New Britain herald., 1929-02-19
Bristol Meus
COUNCIL PERMITS
SABBATH Skating

0verrid@ Objections for Further
Sunday "Commercialiladon'
May ALTER CITY HALL
Would Postpone New Building Ten
Years-School Board Estimate
Lower Than In 19:S-JcnninGs
School Entered
In conformity with the policy Of
the present city council to sponsor
clean sports in Bristol. the city
fathers, following a public hearing
i last evening, voted to permit roller
skating Sundays between the hours
| of and p. m. and 1880 and 10
p. m. The action last night was the
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Objections to the further COM
liberalization of the Lords day
were advanced by Rev. William r.
Davis. pastor of the Asbury Metho-
dist church. representing the Metho-
DIST ministers OF the city, and Henry
Is. wilcox OF 62 woodland street. Mr..
| DAVIS pointed out that the protest
was not based on any legal basis but
! felt that the city councils action
should be In conformity with public
sentiment. which ne felt was against
the further commerciallzation OF the
sabbath. 1t was not the idea OF the
ministers TO draw fine distinction
| between motion pictures and roller
skatlng, Mr.. DAVIS stated, because
one right does not rlgft a wrong
The protest, he added, was registered
on moral basis.
Mr.. Wilcox agreed with Mr.. Davis,
Directing primarily to the CONNER
cialization of Sunday because lit will
not do the town any good"
The sponsors of the Sunday sport
fund an enthusiastic hacker in John
B. Donnelly a former member of the
city council and candidate for mayor
at the city election in 1927. There is
no more wrong in skating around a
hall on eight wheels than in riding
around the country on four wheels"
Mr.. Donnelly contended, He believed.
however, that the sport should be
properly supervised by the police
department.
Mr.. Morey. the owner of the rink,
and Fred Minor, an employe, both
advised the council that the skating
activities were closely supervised at
al times and an invitation was ex-
tended to both the Rev. Mr., Davis
and Mr.. Wilcox to visit the rink at
any time when it was open. Mr..
Davis said that he would be glad to
visit the rink on some occasion dur
ing the week and added that per-
sonally he was in favor Of all kinds
of sports. He believed. however, that
ample opportunity was afforded for
such activities on six days during
the week.
At the close OF the hearing Coun-
Gilman +. f. Merrill moved that
roller skating be permitted on SUM-
days. The motion was promptly
seconded by Councilman Charles r.
Anderson. There was no dissenting
vote cast.
Discuss Store Lease
| The Question of leasn gthe store,
formerly occupied by Valentine
Brothers. in the city hall was
| brought up at a meeting of the city
council last evening. Councilman
! Charles r. Anderson believed that a
long term lease would be inadvis-
able for the reason that in the near
future 1t might be found feasible to
remodel the entire city hall building.
| Upon his suggestion, the matter was
left in the hapds of Mayor w. Ray
mond Crumb. who will receive pro-
posals and submit them at the next
meeting of the council.
Mr.. Anderson stated that 1t might
be possible to remodel the present
city hall SO as to make available for
city purposes all three floors of the