New-York tribune., 1873-07-03
IMPORTANT EXCISR DECISIONS.

LAGER BEER NOT TO BE SOLD ON SUNDAY.
The decision of the Board of Excise relative
20 the sale Of ngr beer Sunday and the licensing Of
beer gardens where sOaed sacred concerts are gwen
ON that day, vhere and other attractions are
offered az other times IN opposition To the protests Of
neghboring residents Vas formally announced yester
DAY, 70 Assembyman Patterson Aldermen Kebr. Koch
and Billings Assistant Alderman SOrners, and large
delegation OF beer sellers. including Paul Falk Of tho
TvoIi arden an ghthsI.; g. LKsppf Of the Lion Park
Garden. ct Eiehthave. and Observation-Disclosures
ST., Major q. W. Sauer OF the Germania Assembly
Rooms the Bowery, and several other propneiOrs OF
large gardens aud saloons President stewart said that
In conformity with opinion Of The Counsel 10 the
Board, citns decisons Of the supreme Court and the
Court Of Appeals the CommissiGRers had decided that
lager beer intOxicant, and subject the pro-
visions OF the State law forbidding the sale OF all nt0xi
eating liquors Sunday They should therefore, he said,
deem II their duty 10 revoke the license Of any person
found violating The law thus construed. He also
formed the delegation that the Board had just passed
resolution not license any place where other
attractions tending 20 disturb the peace and quiet Of the
neghborhoOd, should be Objected 70 in writing by
iority " persons residing within such place
The delegation made argument concerning the
decision 20 the intoxicating properties OF lager
beer 0ut they spoke at considerable length against he
Iro OF music eto. being considered by the Board
iu determining upon applications for license. The
Commissioners replied that they believed 10 20 b8 not
only their legal night but alsO their official duty 70
ascertain and consider an circumstances under which
applicants utoudel conduct their business, ordcr
that they might Judge correctly % whether the
saloons Of the applicants would probably be conducted
-r a pcaceabie Iud orderly
The Commissioners nave received from the Board Of
Health list Of about Au0 cellars which, already
ported, have been vacated BY order OF he Health De
parment, for sanitary reasons. and where liquor had
been sold a retail. The list viii be preserved ana
pcatlOns FOR license for any Ot the places mentioned
viii be denied. About 4lO3 applications for
license have been made thus far, anu S3lspOJ
received President stewart thinks that the Board VIII
grant rom ljJO To 4OO0 licenses less tAn the nunbrr
1f places where liquor has been hitherto sold az RETAIL
which according 20 the recent police census was about
s445. Including retail places OF al grades. he states
tIat when the present large number pt daily ippca-
uuus snail have become sufficiently reduced 20
permit the absence Of the Commissioner from
their office, they Will personally Inspect a
majority, Or, IL possible all places where liquor
sold 90 u,al, and VIII strictly enforce the sunday
lJW, aud she resolution prohibiting the conduct ul
saloons and gardens a manner detrimental 10 peace
uu Iuet An application for license nv Patrick Hughes,
whose Dar-ruOm No. 445 East HOIstOn-st., James
lnd} stabbed 4ud instantly KILLED 1u sunday night,
June 70 has been denied. subsequent application hy
the owner oi the building also acucd, under Wds
..-rlHIN known az " the ONO CLAUSE or The LACsr
law. which provides tnHt owners OF buildings IN whrh
be Sop .htl Oe held Responsible lor
fhr conduct OF such saloons we'll E their keepers
instituted bv the Commissioners lmmedatev alter
-lr murder against Hughes, FOR selling hqu0r WI.Luut
81 -Llll pauuing.