Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-07-09


to lay in supply of liquor or beer on
Saturday found that there was no
way of getting it yesterday. Their
erstwhile friends, the saloon keepers,
were impervious to all arguments
and simply informed the would be
customers that they were obeying the
law and they expected others to do
likewise. AS a result there was
large exodus all day of Jerseymen to
Coney Island and other places.
Effect Is Problematical.
Just what the effect of the new law
is going to be is as yet problematical.
The general understanding among sa-
loon keepers to respect the law is said
to be founded on a desire to give the
people a genuine taste of what pro-
hibition on Sunday means, and also to
place themselves in position where
they can with good grace demand the
enforcement of all the old blue
laws on the statute books of the state
prohibiting all kinds of business and
traffic on the first day of the week.
An approximate estimate of the
losses sustained by the saloon keep
ers and hotel men in the cities were
liauor has usually been permitted to
be sold places the amount as follows:
Jersey City, $4,000; Hoboken, $4O,-
900; North Hudson. $25,000; New
ark, $75,OOO; Bayonne, $4,000!
Paterson, $4,000; Passaic, $4,000;
Orange, 100000; New Brunswick,
$4,000; Trenton, $4,000; Camden,
$4,000; Long Branch, $4,000; AS
bury Park, $4,000; Elizabeth, $1O,-
600; total, $S45,OOO.
1t was through the combined et-
forts of the bishops of New Jersey,
irrespective of creed, that the new
law was enacted by the late legisla-
ture. The contest was bitter and eX-
citing, but the bill passed, and its op-
erations as law began on July a,
Yesterday being the first Sunday un-
der the act.
The important features of the Dill
are the increase in the license feesi
the prohibition against giving or sell
ing liouor to minors under the age OF
twenty-one years and the removal oi
all screens and barriers from front
and Side windows on Sundays. The
penalty for violation of the law Is I'M
prisonment or fine for keeping dis
orderly house, and the stigma at
tached to conviction for the last
offense is regarded as the main rea-
son for the saloon keepers so unani-
mousIy agreeing to obey the act.
Wet in Atlantic City.
Atlantic City being the only mu-
nicipality which apparently ignored
the act so far as the removal oi
screens is concerned, will, 1T Is be-
lieved. endeavor to test the constitu-
tionality of the law. While many oil
the visitors to the big resort laid III
supplies of liquor on Saturday in an
ticipation of "dry" Sunday, they
found yesterday that their precau'
tions we're unnecessary. Screens
and curtains were not removed IRON
the windows of the barrooms. The
liouor dealers had consulted counse
in the matter and their attorney hao
advised them that the new law die
NOT require the removal of screens OF
curtains in hotels which have ter
rooms or more, and that that sector
bof the law applied to ordinary sa
looms only.
AS most of the saloons in Atlantl'
l City claim to be in the hotel busl
ness the proprietors of thirst parior'
were practically unanimous In as
suming the exemption applied t.
them. A survey of Atlantic avenue
Yesterday and the hotel sections
where bars are the most plentiful dit
not reveal any change from condi
tions existing on Sundays heretofore
Every saloon had its interior screen
ed from view from the sidewalk. Pa
vilions at the Inlet did the usual Sun
day business.
In Jersey City, Hoboken and tn
| towns in the northerly section 0
Hudson county no Sunday was eve
known like yesterday. Even "Lltti
Coney island was closed. In HOBO
ken the day was ushered in at mia
night with the footing of horns AM
the explosion of fireworks as the sa
looms closed their front doors for tn
first time in their history