Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-02

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War ON Sunday Base Ball Players.
The raids by tho police upon the young
men and boys who. being compelled to
work for their lvings on the week days,
endeavor on Sunday afternoons to enjoy
themselves in games Of base ball on New
york and Brooklyn vacant lots. go merrily
on. In the meantime, a responsible man,
VINO never presents exaggerated figures,
states that more than 1000 gin mills were
In full blast In New York and Brooklyn on
Sunday last. and that Of these not moro
than one-half made any sort of pretenSo
whatever of upholding the excise law.
similarly, on Sunday last. Just as on week
Gays. fully eighty outfits were in operation
In New York's Tenderloin, In which the
searcher for that sort of excitement could
get any old game on the catalogue from
fan-tan to faro and from mustang to
monte. Public tennis courts all over upper
New York were a-going. Golf was support
ed on all the links from Van Cortiandt
Park to those Of Long Island. Mixed-al0
orgies were going on on vacant lots all the
way from 18th avenue across to avenue A.
The garish joints of Broadway were alb
sorbing and issuing their crowds OF gaudy
Tenderloin revelers And still the young
SterS whose week a-day lives are made up
of Enlightened toll are on every Sunday
dragged of to the police stations because
they try to have a bit OF fun tossing and
batting sphere and sliding around the
bases-and none of them has as yet been
proven guilty of having tried to play the
game with "kag'' of free beer ON tap to
the players on the lot. So 1t seems that
consistency is jewel that is never destined
to adorn the brow of old New York.
A few Of the more obscure members OF
the Protestant clergy have had the nerve
to come out with declarations that Sunday
afternoon base ball isn't such a hopelessly
vicious thing for young men who have the
grace to want to keep away from the gin
mill and other bad associations on that
day, but, curiously enough, the only genu-
Inc fight that is being made against the au-
thorities on the Sunday base ball question
is being put up by members Of the Roman
Catholic clergy Of New York The Paulists
have been especially energetic In their de-
tense OF the decency Of permitting the lads
to enjoy in manly and bodily improving
way the one afternoon that they have to
themselves There are signs that Bishop
Potter is likely to come around to the lads
thing may happen, for Bishop Potter has
grown into potential municipal power
during the past two or three years.
Anent w. K. Vanderbilt's Marriage.
The recent marriage abroad Of William
K. Vanderbilt had one circumstance In con-
nection with it which has already caused q
stampede among about an even dozen Of
highly placed and very wealthy gentlemen
and their ladies-who were married in
Europe under circumstances similar to
those of Mr.. Vanderbilt.
1t will be recalled by those who read the
details of these nuptials Of the wealthy
that few days before Mr.. Vanderbilt's
marriage he had the precaution taken Of
instructing his lawyer to go before Judge
of the supreme court of the state Of New
York for the purpose Of obtaining remis-
sion of the prohibition which the court
placed upon Mr.. Vanderbilt's marrying
again at the time of his divorce from his
first wife-now Mrs o. H. P. Belmont.
These remissions are to be obtained upon
the presentation to the court Of the fact
that the applicant has lived a proper life
and conducted himself in seemly manner
for a period of five years after the grant
ing of his divorce. The reason why Mr..
Vanderbilt had the wisdom to gain the lift
Ing of the prohibition was that he feared
his marriage in Europe might not be recog-
niZed as legal in the state of New York
until the formality had been gone through
with.
Now, there are about dozen well-known
and wealthy gentlemen in New York who,
being in the same position as to their d.
vorces at the time they were married
abroad as Mr.. Vanderbilt, neglected,
usually through ignorance or forgetfulness
of the law, to obtain the lifting Of the
prohibition against their second marriage,
and the reason why these gentlemen--and
their ladies-have been in a state of panic
since the publication of that detail Of the
prelimfnaries to Mr.. Vanderbilt's marriage
is that they really don't know whether
they are now legally married or not. Some
good lawyers are of the opinion that they
are not legally married, and that the only
thing for them to do to rest their minds Ia
to get the lifting of the prohibition Of their
marriages from a supreme court Judge now
and then go right away and be married
again. C.. L. G.