Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-16

Tor nearing MIN. he nau OHce uau uls
license revoked, and under the law he could
not be eligible for another license.
Homestead, Knoxville, Millvale and
Mansfield occupied the attention of License
Court yesterday. To-day McKeesport will
be heard with its 50 applicants, and some
lively testimony is expected. There will be
q snirited fight on the part of the w. c.
T.U.
Yesterday Attorney Christy read sec
tion of the law on one of the Homestead ap.
plicants, Henry Elkin, which resulted in a
refusal OF license to that gentleman right
on the spot. The law provides that man
whose license has once been revoked because
of his keeping a disorderly house or per-
mitting the visits of disreputabIe persons,
shall never again be licensed in this Com
monwealth Elkin's license was revoked a
wear and a half ago because he sold to
minors, and Attorney Cox holds that re-
vokal for that cause does not fall within the
language of the statute. He may appeal
the case.
The applications yesterday were not, as a
rule, contested, and there were few features
OF interest about the examinations.
Before court adjourned an attorney ap-
preached the bench to ask for rehearing in
the matter of an application for wholesale
license. Concerning the cases of the whole
sale applicants who have been neither
granted nor refused, Judge Ewing said:
NOTICE WILL BE GIVEN.
"When we desire to take any of these
cases up, we will give notice. 1 may say
that if any applicant wishes to make it GER
tain that he will be refused, he had better
get his friends to waylay us or call at our
houses. Letter writing is equally effective In
that way. We will not read such letters"
The First ward of Homestead has l6 appli-
cants, as follows: Theodore Bell, Eighth avenue
now licensed; James BOYLE, No. 235 Sixth ave-
nue. now licensed; A. Dugan, Fifth avenues;
William H Furlong Nos l35 and l37 Sixth ave-
nue.: Gustave Geisel, Fourth avenue. between
Amity and West streets; Richard Holt, No. 23l
Sixth avenue; George Jetfreys Fourth avenue
and Wess street; Taylor Lloyd. Amity and
Railroad streets now licensed; George Iibler,
Sixth avenue. near railroad station; j. w.
O'Brien, No. 25S Sixth avenue; Anton Queck,
Eighth avenue, between Am1ty and West
streets; Sylvester A. Shaw, Sixth avenue, near
Amity street; John F. Schmitt, Sixth street and
Amity street, now licensed; Frederick Iraut-
man, Eighth avenue, Vincent Wasilifskl, Sixth
avenue. and Joseph walker, Amlty sIreet. near
Twelfth avenue.
Bell said tnat he did no trusting, but would
sometimes give a drink to man without
InOneN.
was barely able to appear. constable and
policeman vouched for the orderly character
of his house. Dugan keeps the Eureka House.
Furloug runs a pool room, but promised to get
rid of his tables if granted license. Jehreys
runs a restaurant and works in the steel mill.
A RATHER NEW IDEA.
Lloyd testified that he sometimes attended
behind his own bar, but on busy days he re-
mains in front of the bar and watches that no
minors or topers impose upon the barkeepers.
Judge Ewing said that was new thing in the
saloon business Libler works in a glass house
and his wife furnishes meals. O'Brien used to
keep a saloon and restaurant in Youngstown.
near the n. Y, P. & o. depot. Queck is an eX-
saloon keeper. Schmitt keeps the Homestead
Hotel. He denied that he ever opened his bar
on Sunday. when Mr.. Christy called E. j. At
wood merchant of Homestead. He testified
that on one Sunday, when he was sick, he got
drink of whisky from Schmitt, but he had
prescription. Dr. GLADDEN. and other witnesses
were called, but all testified that they knew of
no infractions of the law by Mr.. Schmitt.
Trautman is a new man. Wasil1fsh keeps
boarding house now and ran saloon prior to
1855
ALL OF THE SECOND.
There are q applicants from the Second
ward: Abraham Bailey Eighth avenue and Nc
Clure street; Thomas Connolly, Heisel street,
Patrick Duffy, Fifth avenue and Heisel street;
Michael Dupont, Dickson street; r. p. Evans
Dickson and Sixth Streets now licensed; Henry
Elkin. Dickson street and the Pittsburg Nc
Keesport and Youghiogheny Railroad; Mrs.
Margaret Finch, Fourth avenue; John Gal
lagher, Sixth avenue. now licensed; Martin
Lacey, Fourth avenue and Dickson street;
Gottlieh Lessiger, Dickson street; John Muir
ray, No. 35S Sixth avenue; Owen Murphy, Dick
son street on the Pittsburg, McKeesport and
Youghiogheny Railroad, now licensed; Michael
Maloney HeIsel street and the Pittsburg, Vir-
ginia and Charleston Railroad: Mrs. G. Nau,
Dickson street and the Pittsburg, Virginia and
Charleston Railroad, now icensed; Mrs. Ellen
O'Brien, Eighth avenue and Dickson street;
Patrick O'Neil, Sixth avenue; John Rushe,
Eighth avenue; Mrs Bridget Rattigan, Heisel
street and Pittsburg Mckeesport and 1ough-
iogheny Railroad; Nicholas Schwartz Eighth
avenue; Charles Streigel, No. 323 Sixth avenue
and Thomas Watkins, Railroad and Heisel
streets
Bailey used to be a saloon keeper in Forward
township, ard Connolly ran bar in Home
stead prior to lSSS. Duffy lost leg in the steel
works five years ago, and has since run res
taurant. Evans is proprietor of the Center
House. He does little trusting, but said that
he would only be too glad to quit it. Mr..
. Christy called D. +. Baer, who testified that he
had seen women entering Evans place Po-
hceman McBrown swore that Evans kept an
orderly house. and the Court took a recess for
dinner.
NO AFTERNOON SESSION.
At l:3O o'clock Judge Ewing took the bench
and said he thought he would take the respon.
sibility of calling a case III the absence of
Judge Magee. He called the only case in Mans
field borough, Louis Hard, at the corner of
Main and Chestnut streets. He is an old gen.
tleman, stopped with years, but with kindly
face. His wife stood up with him. The couple
have kept tavern for % years, and Judge
Ewing SAID that they had kept good house.
They will be licensed.
Judge Magee coming in. the Second ward of
Homestead was resumed. Gallagher, an old
gentleman, said that he did a little tick busi.
ness, sometimes to the extent of 81 a week
Judge Ewing advised him to get copy of the
Brooks law and read it once a month
Henry Elkin being called, Attorney Christy
called the attention Of the court to the la ter
part of section Is of the Brooks law, reading as
follows: THE license of any person permitting
the customary visitation of disreputabe per
sons or keeping dIsorderiy place. may upon
proof be at any time revoked by the court and
when thus revoked the same party shall not
again be licensed in any city or county of the
Commonwealth"
HE MUST BE REFUSED.
Mr.. Chrisry said that Elkin's license in the
borough of Verona, had been revoked in 1855
Judge Ewing said that the law was plain. and
that Mr.. Elkin must be refused, Attorney
John f. Cox gave notice of an exception.
Mrs. Finch kept hotel for eight years. part of
the time with bar license. Lacey never was
licensed, but his brother Michael kept saloon
in Homestead.
When Owen Murphy was up, Judge Ewing
asked:
do you trust any?"
Yes little"
How mueh9"
"A bout 500 a week hut Two nuit il