The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-01-28
List Shows a24 Applicants and
Seventeen Others Who Failed
to Deposit Checks.
MANY FOREIGNERS APPEAR
Judge Witt Determined to Weed
Out Dives Before Selecting
$50 Who Can Sell.

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Two hundred and twenty-four sa.
.oonkeepers. located In every part OF
tie city, made formal application t.
5tthe Hastings Court yesterday for
license 10 engage In the business after
FEBRUARY 1st a certified check for
$50 being deposited by each appli-
s3int, Under the new law not more
than $50 licenses can be Issued There
is no intimation as to when Judge
Witt viii make the selection. Though
the ordinance becomes effective on
Saturday, It's provisions will not apply
until May list. when state licenses are
due.
Discrepancies which may be later
explained, appear in tho two lists of
applicants. the record in the Police De-
partment, the regular custodian at the
moment, showing that al dealers APP
p!isd to the Commissioner OF Revenue.
= his OF itself would have no particular
hearing, except for the fact that checks
were presented by eleven dealers whose
names are not to be found on the
poiice list. Errors in names or initials
mar be responsible. Judge Witt, how
ever, Will he guided by the table in,li-
eating those who have properly conf
S.sssd with the ordinance relating TO
she payment of entrance fees.
Chief Caught pNe Applicant.
The foreign element is strongly rep
resented. All the hotels now operat-
nag saloons applied for renewals, the
-lihambra, at Eighth and franklin.
heing the only addition. w. e. Pol
lard, of Twenty-ffth and r Streets
4 convicted in the Police Court for SELL
ling to minor, and who lost on APP
peal In the Hastings Court yesterday,
made formal application, but he did
not come up with his check. and this
means tina. he is clearly ont OF it
Sebastian Ouesty, whose ch4ci. lyas
accertAd- wes caught y4steriay by
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applicants would haze run 10 the
100 mark
This. al lest Is TIE opinion of .i,ose
y who have watched the situation close.
. ~ tor the past few weeks. and scye,1.
teen .of those who were In the rae,
failed to qualify at the last moment
Judge Witt suggested the special ordi
nance as q means of preventing specu
lation and double dealing. for AZ /
stands now a man securing q licens
cannot trade 1t to another
With this list III their possession
n the citizens generally Will have an on
portunity disappearing IN the tIustinG
Court to show cause. Il they can. WI
one applicant or another should not b
permitted to sell Judge Witt viii nc