The New York herald., 1920-01-25
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Measure Adopted by Health
Department to Reduce Car
Congestion.
CASES ALMOST DOUBLED
Telephone Business Is Grip
pied, 400 Wire Employees
Being Ill.
/, FIX HOURS FOR THE THEATRES
Opening of Playhouses Spread Over
Period Ending at Nine
in Evening.
CASES ALMOST DOUBLED
FIX HOURS FOR THE THEATRES

ierday issued proclamation calling OH
stores. factories and other commercial
organizations in the city to regulate their
hours Of business during the influenza
epidemic SO that crowding in subway, sur
face and elevated cars will be reduced as
much as possible to prevent spread CT
the disease The proclamation, when Is
similar to one issued by the body during
the epidemic in 1918. is effective at one
o'clock Tuesday morning next.
A schedule contained in the proclamation
follows =
.All retail stores, except dry goods, 1000
and drug stores, shall open at eight A. NJ.
; and close at four p NJ. Retail dry goods
stores shall open at half-past nine a. NJ
and close at six P. M.
"All wholesale and jobbing estapllsh-
n ents shall open at a quarter past elsht
a. NJ. and close ut quarter past loui
Pm.
"All offices shall open at half-past eight
, A. NJ and close at half-past four +. NJ,
! provided, however, that where offices are
maintained in connection with and III thc
same buildings with any or the trades'
business or occupations otherwise resu-
lated by this order. and where such offices
closing shall conform with those prescribed
for such trades businesses or occupations.
and provided, also. that any Office may
close at half-past three p. NJ. or carrier, IN
any cases where it is so desired. le IS
understood, however, that the opening hour
is in no wise affected by the last provision.
In Manufacturing Places.
"All textile manufacturing establish
ments shall open at nine A. M. and close
NJ five p. NJ. All non-textile manufactur-
ing establishments shall open at halI-pas'
nine A. M and close at half-past five r.
NJ provided, however, manufacturing
iew.,icrs shall open at a quarter to eight
4. NJ. and close at quarter TO i've =;
NJ and paper box manufacturers shaii
onen at half-past nine A. M. and close ut
half-past six +. NJ.
"Ijthographers and printers shall open
at q quarter to eight A. NJ. and close at
"A quarter to five t. M.
Storage warehouse establishments shall
open at half-past seven "A. NJ ana close
at a quarter past five F. NJ.
The opening and closing OF banks,
trust companies and offices of the United
states government are not affected by
the provisions of this order.
"Al establishments formerly opening
before eight A. NJ and closing later than
six p. NJ shall not be disturbed
soon after the announcement or the
proclamation DR.. Royal 5. Copeland
Health Commissioner, held conferences
with representatives of all the large de-
partment stores in the city as well as
representatives of the theatres. At the
close of the conference with the depart
~ment store representatives Jesse Straus,
representing r. III. Macy & Co., and Ber-
,uard T.. Gmbel. representing Gimbel
Brothers. praised DR.. Copeland for his CO.
operation in endeavoring to make 1t easy
for department stores to aid in the work
of combating the disease.
Schedule of Theatres.
At the conference with the theatre man
agers the following schedule OF opening
and closing hours for evening perform
ances was adopted
Motion picture theatres between Four
teenth and Fifty-ninth streets, accom-
modating more than $50 persons, will close
their performances before eleven o'clock
at night. The Lexington Opera House,
the Palace, the Manhattan. the Columbia
and all vaudeville houses giving two per-
formances a day will open their perform
ances at eight o'clock in the evening and
close a quarter of an hour before their
usual time.
The theatres which VII open at a quar-
Ter after eight =. NJ. are the Winter Gar
den. the Lyric. the Century. the fippi-
drome. the Selwyn. the Casino. the Astor.
1.-The Park. the Vanderbilt, the Central and
the Shubert.
Those that will open at half-past eight
each evening are the Liberty the Bijou
the Maxine Elliott. the Comedy. the New
Amsterdam, the Morosco the Nora Bayes
the Lyceum the Criterion, the Knicker-
booker, the Globe and the Belasco.
Fifteen minutes to nine o'clock is the
opening hour for the Broadhurst. the
Plymouth, the Harris. the Booth. the
Thirty-ninth Street, the Eltinee. the Hud-
son. the George NJ Conan. the Gaiety. the
Cort and the Cohan & Harris.
Theae theatres will open at nine o'clock
each evenng:-The Longacre. the Bel
mont, the Little Theatre the Forty-eighth
Street. the Playhouse. the Republic. the
Empire and the Punch and Judy.
2,361 New Cases.
Or Copeland declared that reports OF
influenza cases in the entire city COM
piled up TO ten o'clock Saturday morning
revealed 1851 new cases for the twenty
four hours preceding. He said that the
i325 cases reported in Manhattan for
that period almost equalied the number OF
cases reported for the entire city for the
twenty-four hours ended Friday morning.
Or. IT. r. Peck, Assistant Sanitary
superintendent of the Health Depar rt-
ment's Brooklyn branch. declared yester-
day that statistics compiled on Influenza
cases in that borough indicated the
disease had not reached the epidemic
stage there.
1--WE can only go by comparison with
Tho figures OF the epidemic year" he ga id.
Between october I. 1918, and January 81.
1919. 55.674 cases Of influenza and pneu-
rnonia were reported in Brooklyn. There
were 4,S39 deaths from the influenza and
5422 from pneumonia. This was one
death in five reported cases" The ratio
oe cases thus far this year. he said fall
far short OF those OF the last epilemic.
Reports received up TO six o'clock this
evening Indicate that tho number OF casas
ending with ten O'Clock tomorrow morn
inY will exceed by few hundred the total