p 1 . r SECOND PART. THE PITT DISPATCH SBURG PAGES 9 TO 12. 1 PITTSBURG, SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1890. SPEAK-EASIES IN THE COURT HOUSE. A Kumbcr of Applicants Fail to Talk Loud Enough to Be Heard by the Judges. FIVE DATS' WORK A WEEK Yesterday Afternoon's Proeeedioc Mado a Utile Livelier by Attoraoy Christy and Ills I.llllc Kemonstrnnces Sixty-Eight Cases Disposed of During the Dny Seventy Five Docketed for Mondny No Conn to be Ileld To.Day Few Snloons Expected Xcar Churches or Schools The Conrt Thinks No Saloon Keeper should Tonch Liquor Restaurants Shouldn't Be Snbordinate to Barrooms. There will be no session of the License Court to-day. On Monday the Court will hear the last 12 applicants irom the Four teenth ward, beginning with James Mad den, and all flora the Fifteenth and Six teenth wards, 75 in all. Yesterday 68 ap plicants were heard. Few of them were native Americans, nearlj all being either Irishmen or Germans. Qnite a number of the applicants from the Twelfth ward are Hebrews. The speak-easy list was several times re ferred to, but no applicant would admit that he had sold illegally. One old German gentleman became very indignant, and de clared that he eonld lick the man who put him on the speak-easy list. For citizens of the Thirteenth ward, At torney Christy made a vigorous fight against all the applicants from that ward. The Judges were furnUhed carelully pre pared ward maps by Mr. A. Y. Lee, and during the day they carefully marked the location of all the proposed drinking houses on thee maps. Judge Ewing shows a decided objection to the location of any saloon in the vicinity of a school or church. Oiieof his holdings, that a proprietor ought to pay moreatten tion to his dining mom than to his bar room, is generally criticised by attorneys, who hold that such a notion is contrary to human nature. Both of the Judges give much regard to the reputation of a house, holding that to be almost as vital as the reputation of the man. PEM AYENUE AGAIN. EIGHT TIMES AS MANY APPLICANTS FOR SALOONS As Tbcro Are Now Enjoying the Trade of That Neighborhood Conrt Opens Pretty Promptly on tbo Fifth Day Maps for Convenience of tlio Court. The Court began work yesterday morning by takinir another trip out Fenn avenue to the Twelfth ward, from which district 42 applicants bobbed up serenely, struggling for the business now controlled by five li censed houses and 30 speak-easies. Court was only three minutes late in opening. Judges Ewing and Magee had two or three letters to look over, whether from friends or enemies of the applicants only the Court knows. Mr. A Y. Lee, the draughtsman, had prepared careful and nicely printed ward maps, which he handed up to the Court, Judge Ewing has been asking for such aids daily since court opened. The work opened by the calling of Samuel J. Abrams, who wants to sell whisky and other intoxicating mixture! atNo. 2806 Penn avenue. As an attorney h; had secured a , nephew to Judge Ewing. A MISSIXG KESTATJRAKT. Mr. Abrams had a license in 1888, but Judge White did not consider him worthy one a year ago. At that time Mr. Abrams was spreading meals to about a score of people daily, but when the liquor flow was stopped he shut up his eating house. Judge Ewing anxiously inquired what had be come of his boarders, but the applicant was unable to answer that question. "The trouble is this," said the Judge; "if the people could get along without your restaurant the past year, they could get aiong without it this year." "It wouldn't pay me without license." "What have you done this year?" "I didu't done anything." "You sold in buckets in 1888?" "Well, your honor, I done a little." "And to children?" "No sir, never, your honor." Mr. Abrams has also applied for a whole sale license. He said he didn't expect both. He wants one if he can't get the other. He says he has 100 barrels of whisky on hand, and wants to get money out of it somehow. He used to be in the whohsale business oughtn't he hid. Frederick Bergman, No. 2817 Liberty avenue, has an eight-room house, the entire lower floor of which he designs for a bar room. He said he would have to keep his "restaurant" upstairs. Judge Ewing said that his idea was that the restaurant ought to be the most prominent feature, and that the bar ought to be put back somewhere or upstair. This made Fred smile, it seemed so ridiculous. Charles Brosky would like to have per mission to tawdust a big barroom at -so. 2731 Penn avenue. He used to keen a restaurant on Sixth street. His proposed place is now a butcher shop. Last ear Mr. Brosky applied in the Fourth ward, but Judge White put a big "No" mark against him, and Mr. Brosky has been working for Carl Wuesthoff, the beer dealer. He was forced to admit that in 1887 he sold on Sun days and sometimes after midnight. Vincent Brozosky applies for No. 2003 Penn avenue. If his impression on the judges be as weak as his voice, he will con tinue for another year to sell cigars and soft drinks. He kept saloon up to May 1, 1888, and was not naturalized until that year. WANTS THE BULGE. James Bulger wants to be given the bulge on his neighbors with a license at No. 2741 Penn avenue, which is a butcher shop at present. He said he wanted to keep a saloon and restaurant, the magnitude of tbe latter depending upon the demand. For six years, in the same house, he kept only a saloon. Benedict Boehm, a middle-aged man, "said his piece" lor No. 2622 Smallinsn street. He was licensed in both 1888 and 1889. Mr. Boehm appeared to keep a bona fide restaurant, saying that he fed over 100 persons every day. He denied that he kept any free lunch. "I gness," said Judge Ewing, "that you must have satisfied Brother White that you had behaved pretty well in 1888. Your record was not the best when youapplied in 1883." He keeps three girls cooking, one man in the lunch room and two bartenders. Thomas Berger, No. 2009 Penn avenue, quit keeping saloon when the Brooks law began operations. He was positive that he had not sold a drop during the past two vears. Although he had a 5100 license only prior to 1888, he said that he had not sold spiritoue liquors. Judge Ewing said: "Yon are on the speak easy list." BEADY TO FIGHT. "Me? A speak-easy? No, sir. Any man what says I been a speak-easy, I'll fight him, Mr. Ewing. No brewery in the county can sav I buy an 'eighth' in two years. I am able to fight that man, Mr. Ewing." John Bush applies for No. 2812 Penn avenue. He presented i letter from Alder man McKenna, of the Fourth ward. Mr. Bush's lawyer called the attention of the Court to the statement that wounds which SATISFIES THE LICENSE COURT. his client had received at Gettysburg pre vented him from working for a living. Mrs. Margaret Bauerschmidt will tip 200 pounds. The was refused by Judge White, but tries again for No. 2736 Penn avenue. "Have you kept a restaurant ?" "We always served meals when they were called for. Out yonder a restaurant isn't like it is down town. The people only come for dinner." John J. Crawford, No. 3057 