The herald., 1893-07-26
SIDE LIGHTS ON SIDE ENTRANCES,
Resolutions Which We're Picked
Up in the City Hall.
If They Are Adopted There Will Be
Lots of Fun.
Very Novel Proposed Regulations for the
Retail Liquor Doalers-some Rules
Which VIII Excite Much
Opposition. NJ

After the adjournment OF the police
commission yesterday there was quite
good deal of comment around the 'muni-
cipal headquarters as to the possible
action of the committee appointed by
Mayor Rowan to draw up the new reg
ulationa for the ''eide entrance" prob
lem now forced upon the commission.
It may throw little light upon the sub.
ject and relieve the anxious anticlpa-
tione OF many interested license payers
If the following resolutions are carefully
perused. The manner in which they
came into the office of this paper need
not at this time be detailed at length; it
is sufficient to say that few minutes
after the.adjournment some loose sheets
Of paper we're observed lying on the
floor where they had apparently dropped
accidentally, and from certain ear
marks these resolutions were in the pos
session of his honor the mayor, though
there ie nothing to show with certainty
that they had been drawn up or ap-
proved by him. If any such resolutions
are offered in the commission a lively
time may be expected.
WhereasAIt is the custom in this city
to charge merchants license tax graded
in amount according to their sales per
month, and an unjust discrimination is
therefore made in the case OF liquor
dealers whereby the purveyor of 5'cent
beer In humble quarters ia made to pay
the same amount for license as the pro-
prietors OF Prosperous gilded palaces
whose receipts are very much larger in
proportion. Therefore be It
Resolved. That this commission re.
commend to the council revision OF
the present licensing system by fixing
the amount to be paid by retail liquor
dealers for their Licences Ii sliding scale
In proportion to the amount of business
actually done by each dealer, but not to
he less than $50 per month in each
case.
Also that for the purpose Of prevent.
ing fraud in arriving at the amount OF
business done by such dealers q register
be kept by every retail liquor dealer and
ealoon keeper similar to hotel register,
in which every customer on entering,
and before being served, shall be re-
quired to inscribe his name and address,
and the clerk or bartender shall, in the
presence Of such customer, write in ink
the amount of his purchase. No shsk-
ing of dice with the proprietor, or other
device TO avoid payments for drinks. shalI
be allowed.
The footings of such register and the
correctness of such entries in the same
shall be verified every month on oath by
the proprietor, or by two of bic en-
ployes, and shall be the basis for the
city tax collector In collecting the license
according to the schedule to be fixed.
The collections being made at the
end of the month instead OF in
advance, the dealer shall depoeit 5000
cash security with the treasurer for the
payment of whatever license may be
charged. Il shall be unlawful for any
peaeon to registerat any one place oftensr
than three times in any "a hours. In
all cases WHO'RE the consumption by sew
eral parties 5aa paid for by one OF their
number lit shall be sufficient for the per-
son paying tire score to write his name
and address on the register as aforesaid.
Any dealer in whose place any infrac-
tion OF thesefrules may have been COM
mitted shall forfeit his license, and the
same shaA not be renewed in less pc
riod than six months.
For the prevention of crime and for
the suppression of abuses to which the
liquor saloons, az at present constructed
and carried on are liable. it is hereby or
dered that the existing entrances and
exits, windows and openings of any
kind IN the side or rear of all saloons
and retail LIQUOR stores where 4 bar is
kept shall be closed and walled up with
brick 10 that the same cannot be used.
All card rooms and private rooms in
saloons and places where any person
may be screened from view therein shall
be abolished. All doors, partitions,
barrels, boxes, curtains and other OBJ
structions wfich prevent clear view
from the sidewalk to the rear of every
such place shall be removed. At night
and during the day time, whore neces-
sary, bright light shall be kept burn
ing 60 that the whole interior of every
such place OF business shall be visible
from the street.
All preprietors and bar tenders shall
q, once register with the chief of police
by each furnishing him with his photo
graph and minute personal description,
together with business address and place
OF residence or sleeping quarters, all of
which shall be kept by said chief of
police in a book to be provided for that
purpose. Every person 30 registered
shall report to the chief Of police any
change in his location or employment or
sleeping quarters as soon as the same
may take place.
Failure to comply with these provis-
ions shall cause revocation of the license
if the offense is committed by proprie-
tor, and if by an employe such persons
shall not be again employed by any
licensed liquor dealer without the per-
mission of this board.
For THE PREVENTION and suppression
OF adulteration every saloon keeper and
retail liquor store shall furnish to the
police commission samples in quantity,
and az often as may be required by said
commissioners, of each and every brand
or package OF wines, liquors, tobacco
and cigars received by him and kept in
stock. Such samples shall be analysed
by an expert to be appointed by the
city council at salary for that purpose,
or by the health officer of the city; and
in case of the refusal or neglect OF the
council to make auch appointment, or
OF the health officer to serve, then this
board shall advertise for elemosynary
expert assistance in testing such sam