The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1908-08-07
SUNDAY BAN WAS LIFTED.
Druggists in East Orange, N. j., Sc
cured Injunction Against Blue Law.

Lizzie Smith, Familiarity spoken o
ON her native heath Of East Orange, n
j., as "The lee Cream Wonder" wa
the happiest girl in Essex county yes
terday, says the New York Times o.
Aug. 3. For the druggists Of the. tow
had succeeded in the week past in oh
tanning an injunction from Supreme
Court Justice Gummere restraining thu
mayor, city council, and police depart
mcnt from enforcing the now famous
or infamous, "blue-law" ordinance, N
the good people of the town yariously
describe it, which forbids the sale or
Sunday of about everything but news
papers, milk, and ice. The order Of the
court permitted the druggists TO open
up yesterday for the first time IN sew
eral months, and young men and fan
maidens fairly reveled all day long in
ice.cream sodas and fruit sundaes.
Charles E. Menagh, genial dispenser
of castor oil, perfume, cigars, ice
cream, and candy at the corner OF
North Park and Dodd streets, was the
hero of the occasion, for last Sunday
after conniving with his downtrodden
conferees. had he not boldly opened
| his emporium and under the very eyes
of Chief of Police Bell sold a customer
10 cents worth of peppermint waters,
glass of orange phosphate, and a
"twofer He had, indeed, nor had he
| hinched when seized by the arm of
| the law and hailed before Recorder
Frank Fort. son of the governor of the
state, who fined him $25.
Thereupon the Amalgamated Mutual
association of Allied Drug Dealers had
bravely stepped into the breach and
laid their case before Justice Gum
mere, who granted their plea for an in
junction, pending argument on the
constitutionality of the Iievous ordi'
nance, and thereupon was great rejoic-
ing in East Orange.
The "Lizzie Smiths are not the
only persons in East Orange who have
been vexed by the blue.law ordinance.
Hardly a citizen, except a few Sunday
school teachers and old fogies who
don Y smoke or read magazines, sym
pathizes with the law as set forth by
the City Council. The mayor himself
doesn t like it, and vetoed the ordi-
nance, but it was passed over his head.
And now it is even limited that the
Council itself would like to repeal its
own ordinance, if they We're not
of court, the matter now being before
the supreme court, or of being ac-
cused of catering weakly to the de
mands of their constituents, as no
selfrespecting City Father
should ever be expected to do.
The famous ordinance which the |
Council passed by vote of to 3,
reads as follows:
Be it ordained by the mayor, the
City Council of East Orange, in the
County of Essex:
Cd That no person within the
City of East Orange shall on the
Christian Sabbath, commonly call
ed Sunday, cry, show forth, or ex-
pose for sale, any wares, merchan-
disc, fruit, herbs, materials, fish,
goods, or chattels, or sell or bar.
ter or deliver the same; nor SHAH
any person on the Christian Sab
bath use or permit any barber's
shop to be open for the transac
ton of business, or pursue
therein the trade or business
customarily carried on therein
within the City of East Orange,
provided, however, that nothing
herein contained shall make it I'M
lawful to sell and deliver newspa
pers, ice, and milk, or prohibiting
the owner or proprietor of any
drug store to expose for sale or to
sell therein or therefrom any drug,
medicine, or medicinal prepare
tion or compound or any article or
thing used in the practice of medi-
cine or surgery; or prohibiting the
serving of meals and victuals in
hotels, boarding houses, lodging
houses, and restaurants.
(2) That no person within the