Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-30
ON TINE TO A DAY.
License Court Completes lis Work
According TO Schedule.
THE LAST LIST TO COME TODAY.
Another Batch of Wholesalers Gets the
Papers So Much Coveted.
BREWERS AT LAST ALLOWED TO BOTTLE

Sighs of relief escaped from both Judge
Ewing and Judge Magee yesterday after,
noon. Judge Magee locked his fingers be,
hind his head. drew in a good breath and
smiled at Clerk Long. Judge Ewing sat
back in his easy chair, gazed at the hand
some ceiling, and looked really happy. The
License Court grind was over. The court
had sat for 81 days.
Yesterday forenoon the last applicants for
wholesale licenses were heard. James
and George W. Watson, of Coultersville,
applied from South Versailles township.
Both have kept saloons. Leech now has a
grocery store and Watson barber shop.
Louis Feick, of Snowden township. has a
license. Witnesses testified that he allowed
drinking on his premises, and sold to topers.
a remonstance had been filed against Feick,
but it could not be found. William Muir
dock. who has the Twelve Mile House. ="
applied from the same township.
Scott township presented two applicants
from Glendale, Sampson Peacock, an ex-
saloon keeper whose record was faulty, and
Thomas McQuaide, son-in-law to Mrs.
Flood, who has been keeping speak-easy.
In Shaler there were three. The c. Bauer
lein Brewing Company is all right. Fred
Ohlinger, an ex-saloonist, has not accurately
located his house. John Weithaus has been
attending bar for his father, at the European
Hotel, near the Union depot.
HAD CONSIDERABLE CHEEK.
There were two listed for Upper ST. Clair
township, but Attorney George 2. Murray
withdrew the application of William Der
He was after retail. Joseph Sims kept
saloon for several years before he was natu-
rallied, and has been convicted of selling to
minors. Judge Ewing told him that he
had good deal of cheek to apply for his
place, which is sort of depot where beer
for the neighborhood is unloaded.
In Union township David Aitken is the
son-in-law of Stevens, retail applicant,
and William Eltringham is miner who
used to keep a saloon.
The last applicants were William J.
Toner, NJ. D. Peterman and Joseph K.
Beck, who propose, under the name of
Toner, Peterman & Co., to operate
q distillery at Turtle Creek. That
is prohihitory district, and Judge
Ewing said that he doubted whether
the court could grant distillers'
license there. He was certain that they
could not sell whisky there. They would
have to ship it elsewhere for sale, and he
thought they should apply for wholesale
license at the place where they expected to
sell. Attorney j. J. Miller said that he
knew that the applicants could not sell at
Turtle Greek, but they desired license
e. far fbair 1isri1lipo
business.
Fritz Schumiller, bother of the Thirty
sixth ward, who had been sick, was heard.
Judge Ewing then said:
"We believe that four-ffths of the whole
salers have been violating the law. 1t is
illegal TO solicit orders at houses and stores
and receive pay at the place where the goods
are delivered That makes a sale there,
while, under the law, the sale can only be
made at the house which is licensed. Whole
salers and bottlers must be careful during
the coming year TO conduct their sales only
at their licensed house"
BREWERS CAN BOTTLE.
Court took a recess for one hour, and at
the reassemblng the question of granting
bottling licenses to brewers and wholesalers
was taken mp. William S. Pier spoke for
all the applicants and their attorneys. He
quoted the fifteenth section of the act of
1872, which provides that persons engaged |
in bottling cider, ale, porter and beer, and
not otherwise engaged in the liquor bust
ness, were not required TO take out license. |
He held that the inference was that bottlers |
who were otherwise engaged in the liquor |
business were required to take out license. |
After long argument on the various liquor |
laws and many questions by the judges, |
Judge Ewing said that, while the point was |
a doubtful one, he would decide it in favor |
of the applicants and the revenue, and |
grant the licenses.
Walter Lyon, representing the G. Bauer. |
lem Brewing Company, spoke to the ques- /
tion whether brewing corporation could be |
licensed to bottle, and secured a similar de- |
csion.
In the Verona case, Attorney Yost argued |
that the borough was prohibitory because it |
was cut out of Penn township, which had |
been made prohibitory by act of Assembly. |
He read number of decisions bearing, some |
intimately and some remotely, on the ques- |
ton. An able argument with citations, |
was made on the other side by Attorney |
John NJ. Hunter, who lives at Verona. |
Both sides presented written briefs, and the |
court took the case under advisement.
HOW IT WAS MADE.
The borough of Verona was incorporated |
in 1871, being cut out, in about equal parts |
from Penn and Plum townships. A year
ago the borough was divided, that part |
originally in Plum being organized in Oak
mont borough and the cut out OF Penn re-
Iaining the old name, Verona. 1t appears
that PLAN creek was the dividing line or
seven miles from the river, between Plum
and Penn townships, but some years ago
long bend in that creek was Strengthened, by |
which IL acres which had been in Plum was
brought over into the Penn side of the
creek. So il seems that all of Verona was
not Originally in Penn township. The
charter OF Verona provided that it should be
governed by the laws applying to the
borough OF Birmingham, which had no pro-
hibitiOn. The argument hinged on whether
the Mound carried with it, from Penn
township to Verona borough, the pro-
hibitJry statute.
John Thier, an applicant for a wholesale
license at No. 22S Fifth avenue, who was
held over, was called to the bar. When his
application was heard the upper part OF his
house was occupied by Susie Parker. A few
davs ago Thier filed an affidavit that she had
removed. Yesterday she filed an affidavit
that she had removed only temporarily, and
that she had an agreement with Thier to re-
turn as soon as he got his license. Thier
denied the statements of the affidavit and
was supported by Robert T. McGeagh, the
owner OF the property, who declared that he
had leased the whole house to Thier.
DONE 10 FOOL THE COURT.
Their story was fatty denied by Frank
Culbert aud his friend, Susie Parker, who
said that McGeagh told them that he wished
them to move out only Ior lew DAYS, to
fool the Court. Culbert cut an opening in
the wall and moved the goods through that