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FALLS BRIDGES MAY BE CLOSED ON SUNDAYS
U.S. Court Denies Injunction Asked by Falls Bridge Companies Against Order Issued by Customs Collector.
[The Welland Tribune and Telegraph, 26 April 1921]
The United States Circuit Court of Appeals at New York City has handed down a decision affirming the order of United States Judge John R. Hazel of Buffalo, which denied the motion of the International Railway Company, owner of the upper steel arch bridge and the Queenston Lewiston suspension bridge and the similar motion of the Niagara Falls International Bridge Company, owner of the lower steel arch bridge for an injunction restraining Customs Collector Geo. C. Davidson, of Buffalo, and his agents here from closing the international bridges Sundays and holidays. The litigation followed Collector Davidson’s threat to withdraw Customs inspectors from service on the bridges Sundays and holidays unless the bridge owners would pay the inspectors for such overtime work. The bridge companies contended that payment of the inspectors for this work was up to the United States Treasury Department and that any claim which might be against the bridge companies in the matter must lie in an action by the Treasury against the bridge companies for reimbursement.
The order of Collector Davidson for closing the bridges, which was issued but suspended during the litigation of the case, provided that all trolley, automobile or other vehicle traffic, as well as foot traffic across the bridges on Sunday and holidays should be permitted to continue only on the regulation that all automobiles and other vehicles hand baggage and other dutiable things in possession of those crossing the bridges be left at the United States Customs Office in this city until the day following such Sunday or holiday for inspection. This in effect would be a virtual closing of the bridges to the bulk of their customary traffic.
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