PRINCE GEORGE CITIZF fOL. �. No- 32' Decides to Impose Tax on Beer Parlors II Assess Them $10Q Per Annum for Doing Bu�ine�� as Hotel Keepers. te)s Without Beer Privilege* Can Escape by Turning Into Room- � ing Houses. The members of the city council ;.;, .i on Monday evening to put in ,�';; portion of the profits of the | beer parlors. There are five of parlors in the city, and they pay . provincial government a licence 0 for the privilege of selling , | Prince George residents. The -, connection the civic authorities ,,- with the parlors is to see that v are not operated during prohib-hours, and that the patrons hav-d up on the beer do not belt a nuisance. Ihe city has no right to make any irge upon the beer parlors as such. !f01 � .,� privilege of doing business, i � it has 'the right to impose, a licence up'to �200 per annum upon .- doing business in the city. XI i- p iwer has been in the municipal net'"for several years, but until ' the beer licences were granted the hotel men were not. making sufficient :;. mi -.- in pay expenses. Now to get �; e beer parlors it is proposed, to' a trades licence upon hotels. It " against all hotels, but with �: . xceptiori of the beer parlors, the can-escape the tax by ceasing y ; � hotels and blossoming out as ning houses. This course is not . to the holder of a beer parlor ; . ce since the licence is issued only � hotels, and to continue to operate beer parlor the licencee must ci ntinue as an hotel keeper. li took the council a iong time to . kc up its mind how far to go. T vyas a disposition to grade the lii nee according to the size of the hotel, but the city solicitor gave the � �: �.'..�'!! there was no authority for any such procedure. It was then de- i] to frame the licence so that it w iid catch the beer parlor. If hotel: operating without a beer licence ill ire- in carry on as an hotel they � II be called upon to pay the, licence as well, but they will be permitted ti escapq if they change over from an hotel to a rooming house. A Merman Fraser broke the ice by �'�"� iving that the licence fee for hotels be placed at $100 per annum. There was no seconder for a time � v! Mayor Alward intimated he ifould be prepared to go the limit and make the licence fee $200. �" Alderman Guest finally seconded the motion making the trades licence fee for" hotels $100, and this figure '�>'.. passed by the council. If the bylaw can be put into shape in time the licence will become payable on '' \l l5th- � . . lie section of the municip'a) act under which the council is acting is ' ''-section 54 of section 145, and v> ids as follows: "For regulating and licencing hotels and road houses and � Jubs,'. and for levying and collecting with respect thereto a licence fee not: :o px'ceed $200 per annum." All the trades licences payable un-f|er the present bylaw are brought under review, and the changes will '�� upward in most cases. In the case oi wholesalers the tax will be increas-''i fnun $20 to $25 -fo>- each six moViths. ,. � 1 In thee'ease of retail traders there 3as\a l�t of discussion, but in the ! a recommendation by Alderman :ambc'rt wa"s adopted which will con- the present licence of $5 for every six months with respect to re- V'-'l I isinosses with a turnover of MO.OQO or less, and a fee of^10 for businesses with a turnover in excess pf #10,000. � �nie minofr changes were made in the case of licences, for billiard parlors, and further consideration of ': ��'.'!� trades licences was Bet over vT ! ,? sPocial meeting to be held on 'inlay evening next. PRINCE. GEORGE, B.C., THURSDAY. JUNE 18. 1925. Baseball Game. Won by Shelley Team on Sunday Powers Relieved Kennedy in Final Frame and Walked Three Shelley Batters. Boys Fr�m the Milltown Would Like Chance to Get Into Baseball Tournarr&nt. Big Improvement Made on Hill Across the Fraser Gravel-Loader in Use Which Wagon in Less Than One Minute. Fills Economy Means More Work "for the Same Expenditure and Not Less Employment., , The gravel-loader now in use on The Eagles ball team played a .the Prince George end of the high-game with the Shelley nine on ,Sunda,y| way to the south is an interesting and lost out in the ninth inning with piece of machinery... Placed in posi-a score of 4-5. It was a good game to watch" the hitting was free and there were not many errors, and