next Sunday and thereafter
until some change is made. The police have
their orders and are bound to do it. Expense
and trouble will thus be enforced upon persons
least able to bear it. Some druggists, am told,
rather than be subjected to the trouble, have de-
termined to close their stores entirely. There
certainly has been great oversight in passing
such law and the sooner 1T is annulled the bet
ter. 1t is against nature and sound SENSE and
should never have been passed, as it has been
Oft hooks
was enacted, and ever will be hereafter, as q
thing is kept from them which they actually
a certain routine, but that cannot always be had
in time. At the first meeting Of our Legislature
meeting is too far off to wait. 1 have no objec-
ton to the Sunday law so far as it goes in en-
deavoring to prevent the sale and use OF lntoxl-
cants to an excess. Let it too be sold only as
medicine on Sundays and when known as such
eficacious The truth is Sunday or Saturday or
any other day too mqfn b% to
know this So with other things when used IN,
judiciously. They are bound to kill in the end
if used wrongf1g Let U.S. eye aop9f orae
the law regarding useful and absolutely needful
medicines, even though 1t pc included IN Ine iaW'
but go ahead and sell as usual such THINGS IL
NAV be supposed that it will be made to appear
so ridiculous that in amending it SO as TO give
apothecaries what is needed dealers in whisky
and other intoxicating drinks will also get greater
privileges or have the law so altered as to suit
a
sons to live soberly, law or no law, Sunday or
week day, and those who Will not DO so let them
be restrained by jqdioious law. Such thngs
that are not necessary as medicine can De done
without one day in seven II persons are SO us-
posed. learn, however. that the experiment is
to be made hereafter in strictly enforcing the
law and see what effect it will have. There is
question if apothecaries who generally Kept
postage stamps for letters to oblige their friends
and the community will be permitted. to sell
these on Sundays. This thing of forcing people
into morality by law is not half so good as it is
for persons to do right OF their own free accord;
you know how. Sunday law or no SUNDAY law,
and you will be on the winning side. People
will generally endeavor to abide by the law, even
If it is faulty one, in order to erect It's amend
ment. We will wait and see. some OF tnose VINO SnS2
such things as are needed and wanted, where the
law does not prevail in its strictness, will be very
apt to do large extra business ana nave e. con con
1t is ill wind, therefore, that blows good TO no
one .,.,-..-....
very dusty and dry. Itlooks very much as if the
Indian summer was near at hand. 1t has no ex-
act period of coming. but generally about the
last of October or beginning of November. Its
the season when the Indian goes out TO hunt and
lay in his winters provision OF meat. 1t is to
him the most attractive ana beautiful season OF
we Hasrc The SKY mas now saaS saToa aae not
Improvement and building is going on rapidly
in all parts of the city, also in the Belt and else
Wn6r6 III Tue Country, III Is dIIaZlH&, also ell
couraging, to see this. We can scarcely go in
street. especially in the Belt, that we do not see
fine new houses going up. Business in this re-
spect is better than it is in commercial affairs,
but that is looking up also. People are riding
more fully in the city passenger railway cars,
which is a good sign: The steam cars on all the
railways are also doing good business.
l am told that the old Consolidated Gas Com
pany has offered the new Chesapeake per cent,
on its investment which it peremptorily refused.
1t prefers going on its own hook and in its own
way. With its present opposition consumers
have the advantage of getting gas on reasonable
terms That certainly i good thing II II iasts;
gas is made by both. People are willing to pay
fair price at all times. Opposition is the life ct
trade but too much competition the death Of the
business.
The work on our new postoffce is going forward
rapidly. 1t will be under roof before long and
one among the finest buildings Of its kind in the
country, though some two years will be required
before it is occupied as poStoftice.
The !sraelites had an interesting time last Sat
urday in celebrating their New Year and in OBJ
serving one of the feasts of that people. 1t was
kept strictly as holiday. NEsToR.