New-York tribune., 1895-12-16
ANOTHER WET SUNDAY.
THE NEWARK POLICE DIsREGARDED THE
LAW YESTERDAY.

SIDE DOORS WERE LITERALLY PATRONIZED AND
MANY DRUNKEN MEN WERE on THE STREETS
-Tuc LIQUOR QUESTION DISCUSSED IN
MOST or TIE CITY PULPITs.
Notwithstanding the severe remarks Of Judge De-
pue 10 the Grand Jury relative TO the enforcement
of tne Sunday laws the Newark police yesterday
jnterposed no obstacle TO the selling of liquor. The
traffic while comparatively free, was conducted
somewhat more quietly than usual however, and the
salocnleepers evidently feared that steps might %
taken AGAINST them No who wanted drink
needed 20 without it, and. in fact 1t was as easy
to get a drink as 1t was cigar
The open saloons were by no means confined 10
the more obscure districts As many. in proportion
were doing business in the business section, and
that in the face of the police Along Market ana
Broad SITS there WIS hardly barroom that was
not doing An extensive sde-door trade. and In some
parts of the city 1t the side door that was locked
and the front open
The police who bad probably been instructed Dy
their superlors how to act, gave an excellent eN-
hib,ion OF blindness 10 existing circumstances. y
gentleman who had just obtained drink in
saloon within a few yards Of the corner OF Market
and Broad s,s.. where policeman was on post
opproached TIE latter and asked him If II were pos
sible TO get drink in the neirhborhood The officer
shook his mead sadly ana replied: NO, sir. Every
things rs tight drum. In answer 10 queries
the policeman said that there were no instructions
time there was a steady stream Of men entering ana
leaving the saloon in question.
Members OF the Christian Citizenship Union were
among the number. and as they had so niue uii-
fculty in obtaining refreshments. it VIII not De
surprising If the union presents another ana Sharper
testimonial to the Police Commissioners to-day.
noticeable feature of the day was the number OF
intoxicated men who swarmei the streets without
fear of arrest. Very few. If any, of these men
were taken into custody and. according to the po-
lice it was one of the quietest Sundays seen IN
Newark In many day.
All the pastors Of the Methodist Episcopal
churches and number OF pastors Of other
churches preached sermons al the morning or even
ing services on Sunday Observance. and in some OF
the churches the sense Of the congregation was
taken by a rising vote in favor of a strict enforce
rnent OF the Sunday ordinance by the police author-
tiles. The communication by the Police Board 10
the Christian Citizenship Union announcing that
the Commissioners would not carry out the law In
the manner demanded by the union and by the
sworn obligations Of these officials, was severely
condemned in the pastors sermons, and the charge
by Judge Depue to the Grand jury was warmly
approved
The general .enor of all the sermons by the Meth
ods, Episcopal pastors that there should be no
compromise with Sunday lev volators that the
laws must he enforced in their letter and spirit ana
that If the present administration falls IN ils
respect and there is no remedy in the Grand jury
and the criminal law. the moral and ChrlStlan Schi-
ment CT the community must bring about a change
ir the city government in the spring The services
at the churches were well attended and great IN
terest was shown in the discourses on the prevail
ing question.
At the Third Presbyterian Church the Rev. Dr.
A. n Hollafeld. the pastor took pronounced dS
partUre from the Sabbatarian position ana nero
that the Sunday closing question must no IohtrI
be regarded from the doetrnai stanapon, DTS bc5 is
destic and that therein was tne only way D! Mi'V VI
the question may be settled to the satisfaction oI
men of al creeds and beliefs
AT the Rosevile Methodist episcopal Nhuich . @ tne
Rev. 4. - Tuttle preached on Municipal enforce
m apnest 81 @ mIaa for The integrtv Of tie law and
the Christian Sabbath. HIS text was Nehe'nials
AT ST pauls the Rev. Henry Baker preached an
eloquent sermon At the Hasey Stree c;noIiSt
h}h and ID ,h f. Jouor TrafIc in which he showed
and the other. AT the De Groot Methodist tpsco-
pal Church in the evening the Rey. p g. Bascol1
preached on a Christian and civil sabbath and
said the demand for Continental SUNDAY came
from the lowest part of the foreign. population Al
preached in the morning on the sunday saloon
4@endg in ihf I neral ora aq i6e Gen chuTch The
Rev. Henry Spellmeyer preached a powerful dis
Se sabbah m me Tb eh9rch U was croWded and the
sermon was remarkable in the Biblical and hsior-
cusivcly showed how Sunday belonged to the very
@ aChene M 1 o f1cton l Poa o} Da was tho
text Of the Rev. Fred Clare Baldwin. at 81: Lukes
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Church there was special service in the evening
in the interest of Sunday closing. and the pastor
the Rev. w. {. Kinney, preached an appropriate
sermon. At the Central Presbyterian Chmcll. OF
which the Rev. 5. Edward Young. president of the
Christian Citizenship mon. is the pastor. reicr-
made TO the Sunday question in the
morning services.
l'he Rev. ]. " RYDER. o. me Uni.n sweet Aie,h-
olist Church, preached The indictment OF the
Saloon" and said K was unfit for public favor The
Rev. l.. .. Muller. a. the SUmmerie.d Methodist
Church ar. ned That Sunday obst rVance was neces-
sary Tor the physical. POLITICAL moral ard religious
welfare Of men. The saloon involves ia"les-iless
ana creates il. The Rev. Frederick Bloom. at the
Echth Avenue Methodist Church. preached on "'rhe
open Saloon on Sunday AntagOnistic to Human and
Divine Law and Mans Highest Good. The speaker
demonstrated his text by appeals to the higher law
ana the statute, md by logical argument
The Rev. NJ { dmus preached at the Franklin
Street Methodist Church IN the absence Of the Rev.
f. NJ Garten, his views being in harmony with
those Of the other ministers in conend!ng for a
Roosevelt Sunday.
Eighteen Methodist pastors in all smoke from the
pulpit on the SUNDAY question. The Methods. Eps-
cnpa Church has in Newark about $500 c0mmuni-
canis. 5000 Sunday-school scholars ana reflects the
feeling OF about 10000 OF the cy's population. The
Rev. 9. \. Scuddor. of the Montgomery Street
Church: the Rev. Alfred Evans. OF 81. Jamess
Church: the Rev. ". c. Kinsey. Of Dashiel Church:
Rev. +. f. English. of the South Marke; Street
Church preached generally on sabbath observance.