Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-30
FOR A MASS MEETING.
The Retail Liquor Dealers Hear of a
Big Movement by Citizens.
A COMMITTEE TO VISIT THE COURT.
Some Really Significant Legal Opinions Of
Held-0ver Goods.
THEY CAN'T BE LEGALLY SOLD HERE

Nearly 800 retail liquor dealers held q
meeting at rs Fourth avenue yesterday.
Mr.. S. Bing, of Sixth street, presided. He
made quite lengthy address, in which he
told the saloon keepers that a movement
was on foot among disinterested citizens to
call mass meeting, at which the public in
general could protest against the wholesale
resusal of licenses by Judge White. He
was not at liberty to mention names. How
ever, the citizens were of most substantial
character, including iron and glass manu-
facturers, butchers, bakers and landlords
If they could secure hall in the central
part of the city, the meeting was to be
called for Thursday or Friday night of this
week.
At this mass meeting a committee will be
appointed to visit Judge White, Chief
Brown. of the Department of Public Safety,
and Chief Elliott, of the Department of Chari-
ties. This committee will be made up entirely
of citizens not engaged in the saloon business.
They will represent to the Judge, upon his re-
turn to the city. and to the city officials, whom
they believe to have been influential in secur
ing many license refusals. that they believe
SUCH A LARGE LIST
Of applicants could not be handled without err
rors, and that Judge White made errors wholly
unintentional, and that he is pardonable for
them. However they will aver that it is only
fair to the men who have suffered from these
errors that Judge White should reconsider
their cases; in other words, that he should
again go over the testimony he took and revise
the list of licenses refused and granted.
In the speeches that were made at the meet
ing the saloon keepers approved of this plan.
They believed it was better than to have Judge
White grant rehearings in certain cases. Sew
eral gentlemen said they believed that the
Judge was now ready to admit that, in the
great task which he was compelled to manage
himself. he had made mistakes in refusing so
many reputable dealers. Therefore they be-
lieve that careful, quiet review Of the official
chiefs of municipal departments will show His
Honor Just where these errors lay.
In all the addresses delivered at the meeting,
no unkind or sarcastic illusions were made
with reference to Judge White. Some men,
bers had been Informed by citizens that there
was a public fear of street fights in front of
the lucky saloons, on account of there being so
few and so large trade to be supplied.
A resolution was passed to close saloons at
1l:S0 o'clock to- might, half an hour earlier than
the hour required by law. President Bing
states that this is done to show the
public that the saloon keepers are law
abiding and not the greedy outlaws that some
pictured them. From all the speeches
sentiment was apparent to frankly lay the
whole matter before Judge White again. in the
best of good will, and then strictly abide by
the consequences, whatever they are.
ABOUT THURSDAY OR FRIDAY.
The committee, of which Charles Vowinkle
is Chairman, reported that the consultation
with the wholesale dealers had been held, and
that, as a result, lawyers were consulted and
many petitions for rehearings filed in court
Judge White will arrive home on Wednes-
day night. 1t is probable that he will appear in
court on Thursday morning. Although that is
after May l, rehearings could be held at any
time, and any licenses then granted made to
date from May l. However, the counsel for
the liquor men will be officially notified of His
Honor's return, and the hour of rehearings, if
he choose to grant any.
Applications for rehearings in the cases of a
number of applicants for bottlers' license,
who had been refused were filed yesterday by
John S. RoDb, Esq. The petitioners were A.
Kraus. Charles Friel, j. Einstein & Co. Thos.
Murray and Fred. Hampe. Among the allega-
uons was that Stenographer Fullwood, who
took report of all the License Court proceed
ings, did not file copy of the testimony, and a
rule was asked to compel him to do so.
Judge Magee declined to order this done,
saying that it might have been taken for the
private information of Judge White. The pe-
titlons were ordered to be filed, but were
marked refused" Other applications for
rehearings, that were allowed to be filed, were
as follows:
Retai-F. Kellerman, First ward; Fred Schmidt
second ward; W.. H. Boyle, Eleventh ward; John
Lanahan, j. ID. Hughes, Seventeenth ward; Mar
tin J. Reiber, Twenty-frst ward: James McFar-
land. Iwenty-fourth ward: Elizabeth Coxen,
Twenty-ffth ward; Joseph McDermott Thirty
fourth ward: B. Kearnes, Twentieth ward; K. y.
Kennedy Twenty-eighth ward; Adam Musig,
CHARTERS borough; Johanna Fierle. Sixth ward,
Allegheny; James Cliff, Ninth ward, Allegheny.
Wholesale. Henry, George j. Schmidt. Thomas
Roebloom, George Canister and A. A. Milligan.
At the closing hour yesterday all the retail
licenses had been issued but that of A. G.
Dyer, of Allegheny, VINO had not appeared.
All but nine of the wholesale licenses have
been issued, and all bonds have been ap-
proved.