Penn avenue, is a colored man. He is a Virginian who has lived in Pittsburg only four years. He wants to keep a saloon for the benefit of the many colored men who work in the Black Diamond and Solar Iron Works. A man named Patrick McKenna testified that Mr. Crawford was sober, industrious and honest. Wendcl Collin. No. 2835 Penn avenue, is already preparing his house for the opening of a saloon and eating house, and expects to move his family elsewhere. He has never been in the liquor business. Thomas Kirk owns the honse. HAS HEARD HO COMPLAINTS. Thomas Clark keeps a saloon at No. 2553 Penn, at the corner ot Twenty-sixth street, the Alexander Hotel. Although he had small bar competition during the past year, he said he spent $800 fixing up his dining room. Judge Ewing said: "I have never heard any complaint of you." Daniel Dillon, No. 1916 Penn avenue, is a venerable gray-haired man who keeps 16 boarders, beside mealers. He was one ot the possessors of a 5100 license, in 18S7. "Of course," said Judge Ewing, "you sold whisky." "No. sir," I didn't" "It would be hard for your nation and mine to get along on beer." P. J. Donnelly, No. 2033 Penn avenue, said: "My intention is if I pet a license, to run a saloon and a barroom I mean saloon and restaurant I don't understand much about a restaurant, but I have a wife who is a very good cook." He was asked to desig nate other restaurants near him, but he said he did not want to say anything about his neighbors. He lives at No. 2127 Penn ave nue, where he used to keep a saloon, and during the past two months he has been em ployed as a police officer at tbe Casino Museum. ENLABGINQ HIS HOTEL. John Escherich applies for a house which he owns at No. 2746 Penn avenue. He keeps an eating horse and is now enlarging his facilities. He calls his house the Union Hotel. Mrs. Wilhelmina Fierst desires to resume the business at No. 2210 Penn avenue. Her husband was several times indicted for ille gal liquor selling, and has been dead about a year and a halt. Mrs. Elizabeth Flynn, who keeps a res taurant at No. 39 Thfrtieth street, presented her first application since the Brooks law became operative. James Hunt, No. 2202 Penn avenue, ap plies for both retail and wholesale license, and was'civen a stronc hint by the Court that he ought not to have either. John Xleppner, No. 2837 Penn avenue, was granted a license in 18S8 and refused in 1889. Judge Ewing said: "You kept a very rough place. You abused the confi dence reposed in you when you were granted a license in 188S, and, as far as I am con cerned, I have made up my mind that you must wait." NOT IX GOOD HEALTH. George Koch now has a furniture store at No. 2708 Penn avenue, and desires to change it to a saloon and restaurant. He kept a saloon until two years ago, but did not ap ply under the Brooks law. His health is not good. Henry Leach, at No. 2019 Penn avenue, desires to close out his drygoods stock and put in a stock of wet goods. "I found the drygoods business don't pay me," he said. He was refused a license in 1888. John B. Lynch, a gentleman with very long red mustaches, keeps a saloon at 2503 Penn avenue. He calls his place a hotel, burnishing from 30 to 60 meals daily. Prior to 1888 the house was kept by Fred Feld. During 18S8 it was not run as a hostelry, but was occupied as a justice office. James Mills, No. 1918 Penn avenue, at the corner of Twentieth, is now using what he calls the barroom as a plumbing office. During two years he has kept lodgers. Ha thinks he can get from 30 to 50 people for meals, if be is licensed and opens a restau rant. From Sixteenth to Twenty-filth street there is at present no licensed house on Penn avenue. A NEW OBJECTION. Thomas Morony ran a saloon and restau rant at No. 3001 Penn avenue for five years. His liquor license was cut off a year ago, but he said he had kept up his restaurant bnsiness. On the third story of his house there is a lodge room. The building is oc cupied by Malaque O'Donnell. Judge Ewing said that the occupancy of the upper hall by outside parties was objectionable. Mr. Morony said that he would stop that, if desired. Bichard Muse, No. 2117 Penn, never ap plied before. He is a molder for the West ingbouse Machine Company. He said that he was brought up at the hotel business in Towlaw, County Durham, England. The place he occupies is owned and was formerly occupied by Thomas Beck, who apolied and was refused in 1S88. In behalf of Mr. Muse a number of personal letters and a long petition were presented. Some of them were irom good people. Judge Ewing said: "The place has a poor reputation, and is adequate. A new man might improve it, but there ought to be bet ter accommodations. The standard out there is very low. If there are new appli cants who seem to be good, it gives ns an opportunity to select If no good ones ap pear, why, I suppose we can refuse all, as one year ago." BEGAN A LITTLE EABLY. Edward Michalowsky, who was refused in 1889, applies again for 2800 Penn avenue. He came to this country in 1872 and kept a saloon before he was naturalized, although he saya that he had taken out his first papers. Evan Morris, No. 2600 Penn avenue, lour years ago kept a restaurant at No. 512 Smithfield street His proposed place is the Pearl Hotel, kept as a public house for at least 25 years. Patrick McKenna, who vouched for John Crawford, asks personally for permission to close out hif shoe stock at No. 2813 Penn avenue and put in a stock of liquor. Charles F. McDonald, No. 2127 Penn ave nue, at the corner ot Twenty-fifth street, is a young widower with two sisters, one of whom knows how to run a restaurant He has been running the engine which operates the refrigerating apparatus for Spencer & Lid dells brewery. James McCaflrey, No. 2856 Smalltnan, corner of Twenty-ninth street, is a big. smooth-faced man, with a bald head fringed with gray. He said: "We bad no license in that house since the Brooks law came in. Last year Mr. Pitts was the tenant. He was a good tenant He paid me a month's rent in advance. Hepaid?60. That was for the front part. He eouldn't get the whole house for that, Then he applied for license and he was knocked out, so I had the whole house on my hands the rest ot the year. I couldn't rent it" George McClane, corner of Penn avenue and Twentieth street, wants to succeed a man who now keeps a dining room in that place, but he could not tell tbe man's name. During 1889 he was a barkeeper; in 18S8 did nothing, and before that kept a saloon. He said he did not think there would be much demand for meals in the proposed neighbor hood. At 12:30 o'clock a recess was taken until 1:30 r. m. SPEAKINGJTOO EASY. A NUMBER OF APPLICANTS FAIL- TO TALK LOUD. Hard Work for the Judges nnd Steno grapher to Hear Them Tbo Court Thinks No Saloon Keeper Should Drink Attorney Christy Appear Agnln. During the forenoon 31 of the Twelfth ward applicants were heard and the time occupied was three hours. There remained for the three and a half hours allotted for the afternoon session 37 cases. Court re sumed