Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-10-28


SOME BAR ROOMS.
Friday Of this week is the first day OF No
vember. when, under the laws of the District
the saloons are required to have new licenses
70 conduct business for twelve months from
that date. Under the new license regulations
many keepers of saloons will find il difficult to
obtain licenses at the end of this week and the
consequence will be that if the laws are strictly
enforced there Will be many Of them closed
next Saturday. In the first place the applica-
ton for license has to be filed with the Com
missioners at least ten days before the begin
ming Of license year.
SEARCHING THE POLICE COURT RECORDS
While the Commissioners considering the
applications Of the saloon keepers the police
are busy searching the records to find who OF
the liquor dealers have violated the laws as
such violation will operate against the chances
OF favorable consideration of their applica-
uons. During the past year the violations OF
the Sunday law were unusually large ON ac-
count of the Sunday preceding the presidential
inauguration. when most of the saloons we're
open. There Were more than one hundred
saloon Keepers prosecuted for that sunday, and
under the new regulations those convicted for
feited their right to license for the coming
year, as it is provided that no license shall Issue
10 any person who has been convicted Of that
ohense during the past year.
SUNDAY sELLEEs UNEASY.
Paragraph u of the fourth section Of the new
regulations is what is disturbing many Of the
saloon keepers. 1t provides that all applicants
for license shall allow the duly authorized
agents or officers of the Commis sluuers full
opportunity TO examine the premises tor which
a license Is asked. A refusal to do so Is deemed
a sufficient cause TO reject the application or
annnl the license if already granted. The
disturbing feature of this paragraph Is the in
depreciation OF 1t. The saloon keepers do not
understand exactly what Is meant by that part
of the regulations. Those who are disturbed
by this paragraph chiefly those who in
variably violate the Sunday law. They do not
know whether II IL the intention OF the Com
missioners to have the police inspect their
places on such days or not. Ii such L. the case
they fear their Sunday trade will be broken up.
SALOONS NEAR PRIVATE RESIDENCES.
Another clause is evidently intended 10 eradi-
cate saloons from the quiet neighborhoods.
This clause provides that no license shall DO
granted for a saloon, the entrance 10 which IS
within 80 feet OF the entrance to a private resi-
dence where the owner or lessee OF said resi-
dence shall file q written protest against grant,
ing such license.
BAR ROOMS IN THE COUNTY.
The clause relating TO the county if strictly
enforced, will lessen the saloons outside the
cities of Washington and Georgetown or will
put them much further apart. This clause will
especially effect the saloons on the 9TH street
road just north of Boundary street. Ii is pro-
vlded that the saloons must be at least 900
feet apart, except in cases where four-fifths OF
the heads of the families within a mile OF the
place shall petition for the granting of the
license.