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The came Patrick ]. Call, young Irish.
man, who desires to sell whisky in the rooms
at No. 227 Penn avenue, where P. j. Dona-
hoe recently had his political headquarters
while he was running for Alderman. Mr..
Call is only % years old and has wife and
three children. He had been, he said, in
the brass working business for A. & T. Nc
Kenna, on Third avenue. The Penn ave-
nue. place is owned by Neil Gatels. Two
years ago a man named Curley ran saloon
in the main room, and since that time
Michael Gatens, son of the property
owner, kept poolroom and sold soft drinks.
LIKE AN OLD BED.
Judge Ewing was not favorable. He said:
ga house run like that for years gets like
an old bed. 1t takes more than usual to
tumigate it. There is something due to the
public by an owner who has allowed his
property to be used TOR improper purposes.
His house ought to be vacant"
Alexander Carson, keeper of an eating
house at Nos SS and 80 Third avenue, asked
for liquor permit. He said that during
the year he had furnished $4,000 meals and
had many dodgers.
Judge Ewing looked at this applicant in
a kindly way, and said: "You have the ac-
commodations. You were given license in
1888, but refused last year. L think the
trouble was that when your bar was running
you looked too much at the present money
you were taking in, and thought too little OF
the future. You let your custom run down,
and were not careful enough. / do not
know what was the reason you were refused,
but 1 imagin ethat was it. Can you bear that
in mind, and run your bar as an incident to
your other business?"
fha
"Yes, SIR"
ACKNOWLEDGED HIS ABILITY.
Matt Cavanaugh said that he had Just
moved into the building at the corner of
Water street and Liberty avenue where he
said that he intended to run an eating
house. There are 10 rooms in the building.
Cavanaugh used to keep saloon at No. "a
Water street, but since the Brooks law COM
PEELED him to show himself in court, he has
been driving coal wagon. Judge Ewing
questioned him closely as to the interior ar
rangements Of the house, where his barroom,
dining room and kitchen were to be, and
what were their sizes. The Judge
did not like to see a larger room
used for the bar than for the eating. He
said: "a judge in one of the Eastern coun-
ties gave an opinion, in passing on licenses,
which thought was good: that there should
be, in every tavern, sitting room and a
room for ladies who may stop at the house,
and that it ought not to be necessary to &C
through the barroom to get to the dining
room. When do you expect to open your
hotei?"
"On April L.
II feel little disposed to know what sort
of hotel is being run there. The saloon
cannot start until May 1. We know that
you have the ability to keep hotel properly
if you will do it."
Alderman Cassidy watched Cavanaugh
closely, but did not come forward to object,
as many expected him to do.
SMILING, BUT NERVOUS.
The next victim was John X. Durr, the
well-built and well-dressed proprietor of
Durr's Hdeel, at the corner of Market street
and Fourth avenue. AS he stepped to the
bar Mr.. Durr smiled, but be was very
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nervous. The examination was brief, but
suggestive, Judge Ewing questioned.
Have you obeyed the law during the
year?'
''Yes, sir; the best could
E"What did your hotel part pay?"
up to January l the hotel averaged
about S65 day."
You had too much bar business, I fear.
think there are great many people who
go into your place whom you might get rid
ST used the best judgment could. A
man has to use little leniency on a cold
day or something OF that Sort"
"You need not accommodate neighbor-
hood loafers and drunkards, and YOU are
not bound to give drink to everybody who
comes in"
DEVINE AND DELANEY.
Thomas Devine keeps a grocery store i'll
the house, which he owns, at the corner of
Penn avenue and Fort street. The house is
two stories high and contains 10 rooms, the
lot being 20x95 feet. He said that lie had
kept a grocery store for 15 years, eight years
of the time in this city. Prior to that for
seven years he kept saloon and grocery in
Ohio. Judge Ewing asked:
What do you propose to keep in this
house?"
"A saloon.''
eve do not license a mere saloon.'
"Oh, intend to give meals and keep
roomers. If get license"
Thomas Delaney is the proprietor of the
Hotel Delaney, at the corner of Market
street and Second avenue. He was licensed
in 1888 but was refused in 1885, Charles
Montooth appeared for him. Judge Ewing
said:
1--WE know the accommodations here. AS
far as 1 am concerned, 1t is o question
whether have faith for the future. Two
years ago you were granted license because
you had good house. But you did not
keep the right sort of house. You wanted
to run 1t little too close to the line. You
are amply competent to keep the place
right if you will.
WHEN HE SHUT UP.
'fYou were to shut up at midnight, and I
guess you did, unless the clock got wrong.
But you shut up at 12 o'clock Saturday
night with the barroom full of people. You
were not careful enough as to whom you
sold. You ought not to sell liquor to a man
who has not money enough to put comfort
able clothing on him. You could make
enough money without that. Didn't you
have United States license this year?'
mo, sir; never sold drop of any
liquor"
William Evans, a little Irishman, applied
for license to keep saloon at No. 10 Mar
ket street, which is now occupied by the
shoe store of Anthony Wise. For four
weeks he had been tending bar for Charles
E. Smith, at No. 401S Butler street. Previous
to that he was in the saloon business for two
years and three months in Chn.go, and be-
fore that time has been in the saloon bust
ness in Pittsburg, at No. "a Water street.
He is unmarried, and admitted that he had
little money OF his own. He expected, he
said, to be backed by a brother, John Evans,
and by John Earl. The house which he has
in view is a four-story brick, and he pro-
poses to keep hotel and restaurant.
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THE GRIND BEGUN.
OPENING OF THE COURT ON WHICH so
MUCH DEPENDS.