at 1:35 o'clock. There was an im mense crowd of generally dirty people in the lobby. Conrad Nickel, a red-cheeke d fellow, with ahead of luxuriant hair, was called first' His application is for No. 2804 Penn ave nue. Although he was big and ruddy, his voice was almost inarticulate. "Unl ess you can talk louder than that," said Judge Ewing, "your customers will never know when to come to dinner." Mr. Eobb was compelled, every other question, to abjure the applicant to '"speak out." He said he had intended to put his dining room in a rear building, which opens upon Spring alley. Mr. Nickel is now a carpenter, working for William Hiller, while his wife runs the cigar store and sells "pop." "Do you drink?" "Oh, a little." "Where do you get it?" "In a saloon." "How about vour wife?" "I don't know." "Where does she get something to drink?" GETS IT IF SHE 'WANTS IT. "I don't know. I reckon she gets it if she wants it" "Isn't there some brought into the house for her?" "I don't know how she gets it." "Call another." Thomas Parry, applying for license at No. 2S52 Fenn avenue, keeps a restaurant and feeds a score of people daily. He held a li cense during 1888. Judge Ewing remarked that Mr. Parry's festaurantbusiness had in creased considerably in two years "His greatest merit was," said the Judge, "that he had been paying a 5300 license." Dur ing 18S8 Mr. Parry said that when he was away his wife attended to the bar. She got mixed up in some sort of a suit with her aunts, which Mr. Parry declared that he had never been able to understand. He lost nearly all his money by the failure of tbe Lawrence Bank. William Pyne, No. 2929 Penn avenue, used to keep a saloon, but during the past year h3s been working at a tannery in Man chester. For six years he kept a saloon at Seventeenth street, and then went to Twenty-ninth street In 1888 he was sick, and his brother, George Pyne, applied for a license Just now the house which he wants to keep is occupied by Mrs. Carroll. THINKS IT A METENSE. Thomas C. Kafierty, a molder, asks for a saloon license for a 'new four-story house, built for a hotel, at No. 2321 Penn avenue. The house contains 16 rooms, and has just been finished. It seems that Mr. Bafierty has built the house to contain a barroom. He has no family and is 53 years old. He has suffered injury several times and is somewhat disabled with rheumatism. "This is simply starting another saloon; simply a pretense," said Judge Ewing, shaking his eyeglasses at Attorney McKenna. James Itiley, a young man who keeps a saloon at No. 2828 Smallman street, handed up a plan of the improvements which he was making in his place. "You had a bad record in 1888," sa'id Jndge Ewine; "vou must have made a great improvement. Up to 1888 yon had sold whisky on a $100 license and sold on Sunday." Herman Baddatz, No. 2628 Smallman street, calls his present place a restaurant, though he said that he furnished meals to only six to ten persons. His father owns the property and kept a public house there, but his health failed some time ago, and he told Herman to take hold of the thing. ONE GOOD TALKEE. Joseph Stolzer, No. 2727 Penn avenue, runs a pool room now. He is short, swarthy, stylish in his dress, and a good talker, in the latter quality widely differing from many of those who had directly preceded him.' He said that he built the house for a restaurant, and kept one for five years. For a large part of the time his was the only restaurant in the ward. Before 18S8 he kept a saloon on a beer license. In Decem ber, 1887, he was prosecuted for selling on Sunday, and declared that after that time he had strictly complied with the law. Mrs. Josephine Schuman, a little woman in widow's raiment, wearing gold-rimmed spectacles, applies forNo. 2003 Penn avenue. She used to conduct a wholesale liquor store, but during the past year has been keeping a cigar store. August Schmidt, No. 2323 Penn avenue, looks more like a Frenchman than his name indicates. He is little, swarthy, bald and gray, with a Gallic mustache and goatee. His coat is blue and his overcoat a warm brown, with a green velve; collar. The lapel of his blue coat displays a Grand Army button, whose bright bronze reveals very recent polishing. He is a widower. ABLE TO KEEP ORDER. Philip Schulz is younger, a big, broad shouldered man, with a fat, round face and a complexion ot pink freshness. He desires to keep a bar at No. 2516 Penn avenne, and looks physically able to keep order in his house. He was refused a license in 1889, but has kept up his restaurant, some times serving two score people daily. Two neighbors, J. B. Nobbs and Frederick Winters, testified that Mr. Schulz had kept a good, orderly reitaurant John Williams is a tall, stalwart man, with black hair and a large, dark red mous tache, He has enjoyed the privilege of a saloon license ever since the Brooks law went into operation, at No. 2839 and 2811 Penn avenue. One house is devoted to the bar and the other to the restaurant. He seemed to pass the ordeal unscathed. MR. CHRISTY BOBS UP A'GAIN. The Thirteenth ward brought Attorney B. C. Christy again into the box with his note book. Frank Coyle, who is a blacksmith for the Pittsburg Bridge Works, asks for a license at tbe corner of Brereton avenue and Thirty-third street, in a house which will not be finished until April 1. He tbinks there is a need for a public house in that lo cality, as there is a great deal of travel over the new bridge at Thirty-third street. Mr. Christy You are an applicant for a wholesale license? "Yes, sir." "Where does Mrs. Sarah Hamill live?" "In the other half ot the house with me." "Was she arrested for running a speak easy?" "I decline to answer the question." Judge Ewing Do vou know? "Well, I heard she'was." Mr. Christy She is a sister-in-law of yours?" "Yes, sir." Mr. McKenna, attorney for Mr. Coyle, inquired whom Mr. Christy represented. Judge Ewing replied: "We directed him to go on." NEVER rjf THE BUSINESS. Charles Holtman applies for No. 276 Center avenue, where there used to be a saloon kept by another person. Mr, Holt-, man himself was never in the saloon busi ness. Mr. Christy This place was kept by Anton Pfluger? "Yes, sir." "Do you know the character of his sa loon?" Attorney Montooth Your Honor, I don't know as that mates any difference. Judge Ewing Ob, yes, it does; a decided difference. Mr. Christy What was the character of his house? Mr. Holtman I don't know. "Do you drink?" "Yes, sir." "How much?" "Oh, a couple of beers." "Isn't it a fact that you get drunk?" "No, sir; I think not I am a straight man." "Haven't you been drunk several times within the past year?" "No, sir," the witness replied, very red in the face. ANOTHER MISTAKE DISCOVERED. David McLain. Jr.. little and vale, and James T. Smith, big and ruddy, ask for a license at No. 430 Thirty-third street, though the published list says Thirty-sixth street. Their house isbetweenHardingstieet and Millwood avenne. It was a licensed public house for 20 years. "Nearly time it should stop," said Judge Ewing. Mr. Christy