The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-06-22
MERCHANTS TAKE ACTION
DO NOT LIKE MARoR'S ORDER
 REGARDING EXPLOSIVES.

Believes That Order Restricting Fourth
 of July Sales Would Mean Serious
 Loss-send Petition Protesting
 Against Action to Prevent Them from
 DispOsing Os Goods.
 At meeting of the executive con1- mittee of the Business Mems associa- ton, sixteen members present. which was held yesterday afternoon to take action relative to Mayor Studley's or der prohibiting the sale of certain ex- Dlosives for use on the Fourth of July the following resolutions were unani- mously adopted, and copies presented to the attention of the mayor and the fire marshall:
 Resolved, From statements made by members of the New Haven Business Mems association relative to, the stock of goods purchased by them and other retail and wholesale dealers in this city for the Fourth of July trade. that it is the opinion of this board that the issuance of an order by the mayor or fire marshal restricting their sales on certain articles. always before classed as fireworks, would be a serious loss to said merchants and that in fairness to them such orders should not be is- sued to interfere with their trade this year.
 And be it further resolved, That a committee of this association be ap- pointed to go before the board of alder men and advocate the passage of an or dinance prohibiting in the future the sale of such objectionable goods as it is proposed to do away with this year.
 Above resolutions were adopted by the board of directors. the New Ha- ven Business Mems association on June 21. 1905. {l ..,. --.---~ Attest: E F. J. Linsley,
 dfa4 Secretary. To Joshua G. Gladwin, Esq, ! Fire Marshal
 The following petition was also pre- scented to the mayor yesterday after noon: To Hon. John P. Stud1ev,
 1 LII tue Nlity b1 2NGW. IldNGil.
 We, the undersigned. citizens, tax payers and merchants of the city of New Haven, who deal in fire arms, fire works, ammunition and general Fourth of July supplies respectfully represent:
 That as usual we last winter pur- chased 8 large stock of fire arms and fire works for Fourth of July business relying on the usual custom. That we are informed through the public press that the mayor or1scontemplates action which will prevent the use or sale of ordinary top pistols top canes or other usual Fourth of July explosives. that if such action is taken by the city author ities the undersigned as such dealers will be prevented from selling or dis posing of their stock of Fourth of July goods which they have in good faith purchased, without notice and said l merchants will be subject to very ser ious loss thereby
 They, therefore respectfully protest lagainst any action which will this year present them from disposing of the goods already on hand and subject II them to such severe loss and respectful ly maintain that as all such goods are ordered early in. the spring they have not received sufficient notice of such contemplated action. < e-. ". J. Atwater & Co.,, ... l John E. Bassett, I. T. Bulley, .. l., c. F. Sparks, .- The John E. Bassett Co, John B. Judson. "
 Simons X O.,
 Solomon Fry, .. The Bronson & Townsend Co.,, F. W. Smith, James Clark, Powder dealer, The Elm City Mfg. O., .. $. c. Phillips, t
 D. Heigerman, .,- :. c. w. Buchman, =. J. J. Foley,
 Clarence D. Holt, <. :" | J. H. Marsh,
 Sam. H. Williams, l George Jacobs & Bro,
 22 Congress avenue; ~ James Montana,
 90 Hallock street; l W. J. Phim, -@. 311 Congress avenue; Wyman Weinek,
 Warner Bros.,
 Angelo J. DeMatty,
 112 Grand avenue;
 Alex L, Dupins, Garret Roman, " W. H. Doud, S. J. Stone,
 J. E. WetherwaS,
 Geo. D. Johannes,
 Samuel Volshin,
 Andrew Freiklin,
 Joseph Rather. s
 Since the passage of the prohibitory order of Mayor Studley the fireworke dealers have held number of meetings to consider the matter, although the first intimation that the dealers had of any such step being taken was last Fri day, when they read it in the newspa- pers. A committee consisting of the following gentlemen was appointed to lwait upon the mayor and state their