| Show A GLARING NUISANCE SUNDAY october alth a match game of baseball between the danvers and salt lakers was played the grounds ground s on which the contest occurred are located at the corner of tenth south and state streets A large crowd of people gathered to witness the performance ra there Ther ewas was a great deal of excitement cit ement and the people were noisy and boisterous this was so much the case that the shouting could b be di distinctly heard by people living a mile and a quarter distant from the te scene one gentleman so 80 located informs us that during the progress of the sport his bis ears were frequently saluted by the sounds proceeding from the throats of the excited spectators scenes of this ch character arbeter have been enacted sabbath after sabbath duri durine ng the whole of the summer to the great annoyance of people residing in the e neighborhood yet no official effort has so far as a we know been made to put a stop astop to the wrong and pr preserve erv e the peace it looks as if t there er e w was as no m 0 intention of doing anything in that line unless th the people e take some urgent steps in the premises a matter of self protection there is a saloon situated in close cloae proximity to the grounds where these theae scenes are enacted reports lepor to come to that it is not us conducted in C conformity anfor with the law this is putting it with great mildness compared wit with h statements made concerning if one gentleman who owns a line fine property in the neighborhood says that if he had imagined that he would have been subjected to such annoyances k from the two causes referred to as be has been compelled to submit t to 0 he never would have purchased in the locality some time ago he was moving in the direction of circulating a petition to the county coutt court asking that the lic license enree of the saloon I 1 in n question be withdrawn or at least t that hat there be no renewal of it after its expiration pi ration the grounds where th the games are conducted and the saloon malooly located are just over the corporation line they are on the outside but on the very edge of the city limits and we are therefore under the purview of the county officers a as if the county was in this way being made a kind of harbor for sabbath bre breaker akem if there is ie a legal preventive of this condition it should be applied there is a question in relation to the statute in reference to sabbath breaking covering the base ball business because of the lack ot of plain specification in that line it would be absurd to take the position however that a law for the preservation of the peace and order of that day did not at least comprehend such boisterous games and sports within its genius and meaning there is a statute of that character upon the books and law and order citizens have a right to demand that it be applied even if it only be done as a to testing sting proa process ess tet liet the courts determine its scope if it is inadequate the coming legislative assembly could remedy the deficiency in reference to saloons that are not conducted within the law there is no question as to a remedy for the wrong it is clear and specific |
