The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-18
STUDENTS SHIPPED
FOR GETTING DRUNK
surrendered and the whole business

turned over to the State.
williamsburg had he said, no money
for police protection. It needed some
cash to do a number of things. Nine
years ago. before local option, 1t had
4 number OF industries. Since then not
one has raised Its head.
They say that an election will re.
suit in rejecting tho dispensary. Well,
why are they afraid Of it? They say It |
will put the city to cost. This cost
will not fall upon those who are OPP
posing the election, for they are not
the real taxpayers. AS 1t stands we
have no. the protection we should have
for life and limb and property. Only
three weeks ago, think. DR.. Taylor
] shipped three Of his students for drink
| Ing whiskey.
4, I'VE want to protect the college. We
don't want to see these students drunk.
We will guarantee that not one OF
| them Will buy drop at the dispen-
| sary. While Richmond and Baltimore
| and Newport News are making dollars
of profit on the sale OF whiskcy to our
! people, we would like to have some OF
!, 1t for our city
DR.. Lyon G. Tyler, president OF
William and Mary College. said that as
no general law has been passed allows
saries, 1t was evident that such in
stitutions were to be allowed only in
special cases, on special acts. Only
seventy-eight of the voters. he said,
had signed the petition asking for the
| election, while 1874 had singed the
other. Students and others, he said,
could easily tip some negro TO buy
liquor at the dispensary for them. A
Jug could he brought to a student
building and all the boys get drunk.
There was evidently. continued Dr..
Tyler. a job in the whole proposal, 1t
had been rumorod that man had been
secured to run the dispensary and that
a place had been selected for 1t to
;. Peachy said that he knew moro about
the students OF William and Mary Col
. lege than Or. Tyler did.
Finances All Right.
After this little pleasant Interchange
: DR.. Tyler said there was nothing in the
. claim OF financial difficulties in VIII
Iltamshurg. fthere was an enlbarrass-
a mont 1t was due to spending money for
! improvements. There appears little
q deficit of $S17. but in the last budget
there were three items amounting to
. $4,000 which will not appear this year.
1t was unfair to force an election, he
II | argued. because II WouJu CAUSE oisseu.
, sions and heart burnings.
r Mr.. Odell. the Methodist minister in
g Williamsburg, was not nearly SO Sc
!. we're. Those whose names were on the
. petition for an election, he said, repre-
J. I,ented an element which he respected.
!, But while he would like to help the
city he thought the cost would be too
great If campaign is forced there
y will be divisions in churches. 1t is
!, DR.. Brunk's policy to give the conval-
, escent inmates Of the insane hospital .
: certain amount of liberty, and there
;. are at all times perhaps twenty-five
J. of these walking the streets They
could get liquor from the dispensary
:, through another party, "and," he add
:. ed, I'VE people don't know how to cope
:. was an insane person under the influ-
= enc OF liquor"
o This ended the discussion of the
:. asl,Williamshurg matter.
e Liquor In Halifax.
The South Boston and Houston bills
were taken UP. The bills, which have
s been favorably reported In the Senate
& provide for dispensary elections next
e December .a In the two towns. but Mr.
8 Glenn, one OF the members OF the
o House from Halifax, presented sub
% stitute requiring that all the citizens
of Bannister Magtsterial District
"a wherein both towns are situated
should participate. This district voted
r. In the election when the towns Went
dry. Senator Edmondsony represented
the bills, being their patron In thu
Senate.
w, b. Hill said it was surprise t
Ihim to appear before this committee
The petition had been gotten up 70
- dispensary election with, as he un
,e derstood, majority of the voters
h There had been hearing before tn
Z. Senate committee, and r. S. Barbour
i. representing the prohihitionists. ha
n agreed to not oppose the measures
" the election were postponed until De
cember. which would be two year
= since the last vote. Mr.. Barbour sal
7 that he had been speaking for htmsal
s alone, and found that his people di
not want an election at all. However
I. LIT seemed that the people on the dis
N pensary side thought Mr., Barbour hat
II not given them a square deal.
l.. Rev. w. II. Reynolds said that con
10 ditIons were improved since the towns
80 went dry. He thought It r!ght tina
80 the whole county should vote, but VA
willing to compromise on the maglste'
rial district
d Mr.. Maxwell, a Presbyterian minister
~ showed by q map that II one of thu
r. towns voted for a dlspenSary and tn
or other did not. the DRINKS would pas
~ y. two schoolhouses.
70 Major Edmondson was to close tn
"a debate for a town vote as AGAINST tn
es district. hut the hour OF noon was a
at hand The matter was POSTPONED :!
Of tuesday morning. when the discussion
81, ~ will he closed.
n In a short executive session the com
n mittee decided to pass the Williams
4, burg bill by indefinitely. This. be
NJ. understood, is tha polite and parlla-
mentary term for chloroformlng Il, I
measures sS