Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-05-10
SUNDAY GOLF ILLEGAL.
Members of the Meadow Brook
 Hunt Club Arrested.
BROKE LONG ISLANDS BLUE LAWS.

Last Sundays Game Was Participated In
 by a Number of Mcu Prominent In sO-
 cIety. Who May Be Called Upon to An
 swer to Violating Sunday Lava.
 NEW YORK, May 1O.-warrants have been served on several members of the Meadow Brook Hunt club of Hampstead, N. Y, charging them with breaking the Sunday law. They played golf on the Meadow Brook golf links. opposite the clubhouse. last Sunday, and Joseph Smith. D deputy sheriff of Bsllmore, saw them do it. He swoIe cut warrants before Justice Seaman at WantaKh. N. Y. for the arrest of Sidney Dillon Ripley, James Ker- nochan and other members of the club.
 Smith overlook MT. Kernochan as he was driving homo after the golf contest and insisted that he dismount from his drag and take a seat in the deputy sheriff's farm wagon. The aristocrat and the dep- uty sheriff drove seven miles across the Hampstead plains to the house of Justice Seaman. Mir. Ripley was also taken to the judicial residence, and after going through the usual formalities both gem tlemen pleaded not guilty to everything and were released on their own rocogni- Zances
 Other warrants arc out and will be served as fast as the club members, most of whom do business in New York. can be caught at their Long Island residences. Aristocratic Offenders.
 The golf contest last Sunday was the second of tho season, and Dr. H. Holbrook Curtis of 11S Madison avenue. this oity, won the silver cup. His score was l05 for Is holes Kinsley Magoun was second in tho contest, and others who are not -l. t,, II Belmont Charles Albert Stevens of Hobo ken, N. J.; R. Ronalds, Mir. do Carmen. dia, Sidney Dillon Ripley, James F. de Lanier, Charles R. Hone, Thomas Hitch | cock. Jr., Frank Hitchcock. William Astor Chanler, the African explorer; Theodore Havemeyer. k. T. Cushing, k Willard Roby, c. K. Sands and Oliver W. Bird. Deputy Sheriff Smiths acquaintance l among tho Four Hundred is not extensive. and that Is tho reason why he swore out only half @ dozen warrants. instead of one for each of the players. Under the "bluo law" spectators are also liable
 Among the guests of the Meadow Brook club last Sunday were Mrs Kinsloy Ma l goun, Mrs. Theodore Havemeyer. Mir. F. | r. MaRoun. Mir. and Mrs. J. k. Smith Hadden. Mir. Harry Page. Mrs August Belmont, Mrs. Charles R. Hone Mrs. James F. do Lanior Mrs Sidney Dillon Ripley, Mrs. James l.. Kernochan, Ms Thomas Hitchcock Jr., Mir. Max Stevens, Miss Mabel Roby, Miss May Bird, Mrs. Oliver ". Bird, Mrs. Burke Roche, MT. H. L. Herbert. Miss Randolph, MT. and Mrs Adolph Ladenburg Mir. Winfred Rutherford, Mir. Rowley Courtney, Mir. Stanley Mortimer and MT. Harry Payne Whitney. the son of ex-Secrotary Whitney.
 Club Members Indignant.
 Of course members of the club are high l ly indignant at what they term the out rage perpetrated by Deputy sheriff Smith. They have raked up Smiths record, and they say that he was formerly n deputy under Sheriff Norton of Queens county and was twice removed from o:liCo Jus tice Seaman. who granted the warrants has law office at 26 Court street. Brook lyn. Ho has not yet set day for the hear ing.
 The only golf player who could be found in the city last night was Dr. II. Hol | brook Curtis, who won the prize in las Sundays contest Whom a reporter tol( him that warrants had been served or several club members, he laughed.
 "This is the richest joke 1 ever heard. : he said. 'They cannot prevent us iron playing golf on our own grounds on Sun day or on any other day unless thorc Is [ blue law which we have never heard of You know that it is crime to 20 carriag riding on Sunday in Connecticut but
 have not heard that New York state hat similar laws"