The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-02-25
THE CONSOLIDATED roll,
And the Movement for More Sunday
Trains.

Ahu she movement for More Sunday
Trains.
Many of our Chapel street merchants
and other business men are enthusiast
! tic over the action of Judge Hall, act
ing head of the Consolidated road in
advocating before the legislature
through the committee on railroads, the
public need of more Sunday trains
from New York One of our we'll known
| merchants speaking Of this matter yes
terday said the need Of more trains
out of New York Sunday was great as
has long been intensely felt. He said
that every busin ass man in New Haven
shat he knew applauded the action Of
Judge Hall and was warmly in favor
of the proposed change.
Judge Hall said yesterday on the sub
ject, that the New York, New Haven
and Hartford Railroad company had no
special desire to run trains on Sunday,
and were only advocating the change
because of the very evident pressure of
public opinion on the matter.
AS the law now stands said Judge
Hall, 1--WE cannot run trains through
this state between 10:3O in the morning
and o'clock in the afternoon. New
York accommodations leave New York
city at 6 a. m. and 7:30 a. M, arriving
here at S:45 and 1920, respectively, thus
coming under the law. From 1880 a. m.
however, until p. M, we run no pass
enger trains out of New York that pass
through this state. During the week
seventeen trains leave New York dur
ing those hours. This prohibition has
of late become very annoying to trav-
elers out of New York city, especially
since the volume of travel abroad has
SO largely increased. Thus, for instance,
people coming in on the liners Satur-
day night, too late for the eastbound
trains, have to wait all night in New
York until Sunday at p. M, causing
in many cases annoying delays. In
New York and Massachusetts, there are
no laws prohibiting necessary Sunday
travel, and think it is time that Con-
necticut falls in line. To travellers used
to accommodations on Sunday all over
the country and abroad, the refusal Of
Connecticut to allow through train SER
vice gives the state a bad reputation, on
account of this blue law
1--WE do not want indiscriminate and
heavy Sunday travel We merely want
midday train out of New York that
will accommodate the hundreds of peo-
pie who would take advantage of it,
We desire to put on the 1903 daily out
of New York due here at IL noon, and
to connect here with the Hartford divi-
SION We would not run Sunday excur-
sions anyway, there is law which pro-
hibits that AS matter of economy.
if for no other reason, we desire our
men and machinery to rest one day out
of the seven, and would not run any
more trains than were absolutely nee
essary for the travel, one as I have
said, would amply suffice"
Last evenings New York Post says
on the subject in a New Haven dis
patch:
This is the first real attempt since
the existing Sunday law was passed in
1887 to secure it's repeal or important
modification, it being generally accept
ed as a fact that, while the senate
might be carried for the trains, the
strong sabbatarian sentiment in the
lower house, with many of it's members
i1NiDS III country lOWHS IclliUlG lTUIl
railroads and not Inconvenience by
lack of Sunday trains, would insure de-
feat of the proposed change.
1.-The present Sunday laws of Connec-
ticut against running Sunday trains
are pretty drastic. No trains of any
kind can DE run ON sunday between
sunset and sunrise, except from neces-
sity and mercy; but, before 1890 a. m.
and after 8 p. m. mail trains and such
other trains as the railroad commission
ers may authorize on the ground of
public necessity or for the preservation
of freight may be run. The exception
has been widely stretched. Thus some
ten passenger trains, presumptively
carrying mails, leave this city on Sun
days before 1890 a. m. and after 3 p. M.
and the amount of 'perishable" iron
wood and hardware, coal and grain
carried during the daylight on Sundays
during the same time would hardly
bear investigation. But during the So
called church hours of the state-be- |
tween 1890 am. and 8 p. m.--the law
has been pretty rigidly regarded, es-