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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. It
was a fact, he said, that tha best couatrx