Carpenters Arrested for Sunday Work
A despatch from New York under date of November 18 says that the carpenters inside of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel were arrested for working on Sunday. They were getting the ballroom ready for a big ball to be given by Whitney Warren, but a policeman discovered the men at work in violation of the penal code, went out and blew his whistle, and arrested the men "for violation of the sabbath law." If those men had been in California, and the law which Mr. Tufts wished to secure had been in operation, they would not have been violators of the law at all, because they were working for some wealthy person. Another thing: these men violated no original Sabbath law; they simply were violators of the Sunday law of New York. The original and ultimate Sabbath law to which all men must give account in the judgment is that "the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God."