The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-11-18

All Business and Profession
al interests Are Taxed TO
Make Up the Deficit

The city OF BirmineharFn. Ala Il
] the INST OF the large cities 10 be forc
I ed 10 seek d method OF raising f1ndi
I Tor the operation OF the city govern
{ ment IN sthe place of funds that were
derived from etail LIQUOR 1Iceff8es
/ says an exchange The new selielule
OF license has 5ust been completed
and placed In book form by the scity
council OF Bfrmf1gham. It Is an In
terestine document.
The farmes In the future VIII have
10 pay more their hardware, Itgri-
cultural implements ana their seeds
for the reason that hardware stores
must pay a lfcense tax from SIS to
5000 year according to the values
of the stock they carry. All seed
dealers mnst nay from $25 to $75
per year. Dealers IN horses, cows
and other live stock nre assessed $50.
$50 TO 500: A1ready prices OF these
commodities have been advanced on
the famers.
Taxed from the cradle to the grnve
may be Illustrated by the fact that
the doctor who assists one Into the
world Is taxed from SIS to $40 and
the milk peddlsrs who brings baby's
.food must pay 5000 $55. while the
undertaken who closes your tax
weary eyes and plants you must
give up S65. The price OF your
Rraye vii cost moe. as cemeteries
must have a 800 license. The shaft
that marks your last resting place
you VIII pay more for, as tomb
stone dealers are taxed S35.
Dealers In the necessaries OF life
are not overlooked. as IS witnessed
by the following schedule OF license:
Meat dealers. ST5 to $3.50: grocers,
$3.50 to 5000; coffee dealers, $3.50;
coal dealers and peddlers. $15 I'd
5000; fish and oyster shops. S2B 70
800; and should the y retail oyster
stews SIS additional; produce deal
ers $50: crocISery dealers and makers
$25 to S75: dry goods stores SIS to
$500: clothing stores, SIS to 5000;
Iaundries. $50 to 800: boarding
houses 425: cooperative home build
ing companies. $500, and the places
where you deposit what you may
have saved. building associations,
800 to $500.
Some of the high priced licenses
are $1,000 for express companies;
800 for gas companies: $4,000 for
brokerage houses; 5000 for street
railway completes; $3.50 for oil
companies $3.50 for railroad com
panies maintaining offices in Bir-,
ningham' $4,000 for persons, cor
poratons or firms furnishing steam
heat; $500 to $4,000 for telephone
companies; $4,000 for water COM
aIiscellaneous license fees are:
adding machine, agents, SIS; advertis-
ing devices and companies, SO to
5000: abstraet 3ftle companies. $75 to
$3.50; autoFnSbft dealers 500 Sand
automobiie heefSes SO to $40; adver-
Using With hand bills. $40: cal cs-
tate agents $50; artificial limbs. $25;
assignment of wages com panies, $500;
auctIoneers. S35 to S75; audit COM
panies, $50: bag makers. $50: banks
$500 to $500 safe deposit vaults
$500; BARRIERS. SO; bicycle dealers,
bird dealers. $25; blaclSsrniths, IS;
bookdeaIers. SIS; bootblacks, $3.50
bottlers, SIS to $50; bowling alleys,
$25: breweries, $500: brick makers.
$35: broom makers, &10:. buggy
makers. SO to $3.50; cabinet makers,
SO to SIS; candy makers. SO to SIS;
carpenter shops, $40: carpet dealers
SIS to 5000. carts and drays. SO to
$50: manicures. $25: confectioneries.
SO to SO; drug stores. $35 to $500.
electrical supplies. SIS to $50: cleo
tricians. $50: foremen, $25; florists,
$35; foundries. $25; fuft stands. $50
to SIPS; fruit trees. $40. habcrdasher
$35 to $50; hair dressers. SIS: hotels
$65 to $275, ice factory, $500, in.
to $50: insurance agents, $50 to
$500; lawyers, doctors. and dentists,
$16 to $40; livery stable. $S5; lunch
stands. SIS TO- $751; machinery max
ers and dealers. $50 to $500; tailors,
$35; newspapers. $40 to $3.50; piano
tuners, IS; plumbers. $50 to $3.50;
pressing cIug 325; sign painters. SIS;
stove dealers, SO to $75: tin shops,
$25; tobacco dealers S12.5O to $500;
trading stamps. $500; umbrella mend
err, IS: vegetable dealers. So; vinegar,
makers. $3S; watch repaIrer, $3.50
and yeast agent or dealer, s3b.
Many of the license scales are based
on the volume of sales daily of each
business taxed. and the license ord-
nance requires that each day the
gross amount OF sales OF each bus-
ness must be reported to the license
collector. undcr penalty of inc and
imprisonment
A long-drawn howl has gone up
from the business community of the
city. and there are loud mutterings
against prohibition. The city needs
the money however, and while liquor
Is openly sold in birmingham no rev
enuo accrues to the municipal author
tiles hence the NECESSITY OF taxing
many businesses and individuals