New-York tribune., 1907-12-09
HUNT FOR AMUSEMENT.
RESTAURANTS THRONGED
Cro1cds Seek to Find Nezr Ways to
Spend SUNDAY in CHy

Not since the days of Wouter Van TYiiier
has New York experienced suc!l legally event.
less day OF rest yesterday. Legally ts
used afvisedIy. for under the decision of Judge
o't;o-ruan in the now famous HanEserstein
case All amusement houses not protected by
, ;niunctions were closed. But on'y bare half
dozen places had such injunctions, and these
moving picture shows. Vet saloons. cafes
and hotel restaurants with musical entrees were
doing business. Therefore. while the Manhattan
and Metropolitan opera houses. Carnegie Hall
and the Young Mems Christian Association i'll
lJstrated lectures were out of commission, the
Raines law hotels did banner trade, and the
''tinlle-t turl-tinlxle' OF the mechanical piano
triunphed
But up In the viIds of Harlem there were sew
eral arrests snIiven the usual quiet of that
section OF the city. At the Manhattan Casino.
155th street and Eighth avenue, the Tiger Social
Club holding it's annual dance, when detec-
tives from the West 152d street station swooped
down and made three arrests. The detective
allege that they bought tickets at 35 cents each.
and as the band playing Every Sunday I
Go Down to That Old Long Island Town they
arrested Charles p. Thompson. ticket seller,
Henry Tone, ticket taker, and Charles Strubeli.
manager and took them TO the station house.
where they were charged with the violation of
Section e77 OF the Penal Code and Section 1851
OF the New York Charter They were imnle-
diately baiied out, and at late hour this morn
ing the members Of the Tiger Social Club were
stin on their way to the "Old Long Island
Town
CLOSE HARLEM COMEDY THEATRE
At the Harlem Comedy Theatre. No 6S West
125th street. while performance was going on
Inspector Thompson and Captain Walsh, of the
East 126th street station, came along and a.
rested Miss Ethel Gordon, the ticket @7ller'
Henry Brant, ticket taker, and Edward lien
The Comedy Theatre is controlled by Brill q
Fox, who are said To have three other such
places In this city and four in the borough or
Brooklyn s. & Rogers, counsel for Brill &
Fox went before Judge Marean yesterday and
obtained injunction restraining the police
from interfering with their Sunday perform
ances.
Brill & Fox opened their moving picture per
foru1ances in the Comedy Theatre yesterday
afternoon at I o'clock. and gave performance
every fifteen minutes with average attend
ance for each performance Of three hundred
persons The charge cents admission
They continued giving the performance all the
afternoon without interruption, but music
accompanied the pictures. After their appear
ance at the Night Court they returned to the
Comedy Theatre aid the performances were
resumed.
In the night court. before Magistrate Walsh.
the employees of the Comedy Theatre we're ar
raigned last evening. Deputy Commissioner
Hanson appeared for the complainant, the po-
lice, and Gustavus A Rogers appeared for the
defendants II agreed to waive the Gues-
ton Of the validity Of the Injunction obtained
from Justice Marean. that the case might go be-
fore the magistrate. The hearing lasted about.
two hours during which Mr. Rogers explained
that the case Of his clients was vastly different
from that OF the ordinary theatrical manager
Magistrate Walsh finally decided that the op-
posing counsel should submit briefs in the case
and that decision should be given in Jeffer-
son Market court on December IL.
The bowling alleys usually open on Sunday.
were doing a big business yesterday. The
crowds IN the alleys not troubled by the
police.
Forty-two arrests for violation Of the Excise
law were made yesterday In Manhattan and
The Bronx. the number on the Sunday
before.
With the half dozen moving picture shows for
the public and above board delectatiou of ths
-four million OF greater New York, there could
not help being decided surface change IN
metropolitan life. Broadway was a magniied
reproduction Of Main street. Hackensack on a
Saturday night Most of the Illuminated signs
OF duty. The few that remained only
sccentuated the darkness OF the entrances be-
meath which were barred and labelled with such
notices as CLOSED; Open Monday" And I'D AMI
down the "Great White way'-white only in
emembrance-tramped crowd that ia seldom,
equaIIed except election nights.
The crowd itself was study. Besides the
regulars there were thousands of persons
to see what might happen They had read that
Commissioner Bingham to station two men
at the entrance OF each theatre. Possibly the
crowds thought some rebellious manager would
start a show and there would be a good old
fashioned raid, with boxholders leapins from
windows like patrons at an athletic club
social But the crowds had no such treat al
though they were able to note the bIuecoatsd
men looking bored and weary as they paced
about near the darkened portals of the play
houses.
FIGHT TO CHANGE THE Law
While the night crowds strorled about tho
streets dropped into the cafes and restau-
rants. the day did not pass without movements
In a fight to have the law changed. To be sure.
the managers were biding their time Louis Y.
Vorhaus. counsel for Oscar Hanmerstein said
there would be no action Of the Sunday Assocfa-
ton OF Theatre Managers OF Greater New York
until the Board of Aldermen should meet next
Tuesday, and show what sort of action IL
intended to take Ex-Judge A J. Dittenhoefer.
legal representative of Mr. Conried said that as
far the Metropolitan Opera House manage
ment concerned the matter in ths
hands of the people through their representa-
tives, the aldermen.
But. in contrast to the managerial acquescencs
TO the public will. there were meetings at varf-
GUS places where the spirit OF revolt agains.
"puritanical laws was voiced in no uncertain
Way For example. Terrace Garden WAS fIlad