Show I PRESS PARAGRAPHS Thel Th The proposed down O of ments meats on Sunday lit st t Coney VOlley island by order of Mayor McClellan under the law Jaw s is causin causing much comment and is is not without interest to Salt Lale for have wo we not a little Coney i nd of 01 our own 1 The Xe New cn York 1 World think thinker that the the course of the mayor to def defeat at tho the fr very purpose of Sunday r regulation by hy relaxing control of evil enl resorts in order to restrict others harmless harm hum less in themselves It requires no strained construction of tho the Sunday code codo to include amon among works of necessity necessity ne ne- ne and charity the the clean and healthful amusements which conduce to morality 1 The Times says say Mayor or McClellan is is quite ri right ht We cann cannot t suspend for forthe forthe forthe the benefit of Coney Concy island a Sunday Slinda i ilaw law applicable to the entire city Thero There I Ican can be no distinctions or Tho The proprietors of the tho amusement amuse amuse- amusement ment places at Coney Joney island arc are also quite ri right ht when heu they insist that the people shall not be deprived Cd of their innocent pleasures The closing on Sunday of the tho places of ot amusement down there thero would be bo a calamity It would drive great reat multitudes of of- our population to other diversions less Jess n agreeable retable and many of them probably not so blameless Tho The Indianapolis is sorrowful It says lint Hut with no shows running and no beer flowing at Coney island on Sunday what is New York going oin to do with all its western visitors on I that da day l Tho The Boston Herald has a n New En England Eng Eng- land doubt Its comment is The police now claim that they have made Coney island a clean amusement place It remains to be seen icen whether or not that's the sort of place that is wanted The Rochester Rochester- Democrat Rochester Democrat and Chron Cliron- icle thinks the free and easy era ca ela is passing passin It says Coney is is- not the only resort that is destined to have a rude awakening this year vear as to its accountability accountability accountability ac ac- ac- ac to tho law for behavior on Sunday The old free and easy and easy era is passing passin awa away The Allentown leader thinks tho the enforcement enforcement en en- of the law would kill kiU the resort It reasons this way ny The proposition to prohibit Sunday amusement amusement amuse amuse- ment of all kinds at Coney island has bas aroused a bi big sensation in and around New York It would practically mean I Ithe the death blow to this unique summer resort But all the same if the tho law lawis lawis laws is s to be ho enforced in in other parts of New York why not dt Coney Coneys Only six day licenses will be granted d hereafter here here- after unless the court intervenes and Coney Jone island on n Sunday will bear a close resemblance to Ocean Grove The New London Day believes that Coney isla island d is not such a bad b place It I says Coney island conducted in strict accordance with law and order would II lose loso oso quite of lot of its attractiveness for or a 3 great reat many persons The fact that hat something out of the ordinary may be found there is one of the principal reasons that a great many go o although the he place is by no means as bad as S some ima imagine ino and unless one is looking look look- rnA ing for something off color in tho th way of f amusement he need not be offended by v what he sees at the resort unless he be happens to be of a very sensitive tem tem- t. t The Hartford Times Times speaks for fora liberal liberal lib lib lib- eral eTal Sunday in the tho following The question ues tion to be bo determined is whether outdoor shows come under the provision of f law which forbids theatrical entertainments enter enter- on Sunday a provision which is s not enforced on Broadway If the question could be bo submitted to toa 3 a popular popular lar ar vote there can be no doubt that the tho ho liberal Sunday at at Coney inland hand would command a aery very ery Jar large e majority in n the tho city I The Peoria Transcript believes there there are unjust discriminations It says Mayor McClellan has ordered all an Sunday Sun Sun- day lay amusement places closed in the city ity of New York Between the extremes extremes ex- ex remes of rich malefactors and andward ward tou toughs bs there is a great reat middle class clas's in New York which is compelled to be exceedingly ly good I The news evidently fills Milwaukee with alarm Jarm The Jour Journal al asks Shall Coney oney island wear a Sunday Sunda lid lid Well how low would you von like to be barred from rom Juneau park of a Sunday The Portland Me Adviser takes the sensible view that Coney Cone island has bas been icen greatly improved in recent years It t is not now a reproach and a a by bv- word ord In the main while its t show may not appeal to the esthetic taste the her Sire are re r respectable Cone Coney is is essentially essen- essen a resort of the people of a great real cit city ity They are pp people who have their own wn standard of rt right bt and wron wrong In Inthe Inthe the he main they are a t law abidin abiding pen peo- pi plc 1 but the thousands thousand who have flocked to o the beach on Sundays Sundays are arc not strai folk who believe in in that kind tind of Sabbath observance which was once nee enforced in New En England land |