Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-06
STILL IN THE SWIM.
MCKeeSpOrt Applicants Raft
Comes Down the River
INTO COLD WATER COURT.
The Men With License LOngings Bob
Up Like Popping Corn,
ONLY TO CRACK AND FALL EARLY.
Good, Honest Puddler, Who Sees No Real
Necessity for License.
ONLY TO CRACK AND FALL EARLY.
PURVEYOR TO CAMPMEEFING THIRST

A delegation OF McKeesport saloon keep
ers would-be saloon keepers and their
friends came down to the city yesterday
like a raft afioat on the Allegheny river on
a spring dsy-only this was Monongahela
raft. All were in good humor and Luck
former must have run against hoodoo and
the latter got little smudged on the way,
for the raft struck snag in the person of
Judge White and the w. @. 7. o., which
completely demoralized it, and there is
plenty of cheap timber afoat tonight.
Some of it is in houses in McKeesport,
which can be purchased cheap.
The wreck was complete. The temper
ance workers of that little city at the forks
of two rivers had done some hard work in
the past few weeks. 1t was done so quietly,
too, that the liquor dealers could not coun-
teract it.
The gentlemen from the country districts
were also heard from during the day, and
the thirsty farmer is still being sought out,
and his wants are being attended to.
Applicants in License Court at present
represent corn pepper in full blast. One
applicant is your next door neighbor; the
next that bobs up and cracks open is from
the farthest end of the county, in one direc-
tion; while the third will be from Just as far
away in the opposite dir ection.
QUITE COSMOPOLITAN.
At one time there will be rush of Ger.
mans; at another all the applicants will be
Irish, and on a third occasion they will be
more Americanized. The different colonies
about the city can be located by an observer
while sitting in court.
The mutilation of Baglish grammar be-
fore the Court is something painful to be
heard. To hear fellow speak plain En-
glishis q pleasant surprise, and when it is
spoken everybody takes notice of it. About
every dialect known is spoken, and the
courtroom would be an excellent school for
a character actor.
The remainder of the Second ward of
Homestead, then Knoxville, Mansfield and
Millvale boroughs were taken up and heard at
the morning session.
His Honor became very impatient at the
oullness of the applicants and the way he
questioned and cross-questioned them was a
caution. In one case saloon keeper would
not acknowledge that a mealer sometimes
missed meal, as His Honor wished him to-
The Court dismissed him when impatient and
then had to recall him in order to further Ques-
tion him.
A Schneiderlochner is slightly deaf, and this
may account for his coolness in answering
''Yes, sir" when the Court asked him at the
top of its voice If he only wanted license to sell
whisky to his neighbors.
The applications heard yesterday were:
THE SAD AND SOBER LIST.
Homestead, Second ward-John GalIaher corner
Sixth avenue and Mcclure street: Thomas Kill
burn, corner Heisel and P, V. & &C. Z. R.; Gott-
leib Lessegar, Dixon street; Michael Lacey,
Heisel street; Martin Lacey, corner Dickson and
Fourth streets; David r. Lewis; w. L. Lippin-
colt, Heisel street: James r. Mullett, Dickson
street; owen Murphy, corner Dickson street and
p, n. X. & Y. K R.; Mrs. X. Nau, Dickson
street; Charles Mckinley, Dickson street; Mrs
Ellen o'Brien, Eighth avenue; John Rushe,
Eighth avenue; Nicholas Schwartz, Eighth ave-
nue.; A. Skirball, Eighth avenue: Frank Schmitt
corner Ann and Sixth streets.
Knoxville borough-lgnaZ Follart / AMANDA
avenue; Henry Hening, on.Brownsville pike.
hillvale borough, First ward-John Bennett Is
Grant avenue: Jacob Lichtinger, - Stanton ave-
nue.: Anton Schneiderlochner, As Grant avenue.
MillvSle borough, Second ward-John Krueger