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Show CAFE OWNERS WANTjj LICENSE REDUCEjf - Proprietors Filo Petition Sotting FoW, High Cost of Living as Main Argument. jK' W Now come the cafe keepers eeekliM, Lj similar reduction In the license Imp' jjf on their business hy the city as -mfc ny granted roccntly to the nierchants. A petition, idgncd hy a dozen loca' iLr men and setting forth that In vU 'Wflj the cvcr-inereaninn cost of meats p ixM arc booomlntf a thins of the past, Mod with the city recorder yestci Ti ll-The ll-The restaurant men ask for a substan y tin"1 reduction In their annual licenses. viel High prices of meats, and other fo ,fltf)ki stuffs and high rents are gradually ift w inK up what llitlo nroilts havo hcretcj5- w accrued to thoso In the buslnesnk nK.,v: averred, and a reduction in tho Ky HaH tax will help keep tho wolf froi IVi? door, It is alleged. The rcHtauran th ask fie commission to invi,"tlgo mT y, number of failures In their line q oK ncSB during- tho Iu"t yenry H |