The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-01-12
FINED UNDER
TIL ! l1|I Lazy
MI. Schultz Had His Bar Room Open
on Sunday.
GREAT DISPENSER IN a. RUSH.
The Junk Dealers are Getting the
Streets Clear Of DISTINCTIONS.
Ncisl,bors Fall Out About
"a Iydrant.

HSdrant.
The Big White Chamber presented q
lively scene yesterday when Justice John
stepped up TO the great judicial machine
that regulates the affairs of the citizens
Of Richmond and pulled the throttle
wide open and let her 60.
The Great Dispenser did q rushing ELS
jncss: that is. lie rushed what business lie
had before him, but struck some bobblng
sIags with people who were not salts
ncd when he was doing the best FOR them
that could be done.
HIS BAR-ROOM OPEN.
Mr.. Shultz was reported for Keeping ais
bar-rooni. on Cary street. open on sun
day. he was reported at 2:l0 o'clock on
Monday morning, and the charge of sur
day violation, under the ordnance was
not maintained but under the State law
there Is u penalty for opening q bar
room before sunrise on the day following
and under this law Mr.. Shultz was fined
$40
Mr. Shultz claimed that he had q lot
of boarders leaving on an early train and
that he was speeding the departing
guests with a parting shot when the OIL
a,1lowir, when he was well off Mr.. Shultz
got his German up and was not quoted
until the Great Dispenser turned the cN-
Iineusher hose on him and threatened
to make 1t five hundred.
WHY THEY FELL OUT.
Maria Christian. rolored. came forward
fin stylish ioque. with rings on her mn
gers and brooch at her throat. to answer
the charge of unlawfully assaulting and
throwing bucket OF water on Ellen An
1hony.
- Ellen. like the mother OF tho Gractnl, mad
no Jewels except her children. but they
were an important factor in the case
THEY WEIRD NElGHBORS.
Maria and Ellen occupied rooms in the
same house. Maria was upstairs in COM
paratively moderate circumstances, While
Ellen lived in a sumptuous manner on the
first floor with her numerous progeny
of various shades OF color, enjoying val
,1iable modern improvements that do not
exist in the more modest upper apart
ments.
a CONVENIENCE.
Chief of these was 4 hydrant just out
side of Ellen's window, so close that she
could lean out of the window and draw
water or throw Stops in the sink without
going out of doors.
To further facilitate domestic econo
mics, Ellen knocked some of the Stats
out of the blind, so that the children
could pour the waste water of the family
through the window without opening the
blinds
Maria came to the llydrant at a time
when the progeny dumped the pot, which
had been used to cook the midday meal.
and then filled again with water and heat
ed and further used to wash the dishes,
through the Slated aperture on the head
of Maria Christian.
RETALIATION.
The upstairs lodger had just drawn a
bucket of fresh water from the hEdrant,
and in return for her unwelcome douche
threw the contents of the bucket through
the Slated aperture into the apartment
of Ellen Anthony, wetting not only the
progeny. but also the family cooking
stove and the family bed: and then Ellen
went hence straightway, and after half
a days hunt, lost from the weeks wash
ing, found a magistrate and paid 50 cents
for 4 warrant against Maria Christian.
Maria testified that it was all on &C.
count of a dog-in-the-manger kind Of a
spirit that possessed Ellen about the n.y.
drant, and that on other occasions, when
she went to draw water, Ellen had dump
cd a plate Of scraps on her head, and
another time a bucket of hot water
The Great Dispensers verdict was forcI-
sense i don't care what you do fur 'em.
GET o-u-t of here. And they got
Mike Kelley, the Boer junk dealer on 1911,
street, whose pristine innocence had so
oft disarmed the tender-hearted law giver
Was politely requested to cough up ten
dollars TO make good the promises fire.
Guertly made him by the Great Dispenser.
and Mike left without a pin feather being
rufflcd carrying The same sweet child
like smile that ever perches on his fair
face as bright as the Lexington Hotel
electric sign at night.
His fellow sufferers, J. c. Smith and
Alvin Motherhood. had cleared away the
iron and stone from the streets SO that
The wheels of industry might once more
roll. and they were dismissed.
John Jones. alias George Lewis, alias
John Meclins. coicred. who entered the
dwelling Of John Green on the Sth instant
and stole and sold his clothes. was sent
TO the Grand Jury.
REVENUE CASES.
James Allen. cololed. was fined s5tp
for throwing rocks and breaking the
window glass of Robert Pegram.
z L. Goodman was charged with ours
ing and abusing and threatening TO beat
Iucy Moore and paid $500.
Illcy Moore, on a cross warrant, was
charged with the same offence. and with
threatening to throw T. J.. Goodman and
r. S. Goodman down the steps
Costs We're admitted in this case
James Harvey was charged with being
drunk and his face did not have whole
skin enough on It to make a tobacco poke.
He was placed on the cooling board
for ten days.
And there were others