The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-08
SUNDAY AMusEMENTs.


other of the resorts of the county 1t
seems that at the June meeting of the
association the subject was Informally
discussed. 1t Is a question as to wheth-
err the association could accomplish
much in the direction of limit ng the
amusements if il should undertake TO
do so. The most 1t could hope to do
would be to keep them within legal and
proper bounds. What these bounds are
could of course be easily determined.
AS long as the amusements are inno-
cent in themselves it would be difficult
to arouse a public sentiment hostile to
them. Steadily but surely there is
growing liberality in regard to recrea-
| lions on Sunday. AS to whether or not
this condition of affairs is to be APP
proved is a question concerning which
there is of course a great difference of
opinion. 1t can be said in favor OF
such amusements that Sunday is the
only day in the week in which the great
majority of the parents of any city
have leisure to visit resorts with their
children. 1t has become a custom now
| in the summer season for those who live
in cities to spend the whole or a part
| of Sunday at a resort outside OF the
city limits. In this city on Sunday aft
ernoons entire families 60 to some one
of the resorts, generally to Thunderbolt,
| because it is more easily reached than
any of the others, and they find more
| there to entertain the little folks.
| The Sunday excursion business has
grown to enormous proportions in all
parts Of the country. Every Sunday
there is an immense outpouring from
| New York city, and 1t is probable that
some of the amusements at the resorts
to which New Workers go are not quite
| in keeping with the character of the
J day But because some evil things are
done, should thousands of people be
deprived of innocent pleasure on the
only day on which such pleasures are
possible for them?
But If there were a movement in
| dugurated to keep the people in their
| homes on Sundays, or at least to per-
NIT them only such recreation as is TO
be obtained from walk in the parks or
short distance into the country, 1t is
doubtful if it would be popular. There
is demand for Sunday that is differ
ent from the Sunday of the days OF
the blue laws. 1t is not meant by this
that there should be lax enforcement.
of laws that were enacted for the pub
lie good, but that there is permitted by
public sentiment greater freedom in
harmless amusements.
1t is worthy of notice that for the
first time Sunday trains are permitted
to stop at Asbury Park, on the New
Jersey coast, this summer. Heretofore
trains were not permitted to stop with
in a mile OF that place on Sunday.
This is only one instance of conces-
sions that are being made by those who
have heretofore insisted upon a strict
observance of Sunday to those who be-
| lieve in greater freedom in the matter
of recreation and pleasure on that day
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The situation in the mining districts
of Cripple Creek, Independence and
Victor, Col, is acute. Terror reigns in.
the camps. Life is not safe. Blood
shed has come to be of almost daily
and nightly occurrence. Troops have
been on duty at the camps for a con-
siderable time, but they do not seem
to be able to prevent outrages and
preserve the peace. The internal ma
chine incident at the Independence
mines on Monday was one of the most
dastardly outrages in the criminal his
tory of the country. 1t seems that il
| certain element has determined to rule
or ruin, and in pursuance of that pol
Icy stops at no sort of crime. That
the reign of lawlessness cannot, and
will not be permitted to continue is
assured. But how to put en- end to it
is a serious problem. In all probability
| there will be considerably more blood
shed. The Iaw-supporting element
| seems to have become thoroughly arous-
ed. The difficulty, it will be recalled,
| grew out of a labor dispute, the merits
| of which have become somewhat OBJ
secured in the public mind by the deeds
| Of violence that have resulted.
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The Cesar" Young tragedy in New
| 1OTk DldS AdlT " utNclOp one OIL the
most sensational cases that has shocked
| and at the same time delighted the
/ great city for some months. New York
| dearly loves murder story, and this
| present day Mystery of q Hanson
| Cab" discounts that narrative by Fer
| gus Hume of the same title. Did
| Young commit suicide? Many people
| think not, and there is certain evidence
that tends to support that belief. Did
the woman shoot him? There is moth
| ing to show that she did, and her con-
| duct at the time was not that of a
woman with blood on her hands. Did
a third party, a man, kill him? 1t
| may have been so, though there is no
evidence of that fact; merely a rea-
sonable suggestion under the circum-
stances. At all events 1t is a fine murder
story, that will be digested with coffee
and rolls for some days to come.
|
Hannah Elias, the negress whom the
aged John r. Plat has sued, in New
York. to recover nearly 100000 which
he alleges the woman extorted from
him by blackmail, has given state
| ment TO the authorities, in which, II is
understood, she swears that every dol
lar she received from Plat was given
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