Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-09
MONEY IS NO OBJECT
TOMany ApplicantsfOr Whole.
sale Liquor Licenses.
If ONLY THEY CAN SELL.
The Capital for Their Business Will
be Forthcoming.
NO REHEARINGS TO BE ALLOWED

The License Count yesterday disposed Of
IS cases, finishing the Fourteenth ward,
Ten of the applications were Withdrawn.
Judge Ewing is laying the basis for refusal
of large number of wholesale applicants
Downtown the applicants are nearly all old
men at the wholesale business, but in the
outside wards a majority of them are new.
These new men were nearly all saloon
keepers before the Brooks law era, and almost
withoutexeeption they must confess that they
violated the law. Such violations are
sufficient for a refusal OF license, within the
lines of the Supreme Court decision of last
summer, and many of these new applicants
in the sections of the city devoted to retail
stores and residences will doubtless be re-
fused.
One Soho applicant yesterday wished to
swear ION the Book" There was no Bible
in court, and he had to swear by the uplifted
hand.
Judge Magee was not feeling we'll during
the afternoon, and left Judge Ewing to run
the grind alone.
Judge Ewing announced that wholesale
licenses would be heard to-day, retail
licenses tomorrow, wholesale licenses again
on Friday, and the retail applicants from
the boroughs on Monday.
NINTH WARD APPLICANTS.
Court started with the Ninth ward. 1t
has IL wholesale applications, as follows:
Emil j. BRrtlick, Nos 1924 AMI 1126 Penn
avenue, both wholesale and bott er's license;
p. Bertoni, No. 1l44 Penn avenue; Andrew Hise,
No. lila PENN William A. Heyl No. lI19 Lib
erty; Samuel R. HOLMES, No. lob Penn; Michael
Jordon, No. 1912 Penn: c. W. Kraus No. 1885
Liberty; John Kenna. No 1907 Liberty; Albert
Manning, No. a. Eleventh; Au .ust Paske, No.
llS9 Liberty; G. ]. han. ack Nos. 10 to 16
Twelfth; Emil F. Saeltzer, NO. I2O7 Liberty;
George Schmitt, No. l2l7 Liberty; William J.
Schuster, No. 1925 Penn: John Stewart No.
1145 Penn, and Paul Wuesthoff, Fourteenth
street and Mulberry alley.
Mr. Bartlick withdrew his bottling appIica-
ton. He deals in Cleveland beer, and sold
$4,000 worth last year. Bertoni is an Italian
exssloon keeper, naturalized February 8, 1887.
Hlse is gripman on the Citizens Traction
line who has accumulated So 500. His bond is
signed by Alderman J. b. Hyndman, of the
Nineteenth ward. Judge Ewing expressed the
opinion that it was improper for an alderman
to sign such a bond, it being his official duty to
see that liquor dealers do not violate the law.
Casually, Judge Ewing asked one of the ap-
pllcants, Mr.. hevl, if there were a house
Penn avenue between Eleventh and Twelfth
streets tor which there is not either a retail or
wholesale application. Mr. Heyl did not think
there was such place.
NEW TO THE BUSINESS.
Heyl is cigarmaker, new to the liquor busi-
ness. Holmes is a steel worker, asking for a
bottleT's license. Neither HeyI nor Holmes
seemed to comprehend the nature of the bust
ness into which they proposed to enter, and
were unable TO tell the court how they ex-
pected to get trade. Judge Ewing said that he
believe
the representatives of other parties.
Michael Jordan was refused retail license.
beer in the country districts for Spencer &
LlddeL hrauS trade during nine months
past was 81, COO kenna is an old blacksmith
who has lived 4S years in the Ninth ward. AL
bert Manning failed to appear.
Thomas McCann's name got put into the
Ninth ward list, although the house for which
he applies, No. l529 Penn avenue, is in the
Tenth ward He was heard at this point. He
applies for a bottler's license. One of his
bondsmen and the man who drew his petition,
James Stewart, is employed by spencer &
Iiddell. Judge Ewing suspected Mccain of
being simply an agent Of that brewing firm.
This is a palpable fraud on the court" he
said. "You don't know some of your own
Paske has been Peter McGee's bookkeeper
He was born in Pittsburg. Ramlack Is agent
for the Pabst brewery of Milwaukee, and
Sseltzer handles Schlather's Cleveland beer.
George Schmitt deals in the Anheuser-Busch
beer, of St. Louis, his trade amounting to S60,-
600 year.
John Stewart was refused a retail license.
He claims TO be worth 100000
SEVEN IN THE TENTH.
There were seven applicants from the Tenth
ward: Edward Brothers No. 1888 Penn avenue;
John H. Fuchs, No. A Sixteenth street; Felix
Henle, No 1921 Penn avenue; Daniel Hagarty.
No. 16Ol Penn avenue; Thomas McCann, No.
1529 Penn avenue; Felix Tschudy, No. 80
Fifteenth street, and William Voltz, No. 1909
Penn avenue.
Mr.. Fuchs said he would have to pay no rent
on Sixteenth street. That will be paid by
Schaller Bros. brewers of Cincinnati, whose
beer Fuchs has agreed to handle. Henle has
been licensed to retail and Hagarty has with
drawn. Tschudy sells beer for Bartholomew
the Rochester brewer. Voltz' father Daniel
has been given a retail license in the Ninth
ward.
The Eleventh ward on the hill. furnished IL
applications. as follows: Herman Forst No.
467 Fifth avenue; John Fuchs No. 302 Wylie
avenue; Samuel II. ellison, No. $50 Wylie ave.
nue.; George Gotthart No. 497 Wylie avenue;
George NJ. f. Hopf, Wylie avenue and Kirk
patrick street; Martin Haller, No. 1888 Webster
avenue; Daniel K. Kelly, No. 100 Center ave-
nue.; Paul Dochner, No. 3S2 Webster avenue:
Frederick Mugele. No. 545 Fifth avenue; T b
Ryrie, No 2S7 Wylie avenue: John B. Schmitt |
No. 46l Fifth avenue; Joseph Uhlmann, No l02 |
Dinwiddle street. and Albert Voelger, No. 469 |
Fifth avenue
In the Twelfth ward there were II appii- |
cants-Samuel Abrams No. 2SO6 Penn aven ue: |
z. Byrnes. No. 25Ol Penn avenue; Mich aei |
Doris, No 27l5 Penn avenue; Charles Friel !
No. 26lO Penn avenue; George w. Field No |
3Ol3 Smalman street; James Hunt No 22O2 /
Penn avenue; Henry Heck No. 2942 SmaIIman |
street; George w. Knipschild, No 2737 Penn |
avenue; Robert LIddell, brewer and bother, |
Nos. 24ll and 24l3 Smallman street: Elmer Nc.
Donald. No. $50 Penn avenue; Mrs. Ellen Nc |
Claferty, No. 272l Penn avenue; Patrick Nc |
Cormack, No. 2644 Penn avenue; Mrs Johanna |
OBrien, No. 3003 Penn avenue: Mrs. Kate |
Ryan. No. 30Oe Smallman street; John Shea, !
S04S Smallman street.
Before ordering the noon recess Judge Ewing |
said that the honest dealers were the men who !
suffered by the Overcrowding of the business. |
Except in the business center of the city, a |
whole sale dealer could not obey the law and |
make money.
THE AFTERNOON SESSION.
After noon the Twelfth ward was continued. |
Hunt was refused a retail license. He con- |
fessed to violations Of the law while he kept a |
saloon prior to 1888. Heck was naturalized in |
1888 He is a wholesale tobacconist; a cousin |
to Harry Heck. the saloonkeeper on the Dia-
mond, who is one of the applicants bondsmen. |
Knipschild, during the year, has had trade, |
in his neighborhood, of nearly SAC, ,0O0 He has |
sold to mlllworkers and women, in the main /
Ex-Mayor Liddell said that the dissolution of |
the partnership of Spencer Liddell will take |
place on April 30 Mr.. Spencer retires because |
of his age. Mcdonald is an employe of Spen- |
Ger d Lddell. He has only S200 "but my |
friend, Jim Neeson," he said, will back me up
in whatever want. It's his house"
At this point the Court jumped six applica-
tions and took up the Thirteenth ward, ''for
reasons which will appear later" said Judge |
Ewing. The Thirteenth had ten applicants:
Frank Coyle Thirty-thrd street and Brereton
avenue; Mrs. Bridget Coyne. Shaffer and Flora
streets; Samuel French, Breckenridge and
Morgan streets; Joseph Hoffman, No. l0215 /
Heron avenue; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS No. 625
Wylie avenue: Herman Ketterer, Heron ave-
nue.; Charles Larkins. No. 1897 Millwood ave-
nne: AarrY q. McCaffreY No 22Q Thirtu-thi |