having stowed the game away the Shelley players are looking for a chr to figure in on the baseball tournament which will be put on in connection with . the Prince George Stampede on Dominion Day. Now that it is all oydr the Prince George boys are laughing at the lion in front of a gravel bank, the machine digs itself in as the gravel is carried up in revolving buckets, and in ordinary working the machine will load, a wagon in something less than one minute. With two men operating the machine does the work of fifteen men in a gravel pit. While this is a great economy it docs not mean any such amounts are saved by the government, as what is saved in labor in the gravel� pit is simply added to the amount, thus rendered available for the engagement of manor in which they were worsted on Sunday. The score was standing �1--1 at the end of the eighth, both teams having secured a brace of (teams for the hauling of the mater-counters in that inning. Prince ial. It is not a case of saving either George was unable to .do anything money or.labor so much as increas-with" Pankey. and the team failed to ' imr ine volume of the work accom-score. ' plished. The demands for roads Powers wept into the box to re- throughout the province are so nu-lieve Kennedy in the last half of the merous, and the means for meeting inning. He walked" the first man. them so limited, that the use of all Lee hit to Powers and got on through labor-saving- machinery available, an error. W. Pankey, the catcher, will not lessen the labor employed was then given transportation and upon them for very* many years to i the bases were filled, with, no one come . It will, however, bring better lout, and it looked blue for the visi- roads several years nearer aclueve-�nrs. Powers fanned Allan and hope ment than they would otherwise be. revived for .a minute. Kimler, the Tlie gravel-loader is being moved right fielder, was up. Powers had no to a point on the highway in the control and walked him thus forcing vicinity of Six-Mile\Crock. The hi I .over the winning run on "the west side of^the Fraser flead-The Prince George team started rag to the highway has been put into ;out well, Waldof, the first man up, first-class condition. The road is got to first. He was sacrificed to now constructed where it was first second by Powers and crossed the located by Engineer Dixon. It was plate on.'Ta'ft's long single. There too big a job to be undertaken at was no more scoring until the last of once, but yearly improvements have when Shelley got two gradually brought the desirpd Gillard and' J Pankev change about. Motor drivers should the fourth counters. each Council Donates Oil for Use on the Race Track Will be Used to Keep Down the Dust in Front of ^the Grand Stand. Mackenzie Tablet Establishes Link Between' Prince George Stornoway:. nd T& members of the city council are prepared to assist th^local Stampede management in every manner short of lending them money. At the council meeting on Monday everting Alderman Taylor submitted the request of the stampede for several barrels of waste oil from the de-the pumping station, the oil being sired to treat the surface of track immediately in front of the grand stand. Mayor Alward said the request had been brought eo his attention and he hart ascertained there were ^4~t^V ^ * FIVE CENTS. 7> ,es Stand rirm on Cut in Teachers' Salaries Chairman Quinn Asserts Necessity for Economy the Sole Re.ir.on for' Reduction. Majority Members of Board Deny-That Pledges Were Given Be-for Recent Election. The members of the teaching staff of the public schools had a conference with the borjrd of school trustees on Tuesday evening, when an attempt was made to get the trustees to reconsider their decision- in the matter of the reduction in salaries of teachers. All the members of the board were present, and they divided Trustees Ewert and Pitman as onposed to the salary cut, and Chairman Quinn and Trustees Martin and Porter as supporting. The conference did not get anywhere. The teachers - threshed out-between eight nnd nine barrels of'a number of rumors which had come waste oil at the station at the present time. While the city had adopted the practice of selling the waste i:t 20 cents per gallon there were no to them as to reasons assigned for the action taken. Most of the talking