Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-22
SPEAKING TOO EASY.
NUMBER OF APPLICANTS FAIL TO
TALK LOUD.


for the three and half hours allotted for
the afternoon session 81 cases. Court re-
sumed at 1:35 o'clock. There was an i'm
mense crowd Of generally dirty people In
the lobby.
Conrad Nickel, red-cheeke fellow, with
head of luxuriant hair, was called first
His application is for No. .2S04 Penn ave-
nue.. Although he was big and ruddy,
his voice was almost inartIculate. "Unl ess
you can talk louder than that" said Judge
Ewing, "your customers will never know
when to come to dinner" Mr.. Robb was
compelled, every other question, to abjure
the applicant to "speak out" He said he
had intended to put his dining room in a
rear building, which opens upon Spring
alley. Mr.. Nickel is now carpenter,
working for William Hitler, while his wife
runs the cigar store and sells 'pop."
"Do You drink"
"Oh, little"
"Where do you get it?''
I'm saloon"
''how about your wife?"
81 don't know"
"Where does she get something to drink"
GETS IT IF SHE WANTS IT.
81 don't know. 1 reckon she gets it if she
wants it. -
isn't there some brought into the house
for her?"
81 don't know how she gets it,
"Call another"
Thomas Parry, applying for license at No.
2S52 Penn avenue, keeps restaurant and
feeds score of people daily. He held IL
cense during 1888. Judge Ewing remarked
that Mr.. Parry's restaurant business had in
creased considerably in two years "His
greatest merit was, 3" said the Judge, "that
he had been paying $500 license" Dur
ing 1888 Mr.. Parry said that when he was
away his wife attended to the bar. She got
mixed up in some sort of a suit with her
aunts, which Mr.. Parry declared that he
had never been able to understand. He
lost nearly all his money by the failure of
the Lawrence Bank.
William Pyne, No. 1929 Penn avenue,
used to keep saloon, but during the past
year has been working at a tannery in Man
chester. For six years he kept saloon at
Seventeenth street, and then went to Twen-
ty-ninth street. In 1888 he was sic K, and
his brother, George Pyne, applied for a
license. Just now the house which he wants
to keep is occupied by Mrs. Carroll.
THINKS IT PRETENSE.
Thomas c. Rafferty,, a molder, asks for a
saloon license for new four-story house,
built for hotel, at No. 1921 Penn avenue.
The house contains 16 rooms, and has just
been finished. 1t seems that Mr.. Rafferty,
has built the house to contain barroom.
He has no family and is So years old. He
has suffered injury several times and is
somewhat disabled with rheumatism. "This
is simply starting another saloon; simply
pretense," said Judge Ewing, shaking his
eyeglasses at Attorney McKenna.
James Riley, young man who keeps a
saloon at No. 2S2S Smallman street, handed
up plan of the Improvements which he
was making in his place. "You had bad
record in 1885," said Judge Ewing; "vou
must have made a great Improvement. Up
to 1888 you had sold whisky on $1O0
license and sold on Sunday"
Herman Raddatz, No. 1928 Smallman
street. calls his present place a restaurant,
though ne said that he furnished meals to
only six to ten persons. His father owns
the property and kept public house there,
but his health failed some time ago, and he
told Herman to take hold of the thing.
ONE GOOD TALKER.
Joseph Stoizer, No. 1927 Penn avenue
runs pool room now. He is short, swarthv,
stylish in his dress, and a good talker, in
the latter quality widely differing from
many of those who had directly preceded
him. He said that he built the house for
restaurant, and kept one for five years. For
large part of the time his was the only
restaurant in the ward. Before 1883 he
kept a saloon on beer license. In Decem-
Der, 1887, he was prosecuted for selling on
Sunday, and declared that after that time
he had strictly complied with the law.
Mrs. Josephine Schuman, a little woman
i 4
spectacles, applies for No. 2003 Penn avenue.
She used to conduct wholesale liquor
store, but during the past year has been
keeping cigar store.
August Schmidt, No. 1928 Penn avenue,
looks more like Frenchman than his name
indicates. He is little, swarthy, bald and
gray, with Gallo mustache and goatee.
His coat is blue and his overcoat a warm
brown, with a green velvet collar. The
lapel of his blue coat displays Grand
Army button, whose bright bronze reveals
very recent polishing. He is a wldower.
ABLE TO KEEP ORDER.
Philip Schulz is younger, big, broad
shouldered man, with fat, round face and
a complexion of pink freshness. he desires
to keep bar az No. 2546 Penn avenue, and
looks physically able to keep order in his
house. He was refused license in 1889,
but has kept up his restaurant, some
times serving two score people daily.
Two neighbors, ]. B. Nobbs and Frederick
Winters, testified that Mr.. Schulz had kept
a good, orderly restaurant.
John Williams is a tall, stalwart man,
with black hair and large, dark red NOUS
tache, He has enjoyed the privilege of
saloon license ever since the Brooks law
went into operation, at No. 1889 and 2S41
Dam One housa ic davofad IN tho
bar and the other to the restaurant. He
seemed to pass the ordeal unscathed.
MR.. CHRIsTY BoBs UP AGAIN.
The Thirteenth ward brought Attorney B.
C. Christy again into the box with his note
book. Frank Coyle, who is blacksmith
for the Pittsburg Bridge Works, asks for a
license at the corner of Brereton avenue and
Thirty-third street, in house which will
not be finished until April 1. He thinks
there is need for public house in that To-
cality, as there is a great deal of travel over
the new bridge at Thirty-third street.
Mr.. Christy-You are an applicant for a
wholesale license?
"Yes, sir"
"Where does Mrs. Sarah Hamill live?'
"In the other half of the house with me-"
"was she arrested for running a speak
easy?"
81 decline to answer the question"
Judge Ewing-Do you know?
"Well, 1 heard she was"
Mr.. Christy-She is a sister-in-law of
yours?"
"Yes, SIR"
Mr.. McKenna, attorney for Mr.. Coyle,
inquired whom Mr.. Christy represented.
Judge Ewing replied: "We directed him
to 60 on"
NEVER IN THE BUSINESS.
Charles Hoffman applies for No. 276
Center avenue. where there used to be
saloon kept by another person. Mr.. Holt