New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . ligioussentiment opposed tq recreations of a frivoloustype, there were many who revolted against therigidity of church discipline. Thus every noveltyattracted. Theatrical performances in the citiesof Philadelphia and New York, travelling cir-cuses, and itinerant shows in the country townsfurnished much of the amusement which the peo-ple of the State craved. Among the mass of the people it was an eraof coarseness and brutality. Unpopular actorswere driven with vituperative cat calls from thestage; public balls were held in m
New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . ligioussentiment opposed tq recreations of a frivoloustype, there were many who revolted against therigidity of church discipline. Thus every noveltyattracted. Theatrical performances in the citiesof Philadelphia and New York, travelling cir-cuses, and itinerant shows in the country townsfurnished much of the amusement which the peo-ple of the State craved. Among the mass of the people it was an eraof coarseness and brutality. Unpopular actorswere driven with vituperative cat calls from thestage; public balls were held in municipal build-ings, in which there were drinking and , dog, and prize fights were common. Manymen went armed. It was a time of physical aswell as of intellectual contests. While local lot-teries had been generally suppressed, there wasa large trade in tickets of lotteries drawn in near-by cities. Saloons were slowly taking the placeof the old-time taverns, and malt liquors werebeing introduced as substitutes for those of a spir- 220 NEW JERSEY AS A OOL. ituous nature. But among the more highly edu-cated the sympathies of the people of the Statewent out to the criminal, delinquent, defective,and dependent classes. Prison reform had led tothe abandonment of the old prison at Trenton,now used as the State arsenal, and found its ex-pression in the erection of a more commodiousstructure. The revelations made by Miss Dix ledto greatly needed reforms in county jails and poor-houses, while those unfortunates who were onlydependent, as early as 1825, were cared for by theLegislature. This was by means of an act passedfor the protection of children who had been aban-doned by their parents. Similar legislation ledto the legislative action of 1851, limiting the hoursof child-labor in factories, and preventing the em-ployment of those under ten years of age. In 1845an orphan asylum had been incorporated nearPrinceton, at Mount Lucas, which was soon fol-lowed by similar institu
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