The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-04-24
M'CILL ON HIMSELF
Police Board President De-
fines His Attitude on
Art and Adver-
tising.
WHERE he DIFFERS FROM HARRISON
Anyway Whiskey and Corset
Figures Are All Right,
But the High Kick.
ers Must Stay
Good.
WHERE he DIFFERS FROM HARRISON

DR.. McGill is out for blood. He says the
crusade against Objectionable posters is
to be kept up to the last kick. A News
reported this morning asked him if he had
grown tired of his crusade; if the unex-
pected developments had made him sorry
that he stopped one day last week and
gazed at the attractions displayed by the
Bon Ton Theatre on the bill boards. He
said:-
Il shall not recede one step from the
position have taken against indecent
posters, not only theatrical, but all kinds.
shall exhaust every means in my power
TO remove that which in any way will un-
favorably affect the morals of the COM
munity, and especially the youth of the
city. All such matter should be and will
be ruthlessly torn down and destroyed ii
necessary. Any one who has an idea that
/ small grow tired is very much mistaken.
I shall keep it up until the crack of doom.
If I am on the Board for five years
there will be no let up until unqualified
success attends our efforts. And if the po-
lice grow tired I shall prode them up 10
renewed activity.
am in favor of suppressing every
thing illustrating the nude in art. Of
approval of Brother Harrison, but then
he is an artist of ability and he can see
the artistic where see but the objection
able. Everything that creates a sug-
gestive thought in any one, especially the
young, should be cast aside and with
held from public view. OF course, a pic
ture of a person of either sex in the nude
provided the pose is a natural one does
not create suggestiveness. But even that
should not be too fiagrantly displayed
Would you consider the picture adver-
fising Wilson whiskey objectionable?''
mo. There might be some objection
from temperance advocates, but 1 see
nothing suggestive in it. Then we can
hardly get at those pictures or the pic
lures of the women put out in stores to
advertise cameo cigarettes. We hardly
consider any of that class of picture as
anything more than pernicious.''
DR.. McGiu said that If the theatres or
bill posters insisted upon posting bills
that he considered Objectionable ne
would have the police tear them down.
The Wilson whiskey picture shows two
young and shapely women in the act of
drinking nightcap just before retiring.
They are dressed in transparent night
gowns so arranged that every line of
their forms are distinctly shown.
The cameo cigarette picture shows a
woman in a scant bathing suit in the act
of diving into the ocean. It is excessively
suggestive.
Now the billboards are decorated with
McGillified pictures of women whose chief
raiment is a special brand of concert.
The poster shows the upper part of the
wearer's back and shoulders. 1t has
been McGillifed so that now the shapely
back and shoulders are hidden behind a
strip of papers which completely covers
that portion of the figure.
Mr.. James O'Mealia, the bill poster.
when seen this morning about what ac-
ton he would take were DR.. McGill's idea
of tearing down and destroying the pos
ters carried out, said:-
This matter does not concern me at
the boards and the police have had no
complaints whatever to make against
E1y manner of doing business 1 am al
ways anxious TO help any movement that
tends to better the condition of the city
and the people.
Chief Murphy considers the incident
closed so far as further discussion is con-
cerned. he is determined to carry out the
ideas OF Or. MeGill to the letter.
An incident at the Schubert Glee Clubs
concert last night showed the attitude of
the community toward DIR. McGills cru
sade When Miss Shannah Cumming ap-
peared in rathe low cut bodice gentle
for several of those near him to hear
Where is DIR. McGill?''