The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-12-16
AS to Newman,s proposed saloon.

As to NeWman,s Proposed saloon.
Ones first inclination is to feel some
sympathy for S~aloonkeeper Newman,
who says he has sunk all the money he
owns IN the new building which he is
erecting on the Boulevard. with its rear
right up against the side wall of School
No. rs. But a moments reflection effaces
this impression and fills one with wrath
against the man,
AS the land lies now, the only approach
TO the schoolhouse is along the side wall
of the saloon. Zabriskie street is not
opened beyond the school. All the chill
dren and the teachers must approach the
building from the Boulevard direction.
The Newman structure consists of two
parts, the main building, three stories
high, and a lower extension, which runs
back to the school, and which is prob
ably intended to be a billiard room. The
1sfamily entrance that highly moral and
improving feature of the average saloon,
is represented by a side door near the
rear of the main building. Every
child going to the school has to pass
and observe 1t, and has ample oppor-
tunity to take in" the moral lessons
involved in the family entrance traffic.
It is hardly too much to say that no
saloon was ever more scandalously To-
Gated anywhere. "The News" it is well
known, is not puritanical. But the line
should surely be drawn when the door
of the schoolhouse and the family en-
Gated cheek by jow1. If the Aldermen
finally conclude to issue a license to this
place, their conduct will be properly de-
scribed by only one word; it will be a
crime against the morals of the city.
Newman has not, apparently, the ex-
cuse of laundering into this outrage. He
seems to have had a clear perception of
what he was doing and of the offense
it would give to respectable people. He
consulted various people beforehand. and
at least one, DR.. Allen, told him plainly
and fairly how improper his proposal
was and how it was sure to be opposed.
In defiance of the warning he went ahead
with the enterprise, and it seems to us
tina If it involves him in bankruptcy, as
he now pleads, the consequence is upon
his own head.
OF course 1.-THE News' has no animus
---s--A No. r. ---s r.
him until this business came up. We
believe he is a man of responsibility and
has run one or two very orderly saloons
in the northern part Of the city. But
neither his character, his record nor his
fnancial exigencies enter into this guess
ton. What he proposes to do is wrong.
decency, and every citizen of proper In
stincts should help prevent 1t.
THE police of this city did a splendid
work, Saturday. in breaking up the
bucket shop headquarters on Exchange
place. The simultaneous raid by the New
York police was a much better occupa-
ton for that effete body Than closing
up saloons, which the people want, or
driving wretched girls out OF their proper
haunts into the streets and houses where
people of honest life ave a right to
expect immunity from contact with them.
"A New York newspaper yesterday ex-
posed a nest OF roulette and faro players.
Another gave a map of the city, locating
the scenes OF one hundred and forty
three desperate crimes Of violence. which
happened during September and October.
There is no end Of work for the police
to do, these days, If they would only
stop hddling, and It annot be disputed
that the suppression Of the nefarious