The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-08
BLUE SUNDAY" FOR
 NEW YORK CITY All Places of Amusement Are
 Ordered Closed THEATRES WILL OBEY LAW Blanket Order Is Issued By Commis- sioner Bingham In Carrying Out
 Courts Decision-BrookIyn
 Gets Out Injunction.
THEATRES WILL OBEY LAW

New York. December IA blue Sun day" is promised New York tomorrow. literal enforcement of an old but not seriously regarded statute under a new interpretation will deprive New York's millions of any form of public entertain ments put them upon their own resources for amusement for 24 hours at least, and perhaps for many Sundays to come. Or ders for q strict enforcement of Justice OGorman's recent decision in regard to the closing of all places of amusement on the Sabbath were issued today by Police Commissioner Bingham, and all New York will go home tonight to await it's first experience with a Sunday with out it's accustomed amusements.
 Commissioner Bingham's orders to IS in spectors. who were called together to re- ceive instructions, call for rigi. enforce ment of the law, and clamps the cover of strict suppression on all forms of amusement from vaudeville to the Sun day evening entertainments of the Young Mems Christian association. The com missioner informed the inspectors that the Sunday closing law covers everything
 
 hall to the 5-cent vaudeville shows that any attempt to evade the statute must be met with arrest.
 Theatrical managers and showr1en stated today that they propose to obey the mandate of the law, believing, they say. that its strict enforcement will do more than anything else to effect its mod ification or repeal at the coming session of the legislature.
 The only places in Greater New York where bright lights will shine and where pianos will beat out a defiance to the po- lice will be in Brooklyn. The managers Of five moving picture shows and a skat- ing rink have secured temporary injunc- tions restraining the police from inter- fering with them tomorrow, and Commits sioner Bingham told the Brooklyn inspec- tor that the injunctions must be obeyed.
 commissioner Bingham, in delivering his instructions, said that the Sunday closing order prohibited everything in the way of a performance or entertainment and thas the rule extended to dancing acad- emies and dance halls.
 The commissioner said to the inspector:
 'Ine order means simply the closing ot any public entertainment or perform ance of any character in place of pub lie amusement on Sunday.
 And it won't be often that you will have to exercise any discretion at all; 1; all performances of any character in a place of public amusement is the way the decision reads. Now that covers Carnegie hall as we'll the 1 and cent vaude Vile and moving picture shows. It covers roller skating and 1t covers benefits. The Y. M. c. A. entertainments on Sunday nights are performances in a place of public amusement and while they are run for the purposes of getting boys and young men off, the streets. under the decision it is no good. It cuts out the Educational Allian>e with their little ar engagement that goes on Sunday nights, because it is a place of public amuse- ment."
 Commissioner Bingham said the music in hotels and restaurants was not to be disturbed. He said that the law was to be enforced on the outskirts of the city, where 1t has been the custom to play football and other outdoor games. The six days bicycle race which was scheduled to start at midnight tomorrow will not commence until o'clock and the doors of Madison Square Garden will not open until after midnight.