New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-11-04
SUNDAY GOLFERS AKREo1ED'
STATEN ISLAND POLICE ENFORCING TIL
LAW.
TWO PLAYERS OF THE COUNTRY CLUB TAKEN BY
JEALOUS OFFICERS AND HELD FOR
ENAMINATION

EXAMINATION.
William II. Babbage. Of staten Island, a member
y, tho Richmond County Country club and numer-
ous other social organizations on the lsIahu' anu
who is in business in this city went with lrlen''
Frannies Sanders. TO the Ntuntry Cluo yeS'e'u"s
afternoon and started to play friendly game %
golf on the club links. They did not hh'sh a II
led to both being marched before JUSTICE u INC
pe,ce who held them for further examination
rho clubhouse Is back in the island a couple OF
miles from the nearest village and Is secluded Inc
links are hanked by wild hillside ana the Orys'a
Water Works property. Sunday has neeh one u
the playing days the links since the game was
first introduced Staten lslaad. IL happen''
however that the two the only ones out yes
terlay. .,,,
Tho staten Island police force has been shaken
m soften Island has a new Police Commission
THE moving spirit of it Is Clarence !. barrett. -
heoin with. the officers were treated 10 niue
transfers which made their positions al al! Ia
tion-house uncertain Then came treinTti I'm I'm
nn, eyerv man from his old place and landed nm IN,
n a new one Sergeants and men familiar VIII ,1 M
south shores OF the island were reesatsa 10 H Len
vile and the rural districts osster oats on The
nast shore were sent to do duty IN o'aP'0 stvnu,n
West Brighton. one patrolinnan from Tottenville
gray I'm the service was taken rom ors and was
SbSre he mad done duty for twenty an,,,i,ton in
pumped down to do duty ,re m When the newly
wrnnsSorred officers first went on duty some % SINE
he arOuuu from
nad dalcultv in finding the sta,loh-iIos anrounced
' The '. Enforcement OF the Avs was and they
l,t .ba sane time the transfers began anu ar 80
49, enforred in some instances me bpS FOR
rsshed there however South leach VIM" 1,,ch so
ars been run wide open on sundays 80 NJ ala
:bat the nropretors OF resorts ana saloons Srai
10 even build fronts for their places w's Ctu IN
c,osed tight Il closed in measure ne po.IIe go
inform and out were detailed TO watch 'le P," -
They began by arresting the WATERS an az ~
sess,n the walters the ones that suneio -.
IVhsn the season over ana thc IL. -
watching the places at the beach Was a, an ~, ~
,he noIice were sent cut 10 .ook tor otlets w w
hroks the Sunday laws. They had conslie ape ,,i,,
6citItv in finding any until the COUNTY,
was blt upon and yesterday the hrst ralu W.
made patroman Need and Journey were tne ral
nrs Roth officers had recently been raIsielle 81
from 'Tottenville West Brighton hey s"ooP.o
down on the golf players ana gathered then Ill ne re
fore the PLAYERS knew what Il was all ABOUT. ~
pris1ners were taken across the nils ana
bafora Justice Van Nechten. who parolled theH
pending examination -.,.. -. ,ho Courtr,
c,,,h where during the afternoon a score OF nleu
| hers and friends gathered to have rounu OF tIls
| iinks Thev were confronted with the iniorliatof
,haf they would be arrested. and there Weir mut my,
,n~nrs There was general expression OF WI, wiz
tngness TO have the club take the mater ~ az
nonfes, the legality of the arrests MS wiz W. ~
bi,, he the action taken. Loud az the "ou,,,u'
do yers kicked the matter, IL wa ~
pSn comnarcd to the howls and lame a
~, codIjes when they found their most prom ~
6ay was thing Of the PASTOR the time De''i9' d