S SECOND PART. PAGES 9 TO 12. THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH. LICENSE COURT OPEN. A .Brisk Gait Struck by Judges Ewing and Magee at the Starting Post. SIXTY-SIX APPLICANTS 'Alderman Cassidy Keeps His Lively as THE SECOND AND THIRD WARDS TO BE FINISHED TO-DA Y t Judges Ewing end Magee, sitting as the Court of Quarter Sessions, yesterday morn ing at 9:30 o'clock began the hearing of the applications for licenses to sell intoxicating liquors at retail, for one year from May 1. Sixty-six applications were inquired into during the day of 6 honn, which is especially rapid -work. The petitioners are not so minutely ques tioned as they were by Judge "White in 1889. Judge Wlrte went carefully into the per sonal career of each applicant, questioning him even as to his domestic arrangements, his family affairs and his own personal cateer. Jud?e Eiving did nearly all the ex amining yesterday, he being the President Judge of Court ol Common Pleas No. 2. He revealed a wonderful memory of the doings of the License Court in 1888, when he sat with Judge "White. EVIDENCES OF A GOOD MEMORY. In a large majority of cases he recalled the applicant and the reputation of his place, as brought out at that time. He even remembered minute circumstances of cnmplnints made, and had no hesitation in putting them at the witness. He ha'd at hand memoranda from many sources, the license lists of the last two years, the speak easy list and the complaint list furnished by Chief Brown, of the Department of Public Safety, ami other information. Judge Ewmg inquired as to the premises to be occupied more carefully than he did as to the occuiticr, though he did not overlook the personality ot the applicant. He in fcisted, early m the day, that a liquor license should be civcu oniyio the keeper of a bona fide hotel or eating house. He held emphat ically that the sale of liquor should be tub siJiarj to the furnishing of meals or lodg ing. He declared that the Supreme Court's directions, that a mere drinking place should not be licensed, would govern the Allegheny Ounty Court. This rule threaten-, to cut off some of the places licensed by Judge White last year, especially down town, and promises to grant licenses to a number of new people. Judge Ewing dis plays an accurate knowledge of localities .And their histories. He holds that no sa loons, not even if kept bycareful and honest landlords bhould be located in disreputable quarters. AN IMPRESSION GAINED. The questioning and remarks ot the Court yesterday conveyed the impression to mem bers of the bar generally that there would be a liberal increase of, the number of saloons, but that the licenses would be issued with care, on general lines of policy, apart from personal favoritism. Judge Magee listened and watched closely. His questions usually pertained to the bond aud to the parties who might be financially backing the applicant. His keen brown eyes seemed to bore into the inner soul of the presumptuous applicant and to read his most secret thoughts. A feature of the day was the appearance of Aiaeiman Cassidy, of the First ward, as a witness against a number of the appli cants. He hud some lively tilts with the men whom he opposed, and was charged by one of them with interference for a political reason. The Alderman, however, generally made his point against the applicant. The attendance was as large as the court room would accommodate. The uninter ested spectators were generally young men, 'who looked like loafers. With one excep tion, which was caused by a mistake in the printed official list, all the applicants were prepared to respond when their names were called. MANY LAWYERS PRESENT. There were at least 30 members of the bar present nearly all the time. No person ap peared for the temperance organizations or the Law and Order Society. The faces of Attorneys Yost and Price and of Captain Wlshart were missed. Attorney B. C. Christy looked on merely as a spectator for a short time during the afternoon. At 9 o'clock in the morning the bright but noisy courtroom in the Diamond-Grant corner ot the second floor was opened, and in ten minutes all available space outside of the bar was occupied by ragged, lazy, red . oozed idlers, who blinked nt the clerks Bnd court officers with open mouths. The bailiffs went about arranging chairs and tables, pushing them backward and forward without any special object, except that they might appear to be busy. Clerk McGuunegle and assistants hustled In. pulled open drawers, slapped big court books about on the desks, untied huge pack ages of documents and unrolled maps to be spread before the Judges. Mr. McGunnegle wore a smile as expansive as the morning dawn. It lighted up the courtroom like an aureole of electricity. Stenographer Sam Fullwood appeared early and took his high seat to report his third session of the License Court for Allegheny county. What he did during the times when even the applicant's attorney could not hear what his bashful and nervous client said, is a mystery to all, but the pen was kept moving