The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-08-19
TAMB0URINES
IN CHANCERY
Tradesmel Petition to Stop
Salvation Army Service
Downtown.
INJUNCTION CASE IN COURT
Complaint That "Alleged
Praying and Music" Draws
Crowds and interiors
With Business.
INJUNCTION CASE IN COURT

The Court of Chancery was asked To-
day to suppress that branch of the Sal
walton Army which assemblies nightly at
the corner of Montgomery and Warren
street to the delight of many, edilication
of some and disgust of others.
The '.others9 are storekeepers and
business men generally who complain
that their peace of mind is rudely dis
turbed and their business seriously in
jured by the alleged praying and alleged
religious services of the Hallelujah las
sizes armed with cymbals, cornets, drums
and tambourines Every night The "sel-
diers" gather and with them the tagilg
hpodlum element of the neighborhood.
So dense is the crowd that goods IN view
in the stores can't be seen, and when a
customer does manage perhaps, at he
expense of rifed pocket or broken rib,
to squeeze through the crowd into store
his orders can't be heard by the shop
keeper because of the din and racket out
side
MERCHANTS COMBINE.
Exasperated at this state of things
the Davis Tailoring Company, which has
a large clothing store on the northeast
corner of the streets mentioned; Edward
Perlberg, who lives opposite; Anton
Skantze, who runs a sign store near by,
and Charles Eauyania, who conducts a
fruit emporium on another corner, in.
structed Lawyer Myron Ernst to draw
up a petition for an injunction to stop
the nuisance and this being done was
presented to Vice Chancellor Stevenson
today.
KNOTTY PROBLEM THIS.
aHumDh,' said the Vice Chancellor,
stroking his beard refectively. His
Honor was evidently revolving in his ju-
dicial mind the possibility of the Sal
vation Army lassies appearing in Cham
Gerry Chambers on return day and intro
ducing Salvation Army methods into the
hearing. Read your affidavits.
The lawyer proceeded The Davis Tail
oring Co. set up that they had $4,000
invested in the store and since the SAL
vationists had approved their business
had been affected because customers
couldn't get through the crowd to buy
UP the bargains. Some say that they
couldn't see the goods in the windows
and it was utterly impossible to- con-
verse with them owing to the noise out
side.
COULDN'T ENTERTAIN FRIENDS.
Anton Skantze complained that his
family couldn't entertain any friends be-
cause Of the noise and the paint mer-
chant utterly objected to the hoodlums
looking his store of peanut bananas and.
apples, a clear invasion of the traditional
rights of the cop.
s.They are a nuisance, SIR said the
lawyer, and they ought to be suppressed.
Their alleged praying and alleged music
collects crowds which block up Nthe en-
frances to the stores and interferes with
trade and we ask for an injunction.
The Vice Chancellor said he would de-
eide what order to make by September z.
GENEROUS OFFER.
Capt" Brigadier General or Go" ;"
Annie Wilson. as she is varously called,
thinks it is a fine state of things that
tie Army can't worship as it sees hit in a
free country.
1--WE will go before the judge and give
him a sample Of our service, and he will
see it Use all right. No, we won't have a
lawyer, but wen pray for them"