Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-08-06
LICENSE FEES TO
HELP CITY MEET
| CURRENT EXPENSES
Council Passes First Ordinance
and Considers Second Involv-
ing Sixty Businesses.
PENALTY FOR VIOLATIONS

II plans of CITY Council go through
there is scarcely a business or profession
in the city which will not have to pay a
license TO the city If it wishes to cater to
the public as heretofore. The scope of
the ordinance levying license ON small
groups of professional and business men
is to be enlarged in a second ordinance
which passed its first and second reading
at a meeting of council last evening.
The original ordinance licensing law
yers. dentists. doctors, ice cream parlors,
bootblack stands and few other busi-
nesses and professions, was unanimously
adopted, and was scarcely out of the way
when Councilman Forwood, for the finance
committee offered the second resolution
which covers some sixty additional busl-
nesses and professions.
In presenting the second ordinance, Mr..
Forwood said: During the coming year
q great deal of additional money will have
10 be raised on account of the increase in
the police department and the possibility
Of a large additional expense should a
paid FIRE department be established, and
bv raising revenue through great number
nf small licenses the council believe that
IL will be unnecessary TO raise the tax
rate upon real estate, which the members
feel is already sufficiently taxed, and
when rate would undoubtedly have TO
be materially increased unless revenue
Is raised through some other source.
1T is not the desire to place unnecessary
burdens upon any of the citizens of Will
mington. but council is confronted with
the situation that III the city affairs and
the various departments are to be prop
erly conducted, more revenue must be
raised and the proposed method of raising
such revenue distributed over a large class
of subjects Is the fairest to all the citizens
OF the city.
The new tax proposals are as follows:
contracting painter, SIS: printing office,
SO; lumber merchant, S25; manu-
facturers, $50; marble and granite, $40;
merchant tailor, $40; contracting plumb
rrs, SIS; building materials and supplies,
SIS; hardware merchant, SIS; cigars and
tobacco, So; cleaning and dyelng works,
$40; coal dealers, s25; retail grocers, $40;
wholesale groccrs. SO; confectloners, $40;
fruit stands, SO; gasoline stations, $50;
gunSmlth, S5; horse bazaar, $40; black
smith and whcelwright, $40; paint and
glass store, SIS; photographers, S5; slot
machines, So each machine; veterinary
surgeon, $40; distributor of spring water,
SO; automobile accessories and supplies,
SIS; furniture stores, S25; baker, $40;
iWttlcf, 60, WHOLESALE meat tPdiCTs SOtt |
retail meat dealer, $40; carpet cleaning
establishment. $40: collection agency, $40; |
contractor ard builder, S25; electrical |
contractor, SIS: employment bureau, $40; |
hSh dealer, $40; public gararge, S25 ice /
manufacturing plant, s25; ice cream
dealer, retail, So; ice cream dealer, whole |
sale, SIS; laundry, SIS; clothing mer- |
chant, new, $50; milk business, 81 80 per |
vehicle; dairy, S20-S2.50 additional per |
vehicle; sewing machine agency, $40; |
slaughter houses, $50; roofing and sheet
metal worker, $40; architect, S25; CON
tracing plasterer, SIS; jcwclry store, S25; |
newsstand, So; art store, $40; chiropodIst, |
s.; detective agency, S25; bicycle sup
plies, $40; florist $40; steamboat and /
ferry line, $50 each boat; hat cleaning. |
SO; undertaken, SIS; hair dressing and /
manicuring, S5; stock salesman, $50; /
bill posting agercy, $40; wholesale drug |
gist, S25; newspapers, $50; real estate I
agent, $50; zone outside solicitor $50 for
each additional solicitor.
The first ordnance, which passed unani |
mously on its third reading, imposes taxes
"a follows:
Restaurants and public eating houses, !
SIS; physicians and oSteopaths, $40; |
dentists, $40: lawyers, S25; barber shops, |
s. 50 for each chair; bootblack stands, |
So 80 for each chair, broker, $50; COM |
mission merchant, SIS: storage ware |
luse. SIS; soda water fountain, $40 for |
each fountain; shoe repair shops |
ing by hand, So, by machinery, $40; |
house cleaning or window washing, $40. /
Penalty for not complying with the |
provisions of the ordinance is a fine not /
exceeding S25, or imprisonment for a term /
not exceeding two months, or both.
The quarterly appropriations to several |
OF the city departments were authoriz ID /
and the monthly report of Fire Chief Lutz
received. In this report Chief Lutz asked |
council give serious attention to securing
for city use the apparatus of the Friend
ship Fire Company.
Ii was voted to attend the Third Ward
fag-raisIng exercises this evening.