The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-12-09
Lid is on So Tight no Shows
Dare Peep Before the
Public.
DRINK IS ONLY THING LEFT
Even Concerts in Y. N. C. A. Submit
-Tammany Hall Dark First Time
in the Memory of Old Timers.

New York. Dec s.-Greater New
York was as dull today and tonight
as Canarsie on a rainy Sunday and
folks that didn't want to stay home and
play pinochle. or authors that weren't
minded to go to church and didn't feel
any wild ambition to stroll out and
rubber at the tall buildings or the
latest stunts in electrical advertising.
So far as usual Sunday entertain
ments were concerned. the lid was
clamped down, soldered. cemented,
spiked ana riveted Furthermore. there
were some 5000 coppers camped around
that lid watchful to see that nothing
naughty popped out.
In the language of the law itself
there was neither "interlude, tragedy.
comedy. opera. ballet, play, farce, negro
minstrelsy or other dancing or any
other entertainment on a stage or any
part or parts thereof, or any eques-
trian circus or dramatic performance.
or any performance of jugglers, aero
bats or rope dancing
Brave Injunction, but Get Punched.
General Bingham and his janissaries
enforced the law to the letter Of Jus
tice OGormans decision. meeting with
practically no resistance except in the
case of a nickelodeon establishment
in Harlem, which tried to do business
with an injunction against Inspector
Thompson and Captain Walsh tackled
to the front door, but it got pinehed
just the same.
The other cent theaters padlocked
their doors, taking no chances, and for
the first time in many moons there
were no dance halls open, and no pub
lie balls The thousand and one dane
| ing academies" scattered over Manhat-
tan and Brooklyn were as dark as cell
lars and as quiet.
why, look at old Tammany hall
said Police Captain Steve McDermott
tonight, pointing to the old pile of red
brick. This is the first Sunday night
in fifty years, old timers tell me, that
there hasn't been high jinks in the
Wigwam, Bill and his best girl waltz
ing to beat the band"
Even y. Nj. C. A. Music stops.
In the halls of the 200 and more
! German societies which are accus-
toned to give some form of entertain
ment every Sunday night there was
nothing doing. Even the children.
play at the Educational alliance, the
regular Sunday afternoon entertain
ment for youngsters of the east side
was cut out. Y. NJ. c. A. branches elm
mated their customary Sunday nigh
entertainments, anxious to keep within
the letter Of the law and waiting unit
the atmosphere clears.
Managers of roller skating Kinks
shut up shop and stayed at home, 70
they, too, were tabooed.
Really the only ray of light for New
Workers in the whole day of gloon
was the ease with which discoura ge'
pleasure seekers could obtain a drink
The doors of the family entrance
swung readily to a discreet tap-taI
and there was as much liquid cheer a
ever in the restaurants and hotel cafes
1t was noticed along Broadway an
other crowded ways that the wet good
business doomed tonight
All Managers Quit Cold.
As to the stamped out amusemen
places, the police simply had no worI
to do There was no resistance wort
the name. Managers. big and little
quit their business to wait on tn
board of aldermen which is expecte
to take some action on Tuesday, whe
Alderman Reggie Doull is to introduc
an amendment designed TO allow sacre
concerts and other legitimate enter
tafnment on Sundays.
over at the Hippodrome there cam
pretty nearly being some action. TIL
Theatrical Mechanics association wa
to have held a benefit performanc
there tonight, and the associatio
r wanted to go ahead and take a chanc
The members were ready to make
. test case of it, but Manager Max Al
derson persuaded them to take the chi
off their shoulder and let the enter
tainment go over.
Then they made Manager Max
proposition to start the entertainer
. at one minute past midnight, but NJ
Anderson couldn't see it,