The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-04-06
IT MEYER RAINS
BUT IT POURS
New York's New Excise Law
Makes the Jersey Saloon
Keeper JubilaIlt.
YESTESDAY'S BIG BUSINESS
Jersey City and Hoboken Invaded
By Thirsty Gothamites-Few
Arrests for Drunkenness.

The strict enforcement of the Raines
law in New York and Brooklyn yester-
day was anything but an i'll wind
to the s-aloonkeepers of Jersey
and Hoboken. From cary morn
ing until late at night. every
Pennsylvania and Brooklyn annex boat
brought crowds of thirsty Gothamites
to Exchange place. The saloons on thai
block did a thriving business, as almost
everyone who struck the town was suffer-
ing with a thirst that demanded imme.
diate attention. Then they wandered
about the city viewing the sights, mainly
through the bottoms OF glasses, ana
wished that they iived in New Jersey.
The effects of the exodus from New
York and Brooklyn was felt all along
Montgomery street, and there was a per,
ceptible increase in the receipts OF al
the saloons.
The thirsty arrived in hundreds. 1t is
said tina at least 10000 people crossed
in the ferryboats connecting New Jer-
sey with New York. The North HUDSON
County Railroad did a good business.
The trolleys leading from the Hoboken
ferry to Jersey city Heights were pack
ed adj day long. The company ordered
out extra cars, but they were inadequate
to accommodate the crowds The saloon,
keepers in the old Fourth district ruopeo
l1l61T In S1CClQlly do- tANy
the big profits of the day last night
This morning the police courts had an
unusual number of simple drunk cases
to dispose OF. Justice Douglass had SIX
men from across the river before him
this morning on charges of drunkenness.
They were Louis Snyder OF Broadway,
New York city. He applied at the OAK
land avenue station house for a nights
lodging. He paid 81 this morning for ms
lodgings. Louis O'Rafferty, no residence.
was found ait the Five Corners last night
In a drunken condition. This morning
he was sentenced to Snake Hill Tor
ninety days. John Cavara, thirty-one
years old, of St. Denis Hotel, Broad
way Louis Barrallo, twenty-eight years
old, of No. 5S West Broadway; Joseph
Tallia, fthirty@three years old, OF NO.
239 Sullivan street, all OF New York city,
were arrested on Central avenue by
Patrolman Hilge of the Third precinct
for drunkenness. This morning they paid
81 each extra for their jag and for a
nights lodgings.
A crowd of New Workers came over
the river Saturday night for a lark.
They had a big time and at five O'Clock
yesterday morning were smashing each
others hats in Hudson street. Thomas
Barry, of No. 179 Varick street, New
York, happened to strike the hat of John
Norton, a Jersey Cityite. Norton think
ing the men intended assaulting him,
pulled a revolver from his pocket and
fired at Barry. The ball did not take
eI6cI. IU6y were dFI6Sl6U. lLlS ulOfli-
ing Justice Potts fined Norton $40 and
Barry S.. Both paid and skipped.
Although the sa~loon-keepers in New
York were, for the most part of them,
closed up tight yesterday, the thirsty
populace did not go dry. From early in the
morning until late at night a steady
stream of beer hunters poured into Ho-
boken from the ferries and wended their
way to the nearest saloon they could get
into. So large was the crowd that one
saloon in the vicinity of the ferry had
five extra ~bartenders on duty, and they
were kept hustling from as early as
seven O'Clock in the morning until after
ten O'Clock at night. Many of the thirsty
New Workers boarded the Union Hill and
Gutenberg trolley cars and went out to
those quiet hamlets where they were sure
of enjoying their favorite beverage with
out fear of mo1estation. They were afraid
that the spasm of virtue which has over
swept New York might have struck Ho-
boken. But they need not have been
afraid of that as there is no Raines in all
Hudson County.
OF the hundreds of visitors to Hoboken
yesterday, there only fourteen arrested
for Drunkenness of which ten were from
New. York.
While the New York saloonkeepers were
cursing Raines and his Prohibition law,
the Hoboken liquor dealers were singing
his praises and pouring blessings upon
him. It is estimated that over $1,000 went
into the Golfers of the saloonkeepers
throughout the county yesterday.