The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-09-11
NO, MINNIE BHHRHNS.
You Can't Sell Any Hard
Stuff" at the Old Stone
House.
ONLY SIX ALDERMEN SAY YES.
Electric Companies, Election Ex-
penses and other Matters Before
the Board.

the B0af0s
Poor Mrs. Minnie Behrensi The Board
of Aldermen said last night that she was
unfit to keep q "hotel' and refused to
license her alleged disorderly house,
known to her friends and visitors as the
"Old Stone House"
A vigorous effort was made by
Counsellor Norman l.. Rowe and Alder
men ORourke and Jordan to obtain the
coveted license, but five men opposed it
tooth and nail, and successfully, too.
After some routine business had been
attended to Alderman O'Rourke asked
| for the support of the Excise Committee
| on licensing the "Old Stone House" as q
hotel Alderman Prigge said that he
| had been unable to get the committee to-
! gether to discuss the subject and believed
| it to be impossible to do so, and ne
| thought that as such was the case the
| matter should be taken from the, COM
| mittee and disposed of by the Board.
81 think this committee is perfectly
| capable of taking charge of this matter"
said Alderman Jordan. II have been In
! formed that Alderman Van Horn is sick
at his home. but that need not prevent
Aldermen Prigge and Donnelly from
| making report. They are both present
| tonight and they can withdraw and come
| to some conclusion. OF course, il they
| won't do this, then the Board should dis
| pose of the question"
"The trouble is" said Alderman DON
| nelly, that Mr.. Prigge and myself OPP
| pose each other, and for that reason a
| meeting would be useless. l want the
| Board to dispose of the case"
THE CASE FOR MRS. BEHRENs.
Later in the evening the BehrenS
| license case was again taken up, by a
motion of Alderman O'Rourke, and Coun-
| sellor Norman L. Rowe was invited to
state the case for the petitioner to the
| Board.
81 know this place very well indeed"
said he, and broad smile passed around
| the chamber II understand that this
matter was once disposed of by the Board,
but the Mayor vetoed the license. After
| this was done l visited the Mayor to learn
| his objections, and he said he vetoed the
action of the Board because Mr.. John
| Shannon objected to the house. He said
| further that Mr. Shannon was the only
one who had objected, and that
| his objection was that when Meyers
was tried for keeping dis
| orderly house some years ago, it was
| disclosed that some of the people who
! visited mis- saloon went to Mrs, Behrens'
also and that was his only objection to
the Old Stone House. challenge any
| one in this county to produce a single
4 complaint that has been made against
this place. The signers are all residents
of the vicinity where the Old Stone
Housei is and they vouch for its character.
| "When the Excise Committee wanted
to hear evidence as to the character of the
place besides other witnesses j had the
| patrolmen on that post present to testify,
| but the committee failed to meet. There
| is not q single petition here against this
place, and | submit that if 1t is of
such a character as Mr.. Shannon
says, he has had plenty of time to present
one. Why should not license be granted
| Mrs. Behrens2 1t was shown during the
! Meyers trial that people who frequented
| that place also went to Taylor's Hotel
and the. Philadelphia Hotel, but no objec-
| tion was made to the granting of license
that in all fairness she ought to be Ii
censed."
II hrve been a member of this Board
three terms and half" said Alderman
Jordan when Mr.. Rowe had finished his
address, "and neuer before heard any
objection to this place. Why was not any
objection to it made before when we
granted license, and the Mayor vetoed
our actionf / am always anxious to
stand by the Mayor when he Is right. but
in this case cannot vote to sustain him.
Why should not this woman be licensed?
Is it because she has no political pull, and
is only woman?"
YEAS, 6; NAYS, 5.
Alderman Hauck wanted to know If
there We're any persons present who de-
sired to be heard against granting the
license and there being no one, it was put
to vote on motion of Alderman
O'Rourke, and the Board decided not to
grant the license.
Yeas-Jordan. o'Rourke, Connolly,
Hauck, Jewkes and Keogh, 6.
Nays-Donnelly. Prigge, O'Neill, Scher-
merhorn and Allen-5
Aldermen Hoos and Van Horn were ab-
sent.
1t requires seven votes or O majority of
the entire Board to grant a license and
thus it happened that Mrs. Behrens must
in the future content herself with selling
cider and Soda
The Foresters invited the Board to re-
view their parade today from the City
Hall steps, and the invitation was ac-
cepted
An invitation to attend the picnic of
the Volunteer Fire Association at Kroe-
bells Park tonight was likewise accepted,
and the petition of the Second Regiment
Cadet Corps to fire blank cartridges at the
foot of Manhattan avenue was granted.
Nine restaurant licenses We're petitioned
for, and the Board was asked to transfer
seven others
NEW BUILDINGS.
The Building Inspector reported the
cost of building and repairs that had been
done in the several districts since the
last meeting of the Board as follows-
First district. ........................ S13o5o
Second .........'......'.'..... 1e355