khan mmmmtmmmmmm SECOND PART. THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH. PAGES 9 TO 12. A BIG ARMFUL OF REMONSTRANCES. Attorney Christy Somewhat Livens Up the Otherwise Dull License Court Hearings. EESIDESTS OP TWO WARDS Lunch Cannier Not Considered Restaurants by the Jodges The Fourth Day of the Conn ot Qolle as Lively as Former Sessions A Conple or Applicants Who Never Tasted I.iqnor of Any Kind Others Who Admit They Sometimes Drink More Than They Mionld A District That the Court Thinks Needs No More Saloons bnt a Better Grnde of Them Seventy Moro Applications Heard. Seventy saloon applicants were heard yes terday, covering the Ninth, Tenth and Elev enth wards. The list for to-day takes in the Twelfth and Thirteenth wards and the first 20 names in the fourteenth ward. The day was a rather dnll one. Attorney B. C Christy in the morning filed general remonstrances against the granting of any licenses in the Eleventh and Thirteenth wards. On behalf ol citizens of the Eleventh ward, Mr. Christy appeared at the afternoon session and qnestioned the ap plicants. He will appear this afternoon for the Thirteenth ward. The applicants from the Ninth and Tenth wards were nearly all on the speak-easy list, but that did not seem to make much difference with the Judges. They had lost confidence in the list. Nearly every ap plicant said that he would keep a restau rant, but the answers to questions by the Court showed that many of the restaurants were to be nothing more than cheap lunch counters. Judge Ewing expressed the opinion that the number of saloons along Penn avenue, between Eleventh and Sixteenth streets, ought not to be increased, but that some new places ought to sucreed some ol those now running, where there could be better accommodations outside of the drinking facilities. Unless the remarks of the Judges are very misleading, there will be some licensed houses, perhaps three or four, in the Elev enth ward. At present there are none there. The Judges already show weariness. They keep very complete notes, and the long ses sions tire them out. Judge Ewing, espe cially, seems to be worn and worried. OUT PENN AYENUE. A DISTRICT ONCE WELL SUPPLIED WITII SALOONS. Thirty-Mne Applicnnts In the Ninth Ward, Two of Them Reins Women One Nan Who Has Done Nothing: for Two Years Yesterday Moraine's Hcarlnjr. The Ninth ward has 39 applicants, eight on Liberty avenue, between Eleventh and Thirteenth streets; two on Eleventh street, between Liberty and Penn; eight on Penn, between Eleventh and Twelfth; seven on Penn, between Twelfth and Thirteenth; five on Penn, between Thirteenth and Four teenth; eight on Penn, between Fourteenth and Fifteenth, aud. one on Pike street. Two applicants for the ward are women. George Brehler, No. 1401 Penn avenue, was the first, promptly at 9:30 o'clock. His place is the old Bardstown House, and con tains 22 rooms, of which 12 are used by the applicant He has run that house for 15 rears, and until 18S8 was licensed to sell the ardent. "Do you drink?" Attorney Meyer asked. The reply of the applicant was. "Not very much." " "What have yo been doing for two cars?" "1 didn't do nothing." Andrew Beck, of No. 1415 Penn avenue, had a $300 license from 1880 till 1S88. He kept a restaurant, but did not apply under the Brooks law. He has abandoned the res taurant and kept a tobacco store. He de nied that he had sold beer, but said that he bought a case or two of beer each week for family use. MAKES HIM FEEL BAD. Leo Boehm, No. 1407 Penn avenue, has a large house and serves meals. He used to keep a saloon and it makes him feel bad when he looks into the empty and cheerless barroom. Thomas Donahue runs a cigar store and restaurant at No. 1121 Liberty avenue, op posite the Union depot. He was licensed in 1888, but not durinc the past year. Thomas Dngau's place, at No. 1223 Lib erty avenue, is the old English Hotel, and contains 21 rooms. He has kept hotel at various houses near the depot for 23 years, and is a man of good appearance. He put his liquor barrels into tne cellar a year aso, and has not since turned a tap. He raid he bought a keg of heer a week for his family of four. Judge Ewing asked: "Isn't that a liberal supply9" "Yes, sir; it is as much as we need." Charles B. Deshon, who keeps the Hotel Deshon, formerly the Hotel Mahaney, cor ner of Liberty and Eleventh, passed a short examination, which was apparently satis factory. He has a bar at present. A year ago he was refused for No. 1119 Liberty, but secured a transfer of Mahauey's license. William Elkin. No. 1240Penn avenue, denied emphatically that he had been con ducting a speak-easy. Charles J. Fmklenberg, No. 1248 Penn avenue, keeps a restaurant, and presented a petition signed by neighbors. Judce Ewing said: CAS TELL THE TIME. "Ton used to sell on Sunday. Do you think that if you were licensed vou would be able to tell when 12 o'clock Saturday night came?" "Yes, sir." "If I remember, you didn't close up promptlr at midnight." "Yes, sir; I generally did." "Yes, if the clock didn't stop. I see " continued the Judge, "that I marked you very close to the dividing line in 1888, but you fell to the wrong side." "It was published that I had been licensed then, and I went to work and fixed my house up." John N. Farmcrie.of the Farmers' Hotel, No. 1326 Penn aveune, was told by Judge Ewing: "I see that two years ago vou learned that the Brooks law was in effect only the Sun.lay before your hearing." The applicant Baid that a policeman lived in the upper story of his house, hut he actually did not know the roan's name. Farnierie was lold that he had a bad reputation two yeaio ago. und was closely examined as to the manner in which he had conducted his bar during the past year. "What do you do with drunken men?" he was asked. "Walk 'etn out." "When do you do that?" "When they stagger." FAILED TO ANSWER. Thomas Ferd, No. 1233 Penn avenue, did not answer. He was the first delinquent. John Giel, No. 130C Penn, keeps a tort of hotel. While he was being examined a uiessencer bov broucht to Judge Enmga letter, inclosed in a fancy, square envelope. The Judge signed the boy's book, held up the envelope and said: "Now, the chances are this is something about license, and the jersonjrill