The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-12-16
SALOON AND SCHOOL
Vigorous Protests Against
Granting the License
to Newman.
CLERGY AND LAITY AROUSED
Rev. James parker's Stirring Ser
mon Citizens to Wait on
the Aldermen.
AND LAITY AROUSED

the Aldermen.
The article published in 'tThe Jersey
City News Saturday night, relative to
the proposed saloon next to School No.
Is. has caused the, residents in that sec
ton of the city to take active steps to-
wards preventing its opening. Several
gentlemen, parents of children who at
tend the school, called upon the various
ministers in that neighIborhood and asked
them to attend the meeting OF the Boa
of Aldermen to be held tomorrow night,
and protest against the granting of a IL
cense for the place. The result of the
call was that a number of the clergy
promised to be at the meeting and also
requested the male members of their
respective churches to accompany them
and protest against 1t.
Rev. DR.. James Parker, of the Second
Presbyterian Church on Hancock ave-
nue., preached a ermon yesterday af-
ernoon in which he pointed out the
danger of a saloon next door to a
school.
Zone OF the greatest existing evils IS
a gin MILL" he said, but it becomes a
greater evil when young children and
ladies are compelled to come in con-
tact with ct. I understand hat a gin
mill is to be opened at Zabriskie street
and the Boulevard, adjoining School No.
IS. but II I a in any way prevent 1t,
| will do all in my power to do so, and
I ask such of the gentlemen present
the Board Of Aldermen tuesday night.
against It: I earn that the only decent
rectly. in front of h proposed saloon,
and If that is the case, look at the dam
danger they win be = Of shaying half
mischievous boys will some day tease
one of the drunken loafers and HE, in
a fit of anger. will do the children bodily
harm.
"But the physical injury to the chill
dren Will be nothing. mpa to the m
jury Of the soul which win surely come
through them hearing the obscene and
profane language and becoming famil-
lar with the sights about this saloon.
proposes to run the saloon In question,
but he could not control h actions of
the half drunken loafers on the sidewalks.
They would invariably insult the teach
ers, tempt the children to drink and
God only knows what extremes the men
wouldn't go to-, when their brains were
bemuddled by the poisonous liquid. I do
not intend to preach a temperance SER
mon, but I want to impress upon you
the awful danger 1t would be to your
children to W that saloon there, and
to our city. Why, when Tammany Hall
reigned supreme throughout New York
State, a law was passed prohibiting the
existence of a saloon within a certain
Of worship; yet New Jersey, with all
it's reputation for purity, has no such
law upon it's statute books. shall be
at the meeting OF the Board OF Aldermen
a license for the place. and l hope that
The Rev. E. A. Meury, pastor of the
emu when asked by a News reporter
yesterday for his views upon the matter,
said:-"1 am most positively opposed 10
the saloon. Mr.; Newman Is wrong when 2
shall certainly be at the meeting of the
Aldermen Tuesday night, and enter a pro-
test against the licensing of 1t. Mr..
Newman, 1 understand, is a model saloon
keeper, and has a host of friends who
would like to see him get along. But
no good citizen could conscientiously sup
port a man, no matter II he was his
own brother, in a matter like this, and
I for one, who have known him for a
number of years, n always found him
to be In exceptionally fine man, Will
The Rev. DR.. Wright of the Central Av-
enue Reformed Church, in an interview,
said:-'Most assuredly will I do all in my
power to keep the saloon from pelng
opened, and not only that one, but every
other one in the community. On Tuesday
night l shall be at the meeting OF the
Aldermen with several members OF my
congregation and we shall protest against
it."
The Rev. Father Thomas Quinn, of st.
PauPs Church of the Cross, said that ne
would oppose a saloon every time that 1t
was within a block of a school or a
church, and that If he had his way there
wouldn't be one in the city. He would
also be at the meeting tomorrow night,
if it was not for an Important engage
ment.
large number of prominent residents In
that vicinity who are opposed to the sa-
loon being next to the school. Among
them are Congressman McEwan, Mr..
Henry Brautigam, Mr.. Adolph Waters, Mr..
John Mehl, Messrs. Henry n ~ H Rapnrs
P%attberg, Mr.. John Mshaag, NJ Mr H 9
Bongartz, Mr.. Henry Castens and many
others. A good many Of the gentlemen
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