New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-05-07
HIGH LICENSE IN NEW-JERSEY.
A STRICT OBSERVANCE OF THE NEW Law.

so QUIET A SUNDAY HAS NOT BEEN SEEN THERE
IN YEARS-TEMPERANCE PEOPLE HAPPY
The liquor law made yesterday dry day
throughout Hudson County but more especially in
Jersey City and IIoboken. The rum-shops, so far as
could be observed, closed tight II they had
been hermetlcally sealed, but several drunken men
seen in the streets by a Tribune reporter cre-
ated the impression that there must have been leak
somewhere 1t is safe to say that the Sunday rum
traffic has before been thoroughly suppressed
in Jersey. 1t remarkable sight at midnight,
Saturday, when the ruIn-shops all closed stimuli
taDeously, the lights extnguished ard the crowds
who had fingered to the old law out and the new
law in were turned out into the streets In about
half an hour the streets entirely deserted every
body being obliged TO go home IN the absence OF any
other place to CO. The police reported that the city
was novor so quiet before. There was not an arrest
made for drunkenness.
Pohlmann's Park, near the elevator, was kept open
yesterday, but there beer, liquor music, and
Consequently business did not thrive. A sign on
tho old stone house at Grove-st and Ncwark-ave at
racted considerable attention. 1t is of tho oldest
m-shops In the State, and in fact is sort OF land
mark The sign read: This place closed for the
first tme In seventy years. The new order OF things
felt more severely In Hoboken than In any other
section Of the county because there 1t has been the
custom for the beer shops to their business openly
with music billiard pool and card playing, and any
In. There was not a beer shop open In the city.
The police had made It understood that they did not
intend making any effort to enforce the law, co that
the complete suppression Of the traffic Is due chieny
to the action of the Liquor Dealers Association In
weehawken, however, on the road to the oasepaii
grounds booths were erected and beer sold from Kegs
Their proprIetors did have licenses, but they
were not interfered with The Union Hill schutzen
Park was closed.
1t predicted that the present strict observance oi
the law will be Of short duration
Tho Sunday law also moro generally ana STRICTLY
observed in Newark yesterday than in years "eoA
ago nearly every beer shop did business with open
doors. Yesterday every beer shop was closed anu
of the GOO liquor sellers not moro than hity vent vent
urcd to sell anything few kept their sue uools
opon guarded by a picket, and no person was alIo"ca
TO enter who was not personally known. Agents VI
the Law and Order Association were every "hore Gnu
tho police acting under strict orders, kept OH "asUd
for violation OF the law. No arrests were mauo an"
complaints were lodged at Police Headquar
Many persons left the city. Tho Pennhy ~ yth snr
Railroad sold up to p ., 900 tickets 10 Ne"- & lo
alone and the Erie and Central Railroads dlo goou &
business In Orange and all other SUBURBAN tomm S
all the liquor shops hermecaly sealeu UP an
parties Of men wandered about trying side aoors ~
Carlstadt, however, few miles above N, % nIsr
the Passac. beer almost openly soIa az nu .,n
of places and visitors from Newark ana Patterson 1'
free entertainment.