The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-09-16 00:00:00

THE REFRE3HILENT LIOLNiE AT THE
8 tATION.
To No Editor.

By a Winchester paper put into my band. thi. day
I hod that Sir. Glaupoil, applied for a Hasa.
" for an intended refreshment room at Dorchester
station,' made a eliadar applicaton at the brawater
SINWOCIII at Winchester for • license fur refreshment
roam in the cDirse ••I erection at the Winchester
station. It there came out that the South-Westeru
Railway Ormpeuy were to be paid 10 per cent. on
their outlay f the use f snob room. I and that ex-
plales why the company should back up the *polies-
don in question. They want their 10 prr cent. It
looks as if this had more weight with them than the
requirements of the public. If nt. how can they
explain their bruin. remained dormairt for 20 years,
nod, like Rip Yea Winkle, &wok • from their sleep to
what they bow call the urgent necusity of the public
for an additional drinking shop. Where are our wide-
awake teetotal friends? Why don't they try an offer
15 per cent., and back up Sul:opinions, and me what
rfftct it weuld have? Hen is a cue worth their
energies, and they cannot be accused of attempting to
crash a Attacking the license of small
public and allowing this to pass u•iehallenged look.
like en•lsavouting to stop a small leak in a cask and
allowing the coetentai to run out freely from the bung
hole. At Wincoeeter, in support of the application
it was shown t:iat •iver 400,000 passengers arrived and
departed snoually hum that station, an 1 often SI
many as 2,000 doily. At I).•rchuter they could only
squeeze the number up to ab iut 7.1,000, the numbers
of Winchester being more by tire to one than thou
frequenting Dorchester et ation. Surely, the former
would have the greate-t claim. The applicant told
the Winchester Beach he wee not going t live there
but the place would be under his '' direct control.'
One would much like to know what that direct control
Means. How inioy hours a day vu. he give his
personal atteutiiu to a place, consideri• g he has nine
Of ten liaxinse.7 Can a day a weak be given, serving
all plac s alike? One naturally ask. if one portion con
look alters Daintier of refreshment roams within the
meaning of the Act. Why not one person look after
a numb of ot'ilichousu? And if so, is it not wrong
for magistrate. in carious puts of the country object-
ing to grant more than one license to a house t • the
some in•lividual The Winchester justice. retailed
the application. They were doubtless old, experienced
hands—too wile-awake to be caught with c! at!.
They were not going ti damage the trade of their
town and preju lice the Waxed of their fellow towns-
men, who paid mates and taxes, awl help 611 the
pockets of a wealthy cimpany and enable the cocci
puny to goalie their 10 per cent. They theught of the
large outlay which their own townspeople had been at
to meet the reri liremeuta of the public; and that
Ilk, D ircbestair at present, had every
acconin dation in immediate contiguity to the station
for the convenience, wants. and neceeeities of the
public, and therefore sail " No." lain anxiously look-
ing forward to we what our D.archeeter Bench will do,
sed what action our Blue Ribbon and teetotal friends
will adopt, ani what can be sail why Dorchutir
j isticee (who have the goof of their town and the
interest of the pu'ilic at he art—at any rate, aa much,
t • say the leut, as the Wineleeter justices) rboald
Kraut an application which the latt.ir refuse I.—Your.
truly,
Fain PLIT.