The Corridors and Doorways Crowded-Eu.
trance of the Judges-Tbe First Appli.
cant n womnn-No Disposition of the
Judge. TO Dwell on Any Case.
At $50 people began to watch the clock.
The doorway and corridor outside we're
thronged. 1t was four minutes after the ap-
pointed time when Judge Ewing. tall and
bent, and Judge Magee, little and serious,
pushed their way in and assembled to their
big, leather-cushioned arm chairs. A hush
fell upon the audience. Judge Ewing began
talking as soon as he reached the chair, ad-
dressing, apparently at one and the same
time, the three or four clerks who stood up
to hand books and papers to him. He
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nerrouslv adjusted his eHeglass. stuck a peu

nervously adjusted his eyeglass, stuck pen
between his lips and peered around the
court. Judge Magee sat down calmly and
waded into a manuscript
"Mrs. Barbara Buch," called Judge
Ewing. Then the weather-beaten crier
called out his weather-beaten rigmarole, and
the License Court was open.
THE FIRST ONE A WOMAN.
Mrs Barbara Buch desires to run saloon
at No. % Penn avenue. She is a eomely
little woman, heavily robed in widow
weeds. Her attorney was John S. Robb.
Mr.. Buch, in a very meek and low voice,
said she kept three-story brick house. with
nine regular boarders, besides whom about
80 persons eat their meals there. Her hus-
band has been dead nine months When
Judge Ewing asked how near she was to
another saloon, she said that Patrick Nc
Donough was next door, at No. 20 Penn.
The room which Mrs. Buch desires to use as
a barroom is now occupied by grocery
store. This first case was heard in Just four
minutes.
John Bardsley, of Nos. 46 and 4S Fourth
avenue, a little man with a f1orid, English
face, said he had new house with IA rooms,
and wanted to keep hotel and saloon. He
said that he kept a saloon No. 2612 Penn
avenue II years ago. He had since been a
machinist for Westinghouse until years
ago. After that he kept buggy and sale
stable at the Point. Judge Ewing said:
"This is a place which would take a wonder
fully good man to keep a saloon. 1t has
been deu of thieves and disorderly houses
for years. We ought to have somebody to
tell us more about this man." In answer to
e.. R.~1 ~1rta 1a
years old and bachelor. He admitted that
he had applied also for a wholesale license.
1t he could not get one kind he wanted the
other. Judge Ewing remarked that Thomas
Nuttridge, the saloon keeper, was one OF
Bardsley's bondsmen.
SAM BoLBY LECTURED.
Samuel C. BoIey, the proprietor of Boley's
Hotel; on the Diamond square, received q
sort OF lecture from Judge Ewing. As soon
as the applicant was sworn Judge Ewing
said: st remember this case well. sup
pose Mr. Boley knows the reason he was re-
fused last year. 1 do not wish to stale il
publicly" Attorney Henry Meyer and
MIR. Boley denied that they had any idea OF
the cause for refusal. Mr.. Boley said that
he led 13O people day. "Yes, 1 know, u
the Judge said, but he was not care ul
uuSc HlOlS upOh q ohSct
of legalcap and passed it to Mr.. Boley's
lawyer, saying: ''That is for your private
inspection. Ii Mr.. Boley is granted license
we will expect him to be very CAREFUL"
After Mr.. Meyer had read the Judges
note and showed it to his client, the lawyer
said: ''My client says that he did not know
OF anything of that kind being charged
against him."
Then said the Judge, she does not
keep his eyes open. You accommodate a
class of people that requires you to be very
strict"
Mr.. Boley promised to be good, and the
next was called.
NOW A TAILoR's SHOP.
Charles Bobinger asked for license at
No. 43 Fourth avenue. That is between
Market and Ferry streets. Attorney John j.
Mitchell. the Oldest living member. of the
Allegheny County Bar, stood up with Mr..
Bobinger. The latter said that be had occu-
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to occupy is four stories high, 20 feet wide
and 65 feet deep. He does not occupy the
premises now. 1t contains the Western
Dairy Company. Mr.. Kolbecker has been
for ten years tailor, but before that he was
