Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1891-11-06
| VERY BLUE SUNDAY.
BALTIMORE GIVEN ATASTE OF
PURITANtCAL LAWS.
No Cigars, Ice Cream, Beer or Min
10 be Had In the City ON she
sabbath Day.

BALTIMORE, Md, Oct. ETA more
| serene city than Baltimore seemed
yesterday could not have been found
on the American continent Yet not.
withstanding this funereal exterior
there was small volcano raging,
which has already divided the town
into bitter factions and has been the
one topic of discussion on the streets,
in all the churches, in hotel corridors
and in the clubs. 1t is the old ques-
ton of Sunday observance, this time
revived with a radicainess pro and con
which has set all baltimore by the ears.
The conflict was precipitated two
Sundays ago by the action of the grand
jury, which sits for six months in the
year. 1t happened that this particu-
lar grand jury was made up of men
who did not like the idea Of having
the saloons closed in theory and open
in fact. The little side door, is
notorious in Baltimore, and the Jury
believed the side door had the, con-
nivance of the police. 1t was deter
m ned, therefore to have rigid OBJ
s.rvance of Sunday In accordance with
the IRON clad laws of Maryland.
The laws are relic of continental
days. They forbid every sort of work
on Sunday, and are broad enough, to
stop the sale of postage stamps, soda
water. drugs, newspape CONNECTION
cry and to prevent the running of
street cars, and ferries, the backing
of boots or the Harvesting of horses.
The grand jury instructed the police
commissioners TO enforce the law to
lelter
Marshal Fay. the head of the Balti-
more police force was called on by a
cores ondcnt for the purpose of
getting an idea of the complaints
which the poll c made. The chief
turned to his records and pointed to
the summary of complaints which had
first been submitted to the grand Jury
1t showed a total of o!5 offenders as
10 lows. Washing carriages, six; clean
ing harness, four; carrying passengers,
fourteen: running boiler, one deliver
ing meat, two: delivering clothing,
three; delivering shoes, two, deliver
ing newspapers, two: hiring boats one;
removing grain from burned elevator
ten; painting, one; selling groceries,
eight; selling ci-ars and tobacco,
seventeen; selling cakes and tonfec
tionery, seven; selling medicines
seven; selling postage stamps, three;
selling newspapers three; working on
ferries, twenty eight: boot blacks,
eighteen; printing, one; delivering
ice cream, tifty-fvc: manufacturing
icc-crcam, seventeen; towing scows
thirteen shaving, two. ,s
tour about the principal streets of
baltimore gave good idea of how the
day WAS observed. Bootblacks and
Paper boys were working unmolestcd
The street cars were running No
4, Ia pry.iu
tobacco stores pretended to close but
1T was merely bluff" After leaving
the chief of police the correspondent
BOUGHT cigars at the two tobacco stores
which are nearest the chiefs office.
Some OF them tried to ridicule the law
by humorous signs. One sign read:
we sell elegant cigars-to morrow"
Dlagonally across from Cardinal Glib
bon's place the correspondent saw two
cigar stores doing a flourishing bust
ness. The police were everywhere
with note books taking names of
offenders.
In order to get the view which the
grand jury takes of the situation a
call was made on Charles Dashiel, the
assistant foreman of the body which
instituted the crusade. He was found
busily engaged at his desk in the Bal.
tiInore sun once, where he is city
editor
The purpose which the grand jury
had in view," said Mr. Dashiel. was
TO sound public sentiment, and thus
find out what was thought of the old
law. If the public is against the law
we want to find it out SO that the next
Legislature can give us new law
which can be lived up to. In issuing
the first instructions to the police It
was presumed that offenses of the
more serious character, such as liquor
selling in saloons, would be reported.
But instead of that lot of minor
oifenses were reported. for the pur-
pose, think, of ridiculing the action
OF the grand jury. For instance, one
of the offenses which the police re-
ported was the hitching up of the
horses belonging to Gen. Berry, the
foreman of the grand iurv"