Opposed to Sunday Concerts

New York, 1895

The Rev. John Baumeister, pastor of the Reformed church at College Point, has started on a crusade to stop the violation of the Sunday law. Sunday night he tried to stop a concert at Turn Hall. As the proprietor had made extensive arrangements for the concert and would lose money if the affair was put off, the preacher consented to have the concert proceed.

The minister stated that all violations of the law, except the opening of saloons on Sunday, would have to cease. He does not object to the workingmen enjoying themselves reasonably, but insists that the Sunday concerts must go.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, April 26, 1895, p. 1.