just lo-e25 cents." Mr. Giel was severely lectured by Judge Ewing, al though he was tnM that lie was close to the line in 1WR. . &W sBsBsfsiltlil "sislil ill VinlTiliiilSfalisl ibsJifiilffmiiTasri-1-"--- Ala liilltsliljilf ' ilfcafrjtfftsrfrihii'iliri' iSaBsJ ia?ihWfeiifilisiSBl1lf ''filsififflBsf Mit$($i$$i&& CONTEST WITH KO SALOONS. Martin Gillig, No. 1417 Penn avenue, has an eating house iu expectation; no license, no restaurant. At present he sells tobies, and may have to stick to it. George Herron, a gentleman with a pair of luxuriant side whiskers, which would have made Ambrose E. Burnside ill with envy, applies for No. 1441 Penn avenue, "Let us know," said Judge Ewing, "who Mr. Herron is?" The applicant replied: "I am an Irishman." For many years he has been in a grocery store at No. 1445 Penn avenue. William Hanlon, who wants to open up on his own hook at No. 1140 Penn avenue, has been a bartender at the saloon of the late Hugh Foster. He is 25 yean old, and has not yet secured a wife. A VICTIM OF FATE. Michael Jordan, No. 1212 Penn avenve, keeps a restaurant, but the profits are not big enough to please him. Before natural gas came in he was a gasmaker and latterly kept a saloon. Mr. Brooks interfered with his saloon business, just as the natural gas did with his former calling. Frank Klein sells whisky at No. 49 Elev enth street and keeps lodgers. He is willing to keep it up another year. "Do you drink?" asked Judge Magee. "I don't drink a drop," answere'd Mr. Klein; "I have no use for it" Judge Ewing said: "Many people think there ought not to be any license at all on that short street It is crowded with people going to the depot and the cable cars." Samuel Keiser. No. 1109 Penn avenue, was received bv Judge Ewing with the re mark: "In 1887 you ran on a $100 license and sold on Sunday." He was only natur alized in February' 188G. Frank Lutz, No. 1335 Penn avenue, used to keep a saloon in the Fifth ward. Now he keeps a confectionery, but has a restaurant somewhere in the future. Judge Ewing said he was a little afraid that if Mr. Lutz were licensed his ice cream trade would droop and fade. A VETERAN UNDER FIRE. Captain James K. Lanahan, the veteran proprietor of the St James Hotel, on Liber ty street, opposite Union depot, was the sub ject ot a long whispered conversation by the Judees. Judge Ewing said: "What time do you close?" "Twelve o'clock sharp." "Is the barroom full when you close?" "Yes, sir; but no more drinks are sold. They have to go out at the other door." "I think it would be better to get them all out of the place before 12." "It's impossible to do that They won't go out before that time," "Oh, well, you can fir 10 o'clock. In fact, I think 12 is a very late hour. Some decent places close at 9. That is a better hour." William H. Leahy, who has for two years had a license under the Brooks law at No. 1237 Penn avenue, was told by Judge Ewing tuai ue was mucn oeuer man tne average. -a.tr. xieany oowea ana smiled graciously. "WASN'T MUCH OF A HOTEL. P. B. Mohan. Nos. 1213 and 1215 Penn ave nue, has a house with 17 rooms and feeds about 25 people daily. Judge Ewing said that Mr. Mohan's place was not much of a hotel two years ago. James Mulvihill, No. 51 Eleventh street, has an eating and lodging house. The Judges told him that there was considerable disorder near his place. Officer Peebles tes tified that Mr. Mulvihill's house was or derly. William J. Mulgrew wants to sell at No. 15G Pike street, and his attorney called at tention to the fact that he was the only ap plicant on that street Charles Manning is at present running a saloon at the corner of Penn avenue and Eleventh street. Judge Ewing said that the corner was a dangerous one, where many people took the cable cars. No complaint had been made against the house. A. L. Murphy, who has a license for the Albion Hotel at Nos. 1107 and 1109 Liberty avenue, was not detained long, his record being apparently satisfactory. Mrs. Grace Malone, a widow, in 18S8 had alicense at No. 1235 Penn avenue, and since then has kept a boarding house at No. 1423 Penn. She said that if she could se cure a license she would keep a hotel. FBOMISED TO BEFOESI. John J. McGuire, who applies for Nos. 1103 and 1105 Penn avenue, the St Law rence House, was for a number of years a saloon keeper. He promised the Court to reform and renovate the premises which he nas secured lor the coming year if licensed. Christian G. Niklaus applies for a license at No. 1202 Penn avenue, and runs au eat ing house at No. 1204. He used to have a saloon at ths first number. Mr. Schneider, the Belgian Consul, testified in favor of Mr. Niklaus,- who, he said, accommodates manv French and Belgian people, especially plate glass workers. Mr. Schneider said that Mr. Niklaus aided many Frenchmen to obtain work. Mr. Niklaus denied that he had kept a speak-easy. judge lowing said: "Unfortunately, we know a little too much about his place. We are down on speak-easies. Mr. Niklaus was not licensed under the Brooks law be cause he was a very long way from being entitled to it" Louis Pasette, keeper of the Hotel Homa, at No. 1132 Penn avenue, desires to resume the sale oi liquor, which he gave up on May 1, 1889, at the suggestion of Judge White. Judge Ewing asked: "You have not sold for the past year?" "No, sir." "Why did you get a United States license?" "Well, I thought I might need it" QUITE A HANDY AFFAIR. "Yes, it was a comfortable thing to have. You were licensed two years ago simply be cause you were an Italian. Your reputation was not good." Martin Shaughnessy, No. 1110 Penn ave nue, denied that he had illegally sold liquor during the past year, but admitted that he had a United States license. He said: "1 had prospects oi getting a license here, but didn't get it." Ferdinand Schmitt, No. 1125 Liberty, has had his place closed during the past year, and has been working iu Indiana. For five yeais he ran a saloon and lunch counter at the stand opposite the depot. John Schweinhart, Jr., No. 1427 Penn avenue, asts for a house where his father kept during his lifetime, and where John was born and raised. During the past vear John has driven a wagon for Ober Brothers, Allegheny. He made a good speech. Judge Eiviug said: "You had a 5100 license lor a time, and had a reminder from Mr. Mc Call?" John denied that he knew any thing about a reminder, and had never been prosecuted in his liie. John Schreiber, No. 1311 Penn avenue, is a native of the ward. His room is now a furniture store. To him Jndge Ewing said: "We are willing to get a new man, if we can. We want to improve over l&st year in that neighborhood, but do not want to in crease the number of drinking places." This closed the forenoon session, during lucli time 32 applicants were heard. THE PB0TESTS BEGIN. ME. CHUI8TY COSIES INTO COURT WITH AN ARMFUL. A Remonstrance Against the Whole of the Eleventh and Thirteenth Wards Some Hill People Want a Temperance Dis trict More Interest In the Afternoon. At the afternoon session the gentlemen who sat on the bleaching boards were ren dered uneasy by the appearance of Attorney B. C. Christy, who carried under his arm that dreadful book which he used one year ago with such terrible effect He was on hand to represent citizens cf the Eleventh and Thirteenth wards in their general pro tests against the granting of licenses to any houses in the Hill district circumscribed by those ward lines. At 1:30 p. m. John Sfewart, No. 1143 Penn avenue, was called. For five years past his property has been leased to John Taylor, and Mr. Stewart has just recently taken possession. "Any liquor been on these premises for the past two years ?" "Not any; not a drop to my knowledge." "Any need for a house such as you pro pose to run?" "Yes, sir; people that set up meals for 25 or 35 cents always have lots of call." MUST CUT THEM DOWN. "The man's house is too small," Jndge Ewing said. "Onlv 22 rooms in a four-story house 25 bv 65. There are eieht applicants iu this block. They must be cut down to 1 tour, at tne most" John H. Schmid, No. 1120 Penn, has a lodging and eating house, has run a cigar store for eight years, but never sold liquor. He has the upper two floors of the house at No. 1118. His parents live on Howard street, Allegheny. Judge Ewing said: "If all these other houses around there are licensed, won't you have rather close com petition?" "Well, no sir. I intend to run a restau rant, Your Honor. One is needed there. There isn't one in the block." "You were not here this morning?" "Indeed I was, sir." "You didn't hear the testimony, then?" "Yes, sir, I did." "Well," said the Judge, with a smile, "there seems to be some difference of opinion on that subject" Mr. Schmid made a good impression. Mrs. Annie Tschudy. No. 1433 Penn ave nue, was one of Judge White's victims. ANOTHER TEMPERANCE MAN. David Thomas, at the northeast corner of Liberty and Twelfth, ran a saloon on the opposite corner until the Brooks law began to operate. He began to keep a saloon 15 days after he was naturalized, but said that he had never tasted liauor in his life. Judge Ewing made another complaint about the court room. He paid: "It is very bad here. When we adjonrned at noon I found that I was suffering very much. We at least want to live until we get through with this business." Daniel Voltz kept a saloon at No. 1319 Penn avenue until 1888. His answers, in crude German brogue, caused many smiles. He keeps roomers, stables horses and fur nishes storage over night for the farmers and gardeners who visit the market He wants to sell Honors, and told the Court that there was not much call for a restaurant iu that neighborhood. He was questioned at length, and repeatedly assured the Court that he was there to tell the truth. "Did you sell any Boft drinks?" "Not much; there ain't much call for that I sell a few bottles, but nobody wants solt drinks there." "Do you think there is any need for more places there?" "Weil, now, iour Honor, I ain't got the power to say that." "You have the power to give your opinion." WANTS A QUIET PLACE. "Well, I not like to say. You see, I want to keep a respectable place, not like it is there now, where there is too much rush and pushing. I want to keep a qniet place." "Do you take anvthins yourself?" "Oh, yes, Your Honor, ouce in a while.". "How olten is once in awhile? "Well, now, Your Honor laughter, some days maybe I take some, and maybe next day I take nothing." Bailiff Negley said that he had known Mr. Voltz since 1853, and knew him to keep a good house. "Do you get out to see him once in a while on Sunday?" Judge Ewing asked the vet eran officer, who replied: "Mr. Voltz hasn't the reputation of keeping that sort of a place." Thomas Waithaus, who closed the Ninth ward, keeps a lodging house at No. 1137 Liberty avenue. Judge Ewing said: "I see by my record of two years ago that this case was a close shave." IN THE TENTH WARD. The Tenth ward was opened by George J. Barker, No. 1502 Penn. His neighbors on both sides are applicants. He said his ac commodations for the public were as good as those furnished by anybody in that neigh borhood. Frank Delaney applied for No. 1500 Penn, a three-story house, containing 10 rooms, beside a bar and dining room. He is now keeping boarders, having been in that business tor eight years. He is a big man, but his voice was so small that the Judges could scarcely hear what he said. The applicant for the third house in that row, No. 1506 Penn avenue, is Charles Dugan, who is now a sewer inspector. For four years he was a constable in the Twelfth ward. The name of a dead man was then called. Hugh Foster, who had applied for the place next to the corner of Sixteenth and Penn avenue, left this world of toil and turmoil one week ago to-day, and when his name was called, he of course did not respond. Etnil Gaugler, No. 180G Penn "avenue, stepped up next. He keeps a public house. In 1888 he applied, but did not appear. One vear ago he made a mistake by asking Judge White for a license, but he decided to try again. For same time he sold whisky, under the old law, and prior to that he was engaged in the business ot selling milk at McKee's Bocks. Mr. Gaugler was indorsed by James Lapham. THE CATECHISM COMMENCES. Said Judge Ewing: "You sold on a 100 license?" "Yes sir." "And sold whisky?" "Well, I did some." "Sold on Sunday, too, of course?" "Well, yes; some." "And kept that up very close to the time court met two years ago." Daniel Hagerty. who has