was done by T. Carmichael, assistant principal, and Miss Milligan, purchasers in siglu for the accumu-jbut from time, to time all the teach- ation at. the power station at thejers chipped in, and there was hardly �resent time, and he was quite wil-ja story which'-was ovqrlooked. lation pr ling to make a donation of the limited quantity desired hy the Stampede management. Alderman Patterson moved, seconded .by Alderman Guesf, llmt the Chairman Quinn assured teachers there was no warrant h the for the rumor the salary cut was an evidence of dissatisfaction with thq .work of the teachers. The cut bad nnnasemenc be nrescneef jbeen madii to t,,rect an economy and barrels of.tfe wnsle �� for no-other reason: condition they remove it and | , I he .suggestion was also made that members of the city council did not favor .the cutting of the teachers' .salaries, but the chairman of the ted lo the e'soiiif.on'cf Ston )way, With up->n rr>i u n the barrels. Mayor Alward preso council the copy of i'.i'-. til1 If V 11 CO'JliCil Of _____----.... S< i]:ii(l expressing appreciation ..f|�onrd replied to.this that while he the honor done the nitU'iiVrv of Sir j'lid, not Know the private opinion of A'o\.->tcler Mackenzie iu marking iho Imeirtbers of the, city council, he did points visited in making hi.s 'ovor-ikriow the collective sentiment of the trip, and also a photograph of a pen council upon the subject of econo-and ink sketch of the house in Stor-|n}ies by the school board. The coun- noway in which Mackenzie was born. These mementoes had been given to �__ singles off Kennedv andlDe particularly pleased with the im-lhim by Judge Howay, and he thought �cored"o'n a hit by Hopkins. Prince provement which has been secured;it would be proper to acknowledge x, - 1J"*''! their receipt to the town council of Stornoway. On motion of Alderman Taylor it was decided to have the receipt of the copy of the resolution of the Stornoway councij. as well as the photograph of the drawing of th< cred _ _ _L... .___ George evened matters in the sixth,uP�n this hill this summer. when Powers got a hit,to right, and ,scored on Taft's long fly .to left field. Both teams got a pair of runs in �the eighth. Taft got in his third hit �of the day and scored on a long hit ',a center by Steele. The batter went J to second on the throw-in and was scored on Kennedy's hit through sec-iond base. Shelley commenced to take liberties with Kennedy in the last half of the eighth. Kimler went to first oh ia hit and stole second. J. Pankey got in a double to left, and B. Pan-:key hit, far enough into center to ; bring his brother in from second. The teams lined up as follows: Eagles.�-Waldof. *lb; Ryan, 2b; Powers, c.f. and p.; Taft, e; Steele, ;]b;' Kennedy, p. and cf; Muirhead, If; Quinh, ss; and Harper, rf. J Shellevy�Gillard. cf; J. Pankey, !ll>; Bristol. 3b; B. Pankey, p; Hopkins, 2b; Lee, ss; M. Pankey, c McBRIDE SECURES AN APPROPRIATION FOR TELEPHONE LINE The Citizen u^/in receipt of a message from Ottawa to the effect that T. G. McBride, member for Cariboo, has secured an appropriation of $12,500 for the building of a felr.ihone line from Quesnel to Prince George, n?id that the lame 'appears in the supplementary estimates. This telephone line has been sought by Prince George for several years. When the work is completed it will give Prince George the advantage of a longdistance service with all points south as far as Ashcroft, and with all the centers of population to the west along the line of railway. Al- lan, If; and Kimler, rf. Commons Asked to Dispense with Governor-General 'SMILING" JACK YOUNG MIXES WITH ANDERSON AT THE STAMPEDE "Smiling" Jack Young, the fighting logger from Giscome. wilL figure in the big fight in connection with the Stampede., He is due to mix with Harry Anderson in the Ritts-Kifer on Thursday evening, July 2nd. Anderson's ability as a boxer .is well . known throughout Western Canada. | Young is credited with having been ______ in seventy fights and in his time has i met Joe Manila, of Ketchikan, Leo Suggested Saving of Half a Million '. Stokes, of Drumheller, Irish McMil-Does Not Apeal to Members ! Ian, of Cape Breton, and Billy Lar-of House. �!-son of Alaska.' Young fights around -----'�� 1150 pounds. He is getting into con- �In the house dition at Giscome and can be depend-Monday night, ed upon to put up a good scrap. Labor member --------------------- � . the aboli- START HAS BEEN MADE pp g j Mackenzie house, suitably acknowledged and then framed and hung in the council chamber. The council decided to give a contract to Nicholls Bros., of Edmonton', fur the reboring of five engine cyl-linders and the. fitting of thciin with oversize pistons. The council gave the work to an outside firm because jit was not satisfied with local prices. Chairman C. W. Ferry; of the hos-., pital board, raised the question of I the removal of Victor Fogel from the hospital to one of the provincial homes. Fogel has been an inmate of the hospital for the ]3ast three years and is an incurable case. In addition fits of temper make him an undesirable inmate in a hospital on account of the other patients. An o/Fort will be made to secure his removal to some other institution. A petition from ratepayers calling for a standpipe at the corner of Empress and Lethbridge streets was referred to the water committee with power to act. . � cil had been urging economy upon ' he board for the past two years. There was also the suggestion that the "Salary cut came as the result of tome ante-election pledge given by the three trustees elected at the recent election, to ers' association. ___ trustees denied that any such pledge had been given to cut the salaries. Secretary Martin gave it as her opinion the salary schedule . of the board following the cut would compare favorably with the salaries paid in�other communities. It wou!>��, uc- ___ . mv the nost might well be dispensed The road has been relocated, and . covered with cheesecloth and extent which will impair the effici- th F'vch disclaimed any dispar- pieces will be constructed from time j th fla )read rapj(tly. The ency of the schools. Chairman Quinn Utn. i.acn � ..... . . �.-. -ij �------* remain in Canada that he stance makes it an economy to re, I felt iustified in recommending the construct rather, than attempt to ifeitjustinea i be ^^ j maintain the original road. Theft e nentlv bv the chief justice of,will be three or .four titles of neu a and, thus save the country-road built this season. lhT"��ter part of an expenditure of $500,000. � . � Hon. G P- Graham, who was lead- SIXTEEN PERSONS KILLED IN SMASH ON DELAWARE & LACKAWANNA ROAD SPi��2FS ir'thefcfnTperial govern" 'lea'sT'sixteen persons were killed dominion tern of appoinrnicn^ who,first coach H. H. Stevens, of Vancouver, who .first ^acn uo on the locomo- H'i Hh*Tt e" opposition, concur- itive, the boiU/r of which exploded was .lea.d/JV_';?s of the minister of shortly after. The roadWedI was so TG(\ m d bdl dd it is impossible to fix /JV;?s of the minister of shortly after. n h vote was passed badly damaged it is impossible to fix S h" osition the cause of the accident. further opposition badly damaged t i p the cause of the accident. pread rapidly, was pleased^ to have had an shortly after 2 o'clock, but by opportunity of talking the matter had gained such headway over with the teachers and explain? was not possible for the de- ing the board's attitude. Talking partment to do much more than con- things over was one of the thing^he fine it'to the building. he was fondest of, buit this does poT" While the exterior of the building indicate any. reston-at^m in sala/ies. was not badly burned it is believed i �'--------------- the fire ate its way well into the WOODPECKER AND structure from the inside. The con- j STRATHNAVER WILL tents will be almost a total loss. .. JOIN IN STAMPEDE There is said to have been sufficient I ---------: insurance carried to cover the clam- I The Woodpecker and Strathnaver ai?e. fair associations have decided to Nick Gabrie-lle, proprietor of the postpone the joint picnic which it rooming house, is unable to account was arranged to hold at Hixon Creek for the origin of the fire. He says on Dominion Day and to attend the he was awakened by the smell of Prince George Stampede in force, smoke, and on opening the door of The.lr picnic will be held on July 4th.' his bedroom found the building full The road is in good shape and a good of flame and smoke. The insurance day's outing can be counted upon by< consisted of $5000 von the building a\x who find it possible to make the # and $4200 on the contents. jtrip.