Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-06-19
NINETY ARRESTED
UNDER BLUE LAW
Police Take Proprietor and One
Employee of Number of
Business Places.
NO EXCITEMENT OR DISORDER
Those Who Failed to Lay In
Supplies of Gasoline, Cigars or
Cigarettes Worst Sufferers.

Those persons who forgot that the
ba n of the blue" laws would be sprea q
over Richmond yesterday and failed 10
purchase their Sunday supply of gaso-
line, tobacco and confections probably
were the only people in the city. be-
sides those arrested by the police. who
had the reality of blue" Sunday
brought forcibly to them.
There was an absence OF the noise
made by the newsboys in crying their
papers. practically all of the cigar
stores and confectionaries were closed.
the hiring of vehicles was prohibited,
and only one jitney driver attempted
to travc! the streets. lie was arrested
Bootblacks were stopped from plying
their trade.
With these exceptions. however, yes
terday was not unlike other Richmond
Sundays. The boats at Reservoir Park
were hired out to pleasure-seek and
the proprietor was not molested All
of the free shows at Forest Hill Park.
as wei! as the confectionery stands,
were in operation. The police noted
the fact. though, that although they
made about ninety arrests for tests of
the ''ouster" law, they had not ex-
violators in one Sunday
During the day the captains of the
several districts. each accompanied By
a magistrate, made the rounds of the
various establishm at which it had
been decided to make arrests for tests
of the law. The proprietor, or the
person in charge. OF the business. with
AT least one employee, was arrested
and bailed Immediately for his appear
ance In Police Court to-day, when the
cases come 10 trial.
There was no excitement or disord er
attending the arrests, and the average
citizen would not have known that his
neighbor had been apprehended. In
no case was the establishment closed
following the arrest, the men being
bailed merely for their appearance in
the Police Court, and not being bonded
TO keep the peace in the meantime.
which might have given grounds for
demands for the forfeiture of the bond
should the violation be continued after
the arrest.
WILL GIVE DECISION
IN COURT THIS MORNING
Justice Crutchheld this morning will
he called on TO give n decision in each
the lower courts stand as TO the mean
ing OF the word necessity" the heart
word of the statute. as 1t applies to the
various forms of business. Justice
Crutchfieid has carefully refrained
from giving an expression on any OF
the cases before they are brought be-
fore him, but he Is credited with hold
ing the view that newspapers, tele-
phones. telegraph companies, railroads
and their subsidiaries, street cars and
their shop forces. ice plants, bakeries,
dairies and the like are necessities.
In the case Of all large corporations,
the cases will be taken Immediately
TO the higher courts. should the deci-
sion of the lower tribunals be adverse
TO the enterprise, it is said. Pending
the handing down of a decision In these
cases by the Supreme Court. in1unc-
tions will be sought restraining the
police from further interference.
Cases In which Justice Crutchfield
VIII have to give decisions to-day in
clude the following, an employer and
at least one employee of each having
been arrested yesterday:
Rennie Dairy Co, II. n. Walden, sec
rotary; W. l.. Berkeley, driver of milk
wagon.
Tyler & Ryan Ice Co., Floyd Tyler.
manager; John Bowman. salesman.
The Corby Baking Co, william Jorg.
manager: j. B. Luttes. baker.
Richmond Dairy Co., j. O. Scott. vice
president and treasurer; A. c. Fields.
driver of milk wagon.
Merchants Cold. Storage and Ice
Manufacturing Company, Inc. It. S.
Herbert manager; Horace Chappeli
engineer.
The Roseneck Brewing Company
William Ogden. chief engineer; Daniel
Carroll, assistant.
Richmond, fredericksburg and Po-
tomac Railroad car shops, A II. Mon
cure. general foreman; James Scott,
cleaning railway cars.
Liggctt & Myers Tobacco Company
Allen & Ginter branch. w. l.. Taylor,
superintendent; j. c. Williams. car
penter.
Tredegar Iron Works. Inc. Archer
Anderson. Jr., ce-president; James
Young, fireman.
Mrs. Charles H. Jennings's Manu-
featuring Ice Plant. r. b. Bowers. fore
man: Jerry Braxton. ice puller.
American Locomotive Co, Inc, Lee
Lowry. fireman.
Home Brewing Co.. Inc. Charles L.
Ross. superintendent; Ira Leber. ice
puller.
American Bread and Baking Co.,
Everett Parkinson, secretary treasurer
and general manager: II. L. Walthan,
manufacturing bread.
Richmond Forgings Corp. Q. p. Red
fcrd, superintendent; w. G. Wilkerson,
repairing machinery.
Virginia Railway and Power Co., C..
B. Buchanan. general manager; ]. H.
Wright. assistant in charge OF operat-
ing machinery; c. l.. Taylor. motorman.
and r. w. riller. conductor.
L. Bromm Baking Co. Inc, r., A.