The Washington herald., 1907-12-09


was to-day and tonight as dull as one OF
New York's suburbs on rainy Sunday
for folks that didn't want 10 stay home
and play pinochle or those that weren't
minded 10 90 TO church and that didn't
fee, ANY wild ambition 10 stroll out and
rubber at the tan buildings or the latest
stunts in electric advertising.
So far as the usual Sunday entertain
ments were concerned. the lid was clamp
ed down, soldered. eemented. spiked. and
riveted- Furthermore. there were some
5000 "coppers." more OF less. camped
around that lid. watchful TO see that
nothing naughty popped out IN the Ian
guage Of the law itself, there was neither
interlude tragedy. comedy. opera, ballet,
play. farce. negro mins5relsy, or other
dancing, or any other entertainment Of
the stage. or any part or parts therein. or
any equestrian circus, or dramatic per-
formance. OF any performance OF jugglers
or rope dancing.
Injunction Is Scored.
General Bingham and his Janissaries
enforced the Law 10 the letter Of Justice
| OGOrman's decision, meeting with prac-
tically no resistance except IN the case
Of a nickel OdeOn establishment in Har-
| lem. which tried TO do business with an
! injunction against Inspector Thompson
and Capt Walsh tackled 70 its front door,
but il got pinched just the same. The
5-cent theaters padlOeked their doors,
taking no chances
/ For the first time in many moons there
were no dance halls open. no public
balls The thousand and one dancing
academies scattered over Manhattan and
Brooklyn were dark as cellars and as
quiet
why, look at old Tammany Hail.
said Police Captain Steve McDermott to-
night, pointing 20 the old pile Of red
/ brick This is the first Sunday night in
I fifty years, the OId-timers tell me. that
/ there hasn't been high jinks in the Wig
wan. Bill and his girl waltzing 10 beat
/ the band
CbiIdren's Play Barred.
In the halls Of 30 or more German
societies accustomed 10 give some form
Of entertainment every Sunday night
there was nothing doing. Even the chill
drens play at the educational alliance, a
regular sunday afternoon entertainment
for the youngsters Of the East Side, was
cut out The Y NJ c. A. branches elm
mated their customary Sunday night en-
tertainments. anxious TO keep within the
letter Of the law. and waiting until ths
atmosphere clears The managers Of the
roller skating rinks shut up and stayed
home, growing, for they, too, were
/ tabOCed-
/ Really the only ray OF light fer the
New Yorker in the whole day Of gloom
was the ease with which a discouraged
! pIeasure-seeker could obtain a drink The
doors of the old family entrances swung
open readily 10 the discreet tap-tap-tap.
and there was as much liquid cheer as
ever in the restaurants and hotel cafes.
Il was noticed along Broadway and other
crowded ways that the Wet goods busl-
ness doomed last night
OrcheStFRS In Restaurants.
The only note OF music for public enter
tainment struck in the whole stricken
city came from the Orchestras that sawed
away. keeping time to clicking teeth in
the restaurants. They had been excepted
from the ban. The WaIdorf-Astoria and
few big hotels gave what amounted TO
concerts The police simply had no work
10 do. There was no resistance worth the
name
Over at the HippOdrOme there came
pretty nearly being some action The
Theatrical Mechanics Association were 70
have held benefit performance there to-
night. and the association wanted 10 go
ahead and take a chance. They were
H. - 49,
Manager Max Anderson persuaded them
10 let the entertainment go over.
Ted Marks. who has provided concerts
every sunday night for nine years at the
American Theater. quit with the rest.
Mr.. Marks, accompanied BY the justly
celebrated white carnation and the gold
handled silk umbrella, did a little fgur-
ing. II was his idea that 108ee0 New
/ Workers IN round numbers were deprived
of their customary Sunday night amuse
ment, and that something like Sl00.O00
was diverted from the theatrical inter
ests in one way and another
Mr. Willie Hammerstein stood. gloom
ily. upon the steps Of the Victoria, saying
nothing capable OF being published There
were no further comments from the Klaw
rs Erlanger. the Keith & Proctor. Percy
Williams. or any of the other vaudeville
interests They simply obeyed orders.
Germans DenOunce Closing.
The Germans expressed their opinions
vigorously enough at meeting held this
afternoon under the auspices OF the
United German Societies
Fully 2500 persons attended Albert
Arms. president Of the United German
Societies. presided, and led off with
short speech, in which he emphasized the
contention that Sunday the weekly
holiday, is an economic necessity and by
no means a religious institution only"
Theodore SutrO denounced the law.
Prof. Ernest Richard OF Columbia,
made an address that was fun of ginger.
He said:
The question before this meeting IS
whether puritanism and Americanism are
4 synonymous terms. They speak Of this
as being a Christian State. You can't
show me a word in the Scriptures or
word in the United States Constitution
either, to justify that appellation-
Most OF the political corruption in this
country dates right back TO laws which
! cannot be properly enforced A HARM
less, refined entertainment which is not
against public morals cannot be equitabiy
forbidden by law. and should not be
legally Therefore such laws as this are
! public lies. ] tell you. lies Great az
| plauSe.)