The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-02-22
SUNDAY THEATRlCALS.
VIII the Hoboken Police Close Up the
ss,ows2- Churches Aroused.

VIII the HoboIen Police Close Up the
Shows?-Chnrches Aroused.
On next Tuesday evening at the special
meeting of the Hoboken Police Board a
petition signed by different clergymen of
Hoboken will be presented to the Board.
On whatever disposition is made OF that
document will depend the question
whether Sunday thertricals will be
longer permitted in Hoboken. At present
there are in Hoboken one frst-class
theatre, II. r. Jacobs, one variety theatre,
Cronheim's. and any number OF concert
gardens
Each of these places has in the past
been allowed to keep open on Sund days,
and a matinee and evening performances
were given. 10 say that the theatres are
crowded, would be putting it mildly
They are jammed to the door and stand
ing room is at premium. The receipts
for Sunday alone are larger than any
other two days in the week.
Those who patronize the Hoboken
theatre ON Sunday are principally people
from New York and Jersey City.
Everything was going along swim
mingly for the theatres aud the different
resorts in HoDoken were crowded on
DQuQty 4lGIln uuAl1 SOLu6 straight ldCbQ
members Of the community in conjunc-
ton with some ministers, started an
agitation 70 end their Sunday features.
AN UNEXPECTED BOOM.
The agitation did not meet with much
favor at first. and its managers were be-
ginning to despair Of accomplishing any
thing, when they were aided in a most
unexpected way By the manager of the
theatres. Last Sunday morning when
the good folks were on their way to
church startling array of posters met
their eyes. They were the posters of the
London Gaiety Girl Troupe, which
was to play at Cronheim's Theatre.
the troupe in scant costume, and
in striking attitudes. The good people
were shocked and at once lent their aid to
any scheme by which the theatres could
be closed. Manager Cronheim, hearing
the damage the posters had worked. gave
orders to have the more striking ones
torn down, aud on Monday morning one
of his employees went about the different
saloons and dead walls and destroyed
them.
But the damage had been done and the
ministers at once decided that the
theatres must close. To this end the
petition was extensively circulated and
there is no doubt but what it will be pre-
sented at the next meeting of the Board.
NON CoMMITTAL OFFICIALS.
What the fate Of the petition will be
can only be surmised just at present
The Board of Police Commissioners is
composed OF Mayor Grassman and four
other observation-disclosures Utz,
Daab, kaufman and Coyle. Mayor
Grassman, when interviwed, did
not say enough to lead one to believe that
he cared to close the theatres. Neither
did Commissioner Daab. Commissioner
kaufman said he would vote 70 close the
theatres on Sunday, and Commissioner
UtZ is thought to lean the same way.
Police Commissioner Coyle is nom
committal, and says thai he wants to
hear the petition read before he will form
any conclusion.
Manager Moore of Jacobs Theatre is
at present very sick. l called at his Office
yesterday and he told me that all that he
knew about the closing was some news
paper talk.
Manager Cronheim was not in when l
called, but 1t is understood that the vari-
ETY. manager will make bitter fight be-
fore he closes his DOORS
THERE'S THE Law. GENTLEMEN"
1t Is thought that when the petition Is
presented at the meeting OF the Board, it
will be referred 10 the corporation atJor-
pey for his opinion. The corporation at
torney's only alternative will be to pro-
vide the Board with copy of the blue
laws, with instructions TO inforce them.
Ii this is done, every saloon and other
place of business in the city will be close d
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