Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-03-27
LID GOES DOWN
WITH A CLAMP
ON THE MORROW
Mayor Raymond Has Issued an
Edict That Sundays Must
\ Be DRY"
SALCoNKEEPERS TOLD
TO CLOSE UP VERY TIGHT
Informed That If Law Is Not
obeyed Quietly, Steps viii
Be Taken to Enforce It.

Newark goes dry tomorrow! That's
the edict. 1t has gone forth, so saloon
and restaurant keepers say, and they
supply the further information that
Mayor Thomas Lynch Raymond has
served notice on them that the 'lid''
Is to go down and to stay down for
keeps.
In other words, Mayor Raymond
proposes to show that when he puts
the clamp on the "lid' 1t will be some
clamp.
accustomed to irrigate according to
the nature and extent of his thirst on
Sunday, will have to find some other
place than this city wherein to wet
his whistle, and some other way.
Mayor Raymond has spoken. The
Anti-Saloon League. through the
medium OF Samuel Wilson and one G.
Rowland Munroe, active spirits in the
move to enforce the liquor laws, par
ticularly as they apply to the Sab
bath, have furnished him with So
rallied evidence" Of Sunday viola
tions, just as they had supplied Jacob
Haussling, when mayor, with "evi-
dence," and, as a result. Mayor Ray
mond slams the "lid'' down and, fig
uratively speaking squats his her.
culean form upon it. Jacob Hauss-
ling refused to tamper with lids"
much less attempt to use them as
sitting cushions.
Mayor Looked Red Hot.
Yes. the mayor sent for a number
of the people in the business" ad-
fnitted a cafe owner and restaurater,
who conducts a big establishment In
Market street, today. HE told us to
close up, and close up tight, on Sun
days, and added that if we didn't
close up quietly he would find q way
to close us up. There was q great
deal more said, but that was enough
FOR me. He seemed to be red hot
over II, and while the question OF
serving drinks with meals was
b-oached l lost all Interest In the
matter. The Evening Star had It
right yesterday"
'sBerAlng up the Wrong Tree"
Among those summoned 10 the
mayors office to be told what Sam
uel Wilson and G. R9WIands Munree
had TO say was a. saioonkeeper who
has not kept his place open on q Sum
day since the first agitation over the
bishops law" some years ago.
Mayor Raymond, IL is reported, told
him that the lid" was for him as
well as for everyone else; that there
would be no discrimination. The sa,
loonkeeper reminded the mayor that
ne was barking up the wrong tree,
and that If his informants were as
tar off the track In the cases OF
others as they were in regard to his
case there was no more reason for
the mayor paying any more attention
to Sam Wilson than former Mayor
Haussling had paid to him.
1t Is said that Mayor Raymond re-
piled that he was the mayor and no
one else.
II took particular notice." re-
marked a Market street restaurant
manager. who had visited the mayor
at the iatter's request, that, while
a number of prominent places were
on the list he had before him, GER
tain wel1-known uptown restaurant
was among the missing. have
reason to believe that no representa-
tive of this place had been sum-
moned to the mayors office. OF
course. while this may be a game to
choke off bar trade only. it's hardly
fair to pick out some to close and to
permit others to remain unmolested.
The police commissioners have con-
veyed the mayors wishes to Chief
Long, who has sent the order along
the line and subordinate officers are
today making the rounds warning
saloon keepers to fasten their front
doors and turn the keys in their side
and back doors and keep their bars
exposed to the gaze Of the passing
throng.
Not since Sheriff Sommers's time
or before Jacob Haussling became
mayor will Newark be as dry on a
Sunday as it will be tomorrow, was
the prediction today in saloon circles
Chief OF Police Long was as COM
snunicative as ever when asked wlrat
steps he was taking
my orders are the same as they
have always BEEN" said the chief.
''All saloons in Newark are supposed
TO be closed on Sundays"