Mr. Smith, you had a li cense in thisward? "Yes, sir, in 1887." "You sold on Sunday?" "Yes, sir." "And to minors?" "Yes, when they came with others." "Mr. McLain, you kept a saloon in the Sixteenth ward in 1887?" "Yes, sir." "A hundred-dollar license?" "Yes, sir." "And sold on Sunday?" "Yes, sir, until the Brooks law." A GOOD PLACE FOR ONE. Frank Beinecker, No. 96 Herron avenue, applies for a house, part of which was built in 1867. It is about 200 feet distant from the Central Traction Company's power house, and Mr. Beinecker thinks the locality good for a restaurant and saloon trade. He was refused in 1889, and has since worked in a planing mill. Gottfried Schittler applies for No. 266 Center avenue, the third door from Kirk patrick street Attorney Powers said: "I know all these applicants. I live in the neighborhood. We present here the best. I would not recommend this man if I did not know that he would keep pure, unadulter ated liquor." "Where will he get it?" asked Judge Ewing. "Well," answered the attorney, "he knows where to get it" Mr. Christy You had a 100 license in 1887? "Yes, sir." "You allowed the throwing of dice and playing of cards in your place?" "Yes." "Do you get beer at your honse?" "Yes, sir; a case a week. I bottle it my self." "You do, eh? How is that?" HE IS A BOTTLER. "I work at it. I bottle for F. W. Muel ler, the wholesale man at the corner of Grant and Diamond." Judge Ewing Up to 1888 this man kept out there and had as bad a house as there was there. The applicant told Judge Ewing that he and his boarders drank the beer which he delivered at tbe house, taking their tnrns paving for it Emil Sparr, a gentleman with a ponderous black mustache, is an applicant for No. 262 Center avenue. He was a saloon keeper from 1877 until May 1, 1888, when the Brooks law stopped him. He was for somo time connected with the Fire Bureau, from which he retired because of an injury re ceived at a fire on Market street, three years ago. Mr. Christy Are you a teetotaler? "No, sir; I take a glass of beer or two oc casionally." "Don't you take several?" "Oh, two"or three, perhaps." Judge Ewing If you get a license you had better quit altogether. No man who drinks is sate to keep a bar. IN THE FOURTEENTH 'WARD. The Fourteenth ward was opened bv Ber nard Burns, No. 63 Bates street, near Frazer street, who owns his own property. Samuel Bennett applies for No. 812 Sec ond avenue, near the Moorhead-McClane Company, where he has been keeping a saloon lor three years. Before him his mother kept the house for many years. "It is a sort of hereditary tavern," said Attor ney McKenna. Yes, Mr. Bennett declared that he had obeyed the law. Within two years he has been compelled to enlarge his bar, but not his dining room. "Well, the next addi tion," said Judge Ewing, "you had better make to your dining room." James P. Brennan is at No. 776 Fifth avenue, about a square and a half from the Soho public school, at the turn of the road. He is a handsome youqg man, with black hair and neat mustache. The property is now a dwelling house. Attorney Shannon explained that James Kane, of Tustin street, had promised to sign Mr. Brennan's bond, and had refused at the last moment Con sequently another bondsman was secured after the time limit bad been passed. "Bring in some affidavits to the facts," said Judge Ewing. NOTHING AGAINST HIM. Henry Colwes, No. 3704 Forbes avenue, is a tall man of respectable appearance, care ful npparel, and somewhat past middle age. He kept a saloon in Oakland for seven years, and now keeps a billiard room. He pleased the court, ana Juage jawing in quired: "Is there any person here who has anything to say against this applicant?" No person responded. Thomas J. Carey, No. 533 Tustin street, has had a United States license. "Didn't the police trouble you?" "No," replied Mr. Carey, with a broad grin. Dennis Carroll has now a wholesale liquor house at the corner of Forbes avenue and Brady street. He has put up a new house on the opecsite corner, and asks for a retail license there. Mr. Carroll presented a picture of his new house, a very pretty blue print "He is a good man, and knows how to run a good place," said Attorney Fried man. "When did he learn?" inquired Judge Ewing. "He didn't keep a very good place two years ago. After you changed from a retail to a wholesale license, didn't some of your old customers fail to discover the differ ences" continued the Judge. JUDGE EWING SKEPTICAL. This the applicant denied, but Judge Ewing looked skeptical. "This is a pretty new house," said the Court "Now, if we only had a new man for the new house," John A. Dixon, No. 88 Tustin street, has been a blacksmith, but a short time ago re ceived an injury to one of his eyes, which compelled him to quit the trade. He is to occupy the new house on April 1, with his wife and mother-in-law. "Do you drink yourself?" asked Judge Ewing. "Yes. a little." "What?" "Beer. I never took over two glasses of whisky in ten years." "How many glasses of beer a day?" "Not over two." "That is just two more than any man ought to take who keeps a bar." Christ Dunn applies for No. 792 Second avenne. Two years ago he kept at No. 690 Second avenue. A PUDDLER APPLICANT. Bryan Devine would be delighted with a permit to sell at Np. 67 Bates street He owns tbe property, which contains eight rooms. Bryan is a puddler, and keeps his hair cut very short "What do you drink?" "Ob, different kinds." "What?" "Beer, principally." "How much beer "does it take for your family?" "I'm the only one that drinks." Christian Foernzler, No. 914 Fifth ave nue, is a gentleman of very good appear ance, and appeared before the court very well dressed, which cannot be said of all of the applicants by a "long shot." For two years he has kept a small eating house and for ten years before that kept a saloon at No. 459 Fifth avenue. He now sells cigars andsoft drinks and consumes, with the aid of his family, a case of beer a week. The Court desired to know how many glasses he drank daily, to which the witness replied, "Oh, whenever I feel like it." NOT LONG A CITIZEN. Darby Fiuerty, at tbe corner of Second avenue and Brady street, wants to run a saloon while his wife conducts a restaurant. The place was kept as a licensed saloon by the late Mr. Hanley in 1888. For two years Darby and a brother" kept a saloon in Frankstown. During 1887, the last year of his Frankstown experience, he became naturalized. John G. Grogan, No. 102 Tustin street, is near the Soho depot of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. He held a license during 1888, and last year maintained a restaurant. "Do you drink any?" "I may take a drink now and then, but I don't get drunk, Your Honor." "Where do you get it?" "Oh, there are several places in the ward where you can get it." "What became of tbe stock you had left over a year ago?" "My contract with the wholesale man was that he should take the liquors back if Your Honor shut me up." .The Judge said: "In 1887 you sold on Sunday and sold whisky on a $100 