New Britain herald., 1928-03-30

an open mind on the subject. He
 said he favored Saturday night
 closing II majority favored it, but
 did not want to close unless other
 stores handling the same line ot
 merchandise did likewise. He said
 the stores ought to close Saturday
 nights the whole year round.
 francls B. Kelly, treasurer of the
 City National bank, said he Was
 spokesman for a number of mort h
 end merchants. He said he favored
 closing on Saturday night but most
 or ms constituents preferred to re-
 maln open Saturdays because they
 were afraid they would not get CO., operation of the smaller merchants
 tie said many north end merchants
 Will not close Saturday and remain open Friday because it interferes
 with their religious duties.
 Lotus Raphael said as far as he
 knew the merchants north of the track would not close Saturday ! nights.
 l II. J. Donnelly. proprietor of the
 Boston store, said when he closed saturday nihgts and stayed open Frlday nights he did more business. lie sald he favored Saturday night closing and would close if all inc other stores in his vicinity closed.
 Harry V. Thompson, secretary of Morgan, Kingsley and Thompson, favored Saturday night closing and ! said 1t had worked out very suc- | cessfully in Meridcn. A. J. Leven- thai reported that the manager of the Grant store would abide by the wishes of the majority.
 similar reports were made by Maxwell s. Porter for Helen Phillips and by George H. Dyson for Sloan Brothers.
 R. C. Young manager Of the hresge store and Layton Searlcs manager of the WoolNorth store sad they would abide by the wishes of the majority
 MT. Young. who has been in the city but month and a half, says he has noticed there is a division in business. He said the type of trado which goes north of the track to buy S1e, Sl3 or S25 gowns or $50 fnrhlturo probably would not cross the track to buy under any circum- S1anc's. He Sald 3 change of policy sloulJ | nave S5 CT 90 per cent co-ouera- ton. Mir, Searles reported that the i N"rlJ'n store owned hy his com- l pany was closed Saturday nights.
 Goorg" II. Wuchert, Jr., manager Of the liesse store said, "When we loned the Chamber of Commerce VIC agreed 10 abide lay tho rules" II" said his Stor" would close Sattlr day nights if the others did
 E. W. Pap", president of the Ad~ k'ns Printing 'o., said Where there has been so much agitation for so many years thero must be some merit to the proposition. Eventual ly 1t will come.' Tho Adkins com pany, he reported. now closes all afternoon Saturdays during tho sum- mer.
 MT, Pare and other local ,ner- chants adnittod that much of ,hol,- trade goes to Morlden Friday eye 1'ngs. He pointed out that Saturday closlng Was inauguratel when fac tories paid their men on Saturdays. hls condition no longer holds true, ne contended. He said people either 20 away for week end trips or work around their gardens or homes on pow.
 Mss Marguerite A. Renier, of [>enler, Pickhardt and Dunn. said 'ho had not changed her attitude of nroo years ago when she advocated saturday night closing. You only lave 10 go to Meriden and see their 'roet on Friday night to be con- inced,' she said.
 MT. Davidson said he has been to Herden eight or 10 times during / ne past year on Friday nights and ees enormous crowds many of them ( 'e" Britain people, shopping in the tores.
 David F. Manning of the Walk I Ncr stores, who owns a store in :, lerlden said the Friday night brsj :, ess there averaged G6 per cent as Y olnparcd to 34 per cent on Satur- ay. I, Ihlllp Hermann of Leonard and :, hermann company said many peo- f le go away over tho week ends and , 0 thelr buying elsewhere on Friday , jghts. ,. Mir, Raphael said he thought n 'er1den would not adopt the pr.s- n ot schedule if it were 10 be recon 7, dcred. He said Ito exchange one | '7h. LOT another, means that many N eopie Will keep open two nights. tt