New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-04-17
A DRY SUNDAY SCARE.
THE GRAND JURY IS AFTER JERSEY
CITY sALOONKEEPERs.

FORTY CASES PRESENTED AND INDICTMENTS
PROBABLY oRpEREp-IN VIEW OF THIS THE
POLICE DECIDE TO ADMINISTERS
CALL MAss-MEETING.
The Jersey City clergymen intend to start move
ment to bring about stricter observance OF the
Sunday law. A call for mass-meeting to be heio
at the Tabernacle on the evening Of Monday April
q was issued yesterday. The headlines announce
that 1t Is for the defence OF sobriety purity right
eousness and the American Christian Sabbath.
The call is signed by nineteen prominent ministers
of the Gospel. A copy OF the call is appended:
It time for all who love the good name b Vi ori
and reproach to unite in demand that Jersey
Sy a es %sa Un day. the
public servants must have The snppor'h OF ,ne
Understood that the present desecration Of the sab
bath mus. cease and the law must be tbsy can
the RsSps Of hs evil Se abs
Will be fault therefore, we shall be resPons9',he
Christian people Of our city upon this question by
their attendance or non-attendaance at the mass
The churches should come zen masse Inc
Tabernacle should be crowded TO sc ~ Snsiop
deaf ears. shake dry bones and awake the oeau
sense Of our city to ra e% f Win fhat Which we
now threatened. ~ A., n, r,,
The Rev Dr. Alexander, Alison oisons tRe sev oh
The Committee on Resolutions Is DR. Brett f. L.
StOddard. j. L.. i.
the s and I Get nSDs to PfSS aSs
every pastor IN Jersey city on the Platform Francis
S MGTssq Brett W o. Grant L. sioddard Charles
HERR David David Mitchell Henry Cronin J. L: scqddsr
Parker. r G Mayham Claude Raboeau and ]. W.
Hathaway. chairman of committee.
POLICE WILL ENFORCE THE LAW
A rumor was current yesterday that the Jersey
City police have decided to enforce the law OF place
the burden of responsibility for the violations on the
Grand Jury The contention of the officials has al
ways been that 1t is useless to attempt 10 compei
the liouordeaers to respect the law when the grand
uries refuse to Apd indictments. The TACT u.s. no
one seemed disposed to antagonize the saioonkeep-
ers purely for political or mercenary reasons
have been many stories current In the last doHeh
wears that the liquor dealers paid tribute to persons
ostensibly to the campaign fund and THIS money
paid b fST ne Se reign of nh the ring
their methods became notorioasy bold ana scan can
dalous They required dealers to receive pro,
lection. to purchase certain brands of liquors and
cigars, and pat onize favored brewers ana miner al
water e the s eeco s of she Toey
purer grand jures have been drawn, but the saloon
y juries have failed to indict the vioators of the
Sunday law
FOUR MEN GET THE EVIDENCE.
The last Grand Jury rendered about fifty indict-
ments against offenders. but the evidence was COL
lected wholly by officers sent out by county ohcais
The municipal authorities took no action Inc
nresent Grand Jury Is an excellent one. and Prose-
cutor Winfield sent out four agents last Sunday TO
collect evidence and ascertain the attitude OF the
| Grand Jury on the Sunday lquor-selling question
These four emissaries mace d tour of section OF
Jersey City and brought In evidence against forty-
| two saoonkeepers The evidence has been submit
ted to the Grand Jury and 1t is said that body has
| decided to find indictments.
| The Prosecutor Informed Tribune reporter tnat
he proposes to continue send out representatives.
on Sunday. His determination to act independently
of the municipal and town officials. and the ru-
mored nclina ton OF the Grand Jury to act have IN
\ duced the police to move and avoid the stigma OF
having local liquor-selers indicted on information
| supplied by special agents. -,
| II is said on good authority that the order mas
been issued to all The police captains that they VIII
be held to strict accountability for any Violations
| of the law in their respective precincts The erect
of this order will be that the saioonkeepers VIII De
| tfatiied to close next Sunday. The order OF the
point to dry Sunday in Jersey City.