license, but two years ago we couldn't find anybody better than you." John smiled and rubbed his hands. His case is promising. John Greenhouse keeps the Eagle House at No. 3799 Fifth avenue, opposite the Oak land power house. He was licensed in 1888 but refused in 1889. He keeps a large house and a dining room, but during tbe past year has been working as a heater in one of the mills. HAD TO ENLARGE. Frank Gorman has a licensed house at No. 1330 Second avenue, near Laughlin sta tion. During the year he had so much trade that he was compelled to enlarge his barroom. "I have heard no complaints," said Judge Ewing, "but you had better in crease your other facilities as well as those of your bar." Mrs. Christina Hahn keeps a boarding house at No. 1326 Second avenue, and wishes to sell liquor. She was the first woman applicant to appear who was not clothed in mourning garments. She kept a saloon in 1884 and 1885 after the death of her "man." Philip Kramer, No. 3705 Fifth avenue, said: "I'd like to have license to keep a restaurant out there." A good many of the gripmen and conductors board with Mr. Kramer, and he tbinks he ought to have a saloon license for their benefit. Judge Ewing expressed the opinion that the cable line men would run the cars better if they did not go near any saloon. John Kasberger, No. 572 Fifth avenue, runs a confectionery and a tobacco and cigar store. He has been at that for three years, but the profits have been so small that he concluded he would like a change. He lives in the house with bis wife and five children. He knows what a saloon business is like, for he kept a public house in the Thirty-fouith ward for six years, and at his present location for four years. He admitted the reception at his house ot a case of beer a week during this weather. In the summer he receives two cases. A LON G EXPERIENCE. John Litscbge is at No. 502 Forbes avenue. In the fall of 1888 he secured the transfer of a license from James Dresbacb, at the cor ner of Smithfield street and Second avenue. Prior to that year he had kept the barroom at the American House, on"Liberty avenue. He has bad a long experience in the busi ness of catering to the public, having been employed in some well-known hotels and restaurants for a quarter of a century. "If you get into that locality," said Judge Magee, "you will have to learn to say no. It i3 a rough locality." Henry J. Link, No. 470 Forbes avenue, has been out of the hotel business for 15 years, but the house which he proposes to open was a saloon until the enactment of the Brooks law. He was formerly a clerk at the St. Charles Hotel, being a native of Allegheny county. For several years he was assistant manager of the Moorhead McCane Company. He kept a restaurant on Smithfield street until last July. "I am very sorry," said Judge Ewing, "that he has sought that locality. It is near schools and churches, and there are many children there. From his appearance I wish he had applied for some other place." John Lauler closed the day. He applies for another year's license for No. 3801 Fifth avenue, where he has been keeping during the last three or four years. Judge Ewing said: "You are rather near the power house, but I have heard no complaints against vou." WOKfC OF THE WEEK. At the Present Rnto It Will Tnko Three Weeks More for Retailers. During the five days of the past week the Court has heard the statements of 335 appli cants. There were two more on the pub lished lists so far, but Hugh Foster, of the Tenth ward, has died since applications were filed, and Thomas Ford, of the Ninth ward, did not respond when his name was called. There remain to be heard, of the appli cants for retail license, 186 in the city proper, 187 on the Southside, 234 in Allegheny, 190 in the boroughs and 138 in the townships, or 935 in all. These will require three weeks more. A SOCIAL FAY0KITE IN TEOUBLK, Henry VunnnUcn Leaves Chicago With a Shortnge In Ills Accounts. CniCAGO, March 21. Henry Vanauken, assistant cashier for W. H. Saulsbury & Co., dealers in rubber goods, has been miss ing since last Saturday, and a partial exam ination of his accounts show a shortage of $1,000. His plnu, it is alleged, was to collect bills due the firm and pocket the money. He lived in a fashionable suburb, and was a social favorite. A Sermon to the Mechanics. Eev. George Shaffer, of the Second M. P. Church, Fifth avenue and Marion street, will deliver a sermon to the Jr. O. U. A. M. to-morrow morning at 10:30. Members of the order are cordially invited to be present. Odd Fellows to Visit Rochester. A large delegation of Pittsburg and Allegheny Odd Fellows will visit Roch ester, this evening, to see the celebrated team from that place work in the first, second and third degrees. Tror BUI Electric Bond. It is stated on the authority of J. P. Ober, of Allegheny, that Troy Hill will soon have an electric road to connect with the Pleasant Valley. The hill has a population of about 5,000, and transportation of the kind is needed badly. Trusts Don't Go In Canndn. Ottawa, III., March 21. The Supreme Court has refused to grant a rehearing in the case of the Chicago Gas Trust. The effect of the decision is to declare that the trust is an illegal organisation. A TIP TO THE COUKT. About Three Hundred Licenses Ought to be Granted This Year. SUCH IS ROGER O'MARA'S OPINION. Heports of Chief Bi.elow and the Assistant Folice Superintendent. COlIMON AND SELECT COUNCILS CONCUR Assistant Superintendent of Police Roger O'Mara gives his views of measures, men and things generally connected with crime and government to the Department of Pub lic Safety for the year ending January 31, 1890. His report starts with the cheering intelligence that Pittsburg, as a moral, law abiding and well-governed city, leads any village of similar proportions in the United States. 'Twasn't bad before, he thinks, but since the present administration took the reins, crime has decreased 80 per cent. The strange woman, gambler, bunco steerer et id omne genus have all been forced to hide their diminished heads, and their open por tals no longer invite the unwary to dissipate his heard-earned money, but what few pro prietors are left skulk in the dark. Mr. O'Mara next dwells upon tbe neces sity of physical culture among the police, so that they may be able to do up toughs, and recommends the establishment of police gymnasiums, where these accomplishments in the "manly art" may be acquired, and recommends that such culture be made com pulsory. He would also unite with physi cal culture accomplishments Chesterfieldian, grace of movement, cleanliness, neatness, suavity in demeanor, promptness in action and self-poise generally, and these accom plishments are provided by drilling. WHERE THE LAW FAILS. The inability of tbe law to wrestle en tirely successfully with some forms of vice is enforced by a review of repressive effort beginning before the building of the pyra mids is dwelt upon at length, and the dire conseqnences of exposing youth to tbe seductive influences of such vice