Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-19
A SHORT SESSION.
THE MATINEE LASTS ONLY COUPLE
OF HOURS.

of Them TO the Point-A Number OF
WELL known Places Run the Gauntlei
Significant Queries.
At the afternoon session the crowd out
side of the bar was so great that it could not
be kept very quiet, and not one of them
could hear what the applicants said. Judge
Magee was seven minutes late, and Judge
Ewing eight.
Jacob Keller was called without delay.
He deposited his silk hat on the table in
front of the bench and held up his hand. He
described his house on Smlthfeld street,
next to the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Judge Ewing remarked that Mr.. Keller had
never pretended to keep anything except a
saloon, and asked what he proposed to do
now. Mr.. Keller said that he intended to keep
irst-class restaurant located on the first floor
in the rear of the bar. Judge Ewing told Mr..
Keller that he was refused in 1889 because he
had saloon only.
Said the Judge: 'If you are licensed you must
be careful not to let men get drunk. As to
your character there is no need of any indorse-
ments Men like you are too few.
Plus P Keller. son of the preceding. asked
for license for No. 81 Fifth avenue, next door
to the Opera House, where he kept a saloon
building since 1856. and nobody is interested
with him. During the past year he has been
idle
IT WOULDN'T PAY HIM.
Judge Ewing said: "Had you kept up the
restaurant business during the past year, and
shown that that was your business rather than
liquor selling, you would stand better to-day"
Mr.. Keller said that restaurant alone would
not pay him. He had therefore leased the
premises for shooting gallery.
Charles kittner. WHO keeps an old and we'll
known saloon and eating house at No. 606
Liberty street. came mp again. Judge Ewing
"You have had license for two years."
'Yes SIR
Have you in that time Obeyed the law'"
Yes SIR"
You have had no trouble whatever"
"No. sir"
"Before that you were a little disposed to
fight the restrictions of the law. Since, know
nothing to the contrary"
John Kessler. No. 637 Smithfield street. was
closed up in 1889. and asks 10 reopen. During
the year he has been in bad health, but his son
kept up the restaurant. MIR. kesSler has been
in the business of keeping public house for 30
years He was in the habit OF feeding from 100
TO $50 people daily. Judge Ewing said that in
lSSS Mr.. hessler was not careful about his Gus
toners.
"Yoa are an applicant for a wholesale
"Ees, Your Honor; have big stock on
hand and have to sell it somehow"
"WeIl, guess those who ask for both kinds
will be held until get entirely through
Then we will know better how to distribute
them"
Lenz Kleinschmidt, at the corner of Wood
street and Sixth avenue, who have bar and
lunch room on the first floor and dining room
upstairs, were not kept long. They averred
that they were able to accommodate all the
people who visited their place.
A NEWLY MADE CITIZEN.
Aloise Larger applies for license for No 6S4
Smithfeld street, where Bobinger used to keep.
Before 1885, Larger for five years sold liquors
at retail and wholesale at No. ITO Smithfield
street. He was not naturallzed until one year
after he began the liquor business
David Lauber the manager of 'Newelrs"
No. lOl Fifth avenue, was called. Judge
Ewing thought it odd that Mr.. LAUDER should
have bar, and Mr. Abel, running a restaurant
in the basement, have no license. Judge
Ewing asked:
rs anybody else interested in the profits of
your placer?
mo. sir.
You have it alone? Pr
Yes sir
Tins is NeweIrs place."
Yes sir.''
Judge Magee-"There is some complaint of
men ohstructing the sidewalk in front of your
place"
There is a narrow walk and the Opera
House and bands playing across the street at
tract crowds along there, but we keep the side
walk as clear as possible
George n. Mashey. whose bar is at No. 50 and
restaurant at No. IS Fifth avenue was not
worried with many questions
Gustav b. Mihm asks for license for No
62S Smithteld street Until year ago he kept
on the opposite side of the street. He took the
new premises on February and is feeding
about 20 persons daily. Judge Ewing expressed
apprehension that if bar were put into the
place it might crowd the eating quarters very
seriously.
FEED FIVE HUNDRED DAY.
Simon H. Heimbuecher and Thomas NJ. Mill.
gan apply for a bar license at No. $50 Smithfeld
street. next door to the restaurant which thew
keep at present Their present placa is called
the Vienna Cafe, having been kept until last
year by John ]. White. That building, No 534
is to be torn down and replaced by a brick
block by its owner, Mr. Kappel. the music |
in the restaurant business, but Mr.. Milligan |
was mill man until January l. 1890 Their |
place, they say, feeds 500 people day.
Oscar Mihm applies for No. 645 Smithfeld |
street. He is a brother of Armand Mihm of |
Smithfield street and First avenue and kent a |
saloon and restaurant until year ago.
Andrew K. Martell asked for a license for |
Nos. lis and liz Fifth avenue the Splane build |
ing. at the corner of Fifth avenue and Smith |
field street. He proposes to occupy the base |
ment for cooking purposes and the room in the |
rear Of McClurg's cigar store for the bar and |
dining room. Until May !, 1889 he sold whisky |
at No. lO5 Smith1eld street Mr.. Marten told |
the Judges that if he was given license he |
would a frst-clast restaurant; that if he |
were not licensed he would not open his restau- |
rant at all, but would sublet The restaurant |
William H Mccarthy applied for No. 445 |
Wood street, now occupied by Graham. the |
halter. At present he is bartender for John |
Newell.
Francis McCoy's desired place is at No GOO |
Liberty avenue, In the basement at the corner |
of Market street. He now keeps restaurant |
there. He would put his bar in one end of his |
room, at the right of the entrance, making it |
simply sideboard bar. Mccoy said he had |
been in the United States nine wears. The |
building is owned by man who lives in New
York.
WOULD RUN A RESTAURANT
Owen McGarvey wants to sell liquor at No. |
5S7 Grant street, and AYERS, of course, that he |
will run restaurant.
Jacob Nolte, Jr, has for eight years kept an |
eating house a: No. 80 Liberty avenue, and
sold liquors under license until 1885, Since
that time his restaurant business had in
creased. Judge Magee said:
IF you get license your eating business
Mr. Nolte smiled and said: 81 have invested
my money in the business and would like a
chance as well as anybody else. 1 was horn and
raised here, and never robbed anybody
James Piatt, proprietor of the saloon at the
corner of Smithfeld and Diamond asked for
another year. He said he fed 125 people daily
He was let off easily. Judges Maree ana Ew. |
ing put their heads together and Judge Nagee
then said: I'VE don't know anything wrong
about you."
The venerable Eckhard Reineman. of No. sos
Wood street, appeared next. Judge Ewing
said:
II heard that you had been increasing your
bar facilities at the expense of your eating
How is that?"
81 increased my eating"
Henry Schmidt. Nos. 80 and "a Seventh ave-
nue., was told by Judge Ewing: Your place is
next door to fire engine house and just oppo-
site church,
The American House, Nos 1902 to lOOe Lib
erty avenue, was represented by Colonel Alex