The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-27
Thomas d. Tate Wins
His Fight With
Pharmacy Board.
.PARKER'S OPINION.
Thinks License Board
Should Rule Out
O'TooIe Block.
Board

Clinton, April 26.-Thomas Dawson
Tate has emerged successfully from his
five years fight with the board of reg
istration of pharmacy.
He received by this mornings mail a
certificate which says that in the judg-
ment of the board of registration of
pharmacy, Thomas D. Tate is proper
person to be entrusted with a sixth
class license, as described in section 10
of chapter 100 of the public statutes,
and that the public good will be pro-
NOTED by the granting of said license.
The certificate is signed by john Lar
rabee, the new president of the board,
Secretary Amos K. Tilden and r. Il.
Butler. It was transmitted today to the
seleotmen, who will now be able to
grant Mr.. Tate, a sixth-class license,
the same as to the other druggists.
This certificate represents a victory
gained by Mr.. Tate after contest that
began in 1895. The Spy printed the cir
cumstances under which Mr.. Tate was
refused a license in 1895, and in every
year since, except one, until now, by
the board of registration of pharmacy.
| 1t also told how he mad appealed to
was not necessary, however, for the
governor to interfere. Mr.. Tate says
that as soon as the pharmacy board
discovered that the circumstances had
reached the columns of a newspaper
like The Spy they decided the best
thing they could do was to make mat
tiers right by issuing Mr.. Tate certiti-
cate.
Mr.. Tate said to the correspondent of
The Spy: Il shall keep right on work
| ing for the passage of the bill limiting
the terms of members of the board. AS
far as / am concerned, the fight is not
personal The board has been for years,
| in my opinion, impractical, arbitrary
and unjust.
II am a graduate Of the Pharmaeeut-
ical Society of Ireland. The diploma OF
this society is recognized anywhere in
the United States. 1t is recognized in
| New York state, which in these mat
tiers of registration is far more strict
than any other commonwealth in the
country. The Pharma ceutical requires a
greater knowledge of botany, pharma-
cy and materia medica than is required,
| generally speaking, in this country;
| much greater than is required in Mas
| sachusetts Yet you understand by
dealing with obscure and unnecessary
matters an examination can be pro-
duced from the books that will defy
| the learning of almost any individual
eff the board were required to pass
some of their own examinations they,
as we'll as the pharmacists Of the state,
might benefit.
| Pharmacist John T. Kelley, who does
business in the OToole block, Burdett
hill. received notification Saturday that
his application for certificate OF merit
| had been denied. He cannot be given
a sixth-class license.
Martin Burke represents Capt. w. +.
Shaughnessy and certain other persons
| in the objection against a liquor license
being granted in the O'Toole block, has
consulted with Former District Attor-
ney Herbert Parker, and has received
the following opinion as to the law
| Mr. Parker says: ION the question
of fine validity Of license If granted to
! the O'Toole place, on Main street,
have examined all the opinions OF the
court known to me, on the SUBJECT
/ .a-sITpon the assumption that the en-
trance to the school house has Deen
until recently on Main street; that the
| school house faces upon Main street,
IN which the lot abuts; that the Main
| street entrance has been only tempo
rarilv closed; that the obvious entrance
place, as relating to the use OF the
school house and its position, Is upon
Main street should have grave DOUBT
whether the mere fact that the Main
street entrance is now closed and not
in use would warrant the conclusion
that the school house is not upon Main
4 street, within the intent of the statute.
Il ! think the test must be whether the
Main street entrance has been IN fact
permanently closed up. SO that there is
I and is to be no access to or egreSs from
Il Main street to the school.
i "The purpose and intent of the stat