are set forth, and the light from the essay is made to focus upon the employment of messenger boys in the carriage of messages to tbe haunts of sin and depravity. Mr. O'Mara recommends that call boxes in the haunts of vice be removed, and that the proprietors of such places be punished for allowing minors, and especially messenger boys, to enter their doors under any pretext. "Let us do our duty and leave tbe rest to God." The Assistant Superintendent thinks that in the management of thieves and thugs and persons who carry concealed weapons, pre vention is better than cure, and says their prompt arrest, when known, has had much to do with ridding the city of them, as those in other cities have come to the conclusion that Pittsburg is not salubrious for men of their cloth. He recommends that the law against carrying concealed weapons be rigidly enforced on all classes, from the first born of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne even unto the last born of the maid servant that is behind the mill. THE SPEAK-EAST BUSINESS. Mr. O'Mara's homily on the speak-easy and the illegal liquor traffic in general is sufficiently eloquent to pass muster in a W. C. T. U. meeting. He says this illegal traf fic has caused the police department as much trouble as any other form of vice. The various efforts to suppress "holes in the walls" are narrated, and "yet the police bureau has been informed that there are at least 792 illegal liquor houses in the city." Notwithstanding, however, the diabolism of the speak-easy proprietors, the Assistant Superintendent regards those who, having a legal wholesale license, sell to them know ingly as still more.culpable, and while he does not reccommend punishment without benefit of clergy, yet he castigates them with great severity, and thinks there should be a law enacted similar to that which prevents a wholesale dealer in leat tobacco from selling except to those who ex hibit a license showing that they are legally authorized dealers in tobacco, cigars, etc. He finally indicates his proposed remedy, viz., the granting ot 300 retail licenses, say ing that the first year the Brooks law went into effect 250 were granted, and the speak easy was almost unknown. He thinks the subsequent growth of population justifies an increase of CO. He argues that were all to get license they would be forced to sell on Sunday to make a living and pay $500, which, in his opinion, would be conducive to a worse state of affairs than is at present produced by the few saloons and many speak-easies. The department is congratulated on its success in sending boodle aldermen and their allies to the penitentiary. WANTS THEM SQUELCHED. The suppression of private detective agencies by law is recommended. "If we must have detective agencies they should be under police control as a protection to our citizens. The city is congratulated on the fact that labor strikes during the year have been conducted by "men of good common sense," and that consequently they have done no in jury to society or property. Favorable mention is made of the effect of division of tbe city into districts under police inspectors, and the appointment of matrons at the police stations. The report concludes with a resume of the work done by the Pittsburg police in Johns town at the time of tbe flood, and a denial of the statements of thieving and plunder ing of both the living and the dead, and says the main portion of those reports was traced to the propensity of sightseers who picked up all sorts of trinkets as souvenirs of the calamity. Favorable metion is also made at considerable length of the Health and Fire Bureaus. CHIEF BIGELOW'S REPORT. Work of the Department of Public Works for the Past Year Tbe City's Welfare Always Considered Demands on the Department Ilovr They Have Been Met. Chief Bigelow, of the Department of Pub lic Works, handed in his report for the past year to Councils yesterday afternoon. The report in substance is as follows: You will find herewith, presented in accord ance with the law, the report of the Depart ment of Public Works for the year ending January 31, 1890. In preparing the details an earnest effort has been made to combine com prehensiveness with brevity, so that as littlo of your time as possible might be taken. There has been no year in the previous history of Pittsburg when the scope ot the work neces sary to be done by a department of tbis kind has been so extensive as during the period cov ered by the report laid before you. The stable, permanent growth ot the city has far exceeded the most liberal estimate and the outlook for the immediate future is that this will not only continue, bat that its proportions will be largely extended. The demands upon the facilities of tbe de partment "were unprecedented, but tbey have Deen successfully met; but the forces put at my service by the new charter and tbe various ordinances which have been given and existed from time to time as enabling powers, are re quired by the provisions of the general law. A NECESSITY DISCOVERED. Tbe resalt of the experiences of the year has been to conclusively prove that without an exact centralization of authority, the affairs of this department would have become hopelessly tangled, and that the proper administration of its duties would havo been impossible unaer tho old system. The progressive impetus of the city wonld have been seriously impeded, not to say wholly checked. A reference to the' condi tion from which tbe city has emerged is made here chiefly to emphasize the fact that in adopt ing metropolitan methods to meet tbe emer gencies ot our rapid developments no mistake has been made. The experimental period hag passed, and results show that the system now in vogue has been merely shaped to give practi cal effect to laws calculated to provide for suc cessful growth of any proportions. The various bureaus into which the Depart ment of Public Works is necessarily divided work harmoniously, vigorously and effectively in tbe accomplishment of the common purpose of tbe department, the means of winch is de pendent upon the intelligent discharge of their Beveral dnties. , ESPECIALLY ZEALOUS. Tho Bnrean of Engineering and Surveys bas been especially zealous and efficient in the Der formance of its work. The chiefs and subordi nates of every grade have been so conspicu ously devoted to duty as to challenge my heartiest admiration and to bespeak for tbem here a public commendation whicn they have honestly earned and richly deserved. It gives me pleasure to say that in this regard the other bureaus of the departments, viz.. Highways and Sewers, Water Supply and Distribution, Water Assessments and City Property, have been emulous of tbe example of the officials of the Bureau of Engineering and Surveys, and that in every respect their dnties have been zealously and effectively discharged. Mr. Bigelow then calls attention to the Bureau of Engineering and Surveys, and says that the increased appropriation is asked for on account of the multiplying de mands