The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-03
JUSTICE JOHN
IS NOT MISSING
He is Doing Business at the Same
Old Stand.
LIGHTS AND LICENSES
LIGHTS AND LIc.EN Sc.
The Great Dispenser is Reminded Of a
Battle Episode OF Some Time Ago,
But He is Willin. to Stick TO
Anything lie Ever Said.

We are requested to publish that the
Mr.. John who is missing is not Justice
John He was on the bench as usual yes
which lie is often guilty.
1t took ls.chmord.s Regulator just diff
teen minutes yesterday 10. punish the
sinners OF q day against the peace ana
dignity of the commemorative ana city
Much of his work these spring days is
along business lines or according to the
Official designation ordnance cases
PEOPLE WHO ARE CAUGHT.
People who get caught and are report
ed for doing business without license or!
are running q wagon without license, 50
TO the etreasurcr-s. Office and get out al Ii
cense for the balance of the year. Then,
when the Great Dispenser calls out the
nature Of the offence they triumpnantly
pass the receipt over the desk
But the Great Dispenser has long ago
caught on to the little ways of people
Who pay for privileges of doing business
in the city and in every case demands
10 see their license. and then requires that
the license be gotten out for the whole
year, from February to February. IL
censas corneHhish in Richmond, and the
attempts to evade them are very in
genius, but every time a new conner thinks
he has made d bran new discovery Win
which to fool the Great DISPENSER he
finds somebody else had tried 1T before
and failed The matter is one that in
wolves a large amount OF revenue to
the city.
STREET LIGHTS.
The question OF lights on o5structlons
in the city streets at nights also an i'm
portant one. It works this way
a contractor. a good, law-abiding clti-
zen, occupies the street fills 1t full
of dirt piles and rock piles and lumber
and then according TO the ordinance,
places lamps on the distinctions. II the
lamps are not we'll filed they may so out
before daylight, and he is reported. or, as
is often the case they are stolen.
The contractor declares that he placed
the lamps there and had done all that
could be expected OF him. The Great Dis
penser fines him s.
The contractor is a reasonably spunky
man and demurs at the injustice of the
fine. and criticises the police for allow
ing lamps TO be stolen.
Then the Great Dispenser reminds him
that the streets are for the use of the
citizens of the city, that the contractor
is being granted d great privilege in the
use of the street, that in other cities he
would be required TO handle all his ma
terial inside the house he is building, that
If. when his lamps go out and some
person drives over the obstruction and
gets hurt or Killed, suit is Immediately
brought against the city, and that the
city and not the contractor, has to pay
the damages.
TAKES HIS MEDICINE.
The fine OF 50 is always imposed The
contractor seems a little better satisfied
after this entertaining little lecture, and
Is more careful for a long time After
while. a careless lamp tender or lamp
thief gets him in trouble again. The
neNt time he comes up smiling with s.
IN his hand.
According to the Great Dispenser, che
has learned to take his medicine like
a man.
Wesley Jones and George Powers were
the unlucl1y lamp-owners this time. They
paid ire usual 81 each, and thus is
creased the machinery of the city.
Walter Hutson was arrested by Officer
Mcmahon. poking around in the alleys
of the West End. He lives away down
on Nineteenth Street, and was unable
to give a Gear account of himself. He
was charged with being suspicious
character and went down for thirty days.
DESERVED TT ALL.
John Welsh was charged with unlaw-
fully assaulting, cursing and abusing
Alice Welsh, his wife. He was fined $3.50.
John demurreGi at Hiszoner's ruling,
and undertook to argue the case. He
reminded the Great Law-Giver that about
a year or two ago he was hit over the
head by his wife with a bottle, and that
the Great Dispenser, instead of SYM
pathizing With him, said he deserved all
he got.
The Great Dispenser said he did not
recall the bottle episode, but if he said
it you could bet your bottom dollar it
was SO.
But Welsh did not have a bottom
dollar and so went to the pen.
DAY OF SMALL THINGS.
James WinsloW and Ben Clarke were
charged with stealing SIPS from Margaret
Hopkins. Phyllis Twyman, disinterested
witness, except as to the drinks, declared
that only 10 cents was involved, and