The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-06-24
ARE RUNNING IN FULL BLAST
WEST ,HAVEN'S PRoHIBITIYE BY
 LAW IS NOT ENFORCED.

Claim Made That it is nlegal-M erry-Go-
 Rounds and Shooting Galleries in Full
 Operation-Yesterday' Sacred Concert
 Many People at the Shore.
 Despite the bylaw passed at recent
 meeting of the board of burgesses pro- 6libiting the running of merry -go-rounds
 and shooting galleries, and the giving
 of band concerts on Sundays in Rail-
 Road Grove and at .tSe west shore, all Shese amusements were running in full
 blasb yesterday and 1t Is expected will
 continue to do so for the balance of the season.
 It now seems that the bylaw is defec- tive and in consequence imperative. A gentleman who is well versed in tine af- fairs of the borough, in speaking upon the subject yesterday, said There is mo reason, why these aInusements should not be provided for the Sunday visitors and it is almost an assured fact that they wlll continue throughout the sea- son. Why, look at the absurdity of the thing. If 1t is such an egregious sin to
 
 reaches the shore, it certainly must be equally sinful to ride on the electric cars to the shore. If one Is prohibited 1t cer- tainly seems as though the other ought to be.
 "These amusemente are running to- day because it has been discovered that the bylaw recently enacted by the board of burgesses Is defective. At the of N1o 11a was introduced prohibiting the rulnning of amusements at the west shore thirty days after the date of the passage of the act, as required by law. The meet ing, however voted to abolish them af- ter ten days notice Subsequently 1t was found after the meeting had ad- journed that this action was illegal and it is said that the vote of the meeting was changed so as to make it read thir- Ky days instead of ten days. This change was clearly illegal and in consequence fnvalidates the whole bylaw.
 'The next meeting at which anything can be done will not be held until July ?, and even if at that time any such by law should be enacted it would not be- l come operative until August, and by ] that time the season would be so far ad- l 1vanced that there would practically be | no sense in taking such action. It is | Hhe general opinion that the matter is | practically dead, for this season at least, l slnd the merry go-round and shooting l galleries, etc., will be allowed to contin- ue unmolested."
 Michael Curnen, the we'll known pro- prietor of Curnen's cafe at Railroad Grove, continues to do B large business talnd is kept busy from early morning un- til late at night During the past week he has had several select parties from Hartford, Meriden and Waterbury, who went to the shore for one of his famous shore dinners.
 Ex-Deputy Sheriff Peck is at present a fulI-hedged summer resQrt merchant. Last summer he was acting chief of po- lice at the west shore, but this summer all this is changed and he is engaged in running a labyrinth at Pleasure Beach, off Bridgeport.
 Norris well known pony circus will be the attraction at Railroad Grove this week, commencing to-day Commenc- ing next Saturday and continuing until July Pains famous spectacle, the Last Days of Pompeii, will be the att ' traction at the baseball grounds. The week following a trapeze artist and ] tight rope performer of national repute will be the special feature.
 The season at the west shore is fairly under way and large crowds are daily to be seen at Connecticut's Coney Isl- and enjoying the salt breezes and the thousand and one entertainments with which this spot abounds. Yesterdays heat caused about 7,5OO residents of the f torrid city to hie away to the west shore in search of cool and refreshing breezes, and they found them.