of the people. In referring to the Bureau of Highways and Sewers he lays particular stress on the fact that this bureau is unjustly criticised for the deplorable con dition of the streets, when in almost every instance it is the fault of the people. The Bureau of Supply and Distribution is com plimented, and he says that the work done by this bureau is most effective. The Bureau of "Water Assessments, the City Property and Public Lighting bureaus are also com plimented. In referring to the Board of Viewers he says this bureau is independent of his department He says the work done has been greater tbau ever before. COMMON COUNCIL CONCURS. Tho Special Medina Pusses the Railroad Ordinances Alrcndy Handled by Select Council Tbo Reports of Chief Bigelow nod Roger O'Mara Received. Common Council held a special session yesterday afternoon, W. A. Magee presid ing in the absence of President Holliday. The first business considered was the report of the Board ot Viewers on ordinances which had been sent back to them. The re port on grading Parkway avenue was reaf firmed; on grading and paving Shiloh street was corrected and returned; also the report on grading and paving Mahoa street; the Center avenue sewer report was reaf firmed; the board reported negatively on William "Warren's application for damages by the grading of Thirty-third street. Com mon Council received and approved each of these reports seriatim. Ordinances for paving and curbing March and street and opening Ceres and Cicero alleys were passed finally. The final passage of the ordinance chang ing the name ot Boup street to Negley avenue was opposed by Mr. Carnahan, who said the street had been named alter the owners of the vast tract of land through which it passes, and he thought it wrong to change the name to suit the fancy of certain persons, who simply wanted Negley avenue lengthened in name. Mr. Carnahan also wanted a committee on street nomenclature appointed to revise the names of the streets of Pittsburg. The names of many streets were absurd, neither Christian nor pagan, and would not be tolerated in any other city. The ordinance was adopted finally by avoteof2ito6. The ordinance for the grading, paving and Garbing of Braddock avenue tailed for want of a legal majority, the vote being 22 ayes to 7 noes. Mr. Edward Kelly and Colo nel Allen appeared before Councils and of fered the same arguments on the matter as were offered before the Public "Works Com mittee last Monday. The ordinance "authorizing the use of electricity and the purchase of franchises and property of certain passenger railways by the Pittsourg and Birmingham Traction Company, as passed in Select Council on Monday, was passed finally by Common Council. In voting on this ordinance Mr. Carnahan said that while he was very friendly to the corporation for which it was intended, he rather thought that this ordinance would not legally convey all that its provisions called for. He thought that in order to grant such sweeping concessions as this ordinance contemplated it would be neces sary to make it a general ordinance, accord ing to the act of Assembly relating to street railways in the city of Pittsburg. Mr. Magee held that the ordinance was drafted under the provisions of the general ordinance relating to street railways, passed by Councils a lew weeks ago, and that un der those provisions the ordinance would legally convey all the privileges it enumer ated. The ordinance was passed without further opposition. An ordinance vacating Mellon street was passed finally. The report of the Depart ment of Charities for February and the re port of the Department of Awards were ap proved. FUN IN A HORSE CAR. A Young Lady Drops a Dime in tbo Box and Waits for Her Change. It would be supposed that by this time nearly every man, woman and child in this city would know enough about the Slawson money boxes in street cars, to enable them to put their fare in the box. Especially is this the case when there is a large sign star ing the passenger in the face to put "the exaet fare in the box." Yesterday, a lady nicely dressed, boarded a short line Birmingham car at the corner of Carson and Tenth streets, to ride to the city. She flashed out of her pocket, which was concealed where no man could ever find it, a beautiful little purse, and extracting a dime, she refnsed the preferred aid of a fellow passenger to put her fare in the box. She walked to the forward end of the car and dropped the dime into the opening of the box. Then she stood there with an ex pectant look on her face and one hand on the top of the box. "Whether she expected the box wonld open and hand out a nickte in change in about the same manner as prac ticed by a cabinet "speak easy" the other passengers could only guess. The driver told her she would have to stand the loss of the nickle unless the car took on another passenger. . At the Pittsburgh end of the bridge another passenger got on. He wore a slight blonde mustache and a self-satisfied air of "mashing" anything in sight, as he tripped past the young lady. As he asked the driver for two nickles in exchange for a dime, the mule puncher told him of the young lady's predicament. Of course, he was only too glad to pay her back the 5 cents and smiled sweetly as he handed over the amount. "With an "yon-bet-im-in-ft" ex pression, he turned aronnd and dropped the other nickle in the box. Then he discov ered that he was out a nickle, and the smiles of the passengers made him go out on the platform and commune with himself. The individual who enjoyed the joke the most was the young lady who caused his mis fortune. LAUGHED AT LOCKSMITHS. Jail Birds Break Through a Steel Cage nnd Two Brick Walls. Hiawatha, Kan., March 21. Two prisoners, John Burk and Fred Tulip, made their escape last night from the Brown county jail. They cut their way through the steel cage, the corridor walls and the outer brick walls. Five other prisoners incarcerated in the same cell made no attempt to escape. Tulip and Burk were confined for grand larceny. Bezchaits Pills curcsick headache. Pxabs' Boap, the purest and best ever made. MARKETS IN THE MUD, Bad Roads Have a Depressing Influ ence on General Business. REACTION IN THE IRON TRADE. Southern Competition Aflect3 the Prices at Pittaburj. BIG INCREASE IN EAILPwOAD EAENING3 ISFZCIAT. TEtEOnASI TO THE PI8PTCn.l New York, March 21. Special tele grams to Bradstreet's to-day say: Indications point to a more active distribu tion of staple merchandise among leading trade centers at Kansas City, St. Louis and Omaha only. Throughout the region tributary to the three cities named the country roads are still heavy, to the detriment of the jobbing trade and of farmers having produce or stock ready for market. Dullness prevails at San Francisco, but wheat in California is firmer on reports ot a very short crop this year, and Pa cific coast exports this week have declined heavily. Prices of heavy chemidls at Eastern porta have advanced 100 per cent owing to inter runted imports doe to strikes in