a license for No. 1601 Penn, said that Hngh Foster kept his place two years ago. "Ah," said Judge Jawing, "a man was Kinea there? "Yes, sir." "You propose to keep a restaurant?" "Yes, sir."' "Iu Tenth ward style?" No answer. Felix Henle, of No. 1521 Penn avenue, is now the possessor of a place which was formerly run as a saloon by a man named Brozarsky. Henle is an applicant for both retail and wholesale license, shooting to bring down either one or the other. Judge Ewing freely expresses his dislike for that sort of work. A PLACE PETITIONED FOE. Daniel Kelly, No. 1803 Penn, presented, through ex-District Attorney Porter, a peti tion signed by thirstv neighbors. He has been twice refused and has been a bartender of Haggerty, at Penn and Sixteenth. Mrs. Bose Link was advocated by Charles F. McKeona, who presented a recommenda tion from Kev. F. Kuoff, the minister of the German Evangelical Lutheran Church, at the corner of Smithfield street and Sixth avenue. Her house, No. 1044 Penn, is five PITTSBURG, FRIDAY, stories high, and has been a hotel for 38 years. No application was made for the place last year, as her husband died on March 3, between the time when the papers were filed and the applicants were heard For 14 years her husband was an invalid, and Mrs. Link had to look after the estab. lishment Judge Ewing said: "I remember that you came in place of your husband two years ago. At first I thought you seemed to be in delicate health, but upon inquiry I became satisfied that you had more pluck and vim bask of you than appeared." SMILED ON THE WIDOW. The Judge smiled upon the widow a be nign smile. She smiled back and departed. Dennis Murphy, No. 1645 Penn avenue, does not believe that his first name is a hoo doo, so he applied with apparent confidence. He is an old sheet-iron worker, but his health broke down. Paul Martz put in his little plea for a chance Jo hang up Mr. McGunnegle's auto graph at No. 1641 Penn avenue, where he said that he had been furnishing "meals" during the year. Before 1888 he took outa $300 license for his bar, while most of his neighbors secured only a 5100 license, but sold whisky on it John J. O'Brien is at the corner of Nine teenth street and Penn avenue, in a honse owned by James Kennedy, where he keeps boarders. There is no saloon closer than three blocks, and Mr. O'Brien thinks thatif he had anthority to sell liquors it woubi aid his restaurant business and cheer the spirits of his boarders. Henry Ommert applies for No. 1614 Penn avenne. He was licensed in 1888, but was weeded out a year ago. He kept a saloon at the same place for five years. He was born in Germany. While he sold intoxi cants he fed 30 to 40 people daily, but since his license was withdrawn his eating trade had decreased. A NEWLY-MADE CITIZEN. Mr. Ommert was naturalized only last month. He came here 33 years ago with his father. The father was naturalized in 1863, but Mr. Ommert said the papers had been lost Believing himself to be legally a citizen, Henry had voted for many years, but as his father's papers were lost he and his brother decided, on the advice of ex-District Attorney Porter, to get out papers of their own. Philip Stack. No. 1613 Penn, proposes to keep a saloon and restaurant He has kept a public house since 1879, and is himself thr owner of the property. He did not pre viously apply under the Brooks law, having for two years dealt in tobacco and cigars. Hesaid'he thought he would take a rest in 18S8 and fix up his house. Before 1888 he paid 5300 license every year. He kept on selline on Sunday up to May, 1888. "Didn't you know that the Brooks law had gone into efiect before that?" "Well, everybody else was selling, and I sold too." "Why, the others told us they had stopped." George and John Schnur, No. 1637 Penn avenue, are brothers. George has worked in the mills for nearly 20 years, and has at tended bar at odd hours on busy Saturdays. James Welsh asks for a license for No. 1722 Penn avenue, which is now a tin shop. He has crown tired soldering buckets and selling tin cans, and desires to make money more rapidly in the liquor business. He is unmarried and keeps his parents. WAKENED MEM UP. The Eleventh ward was taken up. People had become sleepy. The proceedings had been very dull. Now Attorney Christy took his stand inside the bar, opened his book and map, and the spectators rubbed their eyes. William H. Boyle applied for No. 547 Fifth avenue, near Dinwiddie street He described his premises very; nicely, telling what excellent accommodations he had for the public. He kept a saloon in 1887 and 1888 and was refused one year ago. In 1888 he furnished 7 to 10 meals a day. Said Judge Ewing: "You and two or three others who were licensed along there gave little attention to the meal business and too much to the drinking." During the past year Mr". Boyle's house has been closed and he has traveled on the road for a wholesale liquor house. "If you get license," said Judge Ewing, "You had better pay more attention to the restaurant business." Mr. Boyle was allowed to go without having any questions put to him by Attorney Christy. Andrew Greetsch applied for No. 322 Wylie avenue. The place given in the pub lished lists is No. 22 Linton street This, Mr. Gieetsch said, was a mistake. The dis crepancy annoyed Judge Ewing. Mr. Greetsch kept a" saloon for seven years, but never ran a restaurant He said he had sometimes prepared meals, but he promised to open a restaurant. He has a new house. built during the past year. HAS A NEW HOUSE. Samuel H. Gilson has a new house at No. C59 Wylie avenue, where Peter Nagel has been conducting a restaurant. For five years Mr. Gilson was in the saloon business at the corner of Wylie avenue and Robert street. "You have a wholesale application?" "Yes, sir." "Why is that?" "Well, I am willing to withdraw that I did it at the sugcestion ot my attorney." "You don't propose to keep anything bnt a liquor store?" "As far as there is a demand for it in that community, I intend to furnish meals." Frank X. Goelz is after a license for No. 302 Wylie avenue. He was asked: "What do vou propose to keep?" "A saloon and tavern." "Did you keep there before?" "I kept a saloon there three years, up to the Brooks law." "Under