The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-07-08
SHOPPING.
hudson City Business Mems
Association Regulates
Closing Hours on
the Sabbath.
GERMAN BARRIERS ELOQUENT PLEA
It Wins a Laugh and al Ey-
tension Of Time for
Closing.

About fifty shopkeepers of the Heights.
VINO call themselves the Hudson CITY
Business Mems Association, met at
Prasser's Central Hall last night and
discussed the Sunday closing question.
The committee. which was appointed at
tie last meeting to consider the best
hour for closing up the various businesses
on the Sabbath, submitted it's report. The
report was not signed by a single commit
teernan, and President Berger made
them sign it after it had been accepted.
The committee met on one day last
week, and after a conference which lasted
over three hours. decided that all hard
ware, hat, dry goods. clothing. paint and
oil, furnishing goods, jewelry and furni-
iure stores. real estate n insurance
offices should keep closed all day; that
butchers, bakers, grocers, BARRIERS and
delieatessen dealers should close at ten
o'clock in the morning: and that candy,
cigar and drug stores could remain open
all day.
First Vice-Presdent Samuel C.. Meginnis
objected to the report upon the grounds
that the association had no right to
discriminate, and tina if one merchant
closed all should close. He spoke over
a half in favor of closing all stores on
Sunday, and was backed UP by Secretary
William P. Kastenhuber. who said that no
man ever lost five cents by closing his
business on the Sabbath.
After a lengthy discussion the report
was accepted.
Some man in the meeting who said he
was a edrner, but was not a member of
the association. made a protest against
closing the barber shops at ten O'Clock.
He was a six-foot German, and spoke
with a decided Fatherland accent. He
said
..snentelmens. / no can see how We vas
to close a. ten o'clock vonce. De beople
don't geets ooD oontil it vas nearly din
Fun in a bunch. We cannot close oop
soIae Of our customers"
SoIne one in the audience shouted
any sn mors &c eeul asg b a sais 1t It" tbs but m. before
VINO We're laughing heartily at the repre-
sentative barber, President Berger called
them to order.
AS a number CT the members are in the
hapit OF getting shaved on Sunday morn
ings, they Upheld the German knight Of
sion. decided to allow the barber shons
to remain open until one o'clock
When the time for closing barber shops
whose name could not be ascertainsd'
made a plea for deiicatessen storss. He
said that a number of poor people often
could not afford refrigerators to keen arfi.
cles of food in they were liable not 10
have anything in the house to eat. So
ne asked that those stores be allowed to
open between the hours of five and seven
o'clock in the evening. The request was
These regulations are to go into effect
on the first Sunday in September. Until
tnen members Of the association can do
as they please.
Henry S~pellneier was appointed a corec-
tor to collect the dues, which are TWENTY
= cents q month. He will be allowed
2 commission Of ten per cent. for his
The association numbers 12o. of whorn
nve were admitted last night. But one
memher IS 2 saloonzeeper. and II is said
ne got IN by accident. The association
ing them entirely. sN