England. Hawaiian sugar has been shipped to Atlantic ports and some has arrived at New Orleans. Our San Francisco telegram announces a rumor that tbe Union Pacific Railway Company bas contracted for a monthly steamship service from Portland, Ore., to China and Japan. Cat tie and hojrs at Western centers have been in better demand and higher. Mercantile collec tions generally are slow. Trade South and West is still sbmewhat interrupted throngh fears of overflows, though less than last week. WALL STKEET STAGNANT. Wall street has been almost stagnant for a week, Atchison under Boston bnying,and Read ing, by aid of tbe pool influence, being the feat ures, firmer and higher. The Union Pacific un favorable earnings report resulted in irregular ity in that stock. Tbe outlook for stability in Western railway rates is better, now tbat tbe Chicago, Burlington and Northern has passed into new bands. Tbe trunk line Presidents will meet next week to fix rates for tbe sum mer. Tennessee Coal and Iron, Sugar certifi cates and Chicago Gas among unlisted securi ties were erratic. Bonds were relatively more active than stocks, notably tbe Atchison, Reading and Mis souri, Kansas and Texas issues. Money has not been largely in demand owing to light de mands in shares, and rates remain quite easy. Tbe net railroad earnings of 107 railway com panies for January, as reported to BradstrecCs. aggregated 512,115.328. a cain of 15.3 per cent over January. ISatf. Gross earnings gain 9.3 per cent. Slack demand for coal in tbe East and heavy snow and rainfalls along the lines of Pacific roads account lor decreased earn ings of Pacific roads and coal carriers. BKEADSTUFFS BETTEE. Wheat ha3 been active and higher on shrink age of stocks at home andjabroad. and reported damage to the domestic crop. Corn has been firmer after a moderate decline. Exports of wheat (and flour as wheat) from both coasts this week aggregate 1.850.390 bushels, against 3,007,030 bushels last week (owing largely to decreased Pacific coast clearances), and as compared with 1,259.850 bushels in the like week of 1889. The total exports irom July 1 to date is 77,292,623 bushels, against 68,180,306 bushel in n like share or 1S8S-S9. The report of 13G,000.0C0bushels of wheat in farmers' bands on March 1. 1890, is stated to point to a surplus for export from March 1 to June 30 next, of 38.009.000 bushels, allowing for visible and in visible stocks on July 1. 1890, equal to those on July 1,1889. Tho rate of exnort thus far dur ing March would aggregate 32,000,000 bushels for tbe four months. Sngar has declined moderately In price. J 3-lGc Tea has been steady, but with weakness abroad on enlarged crop estimates. Coffee has been animated on free offering and realizing sales and prices havo declined. IKON IS DEPEESSED. Iron is visibly weaker and makers have lost much of the confidence in an early return of higher prices which bas been referred to so mnc'i of late. Hails, too, are quiet and fully 1 lower within a month. Consumers prefer to wait before buying for future requirements. Drygoods demand in Eastern markets lacks snap. Price changes in cotton goods are to ward a Iowerrance. Print cloths, low grade bleached goods and prints are lower. Cotton and wool dress goous are most active. .Men's wear woolens are quiet Cotton weakened ear ly on news of English coal strikes, but reassur ing advices, added to the light port movement, overcame the loss. Business failures reported to BradslreeVg number 200 In the United States this week, against 209 last week and 212 this week last year. Canada had 37 tbis week, against 41 last week. Tbe total number of failures in the United States since January 1 is 3,167, against 3,3S5inl3S9. EFFECT OF SOUTHEKN IKON. Dun & Co., in their weekly report, say:" The depression at Pittsburg in iron and steel, and the slow trade in gla?3. due to extravagant cost of materials causes somo disappointment to tbo-e who labored so long to convince them selves that prices of iron and Its products must rise, in spite of the unprecedented output. Now prices are lower and the market unset tled and close on to demoralization. The offers of Southern iron are tho obvioas cause No. 1 at 818 25 here, and gray forge at S18 50; lower prices by 25 to 50 cents per ton are made at Pittsburg, with SI lower for rails. S2 lower for blooms and billets, and manufactured iron weiker. The fact of greatest significance, repeatedly noted here, has been tho slackening in demand for hniibed products, and gome concessions are now made in Eastern markets on rails: for billets there are few sellers and no buyers, and tho bar mills are running short of orders. In general, cons: mption is larger than a year ago, but clearly shows reaction from the great rush of last fall. A CHANGE FOE THE BETTEE. In speaking of the financial outlook, Dun & Co., say: The monetary situation has changed for the better more distinctly than any other, tho Treasury having fonnd means to payout dur ing the week 1.000.000 more than it has taken in. Foreign exchange has risen one-half of a cent because of scarplty of commercial bills, but exports for three weeks from this port show an increase of Sl,T0O,C0O over last year or 8 per cent, while the increase in exports is nearly 52,000,000 or 9K per cent. Tbe stock market is afflicted with dullness, and the average price of stocks, exclusive of the ''Industrial" lots, has declined about 60 cents per share. Tbo railroads are doing a large business, but most stocks are so held and so managed that the public is not invited. SUICIDE OP A WEALTHY I0UTH. III-Healtb Drives C. T. Oaks to tbe Bottom oT Lake Michigan. Chicago, March 21. C. T. Oaks, a young man of 20 years, who has been in ill health for some time, walked into tbe Pal mer House this morning and wrote a letter to his friends at 299 Oak street, where he has been boarding for some time, announc ing bis intention of committing suicide. Oaks said in his letter that he was tired of living and before the missive reached its destination he would be at the bottom ol Lake Michigan. He sent the note by a messenger and then disappeared. The young man is supposed to have carried out his threat. Mr. Oaks is said to have Inherited a competency. The guardian of his estate is Mr. Samuel McGee, ol Boston, who is at the head of the McGee Furnace Company. Will Have a Harbor Somewhere. Des Moines, March 21. The House to day took np the deep'harbor joint resolu tion, left unfinished yesterday, and amended it so as to favor a harbor at any place on tho gulf coast, and. thus amended it passed. Get the best and cheapest; that means, buy Salvation Oil for only 25 cents. Black Goods An elegant line of medium and light weight novelty and staple fabrics shown this week for the first. ttssu Huous & HACKE. Superior Boys' Clothing At The People's Store. Drop in and com pare our prices. Campbell & Dick. New lace curtains from ?1 a pair up io the finest at Arthur, Schondelmyer & Co.'i, 68 and 70 Ohio t,, All'j. its i m
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