New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-12-06
ENFORCING THE SONDAY la W.
THE POLICE MAKE ONLY A FEW ARRESTS
A GENERAL DISPOSITION .BEY THE LAW HELPED
by THE sNOwsTORM.


A GENERAL DISPOSITION 10 .,BEY THE LAW HELPED
BY THE sNowsTORM
All the police captains who were instructed by
Superintendent Murray Saturday TO see that the
Sunday law was enforced when they returned to their
stations instructed all the patrolmen to give notice to
the shopkeepcrs their beats that they must keep
closed on Sunday or be arrested except, OF course
those who were in such business the law permitted
Some trouble was expected to result from this order OF
Superintendent Murrays, especially on the East Side
where Sunday is looked upon as sort 81 shopping
day and where there good many people OF Social
istc tendencies who look upon any order tor the en-
forcement of Sunday laws restriction upon their
liberty. But throughout the whole city everything
was quiet and peaceful. The few arrests that were
made were accomplished with little fuss possible
and every facility extended TO those arrested to
procure bail In all the streets where there has been
on Sunday usually large display of goods tor sale on
the outside OF nothing to be seen and the
doors OF all the stores closed 1t may have been
that the weather had something to do with it at any
rate the elements aided the police In enforcing the
law, or at least. having decent respect paid to it.
All the wholesale stores closed these were not
the that the complaint was made against and
many of the retail stores that formerly did Sunday
business closed up yesterday some matter of ex
pertinent. others because the weather was bad, and
few because they thought that the law was going to be
enforced.
One great drawback to the enforcement Of the law
lay in the difficulty of detecting the actual sale Of
goods No storekeeper would sell goods to an officer
in uniform standing ut his counter. and while the
officer was out of the store business would be carried
on without his knowing it. This accounts for the
small number Of arrests made The police acted with
discretion usually, and did not strain the construction
of the law the utmost This is a big city ano it
good deal of ground, contains something over
1,O00O0 people, and has many places of business.
They not all closed yesterday There were many
liquor stores aud stores OF other kinds where goods
were sod openly and a good trade was done. This
is TO be looked for where comparatively few police
men have to cover so much territory, but on the
whole it $ considered that the law was generally
obeyed and that every one who made any open
defiance of it promptly arrested.
In the district bonded by Canal and Fourteenth
SITS. there few arrests. At the Eldrdge Street
Station Victor Berlin, of No. 50 Norfolk-st; Heman
Esreled of No "A Essex.st, and b. Eterman. of No.
~ Mott-st. we're arrested for. Deddling goods at
Hester-st and the Bowery. Gilbert Allendorf had a
lot of shirts, stocking bats and boots hanging IN front
of his at No II Bowcry and he was arrested and
to the Seventeenth Precinct was Ralph Dominco. a
barber. who was seen by an officer shaving man at
No. 90 First-ave. He was discharged by Judge
German. In the Fifteenth Precinct there were no
nSmes entered the botter during the day and even
ing for any offences committed. Captain Mcdonald
gave an Italian woman whose grocery was closed
pail of coal.
In Captain Copeands precinct every thing was quiet
and his men could not find any one to arrest Super
intendent Newell, of the Broadway Railroad and
Superintendent Green of the Street Cleaning Depart
ment reported Iolice Headquarters that the men at
work cleaning the streets we're being n'eriered wn
Inspector at Police Headquarters, sent out the
following general order:
the Street Cleaning Department in removing snow
from tracks in streets This is work of necessity,
but the work must & be performed in the manner laid
In the Sixth Precinct arrests were made for vo
atng the sunday law Emanuel saacs OF No Sd So sS I%w
pair of shoes Officer Murphy led him to the police
e% sn menns a me- the necessary o
bail. Abraham Lyons of No. 10 Baxterst opened his
SiOo bail Lewis Kaufman No. SO Bowery, sold pair
sEs 's dispose
pair sa f snrew snsm n No. no a a Row.
arrested for Selling: pair of overshoes and baed
Herman Kcmpner, of No 32 Bowery sold one collar and
James H. Griffin bartender at liquor shop at Nos
and Chatham SQUARE kept by Charles % Black was ar
taken 10 the Fourth Precinct Police Station and was
baed on the West side beow Canast the sunday law
and that In the Precinct an Excise case
arrested at IO:2s a. m selling bread officer Horace
f. Patrick of the Twentyeigbh Precinct made the ar
Fourth District Court, where he held in $50 bail
In that part of the city lying between Fourteenth and
Forty second law well observed yesterday,
No made during the day in the sixteenth
Precinct for violation OF the sunday closing aw G atnIgn %
liquor To side-dOOr customers.
In the Eighteenth Precinct over-zealous Office
pounced upon an innocent butcher who wa
caught redhanded in the act Of selling porterhouse
steak On taking him to the police station it shown
that he had committed the act before 10 a. He was
accordingly discharged and the officer ad ised to make
himself familiar with the exceptions to the law One
for violation OF the excise law was also made Ill
this precinct.
In the Ninteenth SubPrecnct In which the police sta
ton is in the basement of the Grand Central Station one
excise made but otherwise the law seemed TO
with the approval Of the people, and no violation OF
took place which apparent TO the police OF the cas-
ua passer-by.
In the Twentieth Precinct there great number OF
small and behind which their owners live In
apartments Here IL anywhere violation Of the law was
expected and number OF persons were on the lookout
for offenders Two complaints lodged at the police
sationI No 434 West Thirty seventhst that two shoe
In Ninave open and their owners exposing
the goods for sale The police however refused TO
make arrests actual selling or Offering for sale
could I've proved.
has been the quetest day this year. said the Ser
gean in the Twcnty-nnth Precinct-Captan Williamss
No made here The peOplc all seem pleased
with law and willing to observe IL. IL the same feel
ing prevailed TO the Excise law the police might take
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