Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-01

of employment by the action Of the court in
refusing to license saloons where they were
engaged to prevent disorder. Inspector Nc
Aleese saws he had received no applications
for special officers from the proprietors OF
newly-licensed saloons, and does not expect
any, because the increased number of sa-
looms will divide up the business and pre-
vent overcrowding and disorder.
Attorneys say that appeals to the Supreme
Court will be taken in number of the
wholesale cases. Most of the men rejected
showed themselves unworthy of licenses,
under the law, having been guilty of fire.
quent violations of law as saloon keepers.
This year each case will have to be appealed
separately. There can be no omnibus bill,
as one year agor Judge Magee is ready to
furnish the record for an appeal wherever
one is wanted. Toner, Peterman & Co.,
who have built distillery at Turtle Creek,
and the wholesale applicants from Verona
are among those who will appeal. The
Judges evidently decided not to allow John
L. Snyder, of Forward township, any chance
to appeal his case. In refusing him a Ii
cense the following written statement was
made.
A ROAST ON SNYDER.
sThe location is in q rural district, devoid
of police protection. 1t is moreover, one of
10 to 10 houses at the end of
the bridge across the Monongahela
river from Monongahela City. in Washing
ton county, which, with the adjoining town.
ship in the same county and Jefferson and
Elizabeth townships in Allegheny county,
are prohibitory districts. The absence of
police protection or intervention and the
granting of license without restriction has
made the locality noted in the criminal
courts as one of the worst in Western Penn
sylvania, outrages and crimes, arising from
the sale of liquor without regard to age or
condition, being of frequent occurrence.
cant was one of several keepers of
low, disreputable, disorderlv saloons in
close proximity. In 1888 all applications
for license were refused, including the ap-
plication of Mr.. Snyder. On the hearing in
1889 the Judge presiding, deemed him
entirely unfit to receive a license. But after
decision of the Pollard case from this
county it was claimed and conceded 1--WE
now think erroneously), that under the de-
cision of the Supreme Court the court below
had no discretion, but was bound to grant
every application for wholesale license,
unless a formal remonstrance had been filed,
and Mr.. Snyder's license, which had been
refused, was marked granted"
The rest of the opinion relates solely to
Mr.. Snyder's application. 1t declares the
place unfit for a wholesale license, says no
one who wanted to conduct decent busi-
ness would ask for a wholesale license there,
asserts that Snyder hiss maintained a
nuisance without regard to the rights of
others or the proprieties of life, and con-
cludes by stating that instead of being a
man ofgood, he is OF bad, moral character.
roN,v roNc EppT Rr1Sy
Yesterday was an extremely busy day in
the Offices of the Clerk of Courts and the
County Treasurer. Applicants who were on
the lucky lists, In many cases accompanied
by their attorneys crowded the offices.
Judge Magee spent the day in the Clerk
inner room, examining saloon bonds, and he
was surrounded by lawyers every minute OF
the time. The licenses were taken out as
rapidly as the urbane Leon Long could fill
the blanks with specimens of his Spencerian
chirography. The rejecting of good many
of the bonds caused the applicants to hustle
after new ones. All retail and wholesale
licenses In Pittsburg and Allegheny have
now been paid for. Judge Magee will con-
tinue his examination of bonds to-day.
Judge Ewing left last night for
Philadelphia and Atlantic City, to
recuperate on salt sea air. The
Judge, Delore leaving, salO ne was glau
to get away, and he was prepared to brain
the first man in Philadelphia who broached
the subject of license to him. He will re-
turn to the city Saturday a week. While
he was glad his siege was over, and he much
prefers always to be relieved, still he was
not quite ready to indorse the plan of turn
ing the granting of licenses over to COM
mission. The Judge referred to Hucken-
STEMS case, which was held, as he said, for
certain irregularities, and he remarked sig
nIfcantly that his friends did not press him
for decision.
Judge Ewing expects to visit number OF
places before he returns. Among them are
New York, Washington and Bethlehem.