Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1896 — RAINES LAW IS WEAK [ARTICLE]

RAINES LAW IS WEAK

HEW YORKERS EASILY EVADE ITS PROVISIONS. Icnlt* in Opening Score* of Altered Hotel*— Unfavorable Weather Haa Ad'eeraer Effect l! pon Trade—G on Id Baya the Railroads Are Throttled, The Haines law did not cite New York a dry Sunday. It only reduced the number of places where liquor could be obtained to the city’s 500‘betei*, and added the price of a sandwich to the cost of a drink. 1 The whole question of Sunday prohibition depended on whether the proprietor had ten bedrooms somewhere about his place of business or not. In most of these rooms the necessary furniture had simply l>een thrown in, and if any man applied for lodging in these sub l terfuge hotels he would be turned away. But of the city’s 7.000 bnrr<S>m saloon* not one was oi>en. The screens ‘were thrown back and the bars plainly exposed to view from the streets. No policemen stood guard at side doors. In Brooklyn all that the thirsty desired - to drink was obtained in the same manner. There were more evidences of drunkenness on the streets there than in New York, however. A number of arrests of saloonkeepers wet* made, but 1 as the law isr coming to lie better understood .its infractions are dooreaoitig. It is evident, however, that the open sesame to cold bottles in Now York is the inoffensive sandwich. Gould Wants the Law Repealed. George Gould, who was at Dallas, Tex., to attend the annual meeting of the Texas and Pacific, in an interview on the subject of railroads, said: "What we need is some legislation looking to the relief of the railroads. Two-thirds of the railroads of the country are either in the hands 3ft receivers or have recently beets reorganized and are trying it again. I attribute this bankruptcy of the railroads of the country almost entirely to tlse operation of the interstate' commerce law. That law has paralyzed the railroads, and they will never prosper again until it is repealed, nor will you sec nny more roads building while that law is iu effect. The laws arc too oppressive on invested capital. The repeal of the interstate commerce law, for instance, would help-the country amazingly by,permitting existing roads to prosper and by encouraging the building of other roads. This would throw life into the railroads and other collateral industries at once."

No Life in Trade. It- G. Pun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: “The volume of business hns not on the* whole increased, nor have prices appreciably advanced since April 1, when the range sot nil commodities was the lowest ever kiiown in this country. Brendstuffs and iron products have risen alightly, but some other articles have declined, and the root of the matter is that demand for consumption is still below expectations. The number of hands employed has been slightly lessened by strikes in some establishments and by stoppagejor reduction in force in others, but the change during the last week hns not been relatively important. The weather has not favored active distribution of spring goods, and uncefTa’inty as to continued employment affects tlie purchases by hands in a large number of establishments.” ' - Taken to His Own Morgne. While trying to take a matt to prison In October, 1890, Solon Boydston. coroner of Wayne County, Or, was killed nt Orrville. The prisoner resisted and both men fell on the track of the Cleveland, Akron and Columbus- Railway, where they were struck by an engine. The prisoner, a tramp, lost a leg, while Bovdstou was killed. That the man cut to pieces was Boydston was not discovered until after the remains had lain in Boydstou's own undertaking rooms for two hours. IJis wife. Kate Boydston, "now of Chicago, sued the company for SIO,OOO damages for causing the death of her husband. The first jury awarded her $1,500 and the 1 second $2,100. Both verdicts were set aside. The third trial ended Friday morning, when the jury came in with a verdict allowing Mrs. Boydston $5,000. Death of Jno. A. Cockerill. Col. John A. Cockerill, widely known as ah editor and newspaper writer, died .-JgS&Bte .at£ais%- fisat Erfaifc&aflk, apoplexy, whit he wag in the barl>er shop of Shepherd's Hotel. Col. Cockerill was In the service of James Gordon Bennett of the New York Herald, for whom he had been in Egypt for three weeks. He left New York in January, 1805, to become the Herald's special correspondent in Japan.