New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-04-14
TIE HALF-HOLIDAY REFORM
CROWDS CHEER THE GROWING MOVEMENT.

MAYOR GRACE's ACTIVE INTEREST IN THE EFFORT
10 CLOSE TIE STORES ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON.
The half holiday mass. meeting at Cooper insll,
tute last night one of the most enthusiastic OF
All that have yet been held. he committee Oh
East Side merchants who arranged II snpposeu
that the lecture would he of sufficient SIC 10
accommodate those who wished to attend hn. !,
was not and one of the other rooms was thrown
open for an overflow meeting Yet many VINO WENT
were compelled to return home:
James Coogan Of Coogan brothers, mtio0uccu
Mayor Grace who said:
This is the third meeting OF the kind over which nave
presided At both of these previous neetihss sa, "d
women can work better whom they do not have 10 MSrK
long Applanse believe that a sRypS for their
object the Improvement OF the condition OF me worXe
Glasses: and nse Sn an in SrieT to turn this
bathy into practical channels The American public -
Generously 70 the Efforts which al being made to shut
the shops Saturday afternoons
Ex-senator Ecclesine said that he thought the
trouble with tho system of life in this country and
particularly in this great busting metropolis, was
that il was too fast, and he added:
We have not enough holidays In our calendar; We
try to do twenty -four hours work in day and give
ourselves up too much to making money The great
bulk people cannot to Europe every summer.
can at see the beauties and nature that are III
and Immediately around ou- city. Applause
Secretary Olcott of the Half Holiday Commit
tee of One Hundred. told about the taVoraDe re-
ception that the Haf-HOdav bill had met In the
Legislature and among the bankers. SAYING
think to be thankful that TINS REFORM
Is the work OF the employers well rs the employees AS
this meeting shows Let New. York State set the ex-
ample in this movement TO the rest OF the Repuhuc
fCheers.l
Father Doucherty of the Church If the Holy
Innocents said that all the clergymen OF MS
denomination were heartily in favor OF the meas
IRE which he affirmed bound to succeed be,
cause il " as sef-sustsning, the church encouraged
it and the press upheld it, g think" he added
that it will do much to preserve the sanctlty OF
the Sabbath and maintain morality and prevent
inempcrance among the masses A.. ,uo
:. H. Phillips said that he represented the house
of Thomas Kelly at Seventeenth-st. and SXth-ave.
and that he was instructed by his employer to say
that the latter was In favor OF the early closing
movement with the rest of the trade, ana that ne
would be only too glad TO give the hundreds OF
empoycs in the various departments OF his Dusl-
ness the much needed half holiday AS soon as the
practice becomes general n.
Specohes were also made by DR.. Isaac l.. Feet,
and Mr. Coogan and others. Among he merchants
nnd others present Arthur Ridley: Mltcheil
d. Wentworth John Callahan, Donald NlrClI;
Police Justice Maurice J. Powers, and Edward
Johnson Resolutions in favor of early closing
were unanimously adopted. Edward johnson SAID
that he had Just returned from philadelphia where
he has been organizing = committee similar 10 the
one formed mere. The Sunday-sehool teachers oil
St Andrews Church. one hundred and twenty
seventh-st and Fourth-ave.. have adopted Ies0lu-
tioas approving the movement and twenty-h
teachers have pledged themselves TO abstain from
shopping on Saturday afternoons.