Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1893-10-12


ping settlement that their interests
were synonymous.
For the application there were Chas
I. Jones, the applicant, himself, Mat
thew Ryan, William Shillenberg, Neil
Johnson, Wilman Ware, Lemnel Sloan
and Edgar Bonham.
1t was shown by the evidence of
these people that Jones had built a
large hotel at Buena Vista at great
expense and was now conducting it for
the accommodation of the public. 1t
had been opened some six weeks, and
between seven and eight hundred
meals were furnished, and on an aver
age there were eight persons stopping
at the house over night. It was
claimed that this house was necessary
for the entertainment of travellers.
The town was building up and he
oyster business was getting bigger and
biggeriand demanding more advanced
Accommodations.
Mr.. Ware made strong plea for the
license and said the evidence sup
ported that claim. Mr.. Ware claimed
that the house should be licensed in
order to keep the entertainment for
the travelling public.
Mr.. Sheppard made one of the best
arguments he has ever presented to
the Court. Mr.. Sheppard said that ac-
cording to the uncontradicted testi-
mony, Mr.. Jones was now running a
tirst class house, giving the people
just such accommodations as was
most desired 1t was shown by Mr..
Jones himself that he had sold in
seven weeks $4OO worth of meals. He
had taken 5000 and over from guests
stopping over night, making total of
$79o and more, and that was $1OO a
week. Mr.. Sheppard argued that one
half was profit. thus Mr.. Jones was
making $50 week, which certainly
was good, fair business. Mr.. Shep-
pard pleaded that no license be
granted on strong moral grounds.
Greenwich had never had a licensed
hotel and the village was noted for
quiet and peace, good order and
morality, and the inevitable result of
a licensed saloon was to change this
order.
The appeal cases were next taken up
No. 8 being the first to be heard. 1t
was the Cumberland Glass Manufac-
turing Company, appellants, and
David Ayars, appellee. This case
comes up from Justice Wells Court,
being filed Sept. Is, 1892. J. Boyd
Nixon appeared for the company, and
James L. vanSyckle for Ayars.
Mr.. Vansyckle made a long statement
before the Court. to the effect that
this case was rather ancient, and he
had not fully examined the papers un-
TIL within day or two, and he found
that the transcript was defective. The
papers were handed up from Justice
Samuel Wells, now deceased, and MIR.
Van Syckle claimed that he had no
opportunity of looking over the books
of the Justice, as they had not been
filed with the County Clerk. Mr.. Van
Syckle wanted delay to prepare his
case properly, and he turned to Mr.
Nixon and asked him if he proposed
to take advantage of the defect. Mr..
Nixon said frankly that he should if
there were any to take. "Then, :"
said Mr.. VauSyckle, 81 need not go on
any further. l will request a non-suit
and begin suit all over again." The
non-suit was given.
The Court called for No. 10. This
was Geo. Hepner, appellant, and
Charles B. Finlaw, appellee. Justice
Jesse G. Davis was the court below
As the case was called, Mr. g. E. Shep.
pard, who represented Finlaw, an
nounced he was ready. Mr.. Van
Syckle turned around and looked sur.
prised. He said he was sure that Mr..
Sheppard had agreed with him to per.
init the case to go over and on the
strength of this he had told his client
to go home and be ready later.
Mr.. Sheppard declared that nothing
had been said to him by Mr.. Van
Syckle, and he expected the case to be
tried. His client now insisted that the
case should be tried.
81 say" said Mr.. Sheppard, upon
my standing as an attorney that moth
ing has ever been said to me about
putting the case off,"
"Well," said Mr.. VanSyckle, "Mr.
Sheppard l don't desire to raise any
issue of veracity between you and my
SELF" He then went on to say that If
he had known that there was to be a
trap sprung here late In the afternoon
he would have had his witnesses pres
ent.
"Do you mean," said Mr.. Sheppard,
"to accuse me of springing a trap
upon your"