The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-01-22
0BEYS
CLOSING ORDER
Fuel Saving Small. However.
Owing to the Low
Temperature.
$4,000 PLANTS ARE. IDLE
Only - or 30 Violations Re-
ported. These Chiefly
Through Ignorance.

Going back 90 the days when Esau
the Red bought his lentis at a price, or
when Nebuchadnczzar turned himself
out to pasture, o. when Egypt priests
inclined their shaven polls before the
Hawk Headed One. there never had beer
a day until yesterday that men took
whole day of except for love or fear Of
their special gods
Along came Or. Garheld. revising The
Law and the Prophets, fixing matters so
tina. nobody who has been able to stran-
gle an impulse TO dwell west Of the Mis-.
sissppi could buy or sell much more
than pill or a pork chop or pie. and
inilicting a combination OF calamities
which seemed none the less absurd to &C
many because they we're grim and neces-
sary.
BY Jovian decree New York and all o:
the rest Of the country on the sinister
side Of the Father Of Waters vas thrown
into idleness enforced II may have been.
as a great writer once suggested. that
this patriotic idlepe>s was actually q
tonic for chose fine Young men who
work the mselves into a decline and are
driven of in hearse with white plumes
upon IL; but very many persons here
and elsewhere siGnified despite cheerful
acQuiesence in the GARFIELD .nterd'ct!on.
that they had lost day which never
can be recovered. The worm In thei;
hearts was the comprehension that there
is 40 much 10 he done and so little time
I to do II in that life itself il little more
than the brie. curling Of smoke upward.
Holiday Cheerf0lly Observed.
/ Acquiescencc and observance were
cheerful and general. Men--and women
went about making a tea. OF the.r die.
comforts and deprivatiors. Scarcely any
, scowlinE faces wore 81 be seen. The
:a!nions Of the lav were not required to
command he saving and the sacrifice
that the Government, had ordered for .he
first OF the ceruiean Mondays. All "o-
servers noted a perfect example OF 'h'
patient willingness Of tn" people 20 make
the best Of things ungrumblinRls. There
were feS examples of deliberate dis.
obedience or of cunning slbterfuecs. 'rhc
dose was A bitter one hut Father Kn!cN
erbocker swallowed it and Licked ,ht
spoon.
Eut New YORK. nevertheless, was =
Ch'il and arid city. with a d"ad-a,!vo luus
about y, Epilepsy had been inflicted
upon il by official decree There was
sudden and singular arres; Of yoli;o!
and consciousness. Phenomena sppeare,
which astonished men more than IL they
had fallen in love. \ community @
S.o00,Ooo was thrown INTO a trance be
cause casual hand unexpectedly Iva,
shaken the complex texture Of life TIN
conditions were 80 cur!ously difte-en
from sunday existence. because plac"
were alive yesterday tsnt are dead on
Sunday and dead yesterday that ar
customari.y vibrating on the religion
holiday. II was a day Of clumsy suhSti
tu;cs and mockns intongruiti"s.
Brought Realization NJ War.
But in all Of this top.syturvyisn ther
was less real and actual su'reiinE per
maps than most pcyacns had apprehende
when the Garfield order exploded like
thuuderclap. outside OF the psychology
"a. gair, whiri was expressed here an
there az being a useful mental JOLT, cal
cula;ed to make n. classes underGtdn
y that war is rot ping pong and that Tn
Germans can, be whipped unless over
individual, contributes comfort as we'll !,
$ luxury TO the national effort. certai
o well defined experiences raised the
/! heads above the parade Of raradoNes.
on tine whole, aside from the iinanr!f
: ,oss caused by the stoprags Of all IL
dustry no; vitaliy needed by tic Gov
cru;neut ard the cessation Of no! -csseT
I 'iai business 1t was pretty geneIali
= agreed that This community rnarls.
:. tair'v vol In wholly unprecedentc
:, ,imc Of trial and with 10 models to 6
d BY Peop,e had heat in tteif homes
Il as much at least as they had been haN
| ns in the whole persistent period {
i,l
'c ea,ablcs Il they had thc price. TIE
;. We're not denied tobacco. because n"
= great chain Of tobacco stores kcr' ope
until surdowu, although another sh'
. up completely all day, and al over Z
e city Tho little cisa7 and cigarette shol
u we're served BY ove"Hoated and hc Nca
u cred propficto.
y, liquor Also Was to he Had.
v /. they va, ed wec dlappir 20 va!
y, cway the cold and da,u' pneumoN'
~ lc,lor was 20 he had until suNdow
- Mos, SALOONS made - g> OF /; wi;ho'
heat o. illumination until the sun TO-
The last train Cor china, Some didi
s~y % do business at all, the propr!e'o o
being delica teiy meuhraned perhaps, az
without VIII 20 drink Their own stun
;. 10 indulge IN rhc excellent physical p
erc;sa Of cocktail siak!"c. 4 saloon
Nassau street tina never had been clos
p n the memory OF man except upon
tc Sunday or within election hours pa
n- locked i,s doors. A celebrated oasis
is Fulton stree, amazed its patrons by c
ns, fcring soft DRINKS only
o. without any question. last night W
,e the d,yes. night that Manhattan Isla
over experienced. The alcoholic fou
n. wont astonish,nEly arid Restaurar
IN and cabarets were drink'css, In I
n daytime II played with its accustom
yivacity. serving unusual applicants "
:" were Of the type that sough: ethylic 60
e. ISOLATION for cold feet as we'll as iii,
vnohs OF customary imbibers, SAILOR
as has been said, thrived between sun
g. and shutdown, but the business was
~ dead as a mackerel when dark arrive
H. The neighborhood liquors stores whi
p" serve families followed the practice
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