The Evening post. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1888-1889, 1888-12-06

The Commissioners have thrown
bombshell into the camp of the liquor
dealers by finally rejecting large mum
Der of applications for licenses 10 sell
liquor and declaring that no proprietor
who has been convicted of Sunday SELL
ing or otherwise disrcgarding the liquor
license regulations will be relcensed.
They also decided to direct the police to
Immediately notify those whose applica-
tons were rejected to close their bars.
When the Commissioners began TO re-
teot the applications about q month ago
it was claimed by many that the licenses
would finally be granted, and that the
Commissioners would not attempt to
close Il number of the principal bars in
the city. In regard to this the Commits
sioners say that they intend to enforce
the regulations and the great and the
small will fare alike, and hotels and
large restaurants will be treated like
common bar-rooms.
Among the applications which they re-
jccted last evening were Wizards,
Solari's, Johnson's, Perreard's hotels
all for selling on Sunday. 1t Is claimed
by them that they sold to their guests.
The Commissioners claim they have no
right to do this in their bars, but admit
that botel Keepers can furnish liquor
with meals to their guests.
1t is understood that some of the
hotel and barkcepers will resent the
action of the Commissioners, and that
even when they get the order from the
police to close they will refuse TO do so,
and take their chances in court.
The Commissioners are without power
to close bar room. All they can do is
10 have their police proceed against the
proprietor in court for selling without q
license, and It's the sentence or sentences
of the Judge that makes it so expensive
for the dealer that he is generally glad to
close. This is slow process, because
appeals arc taken and the cases are car.
rled up TO the highest court and every
thing possible is done to delay final
action. The Commissioners say they
| intend to do all they can to have the
cases decided promptly. Following are
the applicants who We're refused
licences:
Northwest.-Oweu G. Staples, Willard's
Hotel, fined for Sunday bar; Edmund A. So
IIri, 400, 14ll, 1il3 PENNSYLVANIA avenue,
nued several times for Sunday selling and re-
ported by the police as totally disregardlnp
the law; Godfrey IL Holden, il3 Thirteenth
street, charged with Sunday bar and keeping
his bar open after midnight L. l.. Johnson
il9 Thirteenth street, fined three times FOL
| Sunday bar and appealed: l.. Reese gOl
Tweuty-ffth street; II. L. Edwards, 1855 Sew
enth street: $ r. Wall, 1885 Eleventh street
Eugene q. Knight, 1l6O Nineteenth street
a. ldncoln, 23g Z street; Henry Young, 81
! Thirteen-aud-a half street; George Hoffman
l2O4 Twentieth street; j. L. Keith, 32l Thir
teenth street; NJ. G. Cullen, 705 Fourth street
| Cornelius Horrigan, IA New Jersey avenue
| Charles A. Barnes, l05 II street: S. j. Neenau
32li VI street; Michael Lawler. 3253 NJ street
Louis GrueIn, 1910 L street; Thomas j. Nc.
| CURE, 135 Twenty fourth street, Georg,
! Schaefcr, 36l1 NJ Street; Patrick White, 63(
| Second street; Herman Edel, 10S aud no L
street; Timothy A. Sullivan, 1905 + street; j
NJ. Perreard, sos Fourteenth street.
Southwest-C. F. Mclaughlin, 1O3 +
street; Ii. J,.Leonard, GOO Third street: l.. j
BuaYSll gu Seventh street; Karl Pflieger
street; William A. Ehrmentrout, 525 Nintl
street; Patrick Kilroy, $50 Second street.
Northeast--Jane Foley, 900 Delawar,
avenue.
County-Michael Garvey, Brghtwood-
Liquor Licenses Approved.
The Commissioners have approved the fol
lowing applications for liquor licenses;
Northwest William IL. Rupertus, 40
street, Peter &. Wittstatt, 304 Tenth street;,Jame
| White. 1926 Pennsylvania avenue; j. j. White
l2lG Seventh street; &. b. Osborne, Col Seventh
street; Agnes McGinuell, 60T q street; DAME
Casey, III Fourth street; Joseph Newroher
corner Steuben and Seventh streets; j. A
| Sullivan. 2O3S Seventh street; NJ. V. Tierney
1851 Boundary street; Jos. a. Higgins, l2i
Pennsylvania avenue.
WhOlesale-IIe Braudcr, 1927 Tweftl
street: Ann Quill, 80 G street; Hester Burke
TwentY-sixth and + streets.
Southwest-JoAn Shea, 32j Marylan,
avenue; James O'Connor, 635 l street
| Ed. O'Neill, 1223 Third street; Marthi
Hennessy, ia Four-and,a-half street
Northeast, approved - Barroom Adam
Lembach, 33 II street.