Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-12

taken. Judge Ewing told him TO BRING 1r
his papers. Weisberger is collector for tht
Iron City Brewing Company, and formerl '
kept saloon. His partner, Schlanger, il
travelling drummer for the same company.
wADED INTO THEM.
Attorney Christy waded into the two gen
tlemen with q food of questions without
getting verv satisfactory replies. It wa.
shown that advertisements had been in
serted in Hungarian papers in behalf of the
iron City Brewing Company, directing
those who wished to buy beer TO write tc
Weisberger, No. II Diamond street, ol
Schlanger, No. 49 Third avenue. Christy
asked if Schlanger had not gone to New
York to escape arrest in Westmoreland
county. The applicant said he had gone to
New York for five months, but denied tina,
an arrest had been threatened.
The Twenty-ninth ward has but five sp.
plicants: Lewis w. Bender, No. SO1 Car.
son street; George Laur, Nc. 621 Carson
street; George Schwartzel, No. "a Twelfth
street; f. W. Spreen, No. 7O1 Carson street,
and Charles A. Weisberg, No. 1908 Carson
street.
Laur is brother of the brewers in the
Twenty-seventh ward, and is a double.
header. Weisberg is an ex-saloon keeper who
had wholesale license in 1887, but denied
that he sold any at retail. He is the first
applicant who made such statement.
The Thirtieth ward had 13 applicants.
Charles j. Alwes, No. IS Carson street,
granted a retail license; John W. Painter
and James G. Pontefract doing business
under the name of Jos. s. Finch & Co.,
Mexican and South Second street; Patrick
f. Gallagher, No. 515 Carson street; Pat
rick Lyons, 5SS Carson street; James Lyons,
No. SOB Carson street; A. A. MillIgan, No.
l Carson street; VIM. Padden, No. 421 Car
son street; Peter Sofell, granted retail
license, No 21 Carson street; Richard
Valentine Trapp, No. 300 Carson street;
Waggoner, No. IL Carson street. and Mrs.
Mary Yeager, No. 317 Carson street.
MONEY IN THE BUSINESS.
Mr.. Pontefract said their business last
year exceeded $500, Gallagher is down
as a speak-easy. Patrick and James Lyons
are brothers, and James is on the same list
with Gallagher. Milligan is the gentleman
who keeps a wholesale house opposite the
Panhandle depot, and who received such a
severe scoring during the retail hearings be-
cause he sold liquors by the drink. Splane
was sick and could not come. Alwes and
OOASL Nlu uOb dppcdfs
Trapp has a wholesale license and his
trade has been mostly in bottles and jugs.
He said be had not sold whole barrel dur
ing the year. Ward and Waggoner are ex-
saloon keepers. Mr.. Christy tried to show
by William Lippincott that Waggoner gets
drunk, but the witness would not make
good the claim. Mrs. Yeager keeps a gro
cery and says that the grocery business is
terrible"
There were three applicants from the
Thirty-frst ward, of whom one, Henry Bin
der, withdrew. Joseph Greenewald, at No.
"a Washington avenue, was in the business
for several years, as was also Jacob s.
Schneider, atNo. Al Washington avenue.
The Thirty-second ward, Mt. W ashington,
had four applicants-Frederick Fuhs, Nos.
Sc and 3S Boggs avenue; John G. Hisler,
Sycamore and Kearsarge streets; William
Kramer, Boggs avenue and Whltworth
street, and Fred Shultis, No. 5S Shiloh
street.
Fuhs wants a bottler's license. He has
been driving beer wagon for A. A.
Milligan, and his house is reported
as a speak-easy. Hisler drives a beer
wagon for Pier & Dannals, and is also on
the speak-easy list. Kramer applied for
both wholesale and bottler's license, and
withdrew the wholesale.
NOT ENTITLED TO ONE.
The case OF Fred W. Kiphen, Twenty
eighth ward, was then called up by Mr.
Christy, who had two witnesses present.
Attorney Morton Hunter said: "If the
Court please, 1 guess we will admit that we
are not entitled to a license and will with
draw the application"
Shultis is a drummer for Robitzer, the
wholesale liquor dealer. He wants TO start
up for himself on the hill. in order to save
rent He has s., 900 worth of whisey in
bond.
The Thirtv-third ward furnished five ap-
plicsnts: John Conway, granted retail
license; Peter Dawn, No. 305 West Carson
street; W. L. Lippencot, West Carson and
Smithfeld; Anthony o Brien, No. 141 West
Carson street, and Edward L. O'Malley,
No. West Carson street.
DAWN is a puddler. Lippencot has been
working for A. A. Milligan, and confessed
that he had doue some of the retail selling
in Milligan's place. O'Brien was a saloon
keeper for II years, and has $40, 900 in the
Bank of Pittsburg. For year and half
he has been keeping a saloon in Youngs-
town, but did not move his family from
Pittsburg. O'Malley said that he had never
drunk in his life. He is rolling mill
worker. He has no written lease for No. 8
West Carson. which is now a storage room
for the Crescent Brewing Company, of
Aurora, Ind.
The nine applicants for the Thirty-fourth
ward were: Peter Carlin, No. 75S West
Carson street; John Gilroy, No. 463 West
Carson street; Michael Minick, No. 766
West Carson street; Daniel Obernauer, No,
742 West Carson street; John Peppels, No.
$50 West Carson street; John f. Sullivan,
No. 467 West Carson street; William E.
Schade, No. 70S West Carson street; Mrs.
Nancy Jane Wagner, No. 694 West Carson
street, and Louis Wehn, No. Main street.
DID NOT ANSWER.
Carlin is licensed to retail and Gilroy did
not answer. Obernauer was formerly in the
liquor business with a brother on Fifth
avenue. Sullivan is a son-in-law to Mrs
Maria Fleming, who keeps speak-easy.
''This," said Judge Ewing, sis an out
rageous attempt to practice fraud on the
court The son applies for retail license
and the son-in-law for wholesale. Call the
next" Attorney Bremen tried to explain
and palliate, but the court would not
listen. Mrs. Wagner was granted retail
license.
The last ward in Pittsburg, tha Thirty
sixth, had four applicants: William &.
Gundelfnger, No. 15S Steuben street, now
licensed; Morris Gibansky, granted retail
license; Henry J. Oberhelman, Nos. 142
and 144 Wabash avenue; and Fritz Schin-
heller, No. 10S Main street, held over be-
cause Of the applicants sickness.
Gundelfnger admitted that his driver,
Swaney, sold beer on commission. He de-
MED selling beer to the Eagles Nest, a gang
of young fellows who meet in a shanty on
one OF the hills back of the West End. He
said that, as he had the only liquor store in
the West End, he had great difficulty to
keep order about his place. Oberhelman is
a grocer, who expects to give up that busi-
ness. On July q, 1889, he was convicted