New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-07-15
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ENFORCING SUNDAY LAWS.

ENFORCING SUNDAY LAWS.
ANOTHER EXTREMELY DRY DAY IN THE
METROPOLIS.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS GENERALLY OBEY JUDGE
MApAMs DECISION AND DO NOT ATTEMPT
TO SELL. EVEN SOFT DRrNKs-soME AR
RESTS THAT SEEM PECULIAR IN
THESE DAYS FOR VARIOUS
LITTLE OFFENCES AGAINST
THE MAJESTY OF
THE LAW.
Yesterday was another dry Sunday on Manhattan
Island It might be remarked. parentheticaily that
1t was not any dryer yesterday than 1t has been
on the two Sundays previous There was no de-
Walton from the course marked out by the police,
| and as a result saloons we're closed. The buffet
and leather rooms In the big uptown hotels were
also closed and so far could be the law was
enforced yesterday in just about the same manner
| as It was on the previous Sundays.
The interest In the crusade against the Sunday
LIQUOR traffic was yesterday focused upon the atti-
| tude the police would take toward the sale or
soft stuff In saloons the irst day In the week
The question raised last week by Park Row
| his place open on Sunday and said that he would
sell nothing but soft drinks. The question was laid
before the city magistrates, and some OF them were
| inclined to think that he could keep open on Sun
day n ne wished. provided nothing was sold over
his bar except soft drinks The police did not con-
| strue Il So and intmated that they knew he would
sell other than harmless beverages II he was al
flowed to keep open Qunlan decided to test the
law and applied TO Judge McAdam for an injunc-
ton 10 restrain the police from interfering with MIN
should ne open his bar Sunday to sell soft drinks
| Judge McAdam's decision is known He inter-
| preted the law to hold that no soft drinks OF any
| kind could be sold anywhere on Sunday.
There was naturally. therefore. great deal OF
curiosity to see whether ne police would stop the
sale OF soda water In drugstores. or lemonade NJ
street stands so far as could be seen, the ponce
did not interfere very much with the sale or soda
| water lemonade. orangeade and the hundred and
one other non alcoholic beverages that are SOLD IN
| drugstores. and At street stands
SODA WATER SOLD WITHOUT INrERFER-
ENCE.
Uptown yesterday the drugstores seemed to be
doing their usual amount Of trafiic at the soda
fountains without police moes,aton. The Italian
fruit stands with their lemonade adJuncts. also
were doing business. and they were not 'nterierei
with Judge McAdans decision. however. left no
loophoe open for the regularly licensed sa'oon ana
80 no one had the hardihood to keep open and at
A saloon keeper uptown had a card pinned upon
h,x tightly closed door yesterday. and on IT, beneath
the words Bar closed" was the following parody
upon q popular song:
East Side. West Side.
You voted for reform.
Now how DO you like IL
You got II good and warm.
The condition OF affairs yesterday led hotel man
10 become reminiscent. He said: when was
boy going to school IN the chemistry class one day
the Instructor asked why II was that all the NTH
and garbage dumped In the Ohio River at Pittsburs
did not ,njure the people at Cincinnati who got their
, water supply from this river The answer naturally
was that running water purified Itself The boy
| TO whom the question was propoundcd. however.
vas at loss for answer. and replied hopelessy
that he guessed they were used TO H. The general
impression seems to be that the citizens who want
their Sunday drink will get used to this kind OF an
arrangement and adjust themselves TO II! That IL
all wrong As long this condition OF Affairs exists
| the same sullen protest will be made.
| Commissioner Roosevelt on Saturday was non
| commlttal when u came 10 stating what attitude
would he taken by the Department toward the
soda water people and druggists Accordingly this
class OF tradesmen did not anticipate moicstaiion
without warning. and they were right To have
put men on duty watching drugstores and arrest
any one who sold soda would have practically
doubled the already heavy labors OF the police
The big hotels yesterday carried out the same
policy that characterized the previous Sunday. The
Imperial and two other hotels that had
their buffet rooms tightly closed the previous Sun
day yesterday threw them open 10 the public. but
| there was a difference. These rooms yesterday
were used lounging and reading rooms. No walt
| ers were at hand. and neither food nor liquor was
| served. All thirsty ones directed TO the res
taurant. where liquor was sold with food
In many OF the ADMINISTRATIONS uptown the
| law was cvaded, but II was done In such way
that It could not be detected. The customary signs
/ No drin and were TO be
! seen on all sides. Drinks sold. however with
food. and II person came into the restaurant who
| was known to the management he could get drink
| without purchasing the food provided for by the
law.
FAVORED FEW ADMITTED.
! On the upper West Side. especially along Co.
lumbus-ave.. wedrawn down blinds the rule.
| and II Is certain that some places were open for
business. 1t the favored few. however. who
we're allowed to take advantage OF this Most Of
| the side doors had holes bored In them with
| large anger and the close observer could detect
| what looked very much like eye glued to one
OF these holes he passed by. II person relying
on this one fact tried to get in one OF these places
however. he found response to his repeated
knocks. and apparently all was sti rs death. The
particularly CALLING part OF the AFFAIR for the un-
Initiated thirsty was that AZ soon as he had gone
| away and turned his eyes saloonward. he could
| see some more fortunate mortal quietly sneaking
| In through the side door.
A close observer at one OF these places In Column
bus-ave. noticed the following mode Of procedure:
| First. the lucky man knocked three times on the
| front window OF the saloon minutes walt. and
| he strolied around the corner. and an eye was
| glued TO OF the auger holes. The man who
| had knocked on the front window then knocked
| twice on the side door. II was opened. hand
| reched out. grasped the "knocker" by the coat.
and In a wink he whsked inside OF the sacred
| portals. Not long afterward he came out In the
| same preciptous manner. but he looked very much
| happier and mere satisfied than when he went In.
All this went to prove that the lucky man had been
| posted the nigh; before.
An Interesting case was that Of John Levine. who
| was arrested at while standing In front OF
his saloon. at Ninety thIrd-st. and Co1mbus-ave..