The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-09-17
.EvERYGUEST GETS
ONE CLEAN TOWEL
New Hotel Law in Effect To
Day, Also Provides for
Fresh Bedding.
TWO INSPECTION BILLS
Agricultural Seed and Poultry
Food Acts Protect From
Adulteration.

! virginia hotels to-daN Further, tAere
are hereafter to be two sheets OH each
and every bed. There will. besides. be
the inestimable boon of clean bedding
| for every new guest who registers.
This is the end toward which the
drummers, who have to stop at all
kinds and descriptions OF obstetrics
bent their earnest efforts, with effect,
i during the last session of the Lcgisla-
ture. That their plans reached the
contamination they so devoutly wished
| is due to the united demands OF the
Virginia Travellers Association, the
Travellers protective Association anu
1.-THE United Commercial Travellers, aiueo
| by the untiring efforts of Colonel John
| S. Harwood, a member or the Rouse VI
Delegates from Richmond
Besides the hotel bill. two other
measures OF general application and
Importance are effective to-day. just
| six months having elapsed since the
| adjournment of the General Assembly.
| Ali three were, for the protection "f
| those affected, made effective SIN
months after date. so that no undue
losses would be incurred because OF
! the innovation.
Two Other New ones
One of these statutes is tnat fequlr-
ing the inspection of agricultural seeds
sold in this state, and the other pre-
vIdes for the licensing of all condi-
mental stock and poultry foods and
| powders disposed of.
State Health Commissioner Ennion G..
Williams is charged with the work OF
hotel inspection, and his regular health
officers will oficate in that capacity.
Within the next few weeks every hotel
| in the State will be visited. and viola-
lions Of the new law will be reported
and prosecuted. All hotels are to BIO
inspected once year. Fire escapes
are Ia be marked, and IRE extinguish-
ers are to be kept on each floor. When
beds have been occupied by persons suf-
fering with infectious or contagious
diseases. they are to be disinfected by
a method approved by the State Health
Department.
Supplies of water are to be guarded
from insects which might spread dis
| ease. and every room is to be disin-
fected at least once in SIX months.
Sheets. besides being clean for each
new guest, must be at least eight feet
long. Pillow slips and sheets are to
be OF white cotton or linen. Bedding Is
| to be aired.
| n w mere sewerage Is dNdlldDlcr rIluSl
| be connected with the hotel, and IN
every case the arrangements must be
sanitary. Hotel proprietors pay the
| fees for inspection. which go to de-
| fray the expenses.
New Seed LAW.
| Rules and regulations for the en-
| forcement of the new law governing
the inspection of agricultural seeds
have already been adopted by the State
| Board of Agriculture and are in effect
| to-day Labels are to be attached to
/ all lots or packages of seed of fifty
pounds or more, giving the approximate
percentage of purity or of freedom from
foGsign matter or other seeds. distin-
! guishable by their appearance.
Under the general term "agricultu-
raj seeds" are included red clover, white
clover, alsile clover, alfalfa, timothy.
orchard grass, Kentucky bluegrass, red
top, bromis, inermis. oat grass, rye
grass. the fescues. the millets, other
grass and clover seeds flax. vetch, rape
| and cereals.
Samples of seeds offered for sale II
Virginia are to be drawn by the inspec-
tors of the Dairy and Food Department
and will be forwarded to the chemistry
force OF the Department Of Agriculture
for analysis and report. In case any
|
ard required by the act and the accom-.
panying regulations, the parties from
whom the samples were obtained are
10 be notified, and second test is to DO
MADE from the original sample before
publication or the deficiency
VIII Print Results.
proceedings are very similar TO the
inspection of fertilizers The results
are TO be printed by the Commissioners
OF agriculture. giving percentage of
purity and per centum of germinable
seeds along with the name and address
OF the parties furnishing the seed Tho
facts, in case of Violation of the stat
ute, are to be certified to the Common
"ealths attorney having Jurisdiction.
ana ne is to proceed at once with pros.
4 ecutloh. f'ines are to be imposed ot
not more than 500 for each offense
what Is known as the condimenta]
stock and poultry food and powder 10 !.
is also effective to-day Under lis nro-
'lsiohs the Dairy and Food Commission.
er IS required to obtain samples a,
such foods offered for sale and to OK.
, 'Atne 'heIn ana publish the results.
License for Stock Food.
Before any manufacturer or do.,o
may offer for sale any sucn roo,, =
powders, each brand must be licanso,
with the Dairy and Food Commission
!. er, and the license of $40 paid. Whe,
a manufacturers. Importer or iobbe
5 pays the fee, no license is reouircI i,
e the dealer but IL the food is not s
licensed, any dealer handling 1t is LA
; hle for the fee. For this reason. \,
Legislature gave dealers period q
SIX months IN which to dispose o
/, stocks on hand, and so avoid the pen
: atty. fine and Imprisonment is ora
t vided as punishment.
Several warnings have been p,,nts
= during the past few months to Il aaler
= to dispose of stock not licensed undA
J. the new law (the old license no longc
s applies), and those who now have an
: of the unlicensed goods on hand wi
o lose 1t or sell 1t under danger OF pun
4 ishment The law applies to all co,
:" dimental stock and poultry foods an
powders, and to patented, proprletar
or trade marked stock foods, for wlitc
either nutritive value of a medcln,
property. or both, is claimed, or whlc
q Is Intended as an Alternative or ton
h for horses. cattle, swine or poultr
81 Mayor Signn First Res0Iution.
Mayor Richardson yesterday returne
to City Clerk Ben i. August with Il