St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-16
LICENSE COMMITTEE DECIDES TO
ALLOW CERTAIN SALOONS TO
Do BUSINESS.
PLACES HAVE CHANGED HANDS
HAVE TO TEAR OUT THEIR
BOXES.
JOINT COMMITTEES
5 REPORT
approved by the Board of Aldermen
Under PrOtest-City Hail
Gossip.

The assembly committee on license
held an interesting session yesterday
afternoon with some saloonkeepers.
There were also present William
Hamm and Anton Miesen, who submit
TED number of applications for retail
liquor licenses. The saloon proprietors
interested in the deliberations of the
license committee were: F. C. Eggart,
whose place is located at Robert and
Ninth street; Mr.. Butzerin, pro-
prietor Of the Brunswick hotel; James
E. Hogan, of the Woodbine saloon on
Robert street, near Seventh street, and
Messrs. Yaeger and Barr, who conduct
respectively the Olympic theater sa-
loon and the Bodega.
The question before the license COM
m1ttee was whether it was compelled
by law to refuse a license to a saloon
keeper who had been convicted of keep
ing disorderly house Assistant City
Attorney Oppenheim said that the COM
mittee could arbitrarily refuse to give
a saloon license to any applicant, but
that under the law it was not COM
PEELED to deny license, unless the ap-
plicant had during the preceding
twelve months been guilty of a viola
ton of the law regulating the sale of
intoxicating liquors. A conviction of
the offense of keeping a disorderIy
house did not compel the committee to
refuse a license.
This being the case, the committee
granted licenses and approved the ac-
ccmpanying bonds in the cases of the
Brunswick hotel saloon, the Woodbine,
Eggart's saloon and that Of Thomas
Cummings on Wabasha street The
licenses were granted on motion of Mr..
Arosin, after the proprietors of these
saloons had assured the committee
that they maintained no wine rooms in
their saloons, and that they were con-
Quoting orderly places. Messrs. Eggart,
Hogan and Cummings were among
the number