The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-05-07
HODOKEN BOYS CHASED
Police Again Prevent Then
From Enjoying Themselves
In the Open Air.

DeSoitS the fact that mayor FaSan, Jne
| head of the Hoboken Police Department,
told a JERSEY CITY NEWS reporter last
Tuesday that he was not opposed to the
working boys and young men OF the city en-
| loving heaIthfuI outdoor exercise within the
! city limits, yesterday the police stopped all
the ball playing in the open lots, and the re-
suit was hundreds were disappointed. and
bad either to Journey to the towns in North
Hudson to enjoy the beautiful weather or
sit about the streets and lounge on the cor
| ners. or hang out in the saloons, all of which
| were open. The members of the Thompson
Association and the Sixth street boys we're
| enjoying an exciting game on the old Shreve
lots when they were stopped. Later in the
day the Irvings of the Holy Innocent Epis-
| copal Church and the altar boys OF st.
! Marv's were chased by three stalwart mem
| stopped, fully 800 boys and young men being
denied the privilege okthis healthful pas
time.
AS on last Sunday those who were playing
were all Woodworking, respectable young
men. Incident to the games there was CON
siderable shouting, but there was positively
no rowdyism.
In the morning there were a few games.
but after one O'Clock all the open lots began
to fill up with the players and everywhere
there was q gathering Of this kind. 1t would
| do one good to see the way the players were
| enjoying themselves. They romped about,
| shouted and talked as ightheartedly and con-
tenJedly as one could wish, and the person who
| could enter complaint and be a party to
stopping this enjoyment, must, indeed, be
| suffering from a severe attack of dyspepsia.
But, then, Hoboken policemen must obey
| orders, and the orders were yesterday to stop
the games. As each platoon went on duty
the Sergeant at the desk instructed the Of
| 6cers to stop the wicked BAH playing.
NO COMPLAINTS.
As far as could be learned no complaints
| mad been lodged with the police against the
playing yesterday.
a NEWS reporter inquired of one of the
| ~sergeants if any complaints had been made.
.'Oh. we get lots of complaints he re-
| piled.
sWiIl you let me kno how many you re-
| ceived today and the names of the complain
| antss' the reporter next asked
81 don't know of any having been re
| ceiyed today, but it's against the law to play
ball within the city limits" was the re-
Spouse.
CLEANED.
Inquiry at some of the flats on Willow
| avenue, above Tenth. the back windows of
| which are fully 800 feet from the open lots,
| failed to find one person who objected to the
games.
"Why. indeed, no. said one pretty young
| wife, when the reporter asked her husband
if he objected. ''Tom has been enjoying the
| games all afternoon from the window here,
| and has been instructing me in the game.
| It's a shame for those big policemen to chase
the Young men away. II | was one of them
[ wouldn't go; | wouldn't care whether he
| arrested me OF not"
The husband did not object; in fact, of
| inquiry made in fourteen flats not one of the
| occupants objected, every one assuring the
reporter that it was a shame to interfere
with the players.
In the neighborhood of Seventh street and
| Grand and Clinton streets not one of the
residents found any objection to balIplay-
ing.
they were fully 1000 Hoboken young
men Who journeyed to Weehawken, West
Hoboken and Union Fill to enjoy a game
They feared arrest if they played at home.
In every vacant lot north of the Hoboken
line there was a game, hundreds of boys
| coming from New York.
In this city the boys are not interfered
with in out-of-the-way places.
A SUGGESTION.
Let the police give the noboken boys a
| chance. Allow playing, SO long as there is
no rowdyism, on all vacant lots west Of
Clinton street and as far up as Fourteenth
| street, and on all vacant lots west of Willow
| avenue above Fourteenth street.