for Is ya)rs in the restaurant business and
said he intended to run restaurant with
his saloon. He said that he had the money
and that no other person was interested in
the projected saloon. Judge Ewing said:
"If we give all licenses who have applied
around there. there won't be room for much
other business"
NOW SELLING CIGARS.
Peter King is at 25 Penn avenue, and had
license until one year ago. Since then he
has sold cigars. His place is brick house
with nine rooms. He has three children.
He, like nearly all others. promised to run
restaurant ''Ih connection with the
Before he was knocked out he had 'about
eight boarders." He said he came to the
United States in 1881, kept saloon the
first year, but was not naturalized until 1885.
Martin Lrgan, of Nos. s to IL Penn
avenue, stepped up with G. G. Dickey. He
said he had lived in the First ward 81 years,
except four years. "Where were you dur
ing that time ?" Mr.. Dickey asked. "Out
in the war; In the Federal army?"
Eyes" Judge Ewing smiled. For several
years Mr.. Logan kept saloon, always paid
$500 license, and before 1888 sold on Sun
day. He did not keep restaurant. The
premises, he said, had been a saloon for at
least so years. 1t was two-story brick,
with four large rooms down stairs and six
bed rooms above For two years the house
has been occupied only by his family. He
said he had not been doing anything, except
looking after little of his property.
"Why dind't you try restaurant there?"
Judge Ewing asked.
Mr.. Logan said that such place would
not pay. AT Mr.. Diekey's suggestion Mr..
Logan promised to open restaurant il
granted a saloon license. Judge Ewing
said that the Supreme Conrt had decided
against granting license where there was no
restaurant or hotel.
ANOTHER OF CAssIDY'S FRIENDS.
Patrick McDonough, No. 20 Penn ave-
nue., has simply a saloon. He has been
there for 20 years, and denied selling to
minors.
Judge Ewing: swell, how about men
who get drunk"
Mr.. McDonough: "T don't sell to them"
Alderman Cassidy was sworn and testified
that McDonough's place was merely a
drinking saloon. He did not even have a
lunch counter. Also that an information
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CALLED IT POLITICS,

SALLED
Mr.. Hazel responded, with some heat: 81
keep q lodging house, and L don't ask a man
when he comes in if he is thief. / admit
few colored people come there, but they
are just as decent as white people. As a
general thing they are working men. I will
admit that few women stop there. I have
60 rooms, and it is the only way 1 have to
make living. 1t is not my business to
turn business away. This man is mad be-
cause I, as Republican, did not vote for
him, a Democrat"
Judge Ewing: Never mind; let us have
the facts.
Alderman Cassidy-Didn't you have
colored man there who was with a white
girl?
Mr. HazeI-No, sir 1 want you to un-
derstand that am q decent man. I con-
sider'my character as good as yours, and 1
can prove it.
John Heck and Frank D. Larkin both
applied for license for No. "a Diamond
square. The second gentleman is a brother
of ex-Postmaster Larkin. The gentlemen
are rival claimants OF lease on the place.
Each professed his willingness to take out
license, and the attorneys suggested that
they might compromise by going into busi-
ness together. Mr.. Larkin's attorney was
the son of Judge Magee.
WANTS A RETAIL PLACE.
Henry Heck, No. % Diamond square,
was not bothered much. Oswald Hickman,
No. 207 Market street, has been there for
IA years but has not had a license ior two
years. He had sold at wholesale during the
past year, but wanted a retail place.
W. H. Jacob, No. Union street, had
petition. Judge Ewing said he didn't
think much of these petitions from the
respectable people in the First ward.
Jacobs attorney said the signers were busi-
ness men in the vicinity.
Frederick Kellerman, No. 104 Market
street, made out good record and the court
took a recess.
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THE AFTERNOON WORK.
RESUMPTION OF THE GRIND RIGHT
AFTER DINNER.

