Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-12
THE DOODLE IN BEER.
Some Big Figures on Business
Being Brought Out
IN THE LICENSE COURT.
Thousands of Dollars Dropped Into
Brewers Pockets.
N THE LICENSE COURT.
ANOTHER WHOLESALERS DAY

The court again switched off yesterday
and INDUCED in a little more wholesale
business. The Twenty-sixth ward was taken
up, furnishing eight applications, as fol,
lows: Charles B. Dietz, No. 1919 Jane
street; William Diven, No. 173s Carson
street; John O'Connor, No. 1914 Carson
street; John Sell, No. 156 Eighteenth street
Henry Strauch, No 2OO1 Carson street; John
Schwarz, No. 129 Seventeenth street; M
Winter & Bros, brewers, No. 2022 Jose
phiue street, and William f. Zoeller, No.
1907 Carson street.
Dietz is by trade a molder, suffered a
rupture and went to saloonkeeping. Fol
some time the Humboldt Dramatic and Lit.
erary Association met at his house and
drank beer. Dietz sold on Sunday in 1887.
Diven is beer bother in the Sixth ward,
and wants general wholesale license. He
sold on Sunday in 1887. O'Connor
has a wholesale house. He admitted
sales of pints and half pints on
doctors orders. Judge Ewing told him that
such sales were in clear violation Of the
law, and he expressed surprise that a man
like Mr. 0'Connor should do such a bust
ness. Sell wishes to combine liquor with
his grocery trade, which has recently been
bad. Against Strauch, who was never in
in the liquor trade, Harvey Chess ana other
neighbors. filed remonsIrance. In 1888,
when refused retail license, Strauch posted
in the window of his bakery the names of
the people who had demonstrated against
him. As he was naturaliZed In October,
characteristic modesty by thus posting the
names of old citizens" Strauch could not
see that his act was wrong. Judge Magee
said it was vindictive and vicious. ut is
want of moral sense" said Judge Ewing.
REMEBEMRED TOO LATE.
"a wear ago." said Judge Magee. ga man
down on Sixth street posted Judge Whites
name in his window. And by the way, L
don't know whether he got a license this
year or not. forgot all about it until this
minute"
The hero of the episode referred to, who
attracted much attention a year ago, has
been this year granted a license in the
Twelfth ward. He is an old soldier.
Schwarz is grocer and on the speak-easy
list He gets beer, he says, for private use
only. Winter s. Bros. did a business last
year of S24O, ,O0O Zoeller's wholesale trade
was S23, 600.
There were IL applications, all by Ger
mans, from the Twenty-seventh ward, on
the hill: Wendell Daub, Mt. Oliver and
Angelo streets; John Embs, No. 49 Plus
street; John Hook, No. 163 Plus street; Mrs.
Elizabeth Klein, No. sc Schuyler street;
Anthony Kunzelman, No. % Plus street;
Laur Bros, brewers, Birmingham and
Brownsville roads; John Lohrmann, Browns
vile avenue, near Eighth street; john II.
Nusser, Manor street, at the head of South
Twelfth; Jacob Scherrer, No. 219 Washing
ton avenue; John G. Shademan, No. 231S
Josephine street; John Wylsnd, No. %
Kosciusko street.
Daub. in 1887, was convicted for Sunday
selling. He is on the speak-easy list, but
averred his total inability to explain how
that occurred. Judge Ewing thought he
could explain, but he simply smiled at the
witness and called for next" Embs and
Hook have both been in the saloon business,
and Hook is on the speak-easy list. Mis-
take, Judge" he said; mistake" Mrs.
Klein keeps a candy store, two boarders, and
three children. Her husband presided be-
hind a bar before he was called away from
this wicked world Kunzelman, an ex-
saloon keeper. has cigars, soft drinks, three
boarders and place on the speak-easy list.
He was prosecuted last year, but he said it
was spite work"
DID A JUG TRADE.
Henry Laur SAID his brewing trade was
$4,000. He did jug trade until three
weeks ago. Lohrmann is the Alderman Tor
the Thirtieth ward, going out of Office in
three weeks. Nrsser has sold 5000 barrels
of beer during year. He has three licensed
saloons, zoo people who receive an eighth
week and several who get two eighths.
Scherrer is double-header, having been re-
fused retail license. Schademan expects
TO raise money on his wife's property. This
lisa method of raising the wind which Judge
Ewing does not at all approve. Wyland
wants bottlers' license, He expects to
work up trade among the Poles.
There were 16 applications from the
Twenty-eighth ward, as follows: Anthony J.
Auen, No. 10 South Diamond; Peter J.
Auen, No. 1906 Bingham street: John Cal
lahan, No. 49 Fifteenth street; james Dona-
hue, No. 1913 Carson street; John NJ Ham,
mel and Edward j. Kirsch,- Fifteenth and
Bingham streets; John Herschenroether, No.
80 Twelfth street; Meyers Keller and Patrick
Wilson, No. 67 Twelfth street; Elias Kauf-
field, No. 1905 Carson street; Fred w.
Kiphen, No. 1904 Sarah street; Edward S.
Kennedy, No. 1921 Carson street; Charles
H. Link, No. 115 Twelfth street; Terence
Murphy, No. 1907 Carson street; Patrick P.
Smith, No. 1900 Neville street; Philip
Weber, Armand and Arlington avenue; j.
NJ. WalkOsky, No. 1918 Carson street; Max
Weisberger and Max Schlanger, No. 1918
Carson street.
Anthony Auen is a son of Peter, the
brewer, and on money which his father will
loan him he wishes to open a wholesale
! sl.
Auen said his years trade was $50, 600.
Judge Ewing said: ''The Criminal Court
has shown us that, had the officers of the
law done their duty, you would have been
prosecuted in several cases"
TIRED OF HIS TRADE.
Donahue is a mailer for Chess, Cook &
Co., and was born in Allegheny county.
He is q brother-in-law of Richard Bennett.
of Bennett Bros, wholesalers. Hammel &
Kirsch, wholesale dealers, formed their
partnership last August. Their business in
nine months was $40, 900. Herschenroether
is a butcher with ample capital. Keller
and Wilson are inexperienced in the liquor
trade. Keller is a timer and Wilson
heater. Kauffeld has been 81 years in the
wholesale business. His brother, Fritz, has
been granted a retail license. Kauffeld
said that one-eighth of his whisky trade is
with country people. He is on the speak
easy list. The jug business, he said, was
dying out.
Kiphen, an ex-saloon keeper, denied the
speak-easy charge. Attorney Christy asked
that the case be held open until be could
get witnesses against the applicant. Sub
poenas were issued and the court took
recess until 1:30 P. M.
After dinner Charles II. Lenk was
called. Callahan and Kennedy have been
granted retail licenses and have no interest
in the wholesale cases. Lenk has never
sold liquor, being engaged with Gray's Iron
Line. He has only s, 900, and he has not