The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-06-03
4 coon MOVE.
Justice Wood Makes a Start in the
Right Direction.

The police court records OF Tuesdays
l happenings are interesting and encour-
Il aging especially so with regard to two
< of the fines Imposed. The pecuniary ben
z4eiit to the city thereby is small and
4 hardly worth the trouble, but the princi'
4 pile is all right. A man was fined for let
3 ting his horse run at large and man was
n fined for leaving his horse unattended.
3 The best part Oft is that it Is true. 1t
\ is not necessary to mphasize further than
we have already done the Importance of
4 prompt action with regard to the latter
offense. 1t is too evident upon its face
that the safety of all ladies and children
4 who venture alone upon the streets. to
y say nothing of that of men who are bet.
ter able to take care of themselves, is inn
4 perilled each time that a horse is left to
follow his own will as to whether he will
stand or not. 1t Is, indeed. matter of
graduation that..th eyes of those. to whom
the welfare of the people on the streets
is intrusted are at last turned in that
direction. We trust that they will keep
them there. AS to the 81 taken from the
man who let his horse run at large there
is little to say, except that if the city
we're to collect that sum from the owner
of every other horse found roaming around
within the corporate limits, we would
soon have enough in the oxchequer to give
u picnic at Carr's woods to the police force
once month during the warm weather,
or to make up to them the amounts they
have had to pay in days gone by for get
& ting city scrip cashed for their salaries.
In addition to this, If one-half the sum of
one dollar was taken from the owner of
each COW that is found roaming around,
as the yeriest nuisance of all noxious
nuisances, within the corporate limits,
there would be enough in the excheQuer
tokeep nice cool pitcher of lemonade
always on the table in Chief Justice
Woods apartments, or to enable the
school board to pay back to the teachers
the sums some of them have had to pay
4 for getting warrants cashed for their sal
aries. And If all the yagrant cows and
horses found roaming at large with
within the corporate limits were hitched
together into one big team the city would
have enough power to enable them to re-
move the sewerage and other offal that
has been dumped around at peoples door
steps or to haul the new public building
out of its obscurity and the clutches of
the s'ring"up to some point convenient to
the public, out of courtesy to whom the
building has its name The list of pos
sibilities thus based upon probabilities
too improbable ever to be even possible
is large one, though not by any means
one that is impossible because not prob
able.
The cashing of city warrants is bust
ness that could and may be n profitable
one, and it is good that there should be
those among us whose standing is such
before the people and the church that they
can be relied upon to do their duty by
the teachers of the public schools, the po-
lice force, and by others who may, by
reason of temporary embarrassment, need
their services. II is good also that this
is in the hands OF persons on the inside,
because their knowledge of things with
regard thereto may thus enable them to
use greater discretion and judgment in
their transactions.
A knotty question is that of citizens
selling on Sunday and it was found too
knotty for the court to do much with
Tuesday. 1t is strange, too, when places
of business are and have been open, al
most openly, here every Sunday for years.
One at least, can always be found avail
able. The Quertion has been up many
times before and is likely to continue to
come up; yet if what It's agitation in the
past has amounted to is to be taken as
measurement of what is going to he done
in the future we cannot think it will
amount to much. If che matter is to be
agitated at all let it be done with view
to thoroughness and with some system.
With no view to injuring the business
prospects of anyone we mention the dance