New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-10-22
MINISTER'S BEFORE THE EXCISE BoAHn
THE PROTESTS MADE BY SEVEN EAST SIDE cLER-
GYMEN SUsTAINED-PRACTIcAL CHRISTIAN
UNITY AGAINST NEW SALOONS in

GYMEN sUsrAINED-PRACTIcAL CHhisii""
UNITY AGAINST NEW SALOONS IN
THE ELEVENTH WARD
The Excise Board room yesterday morn"s va"
the appearance OF a weekly ministers nv. Us
Clergymen present representing tne .a'
Presbyterian. Methodist Episcopal p-hs"s" anu
Germany and the German Moravian chu'Vhes-"
protesting against the granting OF licenses Tor new
saloons In the Eleventh Ward on the East Side Sew
eral applicants had secured hearings LOT yes'eruas
bat one had withdrawn his application ai'er near
ing that protest had been fled The boaru SUE
tained the protests against TWO OF the aPpA0""o''
and refused the licenses.
The first case heard was that OF Jacob Schop-
pert, who desired to open saloon at NO 20
Avenue Il, near Fourteenth-st. The Kew Johh d
Devins Of the Hope Presbyterian Chapel. In EAST
Fourth-st VINO had filed the protest objected TO the
proposed saloon chiefly on the ground that the pup
lie did not need this additional drinking place In
that block There are he said about go saloons In
the ward now Mr.. Devns then asked that the
Rev. Dr. insolvency, pastor OF St Brsid
Church in Tompkins Square, should be heard
DR.. insolvency said that there were twenty-ohe sa-
looms in Tompkins Square alone. and that IN MS
parish and those adjacent to it there were at least
three times az many saloons as the public needed
He wished TO add his protest. ne ssid TO Una. .h.
RsT oy NJ Fox psv Methodist pastor in
Avenue b. who spoke on the poveIty III io
tended to Increase the poverty Of the district: The
Rev J. f. Hermann Of the German Moravan
Church and the Rev. Mr.. Palmer, OF Emmanuei
Chapel both IN Sxth-st.. gave similar testimony
You needn't call any more witnesses, sad
Commissioner Woodman to Mr.. Devlns. Let us
hear now why the licenses should be granted
Mir Schopperts lawyer produced no Witnesses ana
the protest was sustained. ~ o,o
Karl Gelb wanted TO open saloon at NO NO NV
Second-st near Avenue c. but when the Coinms-
soners looked at the diagram Of the block ana say
that there ten saloons already in the DOCK
between Avenues G and u. they listened to tons ons
witness only the Rev. George Adele. OF the SECOND
Street German Methodist Episcopal Church and
sustained the protest. one OF them declaring tnat
the diagram had been seen earlier there Wouu
have been no hearing: the diagram carried lts
own protest. Among others present and prepared
TO testify against new saloons in that part OF me
CITY was the Rev. Mr. Hume. acting pastor or the
De Witt Memorial Church in Rvington-st An as,
sistant priest of the Catholic church at Pit ana
stanton SITS. protested against saloon being es-
tablished near that church. but as 1t was shown
that II was really Old saloon reopened, ana no
complaint had been made against the former one.
the license granted. Two applications against
which protests had been filed VIII be heard later
Commissioner Hamburger after admitting that
there were too many saloons In some parts OF the
CITY, expressed the opinion that the wholesale pro
tests made by the cergymen were hardly IN oruer'
hut Commits sioner Woodman said that these men
were citizens as we'll clergymen. and had az
good q right TO protest against new saloons IN INA
neighborhood In which they lived as any other GILL
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