New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-05-26
PREY OF THE SEA AND THE LAW.
RULE 30. CLIPPED FROM THE CHARTER.
SETTLES THE BUSINESS FOR CONEY
ISLAND SUNDAYS

The ocean may well go ahead and finish
| washing away Coney Island. Nobody will want
II any more and II stays 1t Will be only heart
breaking reminder OF happier days. It's days are
numbered and its doom will be accomplished.
The same laws against II have been enacted twice,
and all that is needed now is for the Police Board
10 enact them once more 10 make them operative.
In The Hunting Of the Shark" what the Bellman
said three times was true. and even so. when the
Legislature has said thing once and the Police
Boa I'd has said II twice no doubt II becomes a law.
provided the Governor and the Mayor have signed
# now and then in the time, Coney ISL
and would better be quiet and wait for the sea to
swallow II. and pray unused as II Is 10 the prac-
tice that the end may he sudden and painless
Oh thrice happy the elephant who was
burned and did not live TO see Coney Island pass
A Sunday in the peerless. fandangoess. singing
soubretteiess ingorous manner OF the rest Of the
Atlantic Coast
When the charter OF the present city Of New
York was framed the trainers Of 1t put in every
thing that they could think Of that could be used
afterward II II should ever seem necessary, TO an
nov and discourage the honest tradesmen of Coney
Island They provided that concert-halls should
not be open on Sunday. They provided that no
liquors should he for sale in them on Sunday. as
if il would make any difference whether liquors
were for sale or not II the places were not open
They provided that women should be employed
in such places walters. as If 1t would make any
difference whether women were employed as wait
ers or not II there was nobody 10 walt on and II
there was nothing TO serve. or course. the rule
oho,,t women as walters would apply TO week days
roo hut who cares what happens at Coney Island
On q week day? The poor man cannot go there
then and the rich man can 20 somewhere else.
They simply put all the rods they could find in
,oLle 70 he taken out whenever anybody in
mover might happen TO feel a grudge against
Se r;,lers of the city-hat is 10 say. Of the police
Hsnnly the police force OF the EXPANDED city was
eOOe RIee the Chief nor anybody else Connected
with il thought OF dlstuID'hs an! Do1y uiGer
made the conditions. 50 that there was no trouble
any 1t tbs day before yesterday. goodness knows
,,haf Coney Island had done to the Police Board,
, is clear what the Police Board did 10 Coney
DdI "a some member Of II looked up all the laws
in the Charter which were PaTueu, ,T aimed al
lain They just picked out the rules about con
cert halls changed around ne " Sns 'te pli
fbn new batch Rule 90 They must have been
awfu angry 70 S do ha meant anyhhS ba w PeT
tbev re-enacted the old ones II meant business DID
you see the y9u have hefed It in your hand
ne 5oubt But did you ever try to find anything in
Wen N0' ANYBODY takes hold and finds something In
the Charter you may Know that ne nae terrible
or,dge against somebody. and is willing 10 spend
ssi,ne and patience In satisfying It. The Police
Board knew well that NOBODY "o , ever ma any
IEok tn NJ co,lS be found when they were wanted
wanted The single has been taken down from
behind the door Let the children OF Coney Island
Hev,ere one more enactment OF the same laws.
and then--turn away your eyes; you could not
bear IL. ,..-...
But do these laws apply TO Manhattan? All.
that depends how the police apply them; Con-
cert halls In Manhattan are open every sunday
night, and plays are acted In them. The laws IN
the Charter have never seemed 10 have much TO
do with H. And the laws older than the Char
ter too. But the principle Of Tammany always
was: Let enforce a citys laws, and we care
not who make them or what they make Tam
many is not to be questioned IN these things Us
business is for the most part private business. Let
the flow over Coney Island and let 1t be
sweet memory.