The Cecil Whig., 1886-07-10
NO MUSIC OR No DRINKS.
A New YORK Law that Vexes the Fancy
Beer Garden PrOprietOrs.

Beer Garden PrOprietors.
New YORK, July Sit would be diff
ficult to accurately describe the sensa-
ton experienced by the beer garden
keeper of this city as he gradually real
ICES that he must close up his place
under the recent decision of the State
Court Of Appeals. They do not hest
tate to say that their business must stop
II they cannot have both music and
beer for their patrons delectation and
this is just what the state court has Just
decided they cannot have. The result
of all this will probably be the closing
OF the Atlantic Gardens, the Cremorne,
Gould's, thc Jardin Mabille and other
noted haunts of vice which have for
years constituted large part of that
elephant" which SO many young men
come to New York to see. 1t all re-
suited from the refusal of the Eden
Musee to pay theatrical license and
the appeal of the case to higher court,
which took occasion to say that all
places of amusement where one or
more musicians are employed must
take out licenses. Then the state court
added snapper to the decision by in
cidentally remarking that no place
could be legally licensed which furnished
liquor to Its customers either on the
premises by connecting doors to ad-
joining buildings, or through windows
or openings in the walls. The police
officials have finally shown disposition
to act on the decision and enforce the
law. They accordingly sent out off
clal notices today to all the beer-garden
keepers in the city, that they must take
out licenses if they combine music and
beer. Right on the heels cf this came
a notice that resorts having liquors for
sale could not be licensed as places of
amusement. The Society for the SUP.
preston of Vice seized the golden op-
portunlty when the police are inclined
to look sharply after these resorts. and
it will now make determined effort to
drive out those sociable young women
who are IN the habit of sitting in these
"gardens" and quaffing beer and music
with guileless and guileful young men.
The commotlon which these measures
have excited among the tough element
of both sexes has never been equaled
in this particular sphere. Next Mon
day the resorts will all have to choose
between liquor and r2usic. OF course,
as dernier resort, they will elect to
cling to the drinks, but it is not be-
lieved that any of them can exist by
simply selling beer and not giving
vocal or instrumental entertainment to
their patrons. Everybody comedies
that unless they can get out of the diff
Guilty with the aid of lawyers, they will
soon find their business drifting away
to nothing.
One of the funny features of the
trouble is the attempt which the
more disreputable alderman are max
ing to evolve political gain from the
disaster thus brought upon the nefa-
rlous business of their ardent SUD-
porters. These aldermen are i'm
measurably inferior, as a class, to the
roughest city councilmen Baltimore
ever knew. | had occasion the
other day to call upon "Fatty" Walsh
and 'Jerry' Harrigan, whose names
are familiar to all readers of the New
papers. Ignorant as | judged them
by their reputation, | certainly did
not dream that their appearance
would so eminently fit their charac-
ters. Both Of the men were ignor-
ant-looking, their eyes we're waterv
and feeble; their noses red and bull
bous, and their grammar Just on a
par with that of the average street
gamln. They were talking to an
other red-taced, red-haired coarse
featured man with highlands, dirty
linen and a diamond stud as big as
penny. This elegant invividual was
earnestly assuring the other two "Oi
tell we its all de blamedess stiff yer
ever seed" This was the distin-
guished Alderman Divver,who keeps
dive on the Bowery, and this is
the trio that is just now shouting
that a Republican legislature passed
the law under which the dives must
be closed, and that a Republican
governor signed it. They want to
make it appear that the law will work
hardship upon the poor working
men, who are in "the habit of taking
their wives and daughters to the gar
dens to drink beer and listen to the
music" AS matter of fact, no one
knows better than they that laboring
men do not go to these places, and
that if they do, they would certainly
be better off at home.