Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-06
In A. GREAT HURRY.
Successful Liquor Dealers Anxious to
Prepare for Business.
PLACING ORDERS FOR FIXTURES.
One Suicide Already Laid to an Applicants
Fear of Refusal.
A SORRY OUTLOOK FOR sPEAK-EASIES

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In spite of the temptations to celebrate
their success in wine and wassail, many of
the newly-licensed liquor dealers Nhave
already begun to purchase fixtures for their
saloons. Over 20 visited the warerooms of
the Brunswick-Balke Company, on Fifth
avenue yesterday and left orders. Mr..
Bake seemed rather put out about the
short time he was allowed for the execution
of these orders. "They don't appear to care
for nice fixtures" he said; call they want is
to get into business as quickly as possible.
They appear surprised that 1 can't fit them
out with one wave of my magic wand. If
they gave me a little time l could make
their saloons worth looking at.
81 notice that the saloons in the outlying
villages and small towns are getting to be
far more spick-and-span than those situated
in the city. Most of customers this year
will, fancy, prefer to deal on the install
ment plan. The heavy sum paid by them
for their license has apparently quite
swamped their capital. To fit anything like
a decent saloon at least 81, 200 would be re-
quired. When I get an order for furnish
ments it includes everything but the glass
ware and chandeliers. From counters to
spigots every fixture is supplied.
"By the way, the fashion in counters this
year promises to be long and narrow. All
the orders I have as yet received call for
long counters, of small width. I notice that
good many restaurant fixtures are being
bought. That is owing to the Judges
hints, presume"
THEREBY HANGS A TALE.
In Mr.. Balke's rooms the former fixtures
of morning cotemporarv have been de-
posted. Yesterday liquor man saw the
fixtures, and took a violent fancy to them,
not only as useful articles, but also as valu-
able historical relics. 1t is highly probable
tory of which ought to be good advertise
ment.
Other furniture dealers were seen, but al
though many had been visited by one or
two newly licensed liquor men, none had
had so many customers as the firm men
toned. In the glass houses, such as
Schmidt's on Penn avenue and Wallace &
McAfee's, on Wood street, good deal of
business was done. A highly elevated
liquor man, who attempted to carry home
some of his purchases at the latter store
lurched against his buggy and broke the
whole load. The loss, however, entirely
failed to damp his joy, and he drove home
ward in bower of broken glass, waving the
fragment of a shattered chandelier.
The bonds of some applicants whose
licenses were granted have not yet been ap-
proved, but this is not material, as they were
examined as the applications were heard.
Jacob Keller, 642 Smithfeld street, gets his
license on the condition of his starting
restaurant. He was somewhat nervous yes
terday, as he said he wanted to know so that
he could order Strasburg beer, but was COM
forted with the information given him in the
Clerk of Courts Office.
HAD TO ASSURE THEMSELVES.
The majority OF successful applicants
were also nervous and called to satisfy
themselves that there were no slips between
cup and lip.
Disappointed applicants take the situa-
tion according to their makeup, constltu- |
Some say they didn't get a fair |
show, and talk luridly, while others dis |
guise their feelings. Successful applicants |
will give carpenters, grainers, GLACIERS, dec |
orators, etc., plenty of work fixing up new |
places between now and May 1.
There will not be much shortage in the |
estimate of the Finance Committees re-
ceipts from the license fund. 1t is based on |
BIZ licenses, and it is said the committee |
must have understood that Judge Ewing
considered about 300 licenses the correct |
thing.
The Court filed an opinion in the case of |
John A. McKelvey, of the Twentith ward,
which contains a tip to remonstrants. 1t is |
stated that McKelvey's petition was duly |
filed and the application advertised, and |
there was no remonstrance nor any sug- |
yestion of anything objectionable in the |
location of the building or the character of |
the applicant, and the Court, having no
doubt of the propriety of its course, decided |
On the evening of the hearing to grant the |
application. Some days after a remon-
STRANGE was filed and letters were sent
objecting on the ground that the saloon is
to be located in building in part |
used for the meeting of secret societies, and
that a congregation is temporarily worship
ing in the building. The Court states that
it is not necessary to say what effect these
might have had it made in
lime, and the parties are informed that their
information was made too late and the deci-
sion to grant must stand.
SOME SAD FEATURES.
.hize with some old world people over their
1isappointments in failing to get license.
Having been raised under different auspices
they cannot put themselves in the places of
hose who regard liquor selling as regular
rs the support of foreign missions. A case
IS on record of Hessian who cut his throat
because he couldn't make his kraut smell.
Mrs. Henry Hammersley, of the Fifteenth
ward, who drew blank, went into convul-
,ions yesterday morning. when she heard
the was refused, and during several hours
our mems services were required to control
aer. Her nerves, however, have been sub
ected to a severe strain. During the year
'he has buried her husband and five of her
children, and sixth will be buried this
afternoon. The latter was an S-year-old
boy, and died of pneumonia. She has but
;wo children left, both girls, and one OF them
IS sick with fever. Her case is peculiarly
'ad. In addition to her domestic grief, she
was a victim of the Bauder gang.
A Bohemian named Wenkel Neckar who
lad applied for license to sell liquor in Re-
'erve township, and who, not finding his
name in the list of "granted, and either
lot considering or not knowing that his
urn had not come, hung himself in the
house of Mrs. Knorr, No. IL Summit street,
Troy Hill, Allegheny. There seems to be
no doubt that disappointment caused him
% suicide, for he was an applicant last year
md was refused, and was heard to remark
hat he would kill himself if refused next
ime.
AFRAID OF THEIR FATHER.
He was about 60 years of age and of late
las been very dissipated. He had been
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