SUNDAY IN NEW YORK.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9431, 1 June 1896, Page 4

SUNDAY IN NEW YORK.

April sth was the fii'dt Sunday, say* LW-iel's New York correspondent, ou whioh the new liquor law, called the Raines Bill, was fully enforced. Under its provisions no restauruut-keepsr ia allowed to" e'er ire wine with dinner, and every saloou and testauranfc, except hotels, is required to close from Saturday midnight until five o'clock oa Monday morniug. No woman at all is allowed to serve liquor, aud two waitresses in a Dutch beer, saloou were arrested on Saturday aimply foi serving customers with beer, there boiug no queation raised as to tho 'respectability of the girls. In private Clubs it is 'forbidden that drinks shall be served to members on Sunday*, either with or without meals. A per.-ou is forbidden to offer 1 quor iv his own home to visitors, and a police officer is empowered to invade a private residence if he j»Ußoojts that otiuri than the acl*nal members of ( the family are drinking wine at dinner. The room whore the liquor.-* aie kept.at holels must be open to the svroet, and a policeman sla-ids iv front, wh.«re he o_n walou ghat no person other thau tha proprietor or ITib ussiatatit ba allowed to enter the room, and thcu ouly for the purpose of getting a bottle to serve to an aotiul ve«iient or guest in the hotel." A te»t case waa made on S*t-jrday of a man conducting a large boarding house* for labourers who breakfast an four o'clock each morning, it, being decided that he should not be alto wed to. serve the meal at that hour, and that the labourers must either go to work hungry or delay starting uutil later.