anyway. MUST TALK ENGLISH. Blind Court Interpreter Luty was assisted to a comfortable chair at the left of the bench, where be sat all day without being called upon to assist this court An appli cant who cannot talk decent English will stind a poor show with the Court, which seeks to know otten how long a man has been naturalized. Among the early arrivals with the bar were Attorneys "Bobb, Brennen, McLean, Breck, Meyer, Johnston and C. C. Montooth. Tim O'Leary, wearing a polished silk tile and a St Patrick's Day smile, was on hasd to pass the time of day and cheer up some of tne nervous applicants on the mourners' rest. Inside of the bar were placed two rows of chairs to accommodate the appli cants, and nearly all were there at 9:30 o'clock. HEARD IAT A HURRY. Promise and Hakes It as He Can. THE GRIND BEGUN. OPENING OF THE COURT ON WHICH SO MUCH DEPENDS. The Corridors and Doortrn js Crowded En irnncc of Ihe JiiiIbc Tha Fint Appll ennt a Woman No DUponlllon of the Jmlffen to Dwell on Any Cnsn. At 9:50 people began to watch the clock. The doorway and corridor outside were thronged. It was four minutes after the ap pointed time when Judge Ewing, tall and bent, and Judge Magee, little and serious, pushed their way in and ascended to their big, leather-cushioned arm chairs. A hush fell upon the audience. Judge Ewing began talkimr as soon as he reached the chair, ad dressing, apparently at one and the same time, the three or four clerks who stood up to hand books and papers to him. He nervously adjusted his eyeglass, stuck a pen between his lips and peered around the court Judge Magee sat down calmly and waded into a manuscript "Mrs. Barbara Buch," called Judge Ewing. Then the weather-beaten crier called out his weather-beaten rigmarole, and the License Court was open. THE FIRST ONE A 'WOMAN. Mrs. Barbara Buch desires to run a saloon at No. 22 Penn avenue. She is a comely little woman, heavily robed in widow's weeds. Her attorney was John S. Bobb. Mr. Buch, in a very meek and low voice, said she kept a three-story brick house, with nine regular boarders, besides whom about 30 persons eat their meals there. Her hus band has been dead nine months. When Judge Ewing asked how near she was to another saloon, she said that Patrick Mc Donough was next door, at No. 20 Penn. The room which Mrs. Buch desires to use as a barroom is now occupied by a grocery store. This first case was heard in just four minutes. John Bardsley, of Nos. 46 and 48 Fourth avenue, a little "man with a florid, English face, said he had a new house with 14 rooms, aud wanted to keep a hotel and saloon. He said that he kept a saloon No. 2612 Penn avenue 17 years ago. He bad since been a machinist for Westinghouse until 5 vear3 ago. After that he kept a buggy and sale stable at the Point Judge Ewing said: "This is a place which would take a wonder fully good man to keep a saloon. It has been a den of thieves and disorderly houses for years. We ought to have somebody to tell us more about this man." In answer to further questions Bardsley said he was 47 years old and a bachelor. He admitted that he had applied also for a wholesale license. It he could not get one kind he wanted the other. Judge Ewing remarked that Thomas Nuttridge, the saloon keeper, was one of ardsley's bondsmen. SAM BOLEY LECTURED. Samuel C. Boiey.the proprietor of Boley's Hotel, on the Diamond square, received a sort of lecture from Judge Ewing. As soon as the applicant was sworn Judge Ewing said: "I remember this case well. I sup pose Mr. Boley knows the reason he was re fused last year. I do not wish to state it publiclv." Attorney Henry Meyer and Mr. Boley denied that they had any idea ot the cause for refusal. Mr. Boley said that he led 130 people a day. "Yes, I know," the Judge said, "but he was not care.ul enough." Judgi Ewing wrote upon a sheet of legalcap and passed it to Mr. Boley's lawyer, saying: "That is for your private inspection. Ir Mr. Boley is granted a license we vi ill expect him to be very careful." After Mr. Meyer bad read the Judge's note and showed it to his client the lawyer said: "My client says that he did notknow oi anything o! that kind being charged against him." "Then." said the Judge, "he does not keep his eyes open. You accommodate a class of people that reanires vou to be verv strict." Mr. Boley promised to be good, and the next was called. NOW A TAILOR'S SHOP. Charles Bobinger asked for a license at No. 43 Fourth avenue. That is between Market and Ferry streets. Attorney John J. Mitchell, the oldest living member- of the Allegheny1 County Bar, stood p with Mr. Bobinger. The latter said thai he had occu- CROWDS IN THE CORRIDORS. pied the premises for three years. He lives on the second floor, aud his sister, a widow, has the third floor. A storeroom, on the ground floor, had been a saloon until 1887. Then it was leased to a tailor, who failed to pay his rent, and latelv had been occupied by a cigar maker. This storeroom Mr. Boblnger wishes to receive permission to fit up as a saloon. The house is brick, three stories high and contains