The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-03-25
The Sunday Celebration at
Mrs. Poh1man's Garden
Attracted the Police.
WILL THE NEW LAW SAVE HERq
The Old-Time Famous Resort Fur
nishes Prisoners for Justice
Stilsing's Court.

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was charged with keeping a disorderly
house; the others with being disorderly
persons The arrest was the first noticea
BILE result of the passage of the new Werts
liquor bill
In times gone by Pohlman's beer gar
den, adjoining the West Hoboken eleva-
| tor, and overlooking the beautiful New
York Bay and harbor, was the chief Ger
man resort in this city, if not in the
county. Sunday afternoon and evening
especially were gala times there. A band
of many pieces discoursed music, and ac-
complished German songsters and elocu-
tionists entertained the throng with song
and recitation. Hundreds of German res
idents fiocked, with their families, to the
tables and drank beer, and spent the in
| tervals between the stage attractions in
social converse.
GIN MILLS AGAINST BEER GARDENS.
By and bye there grew up a feeling be-
tween the owners of beer gardens of this
class and the owners of the gin mills with
out other attractions than their bars.
When Justice Davis went into the Police
Board the idea Of Sunday concert music
being countenanced by the police at any
beer drinking establishmentappalled him,
| and an order went forth that apparent re-
spect at least should be paid TO the Sab
| BATH Doors were ordered closed and
| blinds drawn, and there was to be no
sight or sound at any saloon by which the
| public could know that they were open.
| 1t was said at the time that this was a
movement on the part of the liquor men
| against the beer gardens, because the
music and other attractions of the beer
| gardens drew the throngs of Sunday
| drinkers from the saloons. Pohlman ap-
piled to the Liquor Dealers Association
| for protection. 1t was not accorded him.
If he insisted on Sunday music, he was
| told he must go it on his own RESPONSE
| bility There seemed to be no escape for
| him, and the music had to be abandoned.
This was a severe blow for Pohlman.
and his death soon afterWard is said to
have been largely due to the depression of
spirits into which it threw him. He felt
/ the loss so keenly during his lifetime that
some of the superstitious up in that re-
gion are sure they have seen his uneasy
| ghost wandering over the scenes OF his
| former triu1nphS.
| His widow shared his feelings with him,
and her eagerness to return to the old
| order of things as soon as possible has
| been increased by the depreciation in the
value of the great garden. She felt that
| she would not dare to risk Sunday music
during the enforcement of the temperance
| bill of last winter; but the moment she
| heard the bill had been modified by the
passage of the Werts bill she waited upon
Police Captain McNulty to ask permission
to resume the Sunday concerts.
The gallant policeman was forced to re-
fuse consent 1t was useless for the widow
to plead that she had no other hope of
saving her property from ruinous depreci-
alton or to urge that she had advertised
Sunday concert in the German papers
that compelled her to keep faith with the
public
The Captain was inexorable. 1t could
not be. And Mrs. Pohlman went off with
the determination of carrying out her de-
sign without regard to consequences.
Information was taken to the Oakland
Avenue Police Station yesterday that
Pohlmans Park was in full weekday
blast; that bands were playing, waters
were flying around with beer, and that
crowds of people were passing in and out
CT the doors.
Detective Smith, the epic poet of the
force, was sent to reconnoiter during the
afternoon. What he saw prompted q
couplet:-
What see here?
Why, plenty Of beer.
But the big kegs holding it were la
belled ''Weiss Beer" The clatter of
glasses and the hurrying footballs of busy
band
In the evening he went back on an
other accommodating expedition. Police |
man O'Neill, of the Grove street station, |
accompanied him. 1t was eight o'clock, |
and the crowds were returning from sup
per for an evenings amusement The |
busy scene of the afternoon was being |
re-enacted.
THE POLICE INVADE THE GARDEN.
They had been in the hall less than q |
quarter of an hour when adetail of officers |
appeared at the door. Besides Captain |
McNulty, who commanded them, there |
were Policemen Toner Short, Tiedemann, |
Conlon, Fireman, Koch, Engel and one or
two Others. They were in citizens clothes,
and entered as though they were of the |
stream of pleasure seekers. No one
knew that they had gone there on business
till they walked up to the band and |
stopped the music. Those at the tables |
with the conviction that the fun was at an |
end they filed out of the building in an Or
derly procession.
When they had gone the police found |
Mrs. Pohlman and three barkeepers at the |
bar. They, with six walters and six mu-
sicians, were gathered in and marched to |
the police station.
A motley throng followed them and |
clamored at the doors of the station for |
admittance. An officer on guard kept |
them out. The lucklesS prisoners regis |
tered as Minnie Pohlman, housekeeper; |
Frederick Meyer. John Halsch and Louis |
Weigett, bartenders; William Pezyhold, |
Emil Borges, Frederick See, David Wash |
man, Louis Borges and Carl Bege, mu-
sicians, and Louis Stumpf, John Bising, |
Peter Scheer, William Lehman and Carl |
Hagan, walters
The arrest was windfall for Police |
Clerk Gil Robinson The whole crowd |
wanted to be bailed, and each bail piece |
was worth sixty-five cents The clerk was |
summoned at once in his capacity of JUS
tice, and he opened a Sunday night court I
Mrs. Polhman gave bail in $500 to appear
this morning for examination Mr.. Hier- |
onymous was her bondsman Then she,
in turn, became surety for the appearance |
of her employees.
This morning Justice Wanser faced a
great crowd of spectators when the pris-
oners were arraigned. None of the party |
wanted an examination. The EMPLOYEES |
were discharged, and Mrs Pohlman was
held in $500 bail to await the action of the |
Grand Jury.
MRS PoHLMAN TO TRY IT AGAIN.
went around to see Mrs. Pohlman this |
and found her still TALKING avar. /