Another Array of Applicants on the Tenfer-
hooks-No Change of Tactics on The
Part of the Judges-A Rapid Fire of
Questions for Some.
At 1888 P. NJ. John King, of No. 27 Penn
avenue, was called. He is tall, wears an
iron gray mustache and chin beard and
locks like Yankee. He did not apply in
1888 or 1889. He has a two-story frame
building, II feet wide and so feet deep. He
owns and lives in the property, and handles
meat" Before the Brooks law took effect
he ran saloon for thrSe years, for the first
two years under S1OO license. He would
not deny that during those days he sold ON
Sundays. He said that if he got a license
he would run a restaurant in connection
with the saloon. King used to live in
Canonsburg.
Peter Kolbecker, a short. gray German,
who lives in Allegheny, applied for No. 80
Diamond square. The building he wishes
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pied the premises for three years. He lives
on the second floor, and his sister, widow,
has the third floor. A storeroom, on the
| ground floor, had been q saloon until 1887.
Then it was leased to tailor, who failed to
| pay his rent, and lately had been occupied
| by cigar maker. This storeroom Mr..
Bobinger wishes to receive permission to mt
| up as a saloon. The house is brick, three
stories high and contains ten rooms. Mr..
Bobinger is young and has wife and two
| children.
Judge Ewing said: 'T know this place
well. 1t is a very bad nelghborhood."
Attorney Mitchell said: I have known
this man TOR several years and known him
| to be decent, sober man. The only way to
reform that district is to put good men into
it"
SPREADING TOO MUCH.
''No," said Judge Ewing, the only way is
| to put nobody there. The district has i'm
| proved greatly in the last two years. 1t
used to be so that women were afraid to go
along there even in daylight. notice that
Thomas Nuttridge appears to be on about
half the bonds we have come across in this
| and on many others. They both seem to be
spreading themselves too much
| Jacob Becker was called. He wants q
| saloon at No. 26 Fourth avenue, at the cor
| ner of Ferry street. He keeps a lodging
| and eating house there. He is heavy
| German and got his words out very slowly,
but he succeeded in telling the Judges that
his lot is 2Sx65 feet in size, three stories high
and contains % rooms. Judge Ewing said:
81 know what that means: % rooms in a
| house that small"
Mr.. Becker said that the neighborhood
had been cleaned out, aud declared that he
had sold no liquors since he was refused a
license. He had not even sold temperance
| drinks.
did you lose your temperance trade when
you applied for license and were refused?"
Major E. 7. Breck asked.
"Yes, did,"
This caused little laugh, like summer
shower across wheat field.
NO ATTENTION TO LAUGHTER.
Judge Ewing paid no heed to the pleas
antry, and remarked, with a terribly
serious smile, "When you tell us that you
have % rooms in three-story house Of that
size, you simply tell us that you have rooms
that are not fit to live in"
Judge Magee called attention to the fact
that the lady who signed Mr.. Becker's bond
had her property mortgaged very heavily.
Major Breck said that the property was
worth much more than the mortgage and
that the lady owned other houses in the sity.
Judge Magee said: "That does not appear
Oh the records here"
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to his house. 1 know some of them to be
thieves. I live only eight or ten houses
from him. and I pass his place several times
day."
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-09-27
Old Exception.