ten rooms. Mr. Bobinger is young and has a wife and two children. Judge Ewing said: "I know this place well. It Js a very bad neighborhood." Attorney Mitchell said: I have known this man lor several years and known him to be a decent, sober man. The only way to reform that district is to put good men into it" SPREADING TOO MUCH. "No," said Judge Ewing, the only way is to put nobody there. The district has im proved greatly in the last two years. It used to be so that women were afraid to go along there even in daylight I notice that Thomas Nuttridge appears to be on about half the bonds we have come across in this ward. Clarence Daley is also on this bond and on many others. They both seem to be spreading themselves too much." Jacob Becker was called. He wants a saloon at No. 2G Fourth avenue, at the cor ner of Ferry street He keeps a lodging and eating house there. He is a heavy German and got his words out very slowly, but he succeeded in telling the Judges that his lot is 28x65 feet in size, three stories high and contains 23 rooms. Judge Ewing said: "I know what that means: 23 rooms in a house that small." Mr. Becker said that the neighborhood had beeff cleaned out, and declared that he had sold no liquors since he was refused a license. He had not even sold temperance drinks. "Did you lose your temperance trade when vou applied for a license and were refused?" Major E. Y . Breck asked. "IV, I did." This caused a little laugh, like a summer shower across a wheat field. NO ATTENTION TO LAUGHTER. Judge Ewing paid no heed to the pleas antry, and remarked, with a terribly serio'us smile, "When you tell us that you have 23 rooms in a three-story house of that size, you simply tell us that you have rooms that are not fit to live in." Judge Magee called attention to the fact that the lady who signed Mr. Becker's bond had her property mortgaged very heavily. Mpjor Breck said that the property was worth much more than the mortgage and that the lady owned other houses in the city. Judze Masee said: "That does not annear I oa the records here." The came Patrick J. Call, a young Irish man, who desires to sell whisky in the rooms at No. 227 Penn avenue, where P. J. Dona hoe recently had his political headquarters while he was running for Alderman. Mr. Call is onlv 28 years "old and has a wife and three children. He had been, he said, in the brass working business for A. & T. Mc Kenna, on Third avenue. The Penn ave nue place is owned by Neil Gatens. Two years ago a man named Curley ran a saloon in the main room, and since that time Michael Gatens, a son of the property owner, kept a poolroom and sold soft drinks. LIKE AN OLD BED. Judge Ewing was not favorable. He said: "A house run like that for years gets like an old bed. It takes more than usual to fumigate it There is something due to the public by an owner who has allowed his property to be used lor improper purposes. His house ought to be vacant." Alexander Carson, keeper of an eating house at Nos. 88 and 90 Third avenue, asked for a liquor permit He said that during the year he had furnished 23,000 meals and had many lodgers. Judge Ewing looked at this applicant in a kindly way, and said: "You have the ac commodations. You were given a license in 1888, but refused last year. 1 think the trouble was that when your bar was running you looked too much at the present money you were taking in, and thought too little ot the luture. You let your custom run down, aud were not carelul enough. I do not know what was the reason you were refused, but I iruagin ethat was it Can you bear that in mind, and run your bar as an incident to your other business?" With unction the applicant answered, "Yes, sir." ACKNOWLEDGED HIS ABILITY. Matt Cavanaugh said that he had just moved into the building at the corner of Water street and Liberty avenue, where he said that he intended to run an eating house. There are 19 rooms in the building. Cavanaugh used to keep a saloon at No. 84 Water street, but since the Brooks law com pelled him to show himself in court, he has been driving a coal wagon. Judge Ewing questioned him closely as to the interior ar rangements'of the house, where bis barroom, dining room and kitchen were to be, and what were their sizes. The Judge did not like to see a larger room used for the bar than for the eating. He said: "Ajudgeinone of the Eastern coun ties gave an opinion, in passing on licenses, which I thought was good: that there should be, in every tavern, a sitting room and a room for ladies who may stop at the house, and that it ought not to be necessary to go through the barroom to get to the dining room. When do you expect to open vour hotel?" "On April 1.