Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-17

The First and Second Wards Finished Up
Judge White Decides What Res
taurant Is, and Asks About O Cafe
Issues Combined.
At 1:07 o'clock, after the Judgesshad done
full duty to good dinner. they agar
started in on their race with the would-bt
proprietors of liquor shops. Francis Nc
Coy appeared as the first victim and said ht
was in the restaurant business at 600 Liberty
street, where he had been five years, serving
from IS to 100 meals daily. On the 1st o.
April his lease runs out, and he has secured
building at 33 Penn avenue, in which ht
would like to try the saloon business There
are IA rooms in the house. 1t is between SC
and 80 feet long. His barroom would be
about 80 feet and the remainder as a res.
taurant. Mccoy had saloon before the
Brooks law at ITO Second avenue. and ap.
piled last year, but failed, he thinks, be-
cause the place was not suitable.
Judge White-One great objection Is that
there are too many saloons on Penn avenue.
1t is bad place.
Mr.. Christy-If Your Honor pleases, the
place KEEP by this man is called "the hole
in the ground" and is currently reported as
a speak-easy.
Thomas ]. McTighe Withdrew his applica-
tion.
Marked by Alderman Cassidy.
Patrick McDonough, who was licensed in
1889 and refused in 1890, would like to 60 at
it again at No. 90 Penn avenue. A remon-
STRANGE is filed in this case.
Judge White-Why were you refused
last year?
McDonough Il guess it was because
Alderman Cassidy was against me.
If applicant gets license he saws he will
have restaurant in a house next door, on
which he has a conditional lease.
Alderman Cassidy is against the applicant
this year again. and Yesterday offered a
remonstrance. A drunken man was men
. toned to whom drink was sold after his wife
ordered otherwise. Attorney William j.
Bremen offered an affidavit from the mans
wife denying it. A man named Fitzsim-
mons also made affidavit that he did not as
Mr.. Cassidy charges, secure liquor at appli-
cant's place before the accident which cost
him his leg.
Mr.. Christy-This man was also arrested
on March 6, 1890, on the charge of selllug
to minors. The information was made BY
a man named O'Donnell.
w. o. Dreuuau, Ior tne applicant 0nereQ
an affidavit from O'Donnell saving that he
never made the information. He wanted to
sue McDonough for calling him a bum and
when he saw the other charge he repudiated
it at once. A petition in the applicants
favor was also offered.
The Man at the Goettman Stand.
Edward K. Porter, who secured q trans
fer of Goettman Brothers license, appeared
for a renewal. Last year be was refused.
Judge Magee says that it was not on per-
sonal grounds, but because of the place for
which he had applied. He feeds from 400
to ZOO people daily.
Mr.. Christy-Did you not have an inter-
est in the place before you bought it out?
Applicant-1 did not.
1t was then shown that he had borrowed
money from j. K. Durr
William Printy is running hotel at 332
Liberty street. corner of Fourth avenue. It
is good one, he says, but would be better
with license. He has a storeroom there to
keep luggage in, but it required some effort
for him to tell 1t. Mr.. Christy says that
after he was refused in 1887 be sold right
along.
Edwin W. Porter was refused in 1889, but
had license during the last year. His
place Is at No. 26 Diamond square. His
restaurant will accommodate 70 at one time,
He sets up 250 meals daily.
For the past two years Charles Quinn was