a 5100 license?" "Yes, sir." "You Mere convicted of selling on Sun day?" "No, sir; thatwas my brother-in-law; the license was in his name." "You attended bar at the time?" "No, sir." NOT THE SAME MAN, "Don't you remember a case tried before me in 1885, when your brother-in-law put it offon you; that you had sold?" "No, sir; not me." Nevertheless, the applicant was very red in the face. Judge Ewing asked Mr. Christy if he de sired to say anything in the Goelz case. "No, sir," said the attorney, "the Court has asked sufficient." George M. F. Hopf, No. 587 Wylie ave nue, was questioned bv Mr. Christy, who brought out the fact that the place was just opposite the Methodist Church. Mr. Hopf has also a wholesale application. Michael A. O'Brien, No. 278 Webster avenue, said that he had been iu the cigar and notion business for 15 years. He has a wife and two children. He has had no ex perience in the restaurant business, except thathe"ranon the river" when he was a boy. John McCallum, No. 217 Center avenue, is a tailor with a wife and five children. He has never been in the restaurant busi ness. Williatii Palmer, who applies for No. 420 Wylie avenue, has had some experieiue, for about four or five yc3rs, as a bartender. He expects to get possession of the premises Ulay 1. A CONTINGENT LEASE. Mr. Christy Is it not a fact that if you do not get license you do not take the place? "Oh, I don't know." "Isn't that the arrangement?" "If I don't get a license I won't have much use for the place." "If you don't get a license you will not take the property?" "I will not" "Who is vour landlord?" "Mr. McDonough." Joseph Beiss kept a saloon at No. ,461 Fiith avenue up to May 1, 1889, but since that time has kept up his restaurant and boarding house. Mr. Christy Do,you drink any? MARCH 21, 1890. "Yes, sir." "Did you drink more or less during the past year than vou did in 1888?" "I drank nothing the last year." "Didn't you drink so much in 1888 that you were not able to attend to business and your wife had to close up the place?" NOT DRUNK FOE A TEAR. After long hesitation, Mr. Beiss answered in the negative. He admitted that be had drank some during 1888, but said that he had not been drunk for a vear. Thomas B. Eyrie, No.' 287 Wylie, looks like one of the pioneers, with his large wrinkled face, his gray hair and old-style spectacles. He owns the property where be desires to keep a saloon. He has been in the liquor business for 20 years, most of the time at the corner of Clark and Webster. He was licensed in 1888, but sold out his license, and has since then spent 15 months in New York. He said that his health was such that he was not able to stand up, and he went to New York for his health. He .said that he owned property in the county and did not consider that he lost bis resi dence by his Eastern sojourn. Judge Uwing said: JUr. ltyne was li censed in 1888 because he had been there many years, was a respectable man among an utter demoralization of saloon keepers, and sold reasonably pure liquors." HADN'T A FAIR TRIAL. Mr. Eyrie smiled. "But," added the Judge, "there was no idea that you would transfer your license. You haven't had a fair trial under this new order. Do you think you could keep things straight in the neighborhood?" "Yes, sir; I think I could. I have been there many years. Some of the attorneys here know me." Yes," said the Judge, with a sly twinkling of his eyes," I expect they know you too well." Henry Studenroth, a brother-in-law of Eekhard Beincman, for whom he and his wife have worked for several years, promises to keep a restaurant if allowed to sell liquor at No. 86 Center avenue. He kept a pool room there two months. When asked by Mr. Christy if he had not kept a speak easy, he denied the charged with great in dignation. He formerly kept a saloon in Pleasant Valley, Allegheny, where, Judge Ewing said, there was not a decent saloon. Eeymond Shiffhawer, No. 231 Center ave nue, was refused in 1888. He is too near the engine house. He has been traveling 12 years for the Iron City Brewery, and before that was seven years with Joshua Khodes, the iron manufacturer. Before the Brooks law he ran his Center avenue place on a 5100 license. ANOTHER COLORED APPLICANT. Thomas H. Smith is a colored man, and he wants to run a saloon at No. 73 Arthur street, in the center of Blackville. At pres ent he is a night watchman. He is not far from the Methodist and Presbyterian colored churches on Arthur street. "This," said Judge Ewing, "is an injudi cious location. It is scandalous for any man to think of a saloon at that place." John Uneer applies for a house at the cor ner of Webster avenue and Devilliers street, where he now keeps a boarding house. He has six boarders. Yes, there had been beer there during the year. He drinks himself, and so does his family. Some of his board ers also got beer, but not over two-eights a week. Judge Ewing said: "Yon did not comply with the law formerly, but you have more accommodations than some. "Do you think you can obey the law 1" "Yes, sir; I think so." "If you are licensed you must be yery careful" Joseph Unger, No. 100 Dinwiddie street, proposed to conduct simply a saloon, and told no fairy tale about a "restaurant. "1 think," said Judge Ewing, "that he kept the best house up there I don't know bnt very much the best." He was licensed in 1888, but not in 1889. LAST OF THE DAY. The day was wound up by F. J. Whalen, of 289 Wylie avenue, where he will get possession on May 1. He said he wouid oc cupy the house on May 1, for a year, whether he secures a license or does not. Court adjourned at 5 o'clock until 9:30 this morning. In yesterday's report it was stated that Mr. Thomas F. Gazzola, who applied for li cense at No. 3 Wylie avenuo, has been run ning a pool and billiard room there. This is an error, which grew out of his proximity to a place of this character. Mr. Gazzola has been running a restaurant at No. 3 of late. For years he has been prominently identified with popular city restaurants, having had charge of the late Colonel Fricker's establishment at one time, subse quently filling the head positions in Harry Alden's and James Piatt's restaurants. BOUGHT liOTTEKI BONDS. A Priest Who Mnde tlio Investment Claims