-' "I feel a little disposed to know what sort of a hotel is being run there. The saloon cannot start until May 1. We know that you have the ability to keep a hotel properly if you will do it" Alderman Cassidy watched Cavanaugh closely, but did not come forward to object, as many expected him to do. SMILING, BUT NERVOUS. The next victim was John K. Durr, the well-built and well-dressed proprietor of Durr's Hotel, at the corner of Market street and Fourth avenue. As he stepped to the bar Mr. Dorr smiled, but he was very PITTSBURG, TUESDAY, MARCH nervous. The examination was brief, but suggestive. Judge Ewing questioned. "Have you obeyed the law during the year?" "Yes, sir; the best I could." '"What did your hotel part pay?" "Up to January 1 the hotel averaged about $65 a day." "You had too much bar business, I fear. I think there are a great many people who go into your place whom you might get rid of." "I used the best judgment I could. A man has to use a little leniency on a cold dav or something of that sort." "You need not accommodate neighbor hood loafers and drunkards, and you are not bound to give a drink to everybody who comes in." DETINE AND DELANEY. Thomas Devme keeps a grocery store in the house, which he owns, at the corner of Penn avenue and Fort street The house is two stories high and contains 15 rooms, the lot being 20x95 feet He said that he had kept a grocery store for 15 years, eight years of the time in this city. Prior to that for seven years he kept a saloon and grocery in Ohio. Judge Ewing asked: "What do vou propose to keep in this house?" "A saloon." "We do not license a mere saloon." "Oh, I intend to give meals and keep roomers, if I get a license." Thomas Delaney is the proprietor of the Hotel Delaney, at the corner of Market street and Second avenue. He was licensed in 1888 but was refused in 1889. Charles Montooth appeared for, him. Judge Ewing said: "We know the accommodations here. As far as I am concerned, it is a question whether I have faith for the future. Two years ago you were granted license because you bad a good house. But you did not keep the right sort ot house. You wanted to run it a little too close to the line. You are amply competent to keep the place right if you will. "WHEN nE SHUT UP. "You wereto shut up at midnight, and I guess you did, unless the clock got wrong. But you shut up at 12 o'clock Saturday night with the barroom full of people. You were not careful enough as to whom you sold. Yon ought not to sell liquor to a man who has not money enough to put comfort able clothing on him. You could make enough money without that. Didn't you have a u niteu fatates license this year. "No, sir; I never sold n drop ot any liquor. William Evans, a little Irishman, applied for a license to keep a saloon at No. 10 Mar ket street, which is now Occupied by the Bhoe store of Anthony Wise. For four weeks he had been tending bar for Charles E. Smith, at No. 4018 Bntler street. Previous to that he was in the saloon business for two year's and three months in ChVgo, and be fore that time has been in the saloon busi ness in Pittsburg, at No. 84 Water street. He is unmarried, and admitted that he had little money ot his own. He expected, he said, to be backed by a brother, John Evans, and by John Earl. "The house which he has in view is a four-story brick, and he pro poses to keep a hotel and restaurant CASSIDY COMES IN. TIIE FIRST WARD ALDERMAN HAND AS SCHEDULED. ON To Stirs Up thn Animals nnd In Amnisd Wbeo They Uonr Thoso He Hnd It In For How Ho Made Them Nervous and What lie Pnld. George S. Fallon, who was licensed one year ago to keep a saloon at No. 13 Penn avenue, asked for a renewal. He is a slim young man, with a smooth face. When he stepped up to the bar Alderman Cassidy went forward and stood near bim. This made Mr. Fallon very nervous. Mr. Fal lon said that he had kept nothing more than a saloon. He said that he did not keep a restaurant because he could not get the rest of the house. There is not room enough in the building for a hotel. His mother nnd her family occupy three rooms and two front rooms over the saloon are vacant. Mr. Fallon is unmarried. Judge Ewing said: "There have been some charges against you, selling to minors." leg, sir; tnere was a cnarge ot mat sort, but the grand jury ignored the bill." "That doesn't even add a probability to its not being true." "The boy swore before the grand jury that he thought he was 21 years old at the" time he told me he was. The man who made the charge brought him in and vouched for him. If a man says he is 21 years old, sometimes I sell to him ami sometimes I don't I judge by his appearance." BECOED OP THE DISTRICT. Alderman Cassidy was sworn. He said that within the past five months he had had more informations from that district for drunkenness and fighting than he had for five years before that. Many oi them said they got their liquor at Fallon's place. Judge Ewing said there seemed to have been a good many licenses granted in that district Fallon said that if he was granted a li cense this year he inteuded to run a restaur ant in the back part of the house. Judge Ewing remarked: "We dou't propose to li cense a prospectus. There does not seem to be a place down there that has proper ac commodations." Martin Foley, a' smooth-looking young man, who used to be engaged at "spiral spring making, and was then for a time em ployed in the postoffice, asked for a license in the three-stoiy