The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-06-17
LAWFUL SUNDAY IN RICHMOND
THAT rs, IN SPOTS-BUT THE RE-
FORM PROGRESSES.
Police Have a Lively Time Preventing Dis
obedience and In One Raid on Crap
Games ~PrecipItate a Riot
al Beach Resorts GO On as Usual.

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Games ~PrecipItate a Riot
al Beach Resorts Go On as Usual.
Staten Island lived through its second
day of Sunday law enforcement yesterday
In comparative peace and quiet. Inspector
HoRan's men cruised around the island and
decided that the saloons were closed tight
with n few exceptions, and that the hotels
were observing the law, although doing a
rushing business. Things were even better
than last Sunday, they thought.
Some of the wise ones who have visited
Staten Island before did not see such a big
change since the inspector had conferred
with the ministers association and decided
that the Sunday laws were to be carried
out, and even thought they could squeeze
into a saloon or two il very thirsty. Most
of the saloons we're closed. But this isn't
so bad on Staten Island, because there are
so many hotels that with them working as
hard as they could they seemed to supply
very nicely the thirst of all in the big crowd
that focked over on the ferries in the very
finest Sunday the year has seen. Now and
then some of them would even forget the
customary sandwich with a bunch of drinks.
Close up the saloons and breweries on
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going to do?" demanded Frank Cogiano
otherwise Conway, the American-lrish-ltal-
ian ex-policeman and present %janitor OF
the Borough Hall at New Brighton. How
you going to get your children educated
il they can't sell beer on Sunday? The
more you sell ~ better for the Board OF
Education. Don't they get S per cent. on
the excise tax on every barrel sold? On,
this excitement will all blow over pretty
soon; you just watch.
There we're five excise arrest' on the
island. They were made by the inspectors
men. One saloon keeper in Stapleton,
Charles Barstch, was accused by Detectives
Heyer and Mckay of entertaining a dozen
or more thirsty men his back room
while Isidore Echalman. a waiter, in John
Striedel's saloon at Midland Beach, sold
Detective Devlin a drink, the latter said.
! Some of the other charges were technical.
The baseball clubs on the island were FOR
the most part quiet. At the Stapleton
grounds, where ex-Coroner Schaefier, who
accepted some ticket money at the gate, it
| was said, and three players were arrested
| at the end of the seventh inning the pre-
yious Sunday, there was not n sign OF a
game.
J Up at the Elm Park baseball Grounds in
Port Richmond Detectives Meyers, Ryan
and Brown of the inspectors stan wandered
in in the morning before any game began
| to see what was going to happen. Some
ball tossers we're warming up, but the inter
esting features we're two crap games with
nearly fifty men in each crowd. Ihere
were 800 people in the grounds. The de-
~tectives made a dash on the crap game
and a young riot followed. Detective
| Meyer seized two men n was attacked,
| he said, by John Judge of Port Richmond
brother of an 'e~x-pugilist. He passed his
men over to the two other detectives who
had their hands full, and drew his gun 10
keep the crowd back that had swarmed
around them, throwing things.
Judge, meanwhile, was going after
Detective Brown, who finally got the better
Of him after a twenty minute struggle
The three detectives marched their five
prisoners of to the railroad station. They
we're followed by a crowd, and Ryan, was
struck by several women friends OF his
prisoner. Judge was charged with assau
! and, with Charles Reeches OF Port Richmond
was charged also with interfering with an
officer. The three others were charged with
| disorderly conduct. All were locked up
in the West Brighton police tatlon There
was no baseball game.
The shows at South Beach were running
unmolested. Thelma Larkin. who refused
for a while a week ago last Sunday to oome
out OF the lions cage and be arrested. was
putting her ions through their stunts as
Rayly as ever and in regular lion tanners
costume yesterday. Only she didn't SHOOT
any pistols at her lions.
dWe are running just the same as week
days. said Joe Ferari, proprietor OF the
show, except without the shooting. one
of the detectives said that the Governor
thought it would he all right with that cut
out
In Happyland the tight rope performers
we're walking in costume and admission
was being charged for dancing. Outside
the game Of chance that was interrupted
the previous Sunday was in full bloom,
The cases in all these arrests are TO be
heard this week.
The Rev. o. p. Barnhill, chairman OF the
executive committee of the Ministers
Association, which is after Sunday law en-
forcement. was not protected by detectives
as on the previous Sunday. He said he
had not requested them then and had
asked that they be not sent yesterday,
The pa tor thought that yesterday wal
about the quietest summer Sunday he
had seen in several years. He sale that
there had been much criticism by som
Of the Staten Island papers Of him and OF
the movement, as calculated to drive bust
ness away. His assistant. he said, had been
hit by a cigar butt while passing a crowd
Of young fellows in the street last week,
port as their address were arrested in
the afternoon charged with disorderly
conduct. The police said they were trying
some masher stunts.
Acting Captain Horatio n. Young OF the
Stapleton station said that he considered
the day quieter in general and in number
OF arrests than the previous Sunday, but
4 thought the island was closed up tighter.
The crowdw was the biggest OF the year.