He Wns Swindled. ISrECIAL TELEQKA3I TO TUB DISPATCH.I New York, March 20. The Bey. father Anton B. Schwenniger, pajtorof the Church of the Assumption, West Forty-ninth street, appeared as complainant in the Jefferson Market Police Court to-day against E. H. Horner, banker and broker, of Wall street Father Schwenniger says that Broker Horner sold him 100 worthless foreign bonds under false pretenses. He paid 5400 in cash and gave three notes for 51,500 each for the bonds. Father Schwenniger also purchased from Mr. Horner at the same time 25 Win dischgrietz bonds atabout 580 each. Father Schwenniger left the Windeschgrietz bonds with Mr. Horner as security for the notes. He now says that the bond which he pur chased were not what they were represented to be and demanded from Mr. Horner the bonds which he leit as security for the notes. The foreign bonds purchased by Father Schwenniger are of the kind known as lot tery bonds. Tlier are issued by some Eu ropean municipalities and bear no interest Each bond, however, is really a lottery coupon. Mr. Horner said to-day that Father Schwenniger knew what he was buy ing and refused to deliver up his securities. BECAUSE HE DENOUNCED DANCING, A Scholarly Trlest Is Compelled to With draw From Ills Cbiucr, ISrECIAL TELEGKAJI TO THE DISPATCH. 1 NewBeunswick.N. J., March20. Father Henri Bruns, pastor of the German Catholic Church in this city, has resigned. He is a scholarly man, and has done much to build up the church. A lew months ntro he pub licly denounced the practice of holding balls by members of the church, and refused to give a permit to a young people's union to hold one. The ball nas held, but the union disbanded. Several complaints were sent to Bishop O'Farrell, which Father Bruns promptly met. On St. Patrick's Day the Bishop was present at the raising of a flag on the parish school. Since then Father Bruns has learned that charges have been preferred against him, and iu a letter to a newspaper he announces his determination to withdrawfrom the fold, having sent in his resignation. He says his relations with the Bishop are friendly, but lie does not mean to be used as a pin cushion any longer, and will to-day remove from the parsonage. It is said the' pins re feired to have been pnshed by some of the young persons who were angered at the priest's opposition to the holding of balls. Committed n Jail. David Dickson was yesterday committed to jail in default of bail on a charge of rob bery, made by Jacob Smeltz. He will have a hearing before Justice Walker, of Wil kinBburg, to-day. Hemorrbnffr. Dr. Flint's remedy will control hemorrhage from the stomach and bowels, which is often dependent on too great a supply sent thither by a heart that has some form of disease. De scriptive treatise with each bottle; or address Mack Drug Co., N. Y. MWP MONET BY MILLIONS. Bureau of Customs' Methods of Col lecting Import Duties. DOLLARS THAT COME VERY HIGH. What It Costs to Watch Borne Unimportant Ports of Entry. HOW THE ACCOUNTS AEB ADJUSTED CCOnitESrONDENCE OI TUX DISPATCH. Washington, March 20. While the subject of the tariff is in the mouth of every man and woman who takes an interest in the politics of the country, few know anything definite in regard to the machinery by which the tax on importations is collected. It is a vast machine that does the work which lies atthebottomofthisyexedquestion, operated, however, by a fewer number of workmen than one would snppose when the tremendous amount collected is taken into considera tion. The whole number of ports at which Col lectors or Surveyors, or both, are stationed is about 150, and the entire number of em ployes is nearly 4,000. The amount of col lections has increased from about 5139,000, 000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1879, to upward of 5225,000,000 in 1889, the col lections for the latter year being nearly 55,000,000 in excess of any former year. examining the ACCOUNTS. The number of accounts aud the clerical work necessary in the bookkeeping of this vast business are simply incomputable, and yet the final examination of them is made in the Bureau of Customs of the Treasury Department by a small force of clerks.num bering not more than 35, some of them not any too efficient. Here the bonds of the collectors are examined and signed aud the appointee started in his official duties. Here his reports upon "Eeceipts from Cus toms," "Expenses of Collection," "Excess of Deposits Befnnded," "Debentures and Drawbacks." "Services to American Ves sels," "Marine Hospital Disbursements," and other minor accounts are finally passed upon, and the collector regularly informed by letter ot the condition of his accounts. The first examination is made in the office of the First Auditor, where the accounts pass through the hands of two or three ex pert clerks. Then they are transmitted to the Bureau of Customs and must receive the in dorsement of a clerk, the Deputy Commis sioner of Customs, aud, finally, that ot the Commissioner of Customs. FEW MISTAKES PASSED. Requisitions for money for the conduct of the business at the various ports must pass through the same gauntlet of red tape, and it is a very smart error indeed that escapes all eyes and passes into the hades of irre trievable mistakes. Through this bureau also pass for adjustment the accounts of the immigrant officials, the accounts of the lighthouse and life-saving service; in short, all accounts that bear upon the Government business on seaboard or on rivers. Iu the adjustment of the accounts of Col lectors ot Customs a vast amount of work is entailed on the department clerks and offi cials by the ignorance and carelessness of Collectors or Surveyors and their employes. It is probable that a great majority of the employes at the various ports are like the Collectors, appointed not on account of their fitness for the work to be performed, but as a reward for "solid" labor for the good of the party to which they belong. POLITICS INTERFERE WITH BUSINESS. While they may desire to make a good record, their minds are not on their duties so much as upon party work, and so the trail of the serpent of party spoils is oyer this portion of the civil service as of every other. Errors are constant, aud