The Washington times., 1895-05-20
Mixed in Unequal Parts in Jack
son City on the Sabbath.
USUAL ORGIES YESTERDAY
Saloons Wide Open and Did Land
Office Business While Rev. John
w Matchett Preached to a Maud
lin Crowd-In RosIyn, Too, Gamb-
ling and Carouslng Went On.

Across the Long Bridge to Jackson City,
into the deus of corruption and vice that
line both sides of the single thoroughfare
of the town, aud back TO Washington
again with empty pockets and unsteady
heads-that is the programme followed
by the unwaTy ones who seek Sunday
amusement on the Virginia side of the
Potomac
Yesterday was a great day for the rum
sellers. The delightful weather brought
people out carly, and the usual Sunday
stream of visitors TO the gambling re-
sorts across the river was large and
steady.
Jackson City began TO fiji up early in
the day. and by noon the place was alive
with drunken, reeIing inhumanity. The
gambling tables were not very largely
patronized, but rum and riot prevailed.
The single colored constable paraded
around the street in the neighborhood OF
Gamblers saloon, which was wide open
and running at full blast.
COLORED CONSTABI4E'S IMP 0RTANCE.
When a drunk became too boisterous he
put on an air of vast Importance and as
sisted TO put him on tie bridge, but he
never yentured to suggest that the Sun
day bars were a violation of the law.
About 3 O'Clock i'll the afternoon Rev. John
W. Matchett, assisted 10y several members
OF the colored Y. NJ. C. A, began religious
services III the open air in front of Joe
Thomas saloon. They were kept up until
3 O'Clock. Mr.. Matchett preached from
the seventeenth verse Of The thId chapter
OF st. John, For God sent not His son into
the world 10 condemn the world, but that
the world, through Him, might be saved ="
His audience was large ard inattentive.
During the services the hinges on the door IF
Thomas saloon sustained considerable
wear, and drunken individuals Teeled un-
steadily up and down the road.
Several dogs engaged i'll a free-for all
fight, and the example set by them was
followed a short NE aiterwaId by some
of the patrons OF Caroler's saloon. The
participants in the latter affray were
elected from the place with more or less
yigor, and started across the bridge.
HARD DRINKS AND SOFT.
Back of the stables, by the river-front,
a rum-Sodden individual furnished amuse-
meut for a number OF touts and stable hands.
Fash sh.de, wesh shide, any OIL shide
at all, he was singing in maudlin nerri-
ment. Then the refrain was cut short by
a backward reel which wound up in the
river
He was fished out by friend. and after
being wrung out as well as possible, started
for home and 1iTeside.
The old Jackson City Hotel, now owned
by the Jones brothersand known as the club
house, was tightly closed up in front, but
the side and rear blinds were open. Joe
Thomas saloon, Jack Potter's place, Cand-
ler'S saloon and the smaller groggeries were
doing a land office business, and the drinks
weren't soft.
Twenty-seven DRINKS crossed the
Aqueduct bridge from Rosyn to George
town in less than two hours and were
counted by Detective Burrows. The
Seventh precinct patrol wagon was kept
busy running to the end of the bridge to
pick them up all day long.
Roslyn is a village with about 100 bona
fide inha bitants, and over half dozen
bar rooms and gambling holes. The ma
jority of these are kept boldly open on Sun
day, and Sheriff Veitch and two justices
of the peace, BuTch and Trout, know all
about it.
SHOOT CRAP ALL DAY.
The Black Diamond is the pretentious
name OF groggery and crapden in the
center of the town, patronized almost en-
tireIy by negroes, and on Sunday they con-
gregate in immense crowds in the back yard
OF the place and shoot crap.
The hills around Arlington and Fort
Meyer were dotted with groups of colored
boys aud meu, engag ged in the game they
love, aud large uumber of white men We're
reeling around in different directions.
"The Dutch Corral" was literally patron
lied by the latter class aud very few came
away sober.
Election talk was all for Johnson, Veitch
and Clark, the friends Of the gamblers and
thugs Very little was heard Of the re-
form candidates, aud their popularity
among the riverside element is on the
wane
Rev. Mr. Matchett has extended an
invitation to the Kings Daughters, of this
city and Alexandria, and number of them
will probably take part in the services
next Sunday Mr.. Matchett stated yes
terday that some of the citizens of the
place had promised TO build chapel or
hall for him 10 which to hold religious