New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-07-07
PASSOVER FIGHT PICTURES.
MANY Cities Will Bar Exhibitions
for Various Reasons.
cayNoR WON'T INTERFERE
Saws There Is No Law to Pre-.
vent Films Being Shown Here
Others Fear Rioting.

s,,-%is Chicago and PittSburE have an
-,--oe5 that they will take no action hos
.Ce "a the pictures. By their stand they
So themselves IN opposition TO the ideas
- cities like Boston. Washington. Los
-e,es ST Louis and others throughout
the land
pos+on was the first city TO start TIT.
-,eo5e against the pictures. when the Of
.,ys.,re - The Christian Endeavor Society
..z-ed Governor Draper of Massachusetts
: MAYOR FITZGERALD OF Boston, and asked
,-si- support in prohibiting the showing
r -. r7ict1res. The Christian Endesvor
s,-,s-v. ahich has a membership of more
-, -o,yr million in different parts Of the
o-I5 will make the campaign against the
- MIXTURES worldwide. and in addition
4. AeS sent kilograms to every Governor
- The Mayors Of the large cities. asking
80 .,7ev cooperate With them in the cam
rsig1-
us--a~ Czavnor. when asked yesterday IL
- mould rake steps 10 prevent the exhibi-
,so- 81 tho Jefries-Johnson fight pictures
!, his CITY said that he had no intention
5oi-r SO He said that there vas no
-5s-re- q "a e riots because of the pictures,
- that any such idea was absurd He
-.s,A5 that even " he were opposed per
.-s,-,- 70 The Inhibition of the pictures,
.T-,ev- ~ no law to prevent their being
sbov-1 in New York.
~ vy77--y Is felt at the oniccS OF the
American Vita graph Company. NO 40
.->,=ss5,y e-reet, over the spread OF the move
-,e-- 70 prevent tbs pictures being shown
zaid On behalf of the company last
,,--- nat -ler= vas 3 considerable demand
- -be -,irrures. and that their only anxiety
rs in getting them prepared in time
"a, Tax. Care Of Race Riots.
,rs-o~ Revburr Of Philadelphia said that
-. -ro-7d he no interference with the
,,--,-ss in that city. He added, thai II
4,-.-e vas any rioting he would stop IL
~ ~ did not anticipate any trouble
pictures Of the fight cannot be shown N
Washington or anywhere in the Dlsuict ga
columbia and the District commissioners
yesterday instructed the superintendent OF
-o-s-a ID prevent the exhibition OF the hlIns-
-. ,-on-ietors of more than one hundred
.lsz--es have been warned that they VIII
M ne allowed TO exhibit the pictures
.-o,arnar Austin L. Crothers Of Maryland
announced last night that he would not
re--,5t the showing OF the night pictures
= ,fs---laud. This announcement 1olio"eu
: telegraphic appeal from William .. 0ia",
81 Boston. asking that the Governor oi
-zrs-.1sod 5oir Others in prohibiting eH-
=
~, Governor CrotheTs Will take no action
,--t1 n intention TO show the pictures BE-
comes evident. when, acting under the gen.
.~a1 ,o1ioe powers Of the state, he VIII pro-
.-,.,,- = on the ground that TO display the
,,5o-,,rAs IN public would constitute the
maintaining of q nuisance
Cardinal Gibbons's Opposition.
,---s,,eI cz75bons to-day declared his op
-os7-ic-1 70 the exhibition OF the Johnson
Tr4f-es fight pictures in Baltimore or else-
--fe~e saving: 1T would be wrong 10 snow
i--,.ee horrible pictures first, because the
children have to be protected, ana u Is
"a. children who would be most seriously
zFActed # such exhibitions were allowed
73,e nroner authorities should see to il that
-re young men and young women. 100 are
given the protection that is their Que Inc
s-oxfns Of the pictures would have oad
eject UPON the men and women OF the coin-
-71nity also. and would ! THINK reno 10
.,d-,ce attacks upon the blacks. The re-
eminent and i'll feeling induced by the re
z,-l- n the fight have passed and should
MT ~ revived a pictorial reproduction III
baltimore Of the fight might cause rlotinG
--s- Gould but injure the good nar1c Of the
r.-- The black people could not proht
r-o-7 seeing the pictures and am sure the
=thires would not.
Matt @ Reynolds, president OF the 81
louis rcIice board. has announced that ne
NIL take action 10 prevent the pictures
tei-z shown in that city Another cits
-hich has taken Up the cudsels against
the showing Of the pictures is Los Angeles
-.he-e rFere Is an ordinance prohibiting the
e1hsbt-ion Of such moving pictures as 1T
t-e -opirio-7 Of the authorities Will enaan-
Eer the morals Of its citizens
Cities That Will Bar Pictures
r-he- cries which have announced that
- r5ctures will be allowed of the Jefrles-
/ 7ohnso- fght are: Kansas City, Milwaukee
= Joseph Des Moines- Savannah, Louis
= lie. lexington. jefferson City. Providence
3 Atlanta. Richmond New Haven, Asbury
Park. Cincinnati and Buffalo In the latter
CIR --e-- x an ordinance against showing
pictures q prfzefghts-
4 -7o--nz picture concern n Cincinnati
which rad offered ec5oeo for the pictures
-t-hs-er that offer yesterday. owing 10
+ae general oppczition Which had developer
sgaines them.
TIE Albany headquarters Of the lnterna-
--cnzl Reform Bureau last night 1ssuen an
srpeal u rfe local authorities throughout
ths country TO pass suitable ordinances 10
nroh.ct. The exhibition in any moving
e. Picture theatre Of the views Of the johnson
J@4-1es p-izehght-'
+ i dernoralizing enough. says the aP-
4 pea 20 have millions of boys reading the
detailc5 description Of this rrizehght- II
VII be renfold worse n have them look
u5,c- the realistic reproductions OF TINS
brutal contest IN the moving picture SHOWS
az over the United States.
A. e,l6ence Of the wide spread OF the
feeling against the exhibition of the fight
pictures = n bic dispatch was received from
tsre Town. South Africa, yesterday, winch
sts-ed rhat there was growing demand
tasre for rhe prohibition Of the pictures
owing 70 their effect on the natives. IL Is
said that already there arc evidences OF
excitement among them because OF the VIC
tory II rhc negro pugiiist.
Ssn francisco. July 6.-Mayor j. H. Nc
7 '<rthy announced to-day that under 10
circumstances would the exhibition OF the
moving pictures Of the Johnson and Jef-
fries fight be permitted in San Francisco
lie said. 'Inaemuch % the contest resoiFeo
hsef into q prizehght pure and Simple
fnd was not boxing match. the e1hloi-
Ton q the moving pictures would be a
Unlawful as the fight itself. ] Will not per
mt them 20 be shown in San Francisco