In Atlanta, Ga, there Is an old bust
ness with snow white beard and
hair, whom everybody calls "Old Elk.
ception." When Sherman's army in
vested Atlanta, Sherman issued an
order that all non-coinbative Confeder-
ates should leave the city within TWEEN
ty-four hours. This man. who was a
founder. called at Sherman's headquar.
ten. II want" he said. Ito remain in
Atlanta. ] am a business man. and
had no hand in the hostilities." Didn't
you cast guns for the rebels in your
foundry Gen. Sherman inquired.
''Yes." was the reply. Il did. but | had
to do it. have large interests here,
general, and wish you would make me
an exception; I'd like to stay to look
after my property"
''Yes," said Sherman grimly, I'm
make an exception in your case" The
Atlanta's mans face frightened, and
he started to leave. Orderly" Gen.
Sherman called. I've concluded to
make an exception in this mans case.
The orders are that all citizens shall
leave Atlanta within twenty-four hours.
This man must leave here within an
hour. IL le doesn't, shoot him" Ever
since the war this old man has been
called "Old Exception. San Francis
90 Argonaut
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-09-27

SEVEN my wife sometimes tells me
that l must be different from other
men," Abraham Lincoln once more
pathetically than loosely remarked,
'.and the compliment is not intended
for me either. But tell YOU right
here, and the long, dark hand came
down on the table with sharp emphasis,
that have schooled myself 10 think
occasionally of something else besides
the trouble Immediately at hand"
''Oh, but that must be with you a
natural faculty, Mr. Lincoln, the presi.
dents companion replied. Most peo-
pie are so constituted that they cannot
do il. The thing that hurts them is the
only thing they can consider. 1t is the
insistence of pain. Only here and there
can be found one able TO rise above it..
There never was a more outrageous
tallacy than that-outrageous because
of the mischief it can do" said Mr..
Lincoln.
"Oh. yes" interrupted the friend,
with a superior smile; THAT is all very
well. but can you tell the world how TO
throw of trouble. how not TO feel
painr"
IL would like such n recipe myself"
was the laughing answer, but ! was
only speaking OF the ability to shift the
load Of pain or trouble, SO that it might
not incapacitafe a man from being Of
some help AMI comfort to his neigh
bon. Now, you've no business TO go
ROUND like a ulack gloved, grim visaged
undertaken. IL is your business and
mine 10 consider first what we ear do
toward lifting the loads Of Others. A
good story is better than a long face; a
jolly song has more get up and get to
il than a dirge. The only rule | have
is to try and put myself a little in the
ear | don't say that this is always
easy, but | have found this out-that
to ease another's heartache is to forget
ones own. When things get to squeez-
ing too hard ! often find comfort in this
question and answer
ABE Lincoln. are you doing the
best you know how
And when Abe's reply can truth
fully be, i am, please God! then the
country is safe. "-Youth's Companion.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-09-27
Jupiter.

One ~ the elementary lessons in rs
tronomy !, that the planets differ from
the sun aud stars in shining, MOI lay
their own liglt, but by the reelected
light of the sun, just as the moon does.
Recent changes. however, in the mp
pearplcc Of jupiter Indicate that that
planet gives out additional light Of lie
OWN. Tie middle luU" 81 Jupiter d,
ordinarily Of n cream color but Tor
several years II has slIon" with a rudy
tint, which ha, given plm"c again 20
the usual shade, IL Ia, lrn thought
that this Is due 70 the inherent light 81
the mass Of the planet. which is gen
orally obscured 10y the whittier cloud ut
mosplore around it. The fact. recently
observed, that the fourth Of Jupitcr's
satellites. whose power OF rejecting
may be compared to that of our moon,
looks black when crossing the disk 81
the planet il also supposed TO prove
that Jupiter shines with a light Of its
own, and must, therefore, have an in
tense heat. New York Ledger.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-09-27

.7hs ANNRicAn kcoHouSsy, vcshly. dsyotsd 20 TIA
di.c1sslon of ali phssss u he Tariff Question. q
COW. sssis: f SsYs i csgss: f : v. A az q. A w. fr0
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-09-27
Fall Announcement!

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Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-09-27

Miss DE Pretty-Let's form a secret
society.
Miss DE Pink-Iet's. Just like the
Odd Fellows and Red Men. Call IL the
.Ancient Order of-of Kings Daugh-
ter's."
Mis- DE Blond-Or the "AncieDt Or
der OF Disnas.'
Miss DE Young-Or the Ancient
Order Of Anerican"-
Miss Odmaid-Oh, don't let's call 1t
the ancient order Of anything. New
York Weekly.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-09-27

The German emperor is a ~voracious
newspaper reader. Fifty of the leading
journals of Europe are laid on his table
every morning, and Immediately after
breakfast he plunges through them,
shears in hand, nipping any item that
strikes his fancy.