Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-29

South Twelfth street, said that his market
customers were able to eat at his house With
out any beer during the past year, but ne
thinks they can hardly stand it longer. a
man named Wolfgang, who works at
Nusser's brewery and boards with Muller,
is on the speak-easy list.
John Nusser, who has been in the brew
ing and saloon business for 40 years, applied
for No. 107 South Twelfth street. His son
has now charge of the brewery but lives
with his father. Mr.. Nusser's bar has been
locked for a year, and he held up the big
brass key before the eyes of the Judges, as
an evidence that the place really was locked.
PASSED BY QUICKLY.
Jacob Roth has licensed saloon at No.
1921 Carson street. He passed quickly.
John Schuetz, applying for No. 16 South
Thirteenth street. cannot speak English,
and an interpreter was necessary.
Charles A. Schuetz, applying for No.
1405 Carson street, is not only unable to
talk English, but he cannot speak any
language at all. He whispers a little, and
conveyed his ideas through his attorney.
He was finally told to bring somebody
Monday morning who knew all about his
place.
John Trenhauser, who has a licensed
house at Nos. l, 2 and 8 Diamond Square,
was cautioned by Judge Ewing to stop
keeping Tree lunch.
John Wilson, who was licensed in 1888
at No. 1909 Carson street, was told that his
fault was that, although he had closed his
bar at midnight, he had reopened at 1 A. NJ.
Abraham Zimmerman, now licensed at
No. 1907 Carson street, was informed that
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IN THE TwENTY-NINTH.
The Twenty-ninth ward began with Jacob
Achele, No. % South Diamond. His case
contained no special features, nor did that
of George Boerner, No. I'LL Sarah street.
Joseph Burckmuller, No. 913 Carson
street, was convicted in 1887 for selling on
Sunday, and sold to children who brought
buckets to him.
Mrs. Mary Bender, who for wears kept at
the corner of Carson and South Eighth
streets, now applies for No. S17 Carson
street. She is woman of stylish appear
ance and comely face. She and her hus-
band kept liquor shop for 80 years. Her
son. Louis W. Bender, is an applicant for
wholesale license at the old house on the
corner of Eighth street. During the past
year she has been selling cigars and soft
drinks. If she gets license she says that
her sons George and William will attend to
the bar for her.
Did your daughters tend bar for you?"
"No, sir; they only went in when they
had to. They looked after the restaurant"
Joseph Burkley, applying for No. At
South Tenth street, said that when he had
saloon in 1888 he had given credit and fur
nished free soup, both of which grated on
the soul of Judge Ewing.
MUSTN'T TRUST FOR DRINKS.
Thomas Fitzpatrick, No. 727 Carson
street, was closed year ago, and has been
keeping few boarders. He also had letters
of commendation from Messrs. Oliver and
Roberts, the manufacturers. To him Judge
Ewing said. 81 give you notice that if 1
find you are trusting anybody for drinks,
and 1 am on the bench next year, you will
not get a license. You had better quit that
free lunch business, also. 1t attracts men
in, and then they are ashar'ed to go without
buying drink. 1t also makes men thirsty,
so that they take more than they otherwise
would
Mrs. Franziska Fromm, who ran a public
house at No. 109 South Eleventh street dur
ing 1887, has been since then living on
boarders, but says it is poor way to make
living.
John Gamble, at Nos. 1117 and 1119 Bing-
the three Twenty-ninth ward men whom
Judge White favored with license. He is
just at the Southside market and has large
patronage from the country people who sell
their produce there. He opens his bar at
o'clock in the morning. That hour, he says,
is demanded by the farmers.
CONTRARY TO THE LAW.
81 have no doubt that is contrary to the
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Gamble presented letters from 81. Sellers
Mckee and the Oliver Iron and Steel Com
pany.
John Gedeon. who runs a restaurant at
No. 80 South Eleventh street, was refused
last year.
John Heinemann, at No. ITO South
Twelfth street, wore blue clothes and a
Grand Army badge. He kept saloon from
1885 to 1887 and found the business conge-
NAL. 1.-The trouble is" said Judge Ewing,
"that his place is not fitted for the accom-
mediation of the public. 1t Is bad place
for saloon"
George Lauer asks license for No. 621
Carson street. His mother owns the prop
erty, and there was saloon there until the
era of the Brooks law. George was married
only last month, and he appeared before the
Court wearing white tie and his best
Prince Albert coat
"Why do you apply for wholesale Ii
cense?" asked Judge Ewing.
HIS BEST BUSINESS.
"In case 1 shouldn't get a retail license"
replied the applicant. 'It is my business,
and nv fathers before me, and think it is
the best business for me to follow"
Formerly" said Judge Ewing, "you
seemed to think that the law was in force
only while you were before the Court for a
license
George has recently been working for
Lauer Brothers, the brewers on the Browns
vile road. They are his brothers.
Thomas Miller keeps licensed house at
No. ZIG Carson street, and has been in the
business for &c years
"Do you trust any?" asked Judge Ewing.
No, sir, do not. That is the best part
OF the Brooks law. You don't have to trust
any,"
"How about selling to habitual drunk
ards?'
"We have about 8 or 10 men in our neigh
borhood who drink too much, and 1 will
not sell to them. The hardest work now
have is to refuse such men,"
LAST OF THE WEEK.
The last man of the day was George Mertz,
who applies for No. 90 South Twelfth street,
at the corner of Sarah. He has not been
doing anything for two years, while his wife
has been keeping boarders. He said: 'The
most / have been doing is doctoring. only
got out of sick bed last Monday"
Rev. Father Devlin, pastor of the Holy
Cross Church on the Southside, it was
49,