brick building at No. 200 Penn avenue. He said he intended to keep a lodging and eating house. He acknowl edged that he occasionally took a drink of beer. He had money of his own, he answered, and no other person was interested with him, directly or indirectly. BIO ENOUGH FOB THE BUSINESS. Then came abig, sturdy man, Michael J. Feeny, who saidthat he had been a labor ing bbss on public contract;, and wanted to keep a restaurant and saloon at No. 45 Water street He is a bachelor and lives at No. 229 Pentt avenue. The proposed house is two stories in height, and 22 by 70 feet. At present it is occupied by families. Mr. Feeny said that he had put in four years as a cook on towboats on the river, working on about 20 different steamers. Judge Ewing asked Mr Feeny if he didn't thine he would be better off at his present work, but the ap plicant did not agree to that idea. Martin Foley was recalled and asked how close to his proposed place is the Catholic school. He said it was distant about six houses. George P. and Charles F. Goettman, the round, well-fed brothers who keep the big restaurant on the west side of Diamond square, appealed for a liquor license. One is a blonde and the other a brunette. They said they had kept the restaurant three years and had not previously asked for a liquor license. Their two dining rooms seat 225 people. Their father was In the restaurant business before them. Tbev serve about GOO meals a day and have 32 employes. Judge Ewing said: QUITE A CHANGE MADE. "I think there has been a considerable change made in the order of that localitv." George responded: "Yes, sir; there has been. We have the best people come to us. Everybody advised us not to go there." "You must be careful, it you get a li cense," said the Judge, in dismissal. John P. Goldthorp, an old man, who keeps a cigar stand and a small eating house at the Corner of "Wood ahd Water, said that he had occupied the place since August 1,-1889. His patrons are rlvermen, both white and black. Judge Ewing said: "That is an exceedingly hard place to keep a decent house. There have been many murders and robberies and every-thing that is vile in that neighborhood within 15 years." Mr. Goldthorp said that he sold salt 18, 1890. drinks. He has applied also for a whole sale license. It he did not get one he might get the other. His capital, he said, was $600 or $700.1 Adolph Hollander spoke for a license at No. 41 Fourth avenue, in the district which causes Judge Ewmg to hold his nose. Mr. Hollander is a Hebrew, and is a traveling agent for Joseph Fleming & Co. He said that he was unmarried and the only support of a widowed mother. There is a restaurant now in the place, which is an eight-room house, and Mr. Hollander is to take pos session on April 1. He said that many bus iness men now took their meals at the res taurant "WOULD LIKE TO SEB THEM. Said Judge Ewing: "I would like to see some of the business men who take their meals there." Attorney Stadtfeld handed up a list of names, but Judge Ewing insisted: "We would want to hear from some men that we know. During every term of the Criminal Court while there were licenses there we bad robberies from that neighborhood. I don't think two years is long enough for it to get properly fumigated." John F. Hazel, Nos. 72 and 74 Third ave nue, was another gentleman who stirred up Alderman Cassidy, He is a thin man, of middle age, with a long, thin, brown beard, and was exceedingly nervous. His examina tion was as follows: "Have you been selling any soft drinks?" "No, sir; I don't deal in soft drinks." "Have you sold any hard drinks?" "No, sir." "What have you kept?" SIZE OP HIS HOTEL. "A hotel and restaurant. I have two front rooms and a hall." "In 1888 you did not answer?" "No, sir; I did not." "You have been keeping this place for some time?" "No, sir; I just moved to it in February. I kept the Farmers' Hotel five years." "You formerly sold on a 8100 license?" "Yes, sir." "Selling on Sunday?" "No, sir." , "Keeping a pretty rough house?" "No, sir; I kept a decent house. I con sider for the number of men I accommodated there is not a man in the ward who runs a quieter place." Alderman Cassidy was sworn and said: "This man's place is called the United States Hotel. He occupies one room down stairs ior a restaarant He has a very rough class of people, both negroes nnd white. I think if he had a liquor license the neigh borhood would not get along at all. I base that on the character of the people that go AN APPLICANT FOE to his house. I know some of them to he thieves. I live only eight or ten houses from him, and I pass "his nlace several times a day." CALLED IT POLITICS. Mr. Hazel responded, with some heat: "I keep c lodging house, and I don't ask a man when he comes in if he is a thief. I admit a few colored people come there, but they are just as decent as white people. As a general thing they are workins men. I will admit that a few women stop there. I have 69 rooms, and it is the only way I have to make a living. It is not my business to turn business away. This man