The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-01-29
RUM TRIUMPHANT.
Aldermen License New
mans Saloon Next Door
to School No. Is.
LAFAYETTE CITIZENS FLOUTED
Phillip Gerard Gets a License for
a Gin Mill on Halliday
Street, In Spite of Protest.
LAFAYETTE CITIZENS FLoUTED

Without debate and without warning
10 the hundreds of people who made a
vigorous protest against the licensing
OF Henry Newmann's saloon at Hudson
boulevard and Nelson avenue, which
will adjoin Public School No. 25 the AL
dermen at their meeting, last night grant,
ed the license. The Aldermen who voted
for 1t were.-
s CALNON,
CONNOLLY,
GUITON.
LOSEL,
MITCHELL,
ROSS and
WITTER.
Aldermen Dohrmann, Heritage. vet-
milye. Wilson and President Simpson
voted against it.
An effort was made to make the pas
sage of the license a caucus. measure
by Ihe Republican members, but to no
avail
The application has been hanging fire
for nearly two months When it was
Trst presented. a remonstrance exten-
sively signed by property owners was
presented to the Board Ministers of that
section Of the city the Board of Educa-
ton and the teachers of the school OPP
posed the granting of the license.
Newmann's saloon adjoins the school
building and is located in such a manner
that whatever happens in it will be
heard in the school. The lady teachers
appealed to the Aldermen, declaring that
they would doubtless be subjected TO in
suit in going to and from school by the
rowdies who will naturally make the
saloon rendezvous The principal of
the school reminded the Aldermen of
the evil effect OF compelling the scholars
70 pass the saloon four and five times q
aay. The clergymen who opposed it said
us presence near the school would have
damaging effect upon the boy scholars
particularly, as they would, in play.
be lodging in and out of the saloon.
of the boys would get into the habit of
entering saloons and their ruin would
be the result.
While the agitation was kept UP tha
men Witter. Mitchell and Losel, refused
TO report the application.
Alderman Patrick Connolly has not
attended a meeting of the Board for
several months. His presence last night
DEMONSTRATED to the Aldermen chat
railroad the license through and ride
rough snod over the objections of the
parents OF scholars who do not think
the saloon viii be beneficial adjunct tG
the scnool
The only explanation offered by the Al
dermen who voted fer the license is that
Newman offered to- sell his property TO
the city when the school ste was bought.
There is likelihood of he property
owners who opposed the opez:.,g of the
saloon suing out a writ OF 'a~tiorari
against the action of the Aldermsys.
Public School No. IS is one of the new
schools. 1t was built at an expense OF
about S60.00O 1t fronts on Nelson ave-
nue..
While Newmann's license was being
rushed through. there were in the lobby
a number of ladies and gentlemen who
have demonstrated against the granting OF
a license to Phillip Gerard to open a sa-
loon at Communipaw avenue and Hall1-
day street. They made no appeal to. the
Aldermen last night. many believing that
their appeal checked the movement to lo-
cate the saloon in their midst against
their wishes. The saloon was objected
to by the assistant rector of St. Marks
Church who is charge of a chapel on
Halliday street.
President Simpson informed the Alder
men that no written remonstrance had
been filed against the proposed saloon. A
vote was taken. and every member OF
the Board voted for the saloon-keeper-
When the vote was announced the ladies'
and gentlemen in the lobby left ap-
parently very much disgusted with their
Aldermanic representatives.
A final appeal, it is said. will be made
to Mayor Wanser to have him refuse to
sign the license