New-York tribune., 1903-07-05

SOME SUNDAY CONTRASTS.
Hoe Ne5c-York Differs from Bos-
ton in Observance of Day.

The Boston man, having arrived in New-York,
rubbed his eyes sadly and contemplated the ami
mated scene about him.
And this is Sunday" he murmured softly
'~They do things differently in Boston"
Come said his friend, '1et us go and take a
drink just for luck, to show there's hard
feeling"
AS the couple strolled into Raines law hotel
thu Boston man gazed meditatively at the con-
ventional sandwich and said softly:
Tell me- there isn't any mistake is there?
didn't sleep all the way over to Monday. did I?'
No" said the New Yorker, smilingly. Not
that; but ycu see, you have exchanged a pro-
yincIal and Puritan city for a cosmopolitan
tropolis"
Well" said the Boston man. lin that case. let
US take another drink and then I'll go back to
Boston"
The Boston man departed, and his New-York
guide. taking a seat in cool corner, meditated
OIL Sunday as she is observed in Gotham
This morning" said he, after breakfast,
had an Illegal shave in a barber shop that was
open, in defiance Of law. Then 1 purchased
some cigars at tobacco store, doing big bust
ness III spite Of the Sunday law. Now. I must
decide whether I had better take an afternoon
of ana so fishing. thus indulging in a little run
In with the statute on the subject of public
sports or go down to Coney and take little
dance, incidentally smashing another State law"
But the doubt was finally dissipated by the
entrance of a crony who proposed in blithe tones:
"Come ahead up to The Bronx! We're going to
have a little BAH game"
And the polce?' quered the first.
They can't touch US now. Haven't you seen
that Magistrate Deuel. has decided that ball
games on Sunday 0. X. when no admission
IS charged and there is no rough house or
racket?' SO they went up to The Bronx and
played ball, and at night the Boston mans guide
retired with the knowledge Of having violated at
least half dozen State laws and enjoyed
lively Sunday.
Up in Boston, where the soda fountain is
looked upon with suspicion and the sale of al
Coholic beverages is viewed with disfavor and
guarded with the most stringent care, the tale
OF j Sunday in New-York would suggest the
immediate repetition Of the doom which de
scended on Sodom and Gomorrah. But the New
Yorker views it differently. In Boston there is
a thirst that settles over the Hub" like pail of
gloom at II o'clock on Saturday night After
that hour il is harder to get a drink in Bean
town than a passport in Macedonia Sunday
baseball is a thing unknown and the mild and
harmless excursion to Nantasket or City Point
is a form Of amusement that carries with it the
certain unge Of iconoclastic debauch
What, then, the privileges that rest with
the citizen Of this metropolitan ola burg" of
NeW-Iork? What can the people do who either
pay their religious devor in the morning or
not at all?
First OF all, there is fishing
L think there are at least fifty thousand peo-
pie in the boroushs of this city that every week
break the Sunday fishing and hunting prohibi-
ton" said an old police sergeant who spent
the Tammany regime on the shores of The
Bronx. sunday after Sunday the same crowd
PUSHES to the piers, the shores and the rowboats
You viii see them sitting the whole day long