Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-21
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| reason he was refused last year was because ne
| had no counsel and he was unable to present his
Judge i WSite"Tf he fails this year it won't be
| for want of able counsel.
| At this there was general litter.
Louis Pasetti Of Penn avenue, said he kept
| open until II O'Clock at night to accommodate
road. He said His bosrders generally drank wine
| and very little whisky. They never got any on
Sunday. and he declared he never drank any him
| self Oh that day.
AN AMERICAN CITIZENS REPLY.
John Schweinhart said he had been refused last
| year, but thought his Place was necessary. He
spoke very decisively, and startled the Court by
saying that one OF the reasons was that he was
| an American citizen. He owned his property and
has been driving wagon since May l. he
frankly admitted that he would not 20 into the
restaurant business unless there was saloon
| attached. To this Judge White remarked:
THAT speaks badly for the restaurant. The
theory of the law is that the restaurant should not
be tail for a saloon, but that the saloon be an
| appendage for the restaurant After the prohi-
bition amendment passes, we will have Few de-
Attorney Breck-There were ten saloons in the
your Honor did not renew the license of one Of
them. My clients father was In the business AZ
Tne place &c r ncM a9q 9f
| eral opinion was that schWlenhart Is all
Martin shaughessy, of Penn avenue, who was
refused last year said his lease ran lor two more
years, and that he had to make living at some
| ''1his man had a sl06 license and was sued
by Agent Mccall. He then took out $500 license
John Stewart, OF Penn avenue. said: al am
now keeping teams, and had been running that
| in connection with the liquor business prior to
Judge White (dryly)-I have noticed that the
LIQUOR business sometimes is highly teemlng
|
The applicant stated that he had sold the fur
niture IN his hotel for 900. The man who bought
| it had been refused license. This caused Judge
White to remark: ''You were not doing much in
the hotel business or you would not have sold out
By way of breaking the news gently. his Honor
Inns f6 @ PnG are sreaI % Says 70
fuse some of them. -
DAVID Thomas, corner Liberty and Twelitn
cense by the Pennsylvania Railroad depot oftchls.
He exhibited letter from H. NJ. Butler, the sta
tion agent, recommending that he be given
license.
IN JUST THE SAME FIX.
Daniel Voltz wanted to reopen his place. op-
posite the old Fifth ward market house on Penn
avenue. He claimed 1t was a great accommoda-
tion to the farmers and butchers. He said to
Judge White: al found out from my lawyer last
year that the reason did not get license was be-
cause YOU did not know my place.
Judge White-Well, do not know II now.
Attorney Christy said the man had been con-
vcted of selling on the Sunday prior to the Sit
ting of the last License Court and he had his two
small daughters tending the barroom. To the
Courts query IL he had not sampled the whisky
he had on hand, he said: t'Oh, yes: l got some
good nine-year-old, and could not let good thing
like that go.n
Dennis Murphy cut short by His Honor
saving THAT will do.'' An attorney remarked
that Dennis would not have TO change his Chris-
tian name.
Henry Ommert was one of the two men that got
license in the Tenth ward last year. He made out
the best case he could, and then called DR.. Rad
cliffe, former druggist, to the stand in his be-
half The physician got excited before he was
asked a word. Attorney Cotton asked him how
often he had been in the applicants saloon, and he
replied:
''Did you ever see anybody drunk in the house?''
'fYes, l may have seen half dozen people in
front of the house; couldn't say positively about
that though
John j. o. Brien said he did not know why he
had been refused a license: but His Honor made
him say: .'Well, maybe it was because had been
violating the law
Frank Shire Of Pennsylvania avenue said he
could not say whether the ward had been more
orderly the past year than it was prior to that He
said he was in the cigar business. Judge White
said:
THAT'S rights whisky seems to be the first crop
and tobacco the second.''
Clmentena Schieber was the last applicant.
Judge White remarked that she ought 10 give q
better reason than that she merely wanted to
make living.
The applicants from the Eleventh,
Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fif-
teenth wards will be heard to-day.