The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-09-27
Mr.. BREWER TELLS HIS SIDE
Another Hearing in the Brewing COM
pany's Injunction Suit.
DISTINGUISHED GATHERING
Cross Fires Between Counsel and witness
Before the Commissioner-Mr Brewer
Says Ex-senator watson's Com
plant is Groundless.

of the town, or some other litigation of a
like snappy, sensational character, could
hardly arouse more general public interest
than is evinced over the injunction suit of
ex-senator NJ. c. Watson against the Col
umbia Brewing Company. The case is not a
new one, having been instituted last spring,
and few weeks ago attracted renewed at
tention when the plaintiff and his witnesses
assembled in the offices of NJ. NJ Burke,
Esq, to tell their side of the case to Com
missioner Moore, who very deftly transposed
their statements into stenographic hierogly
phics, and score or more of spectators
listened to the testimony with an intense
ness that seemed remarkable on the part of
people who had no interest in the litigation.
But the prominence of the parties con-
cened in the suit seems to have aroused
curiosity that would not manifest itself in
connection with a suit bearing upon the same
state of facts and circumstances, but pending
between people of another or more ordinary
sphere and yesterday when the defendant
company, through its president, William NJ.
Brewer, and witnesses attended at the same
place to give its testimony, the audience was
even greater and the interest manifested
more intense than on the previous occasion.
The offices which, for the occasion, We're
transformed into court room, were crowded
to their fullest capacity. In one were seated
Ex-Congressman James b. Reilly and j. X.
Coyle Esqs of counsel for the Brewing
Company John f. Whalen and Charles A.
Snyder, Esqs., of Pottsvile, and NJ. NJ. Burke,
Esq, Of town, counsel for the plaintiff, Hon.
NJ. c. Watson, who occupied a seat close to
his lawyers. John Wanamaker Franey was
also in attendance. Mr.. Brewer occupied
seat close to Commissioner Moore. NJ. d.
Malone, the travelling representative of the
brewery, sat in the adjoining room, smoking
cigars that cost him "a each. This may ap-
pear as an eXaggeration but can be proven by
accompanying him on the road some day
when he is drumming up business. William
IL. Lewis, superintendent Of the VIM. Penn
colery Mine Inspector Stein, DR.. William
n. Stein, eX-Councilman A. b. Lamb and
Chief Burgess Burns were also in attendance
as witnesses and spectators.
Mr.. Brewer was on the witness stand most
Of the afternoon. He makes an excellent
wtness-of the scrapping kind. Fighting
blood courses thicllly through his veins when
he is under cross-examination and nothing
seems to please him as well as when he sees
an opportunity to indulge in and partake of
a sharp exchange with the opposing counsel.
The suit, by the way, is brought by Mr..
Watson to procure an injunction to prohibit
the operation of the machinery in the
brewery in such manner as to destroy the
health, comfort and common happiness of
himself and family
Mr.. Brewer testified that he has been
engaged in the brewing business as manager
and interested party for twenty-five years,
and that he is well acquainted with all the
operations in that line He stated that the
capital invested in the plant affected by the
suit ranges from S1OO 900 to 5000 900, and the
plant is equipped with all the latest improved
machinery used in the business. The ice
plant, he said, is especially we'll equipped and
the power is furnished by a 125-horse power
Corliss engine. Such an engine, Mr.. Brewer
said, could be operated in a dwelling without
causing much, if any, vibration if it is prop
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dition, as the engine referred to, and he could
not discover any vibration caused by it in
the brewery, therefore he could not see how
any vibration could be felt in the house ad-
joining, occupied by Mr.. Watson. As to the
claim that ashes from the smoke stack fell
upon the washing hung out by neighbOrs,
Mr. Brewer said that was an impossibility,
owing to the construction of the boilers, etc,
but he acknowledged that ON one occasion an
engineer turned hose into the base Of the
stack and caused ashes to ascend to the top
and out upon the surrounding territory, but
a lecture to the engineer prevented repeti-
ton Of the olense. Mr.. Brewer also stated
that piece of the machinery did make
noise for a while but he had that
stopped after investing SlOO in piece of
mechanism and procuring the attendance of
an expert from Milwaukee, Wis, twice, He
insisted repeatedly during his testimony that
he always exerted every endeayor to avoid
any Inconvenience to Mr., Watson, or any one
else His testimony also went To show that
in early times he and Mr. Watson were ON
intimate terms of friendship, but during the
I Atfthl lldol LlltN hbu hillh llhlll Allt SAINT
canteen. Mrs. r. NJ. Scanlan, ex-senator
Watson's daughter, at one time complained
to Mr.. Brewer about the noise in the brewery.
Mr., Whalen tried to get Nh. Brewer to state
just what Mrs. Scanlan said, hut was obliged
to be content with the reply, 'Gou can hardly
repeat all woman says when she is making
complaint, which caused a smile that went
all around the room and forced itself upon
the countenance of a witness whose temper
was up to blood heat because he could not be
examined and allowed to depart.
The case will occupy considerable more
time Of both the Commissioner and the court.
Go to Womer's for your cheap boots, shoes
and rubbers. largest stock in town.