New-York tribune., 1907-12-23

Charles Blaney. had a moving pio'uie ,a,..5 70
..+ea cong performance, which was a a4Ao
,,,g,re after the police arrested tfie
80. seller and operator Of the Fi0'"io
bine The Novelty Theatre. owned pS
,I..,,,.,,s gave an entire vaudeville perioriaioo
/" .,o~ .s well as the evening, and was
-, ;nterfered with by the police as theie
= dancing At No. 604 Broadway lhe po-
,,o of the Clyrner street station arres.eu Ao
,,n, FTalpern and Joseph SiiVerstelh' 'ai
60, with operating moving picture es'apis
ment ,s+ratas
In the police courts the seFeraI iiiae''''
ssis that never had they been csiiea up'
-aes Judgment on many drunks as M
,sta ,,crtersav They said that fearing the .oiue
7s,v zuould close the saloons, men relhalieu Ia
,bem until they were unable to leave ana were
then led TO the street. "lefe 'o3
by the police
several cle-gvrr1en touched on the opening OF
.ha Sunday theatres in their sermons yesterday.
Among them was the Rev. #. NJ. Foster pastor
of the Third Reformed Presbyterian Church anu
chairman of the interdenoniinationai coh1iili'ee
of the Clergy of New York for the Suppression
of Sunday Vaudeville.
..The n,ultitudes of the people Of this great
CITY" he said represented In the Board OF Al
dern1en voted out God and voted in Baai. Inc
sss,,e was straight and dearly defined-God or
no more be set aside by the Board of Aldermen
than the law of gravitation, and the penalty OF
the violation is equally sure And it is re-
,7arlSst1le coincidence that Commissioner Bing-
ham said the day after the Dou ordinance be
came law that this city is in the hands OF the
criminal classes. and he warned Christian peo-
pie to wake up
WORK FOR THE POLICE.
rou,s HT;cbaels Of No 1914 Madison avenue
the manager end ticket seller of the Nickelette
g moving picture show house at No 272 West
1ssth street was arrested last night charged
with violating the Sunday law. He was locked
ND in the West 125th street police station
Four pushcart pedIers who were selling
Christmas cards along Broadway were arrested
They were charged with violating the Sunday
law. but when arraigled in the Night Court
they were discharged by Magistrate Stelnert'
sjx Jewish painters were locked up by 1he
-,olioe of the Union Market station for working
on a house at No 81 East sth street When
they were arraigned before Magistrate Stelhert
,her said that they had observed SATURDAY as
,bei- Sabbath and thought that they had the
right IN work Yesterday. Magistrate Steiher'
discharged them.
There were only ffty-six arrests for aheseu
violation Of the excise law, according 10 'h7
precinct reports from all the horoughs suoiiii'-
ted to Police Headquarters last nlsHt' d.
against 1o1 a week ago. It was easy to ger :
drink IN all sections OF the town. The greatest
increase in the number Of arrests week ago
was in BROOKLYN. where thirty-eisn' were
made on that day, Yesterday in that ooronsh
,bere were less titan half that number. only fif-
teen arrests being made. a week ago there
were in Richmond. against 6 yesterday there
in, i
terdsy. The total week ago IN Manhattan
aud The Bronx uas 40 against 81 yesterday
on 2 charge of violating the Sunday law
Harry Scmansky manager of the American Hail.
%o s44 Eighth avenue, was arrested shortly
after midnight yesterday morning and the dance
stonped On orders of Captain o'Brien. of the
west s7th street station. Detective McGlynn
went there and made the arrest. When the
detective arraigned the manager in the night
court Magistrate Breen said. quoting from the
Corporation Counse1s opinion:
The questions Of the legality Of Sunday
dancing other than that the stage and roller
skating are now before the courts. Temporary
iniunctions against interfering with them have
been granted. Until they are set aside think
1t not better % interfere in such cases
. After an argument between the detective and
"a the magistrate as TO the Interpretation of the
law the manager was discharged.
NIGHT COURT KEPT BUSY.
In the night court up to midnight ninety-one
prisoners arraigned. Fifteen were charged
with violating the Sunday law. sixteen with in
roxication. three with vagrancy. fifty-four with
disorderly conduct and three with violating the
corporation ordinances. William Z. Murphy.
who is attached to Deputy Commissioner
Bugher's office, the bridge ready to
assist any policemen IL necessary.
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43e East 11th street. and twelve of his friends
arrested for shouting and disturbing the
peace All Of the men except Cuccia dis
charged, he being fined ten dollars for interfer-
ing with a policeman
Abe Newman and George Gsa, who were act
ing as managers Of moving picture show at
No 155 East Broadway, arrested last
night. According to the detectives soda was
Icing sold in front of the hall for five cents a
glass, the buyer Of a glass being entitled TO
seat in the show.
Samuel Truman. the manager Of a moving
picture show at No. s Bowery. was arrested.
charged with violating the Sunday law. Tru-
man had obtained injunction restraining
the police from interfering with his show, but
when the detectives saw the moving pictures
they disregarded the injunction.
Detectives stopped moving picture show al
No. 435 East Houston street. ordered fifty per-
sons out of the place and arrested the manager.
Joseph II. Goldstein, Of No 1851 Second
nue.. and Henry Hosin. of No. 6S5 Belmont ave-
A moving picture place at No. 1893 Second
avenue was cleared twice by the police last
night and in all four arrests were made. After
driving out the spectators shortly after O'Clock
the police arrested Benjamin Supple and VIII
tam McGierny, vho the police say, were sell
ing and taking tickets. About an hour later
the detectives found the place I'm full blast