The morning times., 1896-11-01
LICENSE YEAR IS, CLOSED
Total Number of Applicants
Less Than Last Year.
MANY FAILED TO APPLY
Among Them Were well-KnOwn
Places Chamberlin's Hotel Is
Among Then-Books Kept Open
Over Time In Order to Give All
a Chance. -s"e0.

The excise board closed It's labOrs for
| the license year at O'Clock yesterday
afternoon. The usual hour of closing the
| office is p. m, and Saturday is not u
day TO hold open beyond the hour. But
Clerk Roger WIiiiams wanted To give every
man the last chance to save himself extra
work and the risk OF the loss OF his license.
Therefore, he re.nained ut his desk an
hour longer than usual
The total number VI applications this year
was 6S7, a heavy falling off as compared
With the number OF applications in at the
same time last year. but there have been
during the year large number or appii-
cations rejected and 1T Is not probable
| that anything like 50 large number Will
De thrown out this year. Consequently IL
appears To be a more just comparison 10
pat the number Of applications for this year
| against the number of the liquor dealers
| actually in business to the present time.
TOTAL NUMBER OF BARS.
The total number of bar rooms open dur
ing the past year was $50, the number OF
wholesale places, 1863 The whole num-
Der of applications for bar room licenses
at the close yesterday was $40, falling
off OF 10; and of wholesale, l47, loss
| of / u. This makes the total decrease 50,
with loss OF revenue to the District Of
81 500 on retail, and $1,000 on whole
sale licenses.
1t is probable that many OF the places
that fniled to file application VIII COLI
tinuc in the business Some Of them GER
| tainly Will. The list given below includes
the Army and Navy Club, and the Metro
politan Club. and there can be no doubt
that these houses expect to continue to
sell liquors.
They Will be obliged, however, to close
their bars Monday till matters can lie
Ia
is that all places whose proprietors have
not made their deposit at the close of busi-
ness on October 81 must shut up ut mid
night on that date. To reopen they Will
be obliged to make application as If for
opening new place and deposit the Zee.
This will require, except in the case OF
the clubs, n new paper signed by anna Iority
of the property owners in the vicinity.
This paper will be difficult TO secure In
some instances.
Also the excise board may consider the
places as not on the list of those already
in operation, and there has been an uIi-
written rule in the past not to grant
licenses to new places.
CHAMBERLIN's AMONG THEM.
Considerable surprise was expressed
among the bre very agents and others who
are generally around the board rooms
that John Chamberlin's old place was
among the number failing TO make the
deposit.
1t was known that the blank had heen
taken and il was expected that II would
be turned in during the day. ltturned out
that Mr.. SOmhorn, who is the partner
actively in charge of the business, had
sent the necessary paper over To Baltimore
for Mrs. Chamberlain TO sign and II had
not been returned AIR. Somborn tclcphoncd
To the board, but failed to get u reply. He
understood, however, that he had Until IL
O'Clock Monday to file his uprEt alton and
make his deposit.
The list of persons, etc, failing to make
the required application and deposit is as
follows:
Retail-Julius Albrecht, $50 Tenth
stree; northwest; Army and Navy Club,
southeast corner street and Connecticut
avenue northwest. Andrew W Brown and
William Mullen, gig Ninth street north
west, William Brown, T25 Seventh street
northwest; Thomas + Cahill, +a3 Eleventh
street northwest, Chamberlin * Somborn,
s25 Fifteenth street northwest: c. NJ. and
F. W. Enrich, New Jersey avenue and Z
street northwest; Michael I. Green, 61t
Four-and-a-halr street northwest; Fridolin
Clock, Buena Vista, ID. c.: Potomac Ger
mana American Pleasure Club, Giesboro
Point, D. c.: Martin F. Henberger, 6G6
Louisiana avenue northwest: lnter1tlCnal
Athletic Park Club, Conduit road. lSttro-
pOli,an Club. Seventeenth and II streets
northwest: Frank j. Nolte, IL 3 Eighth street
southeast; Alexander 4 Raft, 426 Tenth
street northwest, William Smith, 1000 f
street northwest; Washington Jockey Club.
Benning's track; John II Schombert, 201O
street northwest.
WHOLESALE HOUSES REMISS.
Wholesale-C. +. Arabian. 531 Thirty
third street northwest: II. l.. Elout, 52 f
street southw est; Herman BcnZler, 927
Temperance Alley northw est. Bryan Bros,
COS Pennsylvania avenue northwest: John
F. Cissel. 1914 Seventh street northwest:
California Wine and Fruit Company, 5lS
Eleventh street northwest; Fred W. Drcs-
cher, 81 8 Seventh street southwest; George
and F. W. Enrich 1906 Thrty-second
street northwest; John X. Ergood, 1SOS
Fourteenth street northwest; William II.
Keister 222 Ninth street no INV est;
Nicholas KeySer. Jennings, ID. c.: q. Riani.
1876 street southeast; J. Hall Semmes.
74U Twelfth street northwest; j. j. Signor,
Belt road, Tenley ytown, d. c.
There are only two or three in this list
which were pronounced by those familiar
with the situation to be ''chestnuts,"
meaning that they were not likely to CON
tinuc in business.
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