New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-11-11
NO LICENSE FOR THE METROPOLITAN.

A DOOR FROM The BARkbOM ~ I'LL IAShhGL
LEADING TO NIBIUs MUST BIZ CLOSED.
The Board of Excise yesterday refused to renew
the license sell liquor at the Metropolitan Hotel,
claiming that the BARRON OF the hotc rs connected
with the obby of NiblOs Garden Theatre. Secrc-
tary Perlcv was directed to inform the police that
the license expired last night. j. NJ. Otter, the new
manager of the hotel. whose application for a
license was rejected insisted that the barrOOin was
not connected with the theatre, but that the
theatre people only had right of way through tho
hotel. Entrance 10 the theatre from Broadway is
by wide corridor lIlch sepaTat, the office of the
hotel on the GROUND floor from the barrOOm, res
taurant and bIlliard-rOom in the south end Of the
building. Doors open lnto the corridor from the
Office and the barroOm Commissioner Morris said
that If the door leading INTO the barrOom was
closed permanently the Board could grant license.
The refusal o. the Board was said to be based on
section 2.0lO OF the consolidation Act, winch
says:
1t shall not Lawful! to sell furnish any wine beer.
strong spruous liquors. to any person, In the au-
dituriun Hobbies of any place Of exhibition or per
fornance mentioned in Section l098 or In any apart
inent connected Herewith by any door, window OF
other aperture
1t was said that the Metropolitan Hotel bar
room had been licensed for twenty years If the
door leading to the theatre entrance Is ciosed per
manently the guests at the hotel will have TO go
tuto the street i'll order to get from
tho office to tho barroom. unless they cross
Yesterday afternoon the door was locked and a
notice posted on it that persons wishing TO
enter the harrOOm must go by way of tue street
door. 1t was said that "a new Application would be
made immediately for license on che ground that
the door was closed. There was some talk Of ap-
pealing to the courts earlier In the day.
According to the rule which was observed in the
case of the Metropolitan Hotel the Excise Board
also refused TO grant licenses to the Madison Square
Garden and tho Harmony Rooms i'll EsSex-st.
Manager Otter said last night:
To say that surprised the action OF the Board
is putting It very mildly Ny ice1so expires to-day and
Iuade an application for renewal on November L. II
the Board going to refuse to grant my license 1t
woud have been bat common courtesy at least TO Inform
me before the day the license runs out The bar In the
hotel IA part OF the theatre and the managers OF
NIbOs Garden have not any interest IN II whatever
INVENT the Excise Office soon as heard that they
had refused grant license, before the official notice
came hut the members not there and the clerk
co doanything. The door leading TO the bar fro
the corridor running to the theatre - the entrance not
only the bar but the restaurant connected with the
hotel and Il Is closed will put the guests TO great In
convenience. Still. II the law Is such that the door can
Judge Hilton has expressed himself as
statute The corridor belongs 10 the hotel 1t Is
lighted and cleaned by The property leased for the
begins at the largo door about forty feet from
the street and ten or fifteen feet from the door leading
the bar. Mrssrs Poole and Gilmore have only right
OF way through the corridor with the priv
fege OF selling tickets at the box Olhe9
which IL located to the left Of tho entrance
will endeayOr 10 satisfy the E<aise Board that
10 obey the law AMI viii them permit the door ~
the corridor 10 be open except when performance Is
going rs convenience to the guests of tho hotel
II this cannot be done then will follow such directions
At the board may make.