Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-11

called He averred that he had obeyed the
law and Attorney Christy then questioned him.
During the first six months OF the past year he
had sold beer in buckets and pitchers tn adults
he denied that he had sold to Edward Klein OF
Fred Burgess minors.
Klein, Is years old, was sworn. He said that
he got soft drinks twice from Huckesteins sis
ter and beer once from the barkeeper, Burk-
hart Heiman about two months ago. He said
that Huckestein had refused him and ordered
him out of the house several times. Burgess IS
only IL. He said he had bought beer twice from
Heilman. Huckestein had also ordered HIM to
keep out of the bar.
THE AFTERNOON HEARINGS.
After the noon recess the Court, at o'clock,
proceeded with the Ninth ward of Allegheny.
1t has IA applications as follows: Mrs.
Josephine Brown. No. 61O Preble avenue;
Thomas Elwell. No. 19l Cass avenue; Patrick
Flaherty, No. 500 Preble avenue; L. A. Green
wald stock yards. Preble avenue; Charles II.
Hartman, No. $50 Preble avenue; William
Hughes and William Brown, No. 695 Preble
avenue; Thomas B. Jones, No. 597 Preble ave-
nue.; Thomas McNally, now licensed, No. 5S5
Preble avenue; Mrs Mary Nee. No. ISL Cass
avenue; James Olliffe, No. 100 Wilkins street;
Bridget Sweeney. now licensed. No. III Cass
avenue; Daniel Woods. No. sos Preble avenue,
and Gustav Wehrstedt.
Mrs. Browns license expired May ], 1883.
Elwell did not answer. His lawyer said that
he had probably remained too long at dinner,
and, being lame and slow afoot, had not yet re-
turned. Flaherty presented map of his prop
erty about the size of the ordinary school map
OF the United States. Judge Ewing said that
good many of the plans were much 6ner than
the houses, and almost as large. Flaherty has
five boarders. He sold liquor until 1855 He
had two witnesses as to character, but the
Court would not hear them. Greenwald was
licensed in 1855 and last year he built a new
house with 20 rooms, where he entertains stock
n rfr lar yuh
been hotel since lS49. He was licensed in
1855, and has since done fairly good eating
house business. Hughes and Brown are small,
young men, the former grocer and the latter
a cook. Jones is genial old Welshman, who
wore a black velvet vest and broadcloth coat.
He was licensed in 1885, and wants to be again,
to cheer the hearts of the Welsh millmen in
his neighborhood.
ROOM FOR OTHERS.
Mr.. McNally said that he had complied with
the law and had had no trouble. He has
good trade and thought there was business
there for few others. He had given credit to
some extent, but stopped it as soon as he
learned the views of the Court on that subject.
He had good record and went through all
right
Mrs Nee is a saloon keepers widow and
Olliffe was a saloon keeper ten years ago.
Snyder had license for eight years, prior to
1883. He has BEEN since that time, getting a
quarter of beer week, and drank nearly all
of it himself Mrs. Sweeney said she had
She trusts some old customers. but is very will
ing to stop it. Woods has been pudding since
he was refused license, and his wife keeps
Woods Wehrstedt kept saloon from 1882 to
1883. and was naturalized in 1884.
Elwell was then called. He kept a saloon
only one year. 1887, and is by trade a chain
maker He has occupied the Cass avenue
house only two weeks. Mrs. Sheehan, who oc-
cupied it before that. is in the workhouse for
illegal sale of liquor, and the owner of the
property, Hike, is under prosecution for forci-
bly, ejecting Mrs Sheehan's daughters from the
house
The Tenth ward furnished four applicants.
Fred Artz is licensed at the Farmers Home,
corner Millroy avenue and Saw Mill Valley
plank road. Jacob Born, corner Perrysville and
Saw Mill Valley plank roads, kept two saloons
before 1883, one at the place for which he ap-
plies, and one on Federal street. Joseph P.
CARRIER, No. 81 Charles street. is near the outer
of the Pleasant Valley road. He is |
an ex-saloon keeper who for two years has
Charles Kreiling, No. III Charles street, is a |
by trade. |
SIX IN THE ELEVENTH. |
There are six applicants for the Eleventh |
ward: John Carey, Mcclure avenue; James |
New Brighton road; Sebastian Herman, No 25 |
Mcclure avenue; Edward Lomp. No. las Nc |
Clure avenue; and F. Voegt, No. 124 Mcclure |
avenue. No house in the ward Is licensed.
Carey is new to the liquor trade. He has |
eased large stone house. Craig keeps rail- |
readers boarding house. and in 1887 had a IL |
cense. He and the other Eleventh ward appli- |
cants were cross-exanined by Attorney A. G. |
Patterson. Donch was convicted for illegal SELL
ing in 1883, but Judge Ewing did not send him |
to the workhouse because he had been SOL
iier. Herman sold on Sundays prior to 1887 He
lyonr hno dir0 n
are both ex-saloon keepers who went down be- |
fore the Brooks law. They denied keeping |
speak-easies.
There were but five applicants from the |
Twelfth ward: Leopold Hilengass, No. l7O |
East street: John Lager, No. l5S East street; |
George Niedt, No. 313 East street; Charles F. |
Seitz, No. 232 East street and Andrew Spath, |
No. 259 East street.
Hlllengass and Lager are ex-saloon keepers. |
Niedt is employed at the lunch counter in Max |
Schneiders barroom, Hotel Federal Seitz |
kept saloon under the old law for seven years, |
on Spring Garden avenue. A rupture prevents |
lim from doing hard work. lie bought the |
East street house in January, 1889, expecting to |
get license, but Judge White disappointed |
licensed in 1885, and refused in 1889. He is within
four houses of the ward schoolhouse. Every |
he gets case of beer, which he and |
lis son drink His wife is dead.
LAST ON THE NoRTBsIDE.
The last ward of AlIegheny-the Thirteenth |
five applIcapts-Peter Bedel, No.
IS Ravine street; Mrs Mary Hoelscher, No. 1
lowry street; Joseph Hack, Jr., Nos. l04 and
06 Lowry street; Charles NJ. Koch, No. 40
lowry street, and Martin Laurent No. 153 Re-
urn street.
Bedel keeps restaurant at the house for
which Joseph Hack had a license in 1888 He
lept speak easy last year and admitted it,
lie said he had to make living for his wife !
md children. He quit January l. 1890 Mrs.
1oelscher was born and raised in the house for
which she applies. She is daughter of Alder
nan Lofink who kept the house as hotel for
'ver 80 years. She said that, during the last
hree years. without liquor license, the house
lad not paid expenses. Hack kept the saloon
IN Ravine street three years and on Lowry
treet has been running hotel one year with
tut license. He presented good record.
Koch has had a wholesale license since last |
July, and opened a restaurant two weeks ago.
lie has been feeding about two dozen people
lay nearly all persons who visited Father
y ollingers church. Attorney R. I. Reineman
lied personal remonstrance against Koch.
rhe applicant said that he had sold at retail on
wholesale license in 1885, But didn't keep