Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-07-26
Liquor Dealers Made Anxious by
Active Temperance Work.
an EDUCATIONAL CAMPAIGN.
Experiences of Other Cities With
Infection Hospitals.
ASKING FOR INFORMATION.

and realize that in obtaining
liquor licenses they will not have as plain
sailing this year as heretofore. The policy
adopted by the temperance people Is one
of education. They discovered, they say,
that in a large majority of cases residents
to applications for liquor licenses without
any knowledge of the law. To educate these
people has been the aim of the temperance
advocates and since the passage of the law
of March 3. 1893. they have accomplished
much in this line. man has been sta
toned at the District building continuously
for the past three months collecting such
data was obtainable on the subject of
liquor licenses He has made record of
every application. together with a list OF
those who signed the Application. Every IL
cense that has been issued has been care
fully scrutinized. All day long he sits
within a few feet of the clerk to the excise
board and takes notes of all actions on I'D
uor cases. When he first arrived the liquor
men laughed at him. Now they treat aim
with Difference.
The auditor has been refunding the
money paid by the liquor men in accord
ance with the order of the Commissioners,
who considered that the new law went INTO
effect upon its passage. The Court OF APP
peals, however, decided otherwise. When
the pay roll was made out ii was found
that 272 applicants for retail licenses had
put up the additional fee, and seyenty-three
wholesale dealers had also complied with
tne Nearly has INV Ciht-cu
and there remain sixty-eight retail dealers
who have not applied for the return or
their money and nine wholesale dealers.
This would seem to Indicate that the tardy
ones do not care to withdraw their deposits,
preferrinG to lose the money rather than
take the chance next year OF not getting a
have withdrawn their money are now sorry
they made such haste, and all agree that
the temperance people Will throw many OBJ
Structions in their way.
AS an example of the work the Anti-Sa-
loon League is doing the following circular
which was sent 10 the pastors of religious
organizati ons and teachers of public and
private schools is given.
In our efforts to suppress the evils OF
assistance. Section Is OF the act of Con-
gress approved March 3, 1895. entitled An
act to regulate the sale of Intoxicating Ii
quors in the District of Columbia provides
that licenses for the sale of intoxicating
liquors shall not be granted to any person
to conduct such business within four hun
dred feet of a public school house. private
school. or house of religious worship, ex-
cept in such places of business as may have
been located previous to the erection or
occupation of such public school house.
ship. measured between the nearest
trance to each by the shortest course of
travel between such place of business and
the school house. private school, or house
of religious worship.
by reference to the records of the
SCISSORS office we can tell exactly how long
license has been granted at ..ny partic-
ular place and whether the occupation has
been continuous. VIII you kindly give us
such data as will enable us to secure the
enforcement of this law by sending US an
swers to the following questions. viz:
Il What is the name of the religious or
ganiZation under your charge?
-. Where is your church building located?
Have you any private schools; where To-
Gated? Since when operated
IS. From what date has your church &C.
cupted this building, or any other buildings
on the same location, as place Of religious
worship?
-. Was this building. or site. occupied
by any other church or organization as a
place of religious worship before YOU &C.
cupied it? If so, what organiZationc
IS. What buildings were occupied by
your church as houses of religious worship
before you occupied this building? Where
you occupy them?
&c. Are there any places within four hun
dred feet of the building which you now
cupy where Intoxicating liquors are sold,
either in saloons or grocery stores whole
sale or retail? If SO. where are they loca-
ted and in whose names are the licenses
-. VIII YOU kindly answer these above
questions as to any private or public school
that may come under your observation or
IS Any further information YOU p,ay
thlnk OF value to the committee as re-
specting the enforcement of other sections
of the new license law is respectfully re-
quested. Very respectfully
THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE"
The Contagious Disease Hospital.
Information concerning the experience
or other cities regarding hospitals for con-
tagious diseases is being sought by the
Commissioners. After their fruitless en-
beavers to locate the hospital they decided
to learn from other cities how they treated
the matter. Accordingly circular letters
were sent to number of the most promi-
nent cities, and the Secretary of State was
requested to communite with the represen-
tatives of the United States abroad for the
cipal authorities abroad Today's mall
brought the Commissioners several inter-
esting letters on the subject from Pitts
burg, Indianapolis and Cleveland.
The health officer of Cleveland writes:
In reply to your communication Of the
llth instant. which. by. the mayor. was re-
hospitals for the treatment of contagious
and infectious diseases is quite isolated
the other, when constructed, was also In
remote part of the town, but is now i'm
a rather thickly settled portion. We have
never had any complaint regarding either.
,s If due , antlseptie PRECAUTIONS are used it
ton to the location of such a hospital in
any part of the town. You will, of course,
which, by the way. is deep rooted, but you
will not imperil the life or health Of the
neishbors."
The secretary of the department of health
and charities of Indianapolis says in his
letter to the Commissioners:
Your favor of the 18th to the mayor was
" ills d4iSWer,
and will say that we have a pest house for
small pox and cholera that is located out
side of the city limits. In addition we have
a contagious disease hospital for cases such
as diphtheria. scarlet fever &c. This hos
pital is located on the grounds belonging
to the city hospital, but is an entirely sep
arate building. 1t is about 200 feet from
the city hospital building and 400 to 500 feet
from any other houses. We have never
from residents in the vicinity. This hos
pital is located about two miles from the
center of the city. and transportation has
never made any material difference as to
the hospital service"
Thomas w. Baker, superintendent of the
board of public safety of the city Of Pitts
burg, says:
Yours of the 18th instant received. In
reply would say that the proper authorities
selected such site as they thought proper,
and councils purchased the site for said
purpose, although people in the neighbor-
hood objected. Our municipal hospital is
located in what was at that time sparsely
settled, but is building up around IL. 1t is
located on a tract of four acres. We have
never known of a case of contagious or
infectious disease occurring which could be
traced to the hospital our hospital is 10
Gated about half a mile from the center OF
the lower part of the city. Were IL located
i'm the suburban part of our city we would
consider the long transportation draw
back to the value of the hospital"
Questions About Liquor Licenses.
The Commissioners this afternoon asked
Attorney Thomas for an opinion as 10 their
authority to transfer a liquor license under
the old law, where the transfers. intends
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