Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-09-09
.OTHELLOS MINUS
OCCUPATIONS
Prohibition Law Will Affect
$50 Dealers in
Virginia
HAVE PAID s195,255 .62
State Licenses Issued in Ten Cities
and Seventeen Counties in Vari-
our Classes.

Six hundred and fifty liquor deal
ers in Virginia will close their doors
fifty two days after to-day, when the
Mapp prohibition act, prohibiting the
sale of ardent spirits in the State,
except by bonded drug stores, and
throwing stringent restrictions around
it's shipment, goes into effect.
Licenses for the conduct of these
businesses from May to October 81
this year netted the State revenues
amounting to a total of S195, ,253. 62
These figures show decided decrease
from those of the corresponding peri
cd of last year, when prospective
dealers had more encouragement for
the future. Many dealers who had
handled liquor in one way or another
failed in May to renew their right to
the privilege.
Out of the $50 licenses granted by
the State, 492 of them entitled the
grantee to sell liquor over the counter
as a retailer; there were eighty which
combined the privileges of retailing
and shipping; eleven of them were
issued to wholesalers nine to manu-
facturers and distillers Of wh!skey,
fifteen to make brandy, eight to whole
sale dealers in malt liqao.s onI!-,
twenty-one to social clubs, four to
rcctifers, five to hotels at resorts
having natura! spring or large body
of salt water and five to manufactur-
ers of malt liquor only.
Dealers throughout the State have
been preparing for closing for sew
eral weeks. Urgent preparedness ap-
peals are CONSPICUOUS in every saloon.
The man who takes his daily eye
opener and his nightly sleep-producer
has been warned of the dry times
ahead. Many dealers have completed
arrangements for removing their
business to other territory. Still
others are ready to embark upon un-
tried business ventures.
Liquor is now handled in Virginia
cities, as follows:
Alexandria. thirty-four retail deal
ers, five retailers and shippers, one
wholesale dealer, and one manufactur-
er of malt liquor.
Bristol, four retail dealers, nine re-
tai!ers and shippers. one wholesale
dealer. two whisky manufactures or
distilleries. two wholesale dealers in
malt liquor, and one social club.
Charlottesville, one mandatory or
distillery of brandy.
Lynchburg. twelve retail dealers,
nine retailers and shippers. one whole
sale dealer in malt liquor and one
social club.
Newport News. forty retail dealers
and three retailers and shippers.
Norfolk, 100 retail dealers, five re-
tailers and shippers, three wholesalers
four wholesale dealers. in malt liquor,
and three social clubs.
Peter1hprg. twenty-eight retail deal
ers, twelve retailers and shippers, and
one social club.
Portsmouth, forty-six retail dealers
five retailers and shippers and one
social club.
Richmond, 141 retail dealers, seven
teen retailers and shippers, six whole
salers, ten social clubs, four rectl-
fers, and two manufacturers of malt
liquors.
Roanoke, twenty-eight retail deal
ers. six retailers and shippers, two
whisky distillcries, one wholesale
dealer in malt liquor. three social
clubs and one manufacturer Of matt
liquor.
Liquor is handled in the counties
as follows:
Alexandria County, one manufact-
urer of malt liquor.
Bath, three retail dealers.
Bedford, one whisky and one brandy
iistillery.
Elizabeth City, thirty-four retail
dealers.
Franklin, one retailer and shipper
and one brandy distillery.
Ca.anu.IIa thraa .afnilarn arc