The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-27
PICKET A BROKEN SABBATH.
PLASTERERS' UNION AND POLICE
FARE HiRDLI

The sabbath was DTDken III 10 DllS III
Thompson 4 Dundy's new Hippodrome
building Yesterday. A gang Of 200 or 300
workmen toiled all day, in spite OF dozen
outraged cops and about twenty pious
pickets from the Plasterers' Union. The
cops and the pockets kept up the work ali
day. but with no effect upon certain heretics
who have broken away from this particular
union.
The International Plasterers there are
several more initials in their official title)
are the orthodox. Simon-pure faithful.
without whose fold no laborer in the vineyard
or elsewhere can hope to be saved The
pasterers who work for Thompson *
Dundy have a union OF their own. but It
Is an heretical union Some time ago the
ntenationals cast them out Tempted by
the money power through an offer of double
time. the hcretics began TO work on Srn-
days
Thompson DunAy are trying to get
their building finished in time for the open
ing on March H. A little figuring con-
WINGED them last month that it coulcn'
be done without some Sunday work.
Sunday a week ago, the intornationals
learned that the heretics were breaking
that strict law Of New York which ordains
that the only work which may be peri ormed
on Sunday is work OF charity or great
emergency. Mortified clear down to the
quick, they informed the police.
In vain Thompson & Dundy maintained
tnat the opening Of a high class. moral and
educative show Is a work of charity On
Sunday week ago Gordon of bluecoats
swept down on the Hippodrome. Thomp-
son 4 Dundy saw them first When the
police arrived the hammers and trowels
we're going merrily within. but every en-
trance was locked and barred Without
warrant the police can't break down a door
IN making an arrest for Sunday law VIOLA
ton The pickets fingered and fingered.
waiting for the heretcs to come out and be
pinched at lunch time.
They waited IN vain The heretlcs, in
epired hv the devili-h cunning of the money
power had brought their lunch with them
AT o'clock when the workmen came out.
the cops caught three who looked small
and easy and hailed them into court. II was
no go. The police hadn't seen them work
ing There was no evidence,
Yesterday they were all there again
the police, the pckets and the peryerters of
religion In an alley near by were ten
gentlemen of the working classes whose
dress and department We're such as TO in
dCate that they were an entertainment COM
mttee. In shanty just outside the Hip
podrome a timekeeper was working buslly
over his books, but no one thought OF pinch
ing him for violating the Sabbath. He
is not union man, and the best theological
authorities agree that he who ha7 never
seen the light il not accountable for sin.
30 the police and the plckets walked 10y him
twenty times and took no notice.
Peaceful industry relgned among the
mathematical heretcs within. Anathe-
matized heretics isn't exactly what the
pckets called them although their Ian
guage in referring 10 the heretics was full
of theological words. Tho heretics ham
mered on. Ever and anon one of them
laid down his hammer. poked his head out
of the window, pressed his thumb 70 his
nose and wiggled his fingers at the cops
who took it out on him by making the
crowd move on.
suddenly door on Forty-thrd street
opened The constabulary rushed TO that
entrance. The entertainment committee.
which had been holding services and buying
free sandwiches al cate near by, hurried
TO the scene.
out came boy. a ruddy little lad Of four
teen or so, bearing two empty pals. The
face of the strongest man benched al this
evidence Of depravity. not content with
aiming SO greyously themselves, the here
tics had tempted this mere child.
II was the water boy Of the heretcs,
going forth TO rush the growler.
Was he pulled? BY fourteen cops at once,
So many claimed the honor that they had
10 draw lots TO see who should take him up
10 the Fifty first street station aud thence
10 court. On the way. a delegation from
the entertainment committee accompanied
him and tired TO awaken MS sluggish young
conscience in language culled from the
proper names Of scripture and the canons
Of the Mosaic law.
Court wasn't out vet; and the malefactor
got swift justice.
What we need most. the pickets agreed
after the trial. il an awakened conscience
on the bench. Sam Parks was sent 10
dungeon. n martyr to Faith This male
factor, fresh from his offence against re-
ligion. was set free to be by plague spot
in the body polite
The water boy was back with his pals
foaming and trimming by lunch time
Inspired by the wiles of Satan, the heretics
had good time over that lunch.
Several Of the workmen had brought pie
In their full dinner pals. The pie supply
was Communicated, and part OF the work
sat IN the upper windows Of the Hippo
drome with their legs dangling, and ate
their luncheon.
The pickets who by that time were full
OF excise law sandwiches stood IN the stree
and harangued them. The men IN the win
dows paid not the slightest bit Of attention;
but went On munching sandwiches and
hitting the water pail
Presently. a roundsman sauntereo under
the windows and plasterer oil l4nerrlnR
aim dropped a whole five cent custard PIE
1t fen fair and true toward his helmet
Look out copl" yelled picket
The roundsman lifted his face TO look,
and plump II landed, and mingled with
his mustache and framed bis face in pie
crust Even the pickets laughed The
roundsman made six spectators and a
teamster g'wan before he recovered his
temper.
All about the same time the pasterers
on the Sixth avenue side managed to get
up an argument with a young and jealous
policeman. He'd just opened his mouth
10 talk back. when zip came segment OF
apple pie, hurled by the reven geful water
boy Il landed in the place where pie IS
supposed TO land but not so much at
one time The other cops pounded him
on the back until he felt better. and the
unregenerate plasterers upstairs cheered
madly. a.,
For the rest Of the day the police did
their parolling in the middle of the street
In the afternoon the young and Jealous
policeman with the taste Of pie stu in
his mouth had an idea. He espied an
entrance which appeared to be IN locked
1t was partly covered by scafold de
sneaked 10 that entrance and crept IN: a
long passage led him into the scene lott.
A scene loft is a kind of mystic maze
al any time. but when it is laced all over
with scafoding and beams and bridges
it is chaos. The cop crept on his HANDS
and knees across shaky plank bridges