Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-29
A WASTE OF STAMPS.
No TIME TO ATTEND TO THEIR COR.
RESPONDENCE.

The Judges Cant Rend the Letters They
Receive-Against the Law to Sell Drinks
on Credit-A Raking for In.rnllmenr
SelIers-Early Opening Condemned.
The Judges ate hearty dinner and court
did not resume until 1:45 P. M. Several
letters lay on the judicial desk. "a great
waste of postage stamps" said Judge
Ewing.
The house at No. 12O6 Carson street. for
which Jacob BREEDING asks license, he
bought last fall. For nine years MIR. Breid-
ing has been in the service of the Freiheits
Freund.
John Callahan, applying for No. 49 South
Fifteenth street, has been for one year work
ing for the Oliver Iron and Steel Company,
and presented letters from David B. Oliver,
member of the firm, and George w. Bryan,
Superintendent OF the company. He had
also applied for wholesale license, which
he now withdraws. In 1887, when he ran a
saloon, he allowed customers to run small
bills. Judge Ewing said: "If should sit
in License Court next year and find that
man has trusted for any amount, 1 shall
certainly refuse him license. 1t is posi-
lively against the law" Thereupon the
Judge read that part of the law prohibiting
the sale of liquor at retail on credit.
ALSO HAD LETTERS.
John F. Donahue, applying for No. 1905
Carson street. is an ex-saloonkeeper and
during the year kept bar for George Schae-
fer. He presented letters from two of the
bosses in Olivers' mills.
For 13 years John Diemer kept saloon
al No. 72 South Fourteenth street. For two
years he has sold cigars and done odd jobs
of carpentry. After answering allquestions
asked, Judge Ewing said: "Well. is there
ANYTHING else you want to tell us?''
Diemer smiled. blushed and said: "I'd
like to get a license"
While the lawyers laughed, the Judges
smiled, and John was told that he could sit
down.
Frederick Dietz, No. 1911 Sarah street,
handed up a letter from II. Sellers Mckee,
dated March 10, 1880, but intended for $780,
Dietz' record in 1887 was not very good, said
Judge Ewing.
John Fischer, No. 12S South Seventeenth
street, who revealed no special fault, was
followed by ex-Councilman Edward S.
Kennedy, who is again applying for No.
1921 Carson street. "When he kept before"
said Judge Ewing, she had simply drink
ing place" Mr.. Kennedy was given quite.
a little lecture by Judge Ewing on his per-
sonal habits. The applicant said that he
had quit drinking, knowing that he had
formerly taken too much on occasions. He
seems to stand good show for license.
FATHER OF NINE GIRLS.
Fritz Kauffeld, who asks for a license at
No. 1906 Carson street, is the father of nine
daughters. His brother, Elias, has a whole
sale house at No. 1907 Carson.
Edward Moritz, ex-saloonkeeper, applies
for No. 50 South Fifteenth street. He was
naturalized in 1888 but had voted prior to
that under misapprehension as to the time
of his fathers naturalization.
The next name on the list was that of
Terence Murphy who had applied for No.
1407 Carson street. As Mr.. Murphy passed
away from this world of toll and turmoil
about a fortnight since, the clerk did not
consider it profitable to call his name.
Jacob Muller, ex-saloonkeeper, No. 145