often ot a character which indicates only the grossest of carelessness. It frequently happens that an error of 5 cents will involve a page or two of explanations to the Collector, for every mistake is fully and clearly explained by letter to the Collector as soon as the ac count is adjusted. Were this portion of the civil service or ganized on a business basis, as well as every other, the army of accountants might be greatly reduced. If the clerks of the Burean of Customs were changed as the collectors are, the accounts of the customs branch of the Government service would within a few months be in a condition of contusion from which they could hardly be rescued. CAPACITY IS RECOGNIZED. Deputy Commissioner Lockwnod, of this bureau, has had his hand in customs work in the Treasury Department for more than 30 years, and several of the clercs have been in the bureau for a long term of years. No sooner does a Commissioner of Customs take his chair than he discovers the importance of retaining his force of experienced clerks intact if possible, and no matter how well developed a spoils politician he may be he becomes a civil service reformer so far as his own office is concerned. In all the years ot the life of the customs branch of the public service, the accounts of customs officers have been stowed away, one after the other, and in the vaults of the Treasury they may every one be found. Every letter 13 copied as soon as written, in the copying press, and from this it is copied into a ledger, which, when full, is packed away for possible future reference. It has happened that these records are vitally important, even after the passage of 30, 40 or 50 years. AN EXPENSIVE SYSTEM. That the system of collecting the duties on imports is too cumbersome and expen sive, goes without saying, when it is remem bered that the places are given out as the spoils of party success. Yet it is not as bad as one might expect under the circum stances. Many things that seem utterly useless at first glance are really very neces sary. For instance, there are many ports which do not collect a sufficient sum in duties to pay the expenses ot collection. But if only one vessel enters a port during the year it is necessary that a customs officer should be there. And if there were no en tries at all he would still be necessary for the prevention ot smuggling. Some curious figures may be found by ex amining the bnsiness of the various ports. The accounts of the collector at New York at times foot up $20,000,000 in a single statement, while the aggregate receipts at the port of Beaufort. S. C, during the last fiscal year were just?!) 40. WHAT A DOLLAR COSTS. At this latter port it costs a fraction more than 5207 to collect each dollar the Govern ment receives. At faaco, Me., it costs 5172 to collect a dollar; at Petersburg Va., 544; at Georgetown, S. C, 37; at Edeutou, N. C, $53; at Chrisfield, Md., $49; and so on, with numerous other ports in lescer sums. There nre at least 40 ports which do not pay the expenses of collection, but as the aggregate collections are 5225,000,000, and the entire cost of collecting that vast amount is little more than 56,500,000, the loss at the insignificant ports is ol small importance. E. AV. B. For a disordered liver trv Beecnam's Pills. Peaks' Soap the purest and best ever made Tebkible cut in prices. Call this week and see the cut rates on watches and marble clocks at Hauch's, No. 295 Tifth aye. wrs. Hots' Cloihlnc ol a bnperior Quality Can be always found at the People's Store at most moderate cost. Campbell & Dick. U "S BY JULIS CLAEETIE ILLUSTRATED BT THE DIS PATCH. Yes, sir, it was during the time of the war of Don Carlos, the last one. All this Basque country, these environs of Saint Sebastian, these mountains of Guipozcoa, have smelt powder and blood, and for months, long, long months. You must have seen many black ened and shattered walls in the country. Yes? Well! 'Xhey were once houses, farms, happy nooks; now tbey are ruins, almost graveyards. This is war. You should have seen how they fought! The Carlists on the one side, the soldiers of the Government of Madrid on the other. Many dead and dying have passed by, on these roads, I tell you, poor fellows who felt that they were passing away, and who asked themselves why whj Civil wars, a fine thing tbey are, civil wars! And when one thinks that it may all begin over again to-morrow, who knows? Men are so stupid! Imagine our being told, one fine morning, that the King is there, that Don Carlo? is coming; what happened was only natural, the old leaven rises, and our Basque peas ants run to the Pretender and form an army for him. A matter of wearing a fine uni form, their berets on one side, of coming into the villages to the sound of the trumpet, and, after pilinr their arms, of dancing with the girls around them. A manner, too, of hearing the bullets whistle, for our Basques are brave, live on little, and die well. They fought during three years. At a given moment, sir, all these roads, broken up, were occupied by men all belonging to the same country, who only thought of cutting each other's throats. You know the story of the blockade of Bilbao, which the Carlists held as tightly as if with pincers. The thing was to deliver the city, and, between Saint Sebastian and Bilbio, the soldiers of Don Carlos held the defiles, repulsed assaults, beat back at the point of the bsydnet the columns of troops thrown on them. One of the Carlist chiefs who commanded on this side was named Zacarraga. A hero, sir. An officer for merly belonging to the array, who sent his sword to the Government of Madrid, saying: "Give it to another, and let it fight against me; that which I shall henceforth wield I have from my King." Thirtv years old, tall, handsome, splendid. He held the mountain there, and would not let it co. They sent the best troops against him, and fresh troops every day. We saw them come back, the poor soldiers, crippled, decimated, their officers carried on blood-stained sad dles, shakinc their heads and saving: "See! they are killing Spain for Spain's saKe! " That Zucarraga! Hjs reputation increased with every check given to the national army. People said: "It is Thomas Zu rnalacarregui