is mad be cause I, as a Republican, did not vote for him, a Democrat." Judge Ewing: "Never mind; let'us have the facts." Alderman Cassidy Didn't vou have a colored man there who was with a white girl? Mr. Hazel No, sir. I want you to un derstand that I urn a decent man. I con sider my character as good as yours, nnd I can prove it. John Heck and Frank D. Lirkin both applied for a license for No. 34 Diamond bquare. The second gentleman i3 a brother ot ex-Postmaster Larkin. The gentlemen arc rival claimants of a lease on the place. Each professed his willingness to take out a license, and the attorneys suggested that they might compromise by going into busi ness together. Mr. Larkin's attorney was the son of Judge Magee. WANTS A RETAIL PLACE. Henry Heck, No. 28 Diamond square, was not bothered much. Oswald Heckniuu, No. 207 Market street, has been there for 14 years but has not had a license lor two years. He had sold nt wholesale during the past year, but wonted a retail place. W. H. Jacob, No. 7 Union street, had a petition. Judge Ewing said he didn't think much of these petitions from the respectable people in the First waid. Jacob's attorney said the signers were busi ness men in the vicinity. Frederick Kellerman, No. 104 Market street, made out a good record and the court took a recess. THE AFTERNOON WORK. RESUMPTION OF TUB GRIND RIGHT AFTER DINNER.- Another Arrnr of Applicants on the Tenter hooks No Chnngo of Tncllcs on ifye Fnrt of the JuiIrps A Rapid FIro of Questions for Some. At 1-38 P. M. John King, of No. 27 Penn avenue, was called. He is tall, wears an iron gray mustache and chin beard and Iok3 like n Yankee. He did not apply in 1888 or 1889. He has u two-story frame building, 17 feet wide and 50 feet deep. He owns and lives in the property, and "handles meat" Before the Brooks law took effect he ran a saloon for thrge years, for the first two years under a 5100 license. He would not deny that during those days he sold on Sundays. He said that if hu got a license he would run a restaurant in connection wit'i the saloon. King used to live in Cauonsburg, Peter Kolbecker, a short, gray German, who lives in Allegheny, applied for No. 33 Diamond square. The building he wishes ill 1 1 i Ik JLL to occupy is four stories high, 20 feet wide and 65 feet deep. He does not occupy the premises now. It contains the Western Dairy Company. Mr. Kolbecker has been for ten years a tailor, but before that he was for 15 yers in the restaurant business and said he intended to run a 'restaurant with his saloon. He said that he had' the money and that no other person was interested in the projected saloon. Judge Ewing said: "If we give all licenses who have applied around there, there won't be room for much other business." a NOW SELLING OIO'AHS. Peter King is at 25 Penn avenue, and had a license until one year ago. Since then.he has sold cigars. His place is a brick house with nine rooms. He has threo children. He, like nearly all others, promised to run a restaurant "in connection with the saloon." Yes, he said he kept soft drinks. Belore he was knocked out be had "about eight boarders." He said he came to the United States in 1881, kept a saloon the first year, but was not naturalized until 1885. Martin Lrgan, of Nos. 8 to 12 Penn avenue, stepped up with C, C. Dickey. He said he had lived in the First ward 34 years, except four years. "Where were you dur ing that time?" Mr. Dickey asked. "Out in the war." In the Federal army?" "Yes." Judge Ewing smiled. For several years Mr. Logan kept a saloon, always paid a $300 license, and before 1888 sold on Sun day. He did not keep a restaurant The premises, he said, had been a saloon for at least SO years. It was a two-story brick, with lour large rooms down ,stair3 and six bed rooms above. For two years the hoiue has been occupied only-by his family. He said he bad not been doing anything, except looking after a little of his property. "Why dind't vou try a restaurant there?" Judge Ewing asked. Mr. Logan said that such a place would not pay. At Mr. Dickey's suggestion Mr. Logan promised to open a restanrant it granted a saloon license. Judge Ewing said that the Supreme Conrt had decided against granting license where there was no restaurant or hotel. ANOTHEK OF CASSIDY'S FBIENDS. Patrick McDonough, No. 20 Penn ave nue, has simply a saloon. He has been there for 20 years, and denied selling tto minors. Judge Ewing: "Well, how about men who get drunk?" Mr. McDonough: "I don't sell to them." Alderman Cassidy was sworn and testified that McDonough's place was merely a drinking saloon. He did not even have a lunch counter. Also that an information A BAB AT THE BAB. had been made before him against the appli cant for selling to minors and was dismissed. The reason for that was that the min who made the information, Patrick O'Donnell, testified differently at the hearing. 