The Jersey City news., 1906-07-09
BISHOPS BILL In
FORCE YESTERDAY
As Saloonkeepers With One
Exception Kept It's Pro-
visions Rigidly the Church
Element Claims a Victory
CHIEF MURPHY PLEASED

LAW WAS NOT VIOLATED AND.
PRAISES sALooNMEN - PAT
RICK McARDLE SAYS THE CITY
LOST $4,000
New Jersey yesterday got its first
taste of the Sunday closing movement
under the new Excise Law. which went
Into effect July 4. With the exception
of Atlantic City, the State was dry from
one end to the other. In Jersey City no
such drought has been known for years.
While the local police have always kept
the traffic on Sundays pretty well under
control. it was generally conceded last
night that Jersey City had never known
such dry Sunday. Patrick McArdle'
one of the oldest and best known liquor
dealers in the city, a former president
of the Hudson County Liquor Dealers
Association, and wholesaler as well as
8 retailer, said yesterday
Il don't care to be interviewed on this
subject Some how my name gets in the
papers too often to suit me, but you can
report me as saying that in all the for
ty-two years that have done business
in this city / never saw such a dry Sun
day. l estimate that the new law has
driven at least $4,000 out of this town
to-day, and that estimate does not in
clude the money spent by those who are
taking their usual Sunday outings witS
their families at the various summer re-
sorts. What's more. this is going to
continue every Sunday until the new law
is passed upon one way or another"
Chief of Police Murphy, who is push
ing the new law TO the letter, said yes
terdoy:-'I am greatly pleased with the
faN-abiding spirit of the saloon proprie-
tors. In almost every instance they have
complied with the law, so far as closing
up on Sundays is conceraed. This law
is to be rigidly. enfonced in this city. But
those who refuse to obey the clause of
the law prescribing that the interior of
the saloons shall be exposed to view will
have to suffer the consequences"
Some of these obstinate saloon people
who have been advised by counsel that
they need not remove their costly cabinet
work and stained glass windows, until
the Excise Board passes resolution or
dering such screens down, may find them
selves up tree All We have got to
do is to enforce the law as we find it,
and that law will be enforced if we have
TO break in with an axe
Up to last evening but one arrest had
been made for selling liquor on Sunday.
That was made against Joseph Friend,
whose saloon can be seen from the win
dows Of Police Headquarters on the third
floor of the City Hall. Mr.. Friend de-
elared he was taking the beer from his
saloon to his private apartments above,
but the police arrested three men on the
second floor of the building who were
held as witnesses. Later on Detective
Sergeant Larkins and Patrolmen Wolf
and O'Connor arrested Edward J. Re-
hill. for selling liquor in his saloon at
No. 147 Academy street. This was at
1890 P. NJ. Larkins. Wolf and O'Con-
nor subsequently arrested Theodore
Beekman, of No. 532 Mercer street on
the same charge.
At 1925 p NJ. Captain Kelly and De-
tective- Sergeant Noble arrested James
Waylett, a former president of the Hud-
son County Liquor Dealers Association,
for keeping disorderly house" in sell
dng liquor and beer in an adjoining place.
Waylett had also been reported for failure
to expose the interior of his saloon to
the public. Outside of these arrests for
violations of the excise laws in regard
N Sunday selling the police reported
thirty-six saloon keepers who refused %
obey the order to expose the interior of
their saloons to public view. These were
as follower:
Hugh Meehan, Brunswick and Mercer
streets; Hugh Meehan, Washington and
Sussex streets; Thomas Pendergast,
York and Brunswick streets; Owen
Monohan, No. 1923 Warren street; Barry
& Gilmore. No. 81 Greene street; Patrick
O'Brien, York and Warren streets;
James O'Brien, No. 210 Railroad ave-
nue.; Taos. Vetalle, No. 240 Railroad ave-
nue.; Denis Cronan, 2s7 Grove street;
Thomas Pendergast, No. 298 Grand
street; John Hindley. No. 2o4 Duncan
avenue, no light In salocn and screens
and obstructions not removed from doors
and windows Transparent glass in
windows, Casey Brorhers, No. IT'S st.