The evening times., 1896-09-12
EXCISE B0ARD's NEW ORDER
Applicants for License Must
Make Known Their Names.
ALBION's LICENSE OPPOSED
Residents of L Street Object to the
Club Locating There-Transfers
Iner issioncrs Pow
erless to Act in the Matter.

A new regulation las toen adopted by
the excise beard which is designed TO
prevent hereafter any misunderstanding
upon the pariof signcrsas tothe real purpose
of a parer which they may be called upon
TO IDdorse in license cases.
The charge is frequently made by persons
who sign for the retailers that wrong
impression existed as TO the party ap-
pl wing Ii was the helief Of some, at the
time of iEdorsing tic application, that the
license was desired for one individual when
later developments would show the real
applicant to be an entirely different person.
10 obviate this the board has decreed that
an applicant for barroom license, whether
for original or for transfer shall procure
from the clerk of the excise board the
necessary blanks for the signatures of own
ers and residents as required 10y law and
snail ut the same time furnish the clerk
with the name OF the party seeking the IL
cense and the location OF the place sought
to be licensed. which the clerk will enter
in The taank before delivery 10 the person
applying.
No application containing signatures,
which has not been filled in 10y the clerk,
will be herafter considere by the board, and
in addition TO this requirement it is pro-
videt that the premises shall be posted as re-
quired, on the day the paper Is delivered
by the clerk TO the applicant, Us directed III
the new regulations
OPPOSE A CLUBS LICENSE.
The members of the Albion Club, a social
Organization, with headquarters at No.
l6G2 L street northwest, and which soine
of Ihe residents in that neghborhood declare
To be IA recrg anization of the Acanthus Club,
that voluntarily went out of existence sew
eral months ago, are having tussie before
the excise Doard with u number OF leading
citizens Of the neighborhood, over the appli-
cation of the society for a retail liquor
license.
A hearing was given upon the appica-
lion tins morning, at which IL was de-
veloped that many of those formerly con-
nected with the Acanthus Club are inter
estei i'll the incorporation OF the Albion, and
ii was alleged that one reason forthe change
In the raine was to avoid payment for the
preceding months of tie current license year.
There was strong protest filed this
n,urnng against the Albion application,
which represented that the neiGhhorhood oil
Z, and Sixteenth streets was distinctively
ItStLtiGs StGEIfh, s-i"N VIZ NS%-A'N'
which prevailed during the existence OF the
prior organization were most unpleasant
and uuveIcome. The threatened renewal OF
those conditions, in the language or the
pcf!tion, is viewed with alarm and 'cgrct.
The board took the case under advise
ment. and will announce its conclusions
within the coming week.
TRANSFERS GRANTED.
Favorable action was taken upon ap-
plications for transfer as follows: frois
Andrew Beach to Patrick j. Monahan, No.
2O2 l. street northwest; from the estate OF
Michael Foherty to Margaret j. Foherty,
No. sOl Twenty-sixth street; from Kate
Pumphrey to Henry Bohnert, No. 80 Q
street northwest.
The application of Garner and Green Ior
wholesale license at Nos. 500 and soZ
Ninth street northwest, was rejected 1or
the reason that the business place was To-
Gated within less than 400 feet OF the
National College of Pharmacy.
A cthnplaint has been filed with the
commissioners against the beer garden
on Fourteenth street, between ana
streets, and the board has been asked 10
take action looking to the ahateInent OF
what is described as a nuisance. 1he Com
missi0ners responded to one of these let
ters today, received from DR.. 2. II. Eaton,
stating that the are officially advised that
the prpprietor OF the garden is in no man.
rer violating the law within their jurisdc-
ton
1t is suggested, however, that II the
maintenance Of the place is annoying 10
the community complaint should be mace
I, the grand jury, and evidence produced
unou which to tase an Indictment for corr
mon law nuisance.
The Commissioners passed an oruer 'ouay
for the reappointnent OF Il. NJ. Austin as
a ;irst-cIass private in the police depart
mont Mr.. Austin resigned from the force
some time ago and entered the railway
service. but not liking that business he
arn,ied for rcadnlission to the police force
steam engineers licenses were granted
today TO Thornton snlcott and William
u Tapscott, the latter second class, the
other first class.
ToPREvENT COLLISIONS.
The Commissioners have asked the presi-
dent of the Metropolitan Railway Company
IN tissue instructions requiring that all trains
on the Ninth street brannch o. the road shall
move at a slow rate of speed and be under
full control when approaching r street