The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-03-27
IS C0BINE PROSECUTED?
HE TELLS A QUEER sToBY ABoUT
HIS LOST SALOON LICENSE.

The Council Revoked 1t Last Night, and
He Says That Chairman Winges Had
Interested Motives = Lively Demo-
cratic Primaries Chinese School.
The Council held its regular meet
ing at the City Hall last night. All
the members were present. Egline
Dewey offered a site for a school at the
corner of Third and Garden streets,
having a frontage of fifty feet on Gar
den and seventy feet on Third street.
The price wanted is $4,000. The site
offered is next to the present school
No. 1. The matter was referred to the
Committee on Schools.
Mr.. A. X. Bontea, manager OF the
Electric Light Company, complained
that the Telephone Company had re-
moved the fire alarm wires from their
insuIators and had used them for their
own wires. When asked to replace
the electric alarm wires the Telephone
Company refused, and Mr.. Bontea re-
quested the interference of the Council
in the matter, as serious consequences
might ensue. The matter was referred
to the Committee on Fire and Water.
President Hess, of the Board OF Ed
ucation, sent in a petition that School
No. 5 be put in a finished condition.
Owing to the ~inadequacy of the APP
preparation for the building of the
school the building was left without
a railing around it, the sidewalk
remained unpayed and several small
but very important matters were not
attended to. The stoop is also in a
dangerous condition, and needs a rail
ing to prevent the children from
being hurt by falling off. The matter
was referred to the Committee on
Public Grounds and Buildings.
The police pay roll, amounting to
81, 1884. 66, and So, 700 for the current
expenses of the Board of Education
the building of a brick sewer on Madi-
son street, between Second and Fifth
streets, passed it's second reading. BY
a unanimous vote it was decided to
substitute the names of Tivy and
Smith for Boyer and Mccain as en-
gineers for the above improvement.
1t was resolved that advertisements
be published for the offer Of bids for
the burial of paupers and the removal
of garbage, to be carried out accord
ing to the specifications in the City
Clerks office.
Councilman Erlenkoetter reported
that some difficulty had arisen at
Trenton over the Fifth ward ordi-
nance and that he had requested
Corporation Attorney Minturn to be
present to explain it. AS that gentle
man was not in attendance nothing
could be done in the matter and it
would therefore have to rest until the
next meeting, when probably Mr..
Minturn would be present.
The license of William Cobine's sa-
loon, No. 81 Newark street, was re-
yoked, and thereby hangs a tale. 1t is
alleged that complaints have been
made in regard to this place that noisy
and disorderly dances were held there
and that the music was a nuisance in
the neighborhood.
After the Council had adjourned |
called IN S~aloonkeeper Cobine to hear
what he had to say about the action
that had been taken. He was very
indignant about it. No formal in
vestigation of any complaint had
been made, he said, and MS
place bore a good reputation.
He said that the matter was purely
a personal one between himself and
Chairman Winges. He says that Mr..
Winges is the local agent for Ruppert's
brewery and Cobine has discontinued
using his beer, and now buys of the
Union Brewing Company. The change
was made as long ago as last summer,
before Mr.. Winges went to Europe.
He left word with Councilman Earlen-
koetter that Cobine vas not to be
granted a license. 1t is said that
Cobine was informed that he might
have a license if he bought his beer
from the Union Brewing Company,
with which Councilman Bruggeman's
brother is connected.
Ever since his return Winges has
been waiting for me, . said Mr.. Cobine,
land it is by him that the present
trouble was brought about
Chairman Winges said that numer-
GUS complaints had been made to the
Council that Cobine's place was dis
orderly and a nuisance to all who
lived within hearing OF it.
Cobine will make a vigorous protest,
and appeal to the Mayor to have the
resolution set aside. Many persons
who live near Cobine's place told me
last night that the music in the saloon
was good; and | found no one of them
who considered the saloon a nuisance.
To Teach the Chinese.
The ladies connected with the First
Presbyterian Church will soon start a
Chinese school for the education and
enlightenment of the large number of
Chinese in Hoboken.
The matter was preached by Sam
Lee, who keeps q Chinese laundry on
Eighth street. He petitionedth the mem
bers of the church to start u class for
Chinese, separate from the other
Sunday school. He promised that the
class should be well attended by his
countrymen, who were all anxious to
become acquainted with religious his
tory.
The Rev. j. b. Kugler told me that
arrangements were being made to do
as Sam Lee suggested. Mrs, McGee,
Mrs. Maxwell and Mrs. Campbell are
taking great interest in the matter
and will soon have completed their
plans for the classes. Mr.. Kugler ex-
planned, in answer to my inquiry, that