The evening world., 1891-11-17
.FRANCHrs DIVE REL|CENSEO.
George H. Brennan swears that
He Owns the Whole Place.
Capt. Brogan Protests that Brennan
Is Only u Figurehead.


The board OF Excise. or at least Commits
sioners Fitzpatrtck and Koch. have licensed
George II. Brennan to run Louis II. Franch,'s
place at Bleccker street and south Fifth
avenue. where "The" Allen was stabbed.
and I'm a few days this resort. proyen to be
the rendezvous of the toughest denizens of
the toughest neiyhborhood I'm New York, will
caorro n urarno, v,o ,,r,. n, .,, c,,o,
'ooi ~ -. Dien"''i' "ho n'es Ut s"i 'u""'
street, Is described by an intimate friend US
tall broad-shouldered and handsome with
rod' ',ro,yn ,,,,a ,,n,s,,a,s an, ~, ,nIu,,.,, ,n
'o"n ''uo "n'a"e'e "n" "i ""'"'"' '''-
clination to follow the races.
cant Bropan. or the Fifteenth Precinct
hoyavor doc,ores tbo, pronnon T.. II, ro,II,y
no"e'ei' ue.'',.' .n". piehn"n Is IL, re"'i'!
only ngurehead for the notorious Franchi,
and that the saloon viii continue to bc
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~ ' p'".e' p"''o''.'u ~ ''''''
women OF EVIL repute ana bad 'uns gen.
erally
h'c's '"e ou' 'he EA'ise 'o'h'hiasione's
apparently, knows that brennan is only
another name icr Franchi." said capt. Brogan
today.
'o-uns.
The Board OF Excise did hot send to me
the customary blank with the request that |
,nn,,r, md ro,ort 40 "a ~, ,,,,.,no,o, -, ,,,,
place, the neighbOrhoOd and the applicant for
the license.
an n,,,, ,,,,,. 80, ,,,,,.,,,. ,..,,.,, ,,,,,,,.,
"lh my Judgment, no drinking saloon could
be orderly and run properly on that site. The
n.iohnorhood 10 rot r,gh, ,or II Tbo ,,,c,-
,a,, ,n,,, u, ,a,,., ,,., ,.,,s ,'', VS.
teie that IL ihust ufaW lts tfaue from Is uh-
saypry
uRes,,,es ,be ,,oce ia u,,n,n ohout nm.
,..,., - .no ".'",n 'ouv WI.
hundred yards OF the wooster street school,
! n nd inn ~ nt,
Bleeckcr street to and from their homes.
should have protested strongly against IL
censing any man at that store, though be-
lieve Brennan to be very decent man.
"No, | Will not say that shall keep m ey-
ira watch on the place. do not wish TO Law
myself open to charge or persecution
chinese" and tough The" Allen had their
famous tight, in whicn Cariara stabbed Alien
almost to death with an ice-picK, and Alien
tried to burn Carrara with his cigar
both men stood so nearly cuuni before the
Recorder and fury THAI, though the fipnt
was undenied, the jury stood 10 TO Ia lor the
acquittal or Carrarl, and the Recorder after
Carrara
1t Is the place where Tom Hart and Mart
Campbell had priZe-1ight the night OF jan
dissolute characters, black and white, male
and female.
The barkeepers have been arrested score
OF times for violating the Excise law, and the
Il
worst classes.
| Franchi was licensed Sent. o5, 1890 while
under 1900 bonds to answer charge OF Keep
| ing diso derly house, and against the earnest
protest OF capt. Brogan.
His license was revoked Sept. Is last. on
proof OF The Infamous character OF the place
Just i've days later. Sept. 23, George II.
Brennan put in an application lor n nov IL
| cense Tor the saloon. lie made affidavit that
he was the sole owner OF the lease iixtires,
l ! stDpk. uDOl- WIN and trade. Dnd thar ppiI hpr
Franchi nor any one else had any interest,
direct or Indirect, In the place.
He appended to this affidavit two bills OF sale
The iirst. was from Angela Franchi by her
agent and son, Louis II. Franchi, to Joseph
| Lehman for 81 and otner considerations.
| That was Sept. 20.
The other was from Joseph Lehman to
George II. Brennan, for 50, 90, TO he paid In
/ equal monthly instnllments OF $l15, and this
| was witnessed by Lawer uenry ASH VI s1
| Nassau street.
young man who said he was brother-in-
law to Brennan said: