The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-06-26
TOO MANY SALOONS
Greenvillites Object to the
Dissertation of the Old
Linden Cemetery.
ALDERMEN REFER COMPLAINTS
Property Owners Criticise Dancing
Halls-Chief Murphy Advises
a Withdrawal of License.
ALDERMEN REFER COMPLAINTS

Last night, at the meeting of the
Board of Aldermen, no less han iralf a
dozen vigorous protests were filed
against applicants for liquor licenses.
The most important case comes from
the Greenville section. where residents
and property owners are up in arms
over the proposed conversion of Bam-
Der Hall formerly the Linden Avenue
Methodist Episcopal church, into a sa-
loon.
The trustees of the new Linden Ave-
nue. NJ. E. Church sent the following
protest In
To the Honorable Board of Aldermen,
Jersey City, N. j.
Gentlemen-Whereas, application has
been, or is about to be, made to your
Honorable Board for the granting of a
liquor license for a saloon to be located
at Bamber Hall, No. 80 Linden avenue,
in the Greenville section of the city,
We, the undersigned property owners
and taxpayers. directly interested in
the welfare of Greenville and the Inn
Mediate locality, which will be affected
in case your Honorable Board considers
f~avorably the application referred to,
most vehemently and respectfully pro-
test against the granting of such appl-
cation, and do most ~strenuously urge
tha the sentiment entertained by the
people of G~reenville will be sustained by
your action in the rejection of the appli-
cation. We believe that if there were
no other reasons han that alone of
sentiment, the application should be
rejected.
PREJUDICTAL TO MORALITY.
In the first place, Bamber Hall is
what was formerly the Linden NJ. E.
Church.. and is situate directly in and
is part of a plot of ground dedicated
years ago for cemetery purposes. The
old church cemetery still surrounds the
hall, and in are deposited the remains
of some of the most respected citizens
known in ~GRreenville's history. The
cemetery is even now being utilized for
burial purposes, and frequently funeral
professions are drawn up in front of the
building. The cemetery property is
owned by the most respected families
on the Hill. and we feel that in view of
SUCH facts, the intrusion of a saloon
upon the premises would certainly be
prejudicial to the morality of the COM
N1uully, III d SGfclC SILVIA " tAoSr
whose lead are entombed in the ceme-
terry, and whose interests in the estab-
ishment of the absolute responsibility
of the place is supported by such warm
sentiment and feeling.
Secondly. the location is purely resi-
Dental. The block upon which it is
located is built up entirely of
residences. and there is not an
individual living on the entire
block but that is opposed to the grant
ing of any such application. Further
more, within a distance of seventy-feet.
directly opposite this location, on the OPP
posite side of the way, there is a saloon
already located which has been in exis-
tence several years, and which can more
than supply the necessity of that par
ticular community. and satisfies every
requirement of the general public. We
do not hesitate to say that practically
consid cred, such a saloon as proposed,
be anything more than a nuns
ance to the community, land that 1t would
supply no wants, would satisfy no re-
quirements, would be conducive to the
destruction of the comfort of those par
ticularly interested in the cemetery and
to the residents of the immediate COM
munity.
are now within three blocks Of BAN
Der Hall. about a dozen saloons IN
operation in addition to the one opposite
the proposed location wnl shho we aeem 4
being distinctively residential in every
sense of the word. :,
We therefore most respectfully appeal
to your honorable body to entertain our
remonstrance. and protest by your most
careful consideration and reject any and
all applications that will tend as sug-
gested to he prejudicial to our com
n r ~
The document is signed by Charles R.
Burger, President, and Joseph Auds-
ed at a meeting of the church trustees
held some time ago.. -
A remonstrance of a similar character
least two hundred G~reenvineltes.
OTHER PROTESTS.
Thu congregation of the Linden Ave
sIsne Church &c P sls9 flle g. a r pFo H / 1 Le MsT
S. Kyle and many others.
The remonstrances were reierrec 70
&c Canal street IA also objected to by
the residents and property owners ct
Barrow street P. J. Rooney, THOMAS
Watson, r. johnson, K. Dobbins, Thos.
Coyne and a dozen others protest, say
within a stones throw. They. think
they hayes too many already. The Ex-
else Committee will adjust the case.
Eighteen residents and property own
ers In the neighborhood of No. 316 Third
street protest against q saloon already
a saloon in front. but that a dance hall
is operated in the rear, Dances. they
O'clock in the evening until four and
five o'clock In the.m morning. The singing
and c~arousing disturbs the. neighborhood,
and It is charged that tenants are being
driven out of houses, that property is
depreciating and that on account of the
disorderly men who frequent the place
it is dangerous. for people to pass the
place after dark. The protest was re-
ferred to the Exhibition Committee.
GOOD ADVICE.
Chief Murphy sent a short letter to
the board advising the Excise. Commit
tee not to renew the license of Mrs. x.
Matthews to operate a saloon in the
hotel at No. 81 Hudson street, which
was raided Monday evening: Mrs; Mat
thews is now under bail charged with
Counsellor George Tenant, for Miss
Emma A.. Arid, fled a protest against
the. renewal Of a license to Louis Fisher
to operate a saloon at No. 1874 Monmouth
street. 1t is charged thai Fisher runs
such a noisy place that sleep is out of
the question until four or five o'clock in
the morning. She owns the property
adjoining Fishers saloon and contends
that Ii is tenantless by reason of the
nightly carousing In his place. Miss
Arid has complained against Fisher sew
eral times. All protests will be first
investigated by the EXCISE COMMITTEES,