Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-06-15
WILL MOVE NO BAGGAGE
FOR PUBLIC NEXT SUNDAY
Hotels Receive Announcement With
DiSmay, aud Guests Are
Notified.
ONE RESULT OF "oUSrER" LAW
Will he No Wholesale Arrests at
Single Plants. hut One Employee
VIII he Taken i'll Custody at Each
Concern tn Nuke Test Cases.

Leading local hotels were NOTIFIED
yesterday by the Richmond Transfer
Company that it VIII suspcnd its Sun
day hacgage-hauling service until a
decision is handed down by the courts
deCla,in.: THE hauling OF 10
and frGal ~;aiiway stations on SUNDAY
TO We i work OF necessity and there.
fore a legitimate Sabbath day activity.
The announcement was received by
the hotels with ~disnay. The Richmond
Transfer Company Ices most of the
city's baggage transfer business. and
its action is expected tn be emulated
by the smaller concerns engaged in
the same service. Hotel managers said
last Night that the suspension of the
sunday hauling service will seriously
einoSrraSS The travelling public. Pas-
Sersers arriving after midnight next
saturday Will he unable TO get their
heavy baggage to their hotels or
homes Even greater Embarrassment
VIII confront Sunday passengers who
INA II necessary Ia transfer trunks
from one station 70 another.
Following the notification from the
transfer company. Murphy's Hotel last
night posted notices in the lobby in
forming guests that no e will
ne transferred TO the stations on next
sunday. Similar action will probably
be aiken by the other hotels.
WILL NOT INTERFERE
WITH DOMESTIC WORK
The highways and by-ways rioted
yesterday in the widest predictions
as 10 the degree to which SUNDAY
commerce and activity. as it has been
known in Richmond for Years. will he
suspended. speculation was encouraged
whrn IL was announced officially from
ihe Mayors office that the police have
received orders I'll allow no executions
10 the sunday closing crusade.
All iay the Mayors office vas bose+
by frantic boarding -house-keepers, who
reported n threatened xodus OF cooks
ana 'hamhcrmaids, who have somehow
COY inc notion that they will be ar
rested II caught working next Sunday
1" al! OF these the Mayor gave specific
assurance that no domestics will be
intefrered with, the law expressly al
lowing hopsework OF every kind to be
done On the Sabbath
Hen"f's were common that the
c!appinE down of the lid will cause a
suspension Of the street car service
on sunday, and that not only will the
telephone exchange close, but newsbovs
VIII not be permitted TO deliver papers
I" their customers on the Sabbath
Nothing of this kind will take place.
II was authoritativeiy stated by the
Mayor that there will be no whole
sale arrests III the public service and
other quasi-public industries.
MAKE SINGLE ARREST
~ EACH INDUSTRY
In the case OF the newspapers there
viii be only n single arrest at each
plant. The ncwsboys will not he mo-
Tested. The single employee of each
newspaper Will he held to be represen-
taiive OF TN" entire business in which
he works, and the disposition OF his
case is counted on to establish the
status OF every Sabbath day activity
incident 10 the publication and circu-
lation of the paper.
| Similarly. only one conductor or mo-
torman Will he taken into custody.
There will be no further Interference
with street railway transportation un-
I'll AN adverse decision by the courts
requires such interference. In like
Kramer. the police will arrest only
on" employee each of the telephone
and telegraph companies. one paid
choir singer, one driver of any single
dairy company. and SO on through
every group industry engaged in some
form OF work on Sunday. the arrests
being purely for tho purpose Of bring
ing test cases before the courts.
In the case 81 individual shoDkeep-
ers. there will be a wholly. different
procedure. Each owner of a grocery,
"A drug or soda water store, who does
business next sunday, will he individ-
ually liable to arrest and prosecution
This will lac true also of jitncy husses.
since these vehicles are operated under
independent ownership.