Evening journal., 1909-03-15
OHIO TOWN HASA
PURITAN SUNDAY
OLD Blue Laws Enforced With
Vengeance in East Liver
pool

EAST LIVERPOOL, o., March Is
The preliminaries OF a Sunday Blue
Law crusade so drastic that even the
ministers, whose clamor for Puritan
Sabbath brought it about, count them
selves victims OF Mayor Crawford's un-
usual fidelity TO the execution of the
law. has had all East Liverpool on the
anxious scat since yesterday. No ar
rests were. however. made, under
orders from the Mayor, the police con-
tenting themselves with listing every
body found working. however slight his
task AS q result Of this course to-
day will be the busy day of the East
Liverpool police department.
Last night the members Of the Min
igteriaI Association were angry at
Crawford. They say he tried ID make
them ridiculous by extending the Blue
Sunday order to everything in the city
because they asked him to close the
tobacco and candy stores. The Mayor
is saying nothing. but he does not deny
either. that his intent is to make the
Blue laws so Objectionable to the peo-
pie OF the city that they will never be
heard OF again
Over 100 to be Arrested.
Warrants are ready to be served
today for the arrest Of more than 100
/ q sons on the charge of working for
pay on Sunday. Eighty-four of them
arc employees Of the street car lines.
Others will be paid church soloists and
choir singers and ono minister's chauf-
feur.
In addition to these, the officials OF
the Postal and Western Union Tele-
graph Companies and of the two teie-
phone companies will be charged with
employing persons TO break the Sab
bath. The 'hello girls" Of one tele-
phone exchange viii also be among the
victims of the crusade.
No attempt was made to interfere
with the operation OF interstate rail-
road traffic, but livery men who hired
vehicles TO patrons we're put upon the
/ list.
All in all il was a lively day. House
keepers got up and slipped out the back
door to see whether the milSman hac
dared exercise his function in society
In most cases he had. SO there was G
little cream on East Liverpoors break
fast food
Heads Of households looked on the
porches for their Sunday papers #
vain until the newsdealers solved th'
problem by putting all their papers IL
the hands of r. u. Patterson, Sew
enth-Day Adventist. Patterson, ac
cording tc the rules Of his church, haC
kent his Sabbath on Saturday, and g,
hoped to escape the law. The police
however. took his name, and II is ex
pected that he viii be among those ar
rested to-day.
Omcials Of the street railway an'
their attorneys went to Lisbon and saw
Judge Holt about protection for thei
men should there be police interference
with the operation of the cars. The
returned, and announced that If arrest
were made they would sue the city 70
damages. Tho names OF 81 conductor
and motormen we're taken for arrest
They all gave their names willingly.
The two girl telephone operators a
. the Bell Exchange went on duty at
a. m. and locked the door to thei
I room. When the police came TO tax
their names the "centrals" dared ther
t TO break into the room threatening
shoot. The names Of these girls al
still unknown.
Two restaurant-keepers who opene
for an hour at dinner time viii haV
- TO answer CldAbtNt eAo Will e VI 70 e'NA
| man who filled a prescription
The one angle OF the crusade that
/ gazing to cause the greatest surpris
! will be the haling into Court Of sing
ers who received money for their sci
vices in churches. Mayor Crawford ha
{ the names Of these singers taken, an
. unless he backs down. he will pla'
them in the same category as u
!, others who have been accused.