'Squire Cassidy intimated very stronely that the prosecutor had been tampered with. He said that he saw McDonough and O'Donnell together nfler the information had been made, and that next day O'Donnell ap peared and refused to prosecute. HE HAS SOLD POP. Charles McCarran applied for a license at No. 105 Water street, near Wood. He has kept a restaurant in the place for two years, and sold pop. "How strong is pop?" Judge Ewing asked. "About as strong as water," was the an swer. The Judge said: "We have seen a great many people in the Criminal Court who said they got drunc on thi3 pop." Mr. McCarren has not tried for a saloon license since Mr. Brooks' little law was en acted. He said that he was only a lessee of the place, but that no other person had an interest in the license. He kept a saloon there for three years, p iving S300 license in 1886 and 1887. He averred that during the last ol those years he sold to no person on Sunday. Bernard McGinnis, short, fat and red faced, looked like a cross between a German nnd an Irishman. He said he occupied a 12-room house of Mrs. Martin Joyce's at No. 20 Water street, where he had lived four years. Before 1888 he sold liquor for two ycjrs under a 100 license, and since then has been bottling beer. He sells beer by the wagon, which sometimes he drives himself. He says that he has a steady cus tom and delivers over the city as tar out a Oakland. If he gets a retail license he ex pects to be his own boss. This year he has not applied for a wholesale license. WOULD "WANT A PARTNER. John McDonough, a little, yellow-musJ tnchet'' Irishman, wants a saloon ai No. 21 Penn, lvenue. His house, also, belongs to Mrs. Martin Joyce, He averred, but after some hesitation, that he served meals in his place. He said that he had been a bar tender for seven years. If he seenred a license he expected to have a partner who would look after the eating department. John Nee, of No. 219 Penn avenue, is bald, gray and one-armed. He wore blue clothes of the old-soldier sort He has kept a saloon daring the past year, and said that he kept also a restaurant. "One man eats his meals there every day," he said. Al though ho went through the war, he was not naturalized until 1872. Tliomas Nuttridge, the well-known En glishman, who keeps the saloon at No. 22 Diamond street, was the next. He has had a license since the Brooks law went into effect His restaurant department averages Irom S10 to $15 a day, and he lodges strangers in uoner rooms. He owns the propertv himself. His examination was very brief. WILL PUT IN A RESTAURANT. Edward K. Porter applied for a license for the corner of Market and Water streets. He lives on Second avenue. He has lived five years in this city, had tended bar and been a hotel clerk. He is a tall, good look ing gentleman, with an open countenance and a handsome chestnut mustache. He said he had leased the entire building on tho northern corner of Market and Water, and would put a restaurant into the corner , room now used as a cigar store. The house, he said, is in pretty good shape now, and he proposed to give it a regular overhauling, fitting up bedrooms, bar, eating rooms, etc Ho said that he owned no property, but had ?800. "Who is going to help yon fix it up, if you have only that much?" asked Judge Magee. "I haven't askedjanybody yet I thought it would he time enough when I got a license." "You expect fa get one then?" "Well, I thought I would try." "You have leased the place?" BELONGS TO SOME HEIBS. "Yes. It belongs to some heirs, and tha man who keeps the cigar stand has a lease. I got the lease off of him." "Have you the lease with you?" "No, sir." Judge Ewing Who used to keep that place?, "Oyster Paddy." "The district has a bad odor." William Printv, who applies for No. 332 Liberty avenue, is short, sandy bearded and lame. He hobbled up on a cane. He has a four-story building containing 24 rooms. His dining room is large enough to seat 30 people, and he now has over 30 roomers and boarders, who are clerks, azents, etc The establishment is called Prlnty's Hotel, and is near the toot of Fourth avenue. He said that in 1888, when he failed to get a license, he sold cigars for about six months, but he saw there was nothing in it and quit His wife owns the property. He came to the United States when 13 years oM, and was naturalized inlS63. He bought the hotel five years ago and moved into it three years ago. Belore the reiga of Mr. Brooks he kept a saloon for a short time. Judge Ewing said that he thought he re membered that Mr. Printy had sold with out a license under the old law. Mr. Printy denied that he had done so, although there was a bottle story told on him in 1883. DIDN'T KNOW THE NAME. Alderman Cassidy swore that a house of Mr. Printy's, at the corner of Third avenue and Bedoubt alley, was rented to Cora Blake, who kept a disorderly house. Mr. Printv said, that a Mr. Blake rented and occupied the house a year ago. He could not tell who lives in it now. He said he did not know the lady or gentleman's name. Edwin W. Porter, No. 26 Diamond Square, said that his former partners,Thoma3 Sheridan and Thomas Harter, had drawn out ot the restaurant business last June "Call another," said Judge Ewing. Charles Qninn, a former saloon keeper at No. 34 Diamond square, applied again for a license. Judge Ewing said: "Your bonds man, T. Daley, seems to be on about half the bonds in the ward. The trouble with Mr. Quinn seems to have been that he kept merely a drinking place." Mr. C. C. Mon tooth made a plea for Mr. Quinn, saying that he kept one of the most orderly places in the city. "I understand," said Judge Ewing, "that he sold very good liquor." Mr. Quinn explained his premises and said he wonld open a restaurant. SAID TO TAERY TOO LONG. Judge Ewing said: "Your liquor may have been too good. It is said that some ele gant gentlemen used to tarry there too long. In fact I have heard that some of our law yers were very fond of your whisky." There were knowing looks around the room. George Beineman stood up long enough only for Judge Ewing to say: "The only thing I hear of you is that the proceeds of your restaurant do not seem to bear as large a proportion to the proceeds from your bar as tbev used to. I would be very sorry to see that restaurant run down." That "was all. The Judges smiled, Mr. Beineman smiled and returned to his seat Fred Speier applied for No. 11 Diamond square, where he now keeps a restaurant He said that for eight years he had managed John Heck's restanrant, at No. 36 Diamond square. He is a young, married man. He said that he furnished meals for from 50 to 75 people a day, many of them being butch ers and others from the market. He has a cigar license. His rent is $1,000 a year, and he said he found it hard work to make the restanrant pay. HAS LONG KEPT BOARDERS. Hugh Sweeney, of No. 229 Penn avenue, is a man beyond middle age, with a close gray mustache. He has, for many years, kept boarders, and for 11 years sold liquor. The property is owned by n cousin, Mrs. Kinney, who lives in the "house and man ages the boarding. Before 1888 Mr. Sweeney had been running the bar. Mrs. Kinney applied last year and was refused. Charles W. Stevens applied for a license on the northeast corner ot Market street and Second avenue. He said he had leased the building, which contains 10 room3. There is an elevator, a large dining room and lodging rooms. He said lhat he had been in the restaurant and saloon busi ness 25 years, 18 of that time In this city. Eisht years he was on Fifth avenue, and at present is managing a restaurant on Mas ters alley. The property at Second and Market was for many years a saloon stand. It was the old Shields stand, and lately was kept by Thomas Godfrey. "That is a bad locality," said Judge Ew ing. "Can you keep the place from being a resort lor gamblers and thieves?" "I can try." "You had better start in a good locality." MADE A GOOD IMPRESSION. Mr. Stevens' bondsmen are Harry Heck, an applicant, and B. L. Wood. He said that he had -never kept a mere drinking place, and apparently made a good impul sion on tne court. Frederick Spaders, who keeps at No. 64 Water street, asked for another year. He said he served 75 meals a day. "Have you trouble with men who come ia too lull?" "Ye3, sometimes." "What do you do with them?" "Well, we "watch them pretty close." "I emember now what your trouble was. I am satisfied." N. S. Snyder, the big German ex-detective, asked for a license for the Keystone Hotel, on Fourth avenue, below Market. The house is four stories high, contains 47 rooms and is a regular hotel. He kept the St. Nicholas four years, until it was re cently sold to be torn down. In spite of the reputation of lower Fourth avenue, Mr. Snyder stated that the Keystone Hotel had a "good standing. "Mr. Snyder," said Judge Ewing, "yott had a little trouble at the St Nicholas. If you get a license at the Keystone, you will have to be a little careful. Your standard is not high enough. It is not necessary to refuse only intoxicated men. There are many other men who should not be given liquor. You ought not to sell to a man who cannot buy bread for his family." WANTED A LITTLE WORD. "Youf Honor," said Attorney L N. Pat terson, "may I say a word?" "It is not necessary," Judge Ewing said. John O. Stroup, proprietor of the Big Mirror, at No. 25 Union street, spoke a little piece about the number of meals he served daily. He said that he averaged about 125 meals a day, and sent dinners out to the employes of several banks. Judge Magee conducted Mr. Stroup's examina tion. He asked: "Why have you an officer always In front of your place?" "My trade is so large. I thought it best to have a man there to keep things orderly and quiet Many other places have a policeman." Judge Magee said: "It don't look right to license a place and then have to put a policeman in part of it" Mrs. Martha Wolf, of No. 1 Union streei, keeps an eating house and a boarding stable, and wishes to sell liquor. Her husband, who died in December, 1888, had been a saloonkeeper. The lady said that she owned the property and expected to have a """i named Jacob to manage the bar for her. Judge Ewing said that the only question, was whether the woman had the capacity and vim to manage a tavern properly. 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