The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1875-09-23
THE TRIBUNE BARROOM.


still Worried nv the Temperance Brother
hood oiChristinn Churches The Rev. Geo.
Il. Woodward Buying Beer on sunday.
The Office of the Excise Commissioners
VS. crowded Yesterday by liquor dealers, when
President Stewart said the board ready to
hear argument IN tue case Of Roster Bal, the
rotrietors Of the TriDunc barroom MIR. LOUIS
Ansbacher. OF counsel for the defendants, said
that since the last meeting of the board his
clients had applied for license, admitting that
since July Is they had been selling liquor with
out any license Every action, he said, must he
based upon complaint and in the &. 81 under
trial the defendants were accused Of violating
the conditions Of their license. But they
could not have violated what never had an ex-
istence. for there W snO evidence to show Ia I
they ever had license. but only that they sold
puor at LUZ Nassau street. the charge must fall,
an heasked that the complaint should be dis
missed
Mr. Gleason, for the Temperance brotherhood
%, 0i , tristan churches, argued that the oojec.
tluh sho uld nave been maze at the beginning OF
the proceedings. The defendants asked Tor a
ne licchSe on the ground thai they had COM
nliltd 'ilne thlt teudefcd tlem hdOle to IN
dirtutu' aud prosecution.
NJ. asna"her said that was their own bust
mess ana ar. Gleason added thal Binding them
selves convicted Of selling liquor On a sunday,
theN came mo court aud iried to evade the
coiarqucnces by uickefy. lie thought that the
Comm ioners would not put q rODe atuund
VI. " h'chs ~ entertaining the Application tor
NaI"f ~ Egcrty cOntpudcd that the board had
20 JuIlsdiciiou, aud tOinmir-0ncr StHcr re-
TERED to the admission Of counsel Ou both sides
thli me defendants Ia d license.
MI. Ahsbtchcr replied that u the board had
hD jurisdiction at the commencement OF tie
proceedings. no subsequent admissions Of
counsel or OF any one else could give II jurls.
Mr. Gleason contcnded that license was not
invalid because II Oid not specify tile precise
pace Tor which It Was granted. In Brooklyn
Hcti''s are granted permitting the holders to
sen liquor I'm the city Of brooklyn"
Mr.. Ansbtcher replied that, happily and for
lunaieB Tor themselves, they we're not IN
BIooklNn. Printing IIOu-c square. he said. had
10 legal existence, and even II It lad, Roster 81
BlaI license would permit then to sell liquor
In the street.
President stewart announced that the board
would hold tue case under Amusement, and
uruceed To try me charge against WIN. Kramer,
OF the Atlantic Garden.
The Rev Geo. h. W oodward. the first witness,
Wstlned mat he purchased lager beer ia the
Authtic Garden ON sunday, Aug. 10. lie was a
pau agent OF the Temperance brotherhood Of
Christian Churches.
Mr.. Oliver Cotter corroborated Mr. Wood
Watu 5 testimony IN relation to the sale of beer
IN the Atlantic Garden on sunday. Aug. l5 ON
the cross-eX animation by MIR. Ansbacner he SAID
NC ultM SlNOO a year as Hgcut OF tue TEMPER
ance Broth rbOOd Of Christian Churches. His
duties were to see that 10 Intoxicating iiqtiors
were sold on sunday, or gwen to children or
hdbltual drunkards. He had also to receive
complaints from wives Of drunken husbands,
ana rom husbands OF drunken wives. ana 10
see mat liquor was not adulterated. The beer
he drank la the Atl4ntc Garden wa. made OF
mat h9ps. RESIN, tar, couperss, oocu,ius IN
deus toi which dose the Sis Of "a homeopathic
~ would KIN "a cat IN ten minutesJ. and dirty
water.
A, some Of he witnesses for the defence were
W due-lay