Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-06-21
SAYS LIQUOR LAW
IS BEING VIOLATED

The A%nti-saloon League of New
Jersey, through Samuel Wilson. its
director of law enforcement, today
sent the following letter to Mayor
Haussling:
Newark. June 90. 1912.
Hon Jacob Haussllng, Mayor Of New
ark:
4 Dear sirrln the interest of civic
deeeney 1t becomes my unpleasant duty
to bring to the attention of your honor
til fact that vice and lawlessness are
rampant AND apparently unchecked In Il
large nnmber of licensed saloons, hotels,
music hall ard dance halls In the city
of Newark.
n Under guidance of members of the
staff of the Anti Saloon League n large
number of citizens, Including clergynlen
and men prominent in business. profess
sional and social service circles have in
spected repeatedly many of these licensed
resorts, and all have been shocked and
scandalized at the existing conditions.
LThe following statement of conditions
! eah be verified by these gentlemen, and
they certainly indicate gross negligence
on the part of the police and all officials
who are responsible for the prevention of
crime aud the enforcement Of law.
'"They have inspected numerous
saloons, hotels. music halls and dance
halls where prostitute sand panders ply
their calling openly and brazenly. where
+ inexperienced girls and thoughtless
youth are permitted to drink and dance
with disreputable men and women, where
liquors are sold freely to minors, where
strumpets in the guise of chorus girls
beekon and lure men and boys to join
them In sensual debauchery behind the
scenes and in eurtained booths in the
E cellar; where penny In the slot machines
exhibit lewd pictures, where liquors are
sold without stint to intoxicated men
and women until they become paralyzed,
They have seen hotels where hundreds
of men and women, boys and girls gather
In the early Sabbath hours from mid
night until daylight In Bacehanalian
revelry with unchecked lewdness and
drunkenness. while the elevators are
kept busy throughout the night trans
porting couples without baggage to and
from the rooms above. and prominent
81 VhiNihiN ~ BpiiNt hdNt btIh pNth
sharing in these Sabbath orgies.
i, In addition, it is n common scandal
{ that In tJle city of Newark practically
every law intended to regulate the saloon
Is violated with impnnity.
| THE law prohibits the serving of
liquors in other than the main bar or
business room of saloons. The violation
of this statute is almost universal. and
many II young girl has found these back
rooms the doorway to white slavery.
''rhe law requires that during prohibit
tory hours the entire interior of bhr-
rooms shall be open to a clear view from
the public street. Every police officer
knows that in Newark no attention Is
paid to this regulation.
The law prohibits all traffic in in-
'toxicating liquors on Sunday. If there
Is one retail saloon In Newark that
obeys this law the citizens, who have
made observation, have not found 1t.
complaints of citizens have been filed
with the Board of Excise Commission
ers against two most ~noxious resorts,
aud we confidently hope that the board
will promptly summon the proprietors,
as the law requires, to meet their nc
cusers. If the police are unable to To-
cate places where these evil practises
obtain we shall be pleased to enllghten
them. although it is incdnceivable that
such open and iagrant lawlessness can
exist without sk1o wledge OF the police.
''voicing the urgent protest of a large
body of indignant citbizens, | therefore
have TO request that your honor will
instruct the police and excise depart
ments to take immediate and vigorous
measures to stamp out these evils, and
thus clear the fair name aud fame Of