The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-12-07
Arrests for other

September % IS -
II will he observed that the total
number OF arrests for September.
1914, Is fewer than the number OF
arrests for drunkenness, In Septem-
Der, 1913.
Maximum number of guards ana
employees at the workhouse previous
to July /. 1914. Is.
Employees and guards at the close
of July, 1914. ..
Average number of prisoners in tbs
work house previous to July /, 1914.
so.
Number of prisoners in the work.
house at the close OF July. 1914. 3.
Number OF prisoners in the work.
house at the close of September, 1914,
s.
Previous TO July / there were no
policemen to perform traffic duty. but
since that date policemen have been
doing duty at all leading bustnea9
corners in the city
Wheeling has never experiences
such building operations as 3tnce July
/. The total valuation Of buildings
under construction at the end OF july
was abount s750.0o0.0o.
The former plant of the ReymAnn
! Brewing Company is being converted
| into a packing house. improvements
! being made to the extent Of $l1o,.
| 10000. In the packing HOUSE thera
will be employed between 200 ana
| $50 men, while the Brewing Company
employed not more than seventy-Avs
men. In one block in which there
were fourteen saloons a shoe dealers
business has increased % per cent
since July !. Panhandlers who used
to buy cast -on shoes now buy new
shoes One saloon In this block, about
which it was necessary nearly all the
ia II a hAAA
since July l an orderly place.
Old Saloons Transformed.
The transformation that has been
wrought in the old saloon buildings -
remarkable. On Main Street where
was the most aristocrattc saloon IN
the city, is now a firm which sells
ladies and mems furnishings. The
three-story wholesale liquor house ex-
tending from Market through to Main
has been remodeled from basement to
roof and is now occupied by the
| largest wholesale wallpaper and rug
| Arm in the city. Immediately adjOfn-
| ing it is a drug store where formerly
was the old Palace saloon. Im-
mediately across the street former
! saloon has been transformed into =
butcher shop conducted by the same
man as formerly rented the saloon.
! few doors further down the street
! where another wholesale liquor house
was. is now shoe store, belonging to
chain OF stores throughout this
| country. The building that was form-
| eriy occupied by the well knows
| White Front Cafe. renting 1t 1850 ~ =
| bar room, has been changed beyond
recognition and liz now occupied by
the leading confectionery Of the city
at a rental OF $500 per month. Another
place worthy OF mention - the old
, Senate saloon. The building in
which this place was has been torn
down and there is now being erected
on this same spot a bank building.
| Other former saloon rooms are oc-
| cupied as billiard rooms, and auto
mobile agencies
The following was published BY
/ THE Wheeling Telegraph" In its
| October IA edition:
There are more restaurants In the
city than ever before, according to
, census just completed. There are
! aighty-four restaurants and fifteen
hotels. and II they were all to be
grouped together they would occupy
every building from Eleventh Street
! to Fifteenth Street on Market. both
sides of the street included.
+ THE establishment Of 80 many new
] restaurants Is an outgrowth OF the
closing of the saloons where thoue-s
ands were fed every day at the lunch
counters.
There are twenty-five real estate
! firms doing business in the city AnA
I over 500 wagons are daily in ueo. In
/ fact the demand for wagon Hconooa
was SO great that the city exhausted
7 its supply of tags and il now issuing
substitute tag TO teamsterS. ThM3
number OF autos in the city ciosely
approaches six hundred and by spring
! it is expected that at least 100 n0eneA
tags will have been issued In met
I since the first day of July the city has
issued approximately 1900 Noomooos
Of all kinds against total Of 1.1o0
licenses last year. a decided gain TOR
single year The amount Of lfcensos
/ revenue collected this year will sur
pass. by several thousands. collections
for any former years.