who has come to life airain!" Zurcalacarregui, you know, the paladin of the other Carlist war in former times. Even to the name, which reminded one of the other, making Zucarraga a man of romance a General of popular legend, like the Cid, The General who commanded at Hernan. yes, the mue town wnicn, accorumg to what the newspaper related the other day, your escribanero Hugo passed through in his childhood, aud whose name he has pre served iu his memory the General who sent his poor soldiers to the defiles defended by Zucarraga, was almost mad with rage. He had promUed himself to force the passage, to beat the Basques, to breakup the lines as far as Bilbao. .Nonsense! At every attact, a defeat; at every assault, almost a rout The harassed troops returned with heavy leet and drooping heads, leaving the dead, numbers of dead, on the road. One evening, in the square of the Aynn timieuto, General Garrido said, with clinched fists, his eyes flashing fire: "Ah! that Zucarraga! that Zucarraga! that miserable Zucarraga! I would give my skin for his! aud to the man who would kill him, a fortune!" Old Garrido had not finished speaking when, in this square filled with troops, over which night was falling, a tall, hindsome young lellow stopped before the General's staff, looking the soldier in the face: "Will you give me what I ask you if I kill Zucarraga?" "Who are you?" said Garrido. "A child of the country, Juan Araquil. A. man who is not afraid to die, but who has sworn to be rich." The General was examining the man from head to foot li.,-jrf,F9mmfrir- v n. ,t.. y.. msssumi hmmMm?m rrfZ2-wiJjj.:- yz-Ji , - ". " wi7!...' ."'-wi ' r -t-u iiimiw 'viu' t, f ' ' jp" jw'M MSl CK'fc.rS. W3 "You are of the country of Guipozcoa Why did you not join the army of Don Car los?" "Because I don't care for anything in this world, except a woman I love." "Your betrothed?" 'Ah! if only she were that! No, a farmer's daughter, too rich for me, who am poor, and who want money in order to marry her." He was well-known throughout the coun try, was this Araquil, and we all knew his story, his love for the daughter of old Che garay, a good Guipozcoau laborer, the owner of four or five farms in this district, and the proprietor of orchards where the apple trees bent beneath the apples and furnished cider you should have seen it Old Chegaray lived between Hernani and the Fort ot Santa Barbara, which you have seen coming from Saint Sebastian. Of Pepa, his daughter, old Chegaray was as proud as an Andalusian of his jewels. He strutted, did the larmer, when he toot his lass to vespers or to the romerias, at our merry-makings. It is at the romerias that young people often become engaged without always consulting their parents. It is soon done amidst the laughing and dancine! The heart is stolen and the life "iven. There was at that time, at Loyola, quite near here, down there in the valley, a big, handsome fellow, who flirted with the pretty girls, and who had all the qualities which please women, but not one of those which please parents. It was that Araquil who had come to tell old General Garrido or his ambition. Gay, that fellow! always fooling, the first at a game of tennis, agile, strong, disputatious, killing bulls like a rough-rider in the improvised novilladas, an espada by Ero-ession, ready, on the first occasion, to aye his skin pierced or his head broken. And, with the bearing of a king, the look of a cavalier aud his chin always freshly shaven, he had the form of a Hercules and the hand of a woman. Besides, not a penny. He lived from hand to mouth, sometimes on the prize won at tennis from the men of Bilbao or Tolosa, sometimes on a bet made with tore ros whom he defied at races, or with the knife. One day, at St Sebastian, when the enraged quadrilla could not succeed in killing the bull, a furious hlaclr rnnn spotted with red lather, slavering foam and sweating blood, Juan Araquil began to hiss, and the people in the circus, spectators and toreros, set to crying: "Well! into the arena, then, into the arena!" Ah! Juan does not iiesitate, sir, he rises, he springs inside; from the espada astonished and perhaps enchanted to see this great mad man soon ripped open he takes the sword with the short handle, you know; he takes it thus, and, placing himself in front of the bull, he looks at the brute, lauzhs in its nostrils, thrusts the point forward, there, in the right place, as Tato or Lagartijo might have done, and the bull fails like a mass, while Juan Araquil turns to the tore ros and says, still laughing: "You see, you fellows, it's easy enontrh!" But that is not all. They were beside them selves, were the toreros, mad with rage when they heard the cries of the crowd, the bravos which saluted Araquil, and the hisses which were like blows in the espada'a face; they group together, surround Araquil, wish to call him to account for his boldness, and, perhaps, forsooth, to do him some bad turn. Ah! well, good! Araquil looks at this circle of enraged men. He takes a spring, jumps over the.head of the torero who is in Iront ot him and goes back to the tiers, leaving the circle still formed which was going to smother, to strangle him. That evening he fought with knives, behind the circus, against one of the toreros, who buried his uavaja fall in his breast. Juan Araquil lay in bed for a fortnight, but after that there was no sign of anything. He was ready to kill another bull, and, this time if neces sary, a torero also. When our toreros are wounded, you know, it is not of much consennenii Tfc, .i-: . grows together again, their flesh recovers its sircugiu. aney are carried away gored supposed to be dead-the sign of the cross, a requiescat! and at the end ot a month there they are again, with the espada or the ban derilla in their hand. Juan Araquil was made of this stuff. A man of iron, a true Basque. Besides, he had remedies for wounds. He had even had an essence made in this way, i m . ."on'' know what poisonous plants, which he carried on his hand, in a ring, saying that a man ought always to bo the master of his life, and that sometimes, when one wants to put an end to it, one ha not always a knife in hi aid. Aknifg
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