The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-31
CITY IS GETTING GOOD
S1ANY ARRESTS MADE FOR SUNDAY
 VIOLATIONS.
Dice Game Raided, Four Saloons Pinch cd, and MOtOrman Arrested for Overlapping Sunday Speed
 Limit Near Churches.

Montgomery Is rapidly becoming a "good town" from the reformer's view point. If the record yesterday is kept up, Montgomery will rank in the class of Birmingham and Atlanta as a closed town.
 A raid on alleged crap shooters. in which seven men were arrested, the ar- rest of four barkeepers charged with violating the Sunday liquor selling law, the arrest of a motorman and a conduc- tor for running their cars so fast that 1t disturbed religious worship, are po- lice incidents of a quiet Sunday in Montgomery.
 Barring the weather. Montgomery was a dry town yesterday. In other words, the saloon men had been tipped off that there should be nothing do- ing" in the liquor-selling line during the day Some of them. 1t Is said, re- fused to take the kindly tip. As a re- suit, four arrests were made. de- cided change has come over the admin lstration of the Sunday-closfng law now in the City Code. Yesterday was the third dry Sunday. And t may be said that the town was dry to all intents and purposes
 \ Some of the regular customers of the )various saloons, men who pride them tselves on the ropes boasted that they eould get the stuff. The boast may have been true, but so far as the av- Jerage man was concerned. the saloons ! were closed, and nothing was to De had. Times had changed. There was no walking in a saloon, sitting at table and ordering whatever was wanted. In fact, the average man yesterday could get nothing stronger than a glass of water. If the knowing ones had the ear of the barkeeper. they had secret that the average man had not learned.
 Special officers went about investi- gating places in which 1t was supposed A drink could be bought on sunday. Officers Thompson and Thomas had the work in hand. They were dressed Tn citizens clothes and the badge of their authority was concealed beneath the lapel of their coat. They made most of the arrests that were docketed in the police court.
 Undoubtedly, great Sunday changes have been working in Montgomery. Just what has suddenly brought them about has not been made clear
 Those arrested were negro waiter in the safe and saloon of John Yung; Charlie Sowell, bartender for the Mecca Saloon and Restaurant; A. J. COX, par tender for the Windsor bar, and the bartender for G. Lippman.
 Ran Fast by Church.
 Motorman C. A. Sheally and Conduc- tor w. J. Townsend of the Montgomery Street Railway Company learned sud- denly last night that the city ordinance forbidding noises which disturb public worship was not a dead letter.
 The two street car men realized the change in things when several promi- nent members of the Dexter Avenue Methodist Church stood up before Ser seant Miles Smith at police headquar- ters and charged them with running street car too noisily and too rapidly by that church. The street car men were a little bit dazed by the charge Although the ordinance had been on the law books of the city for several months no arrests had been made un- der its provisions. It so happened that they were the first car men to be taken up and used as the basis of test case
 The law provides that in passing any church while religious worship Is in progress no street car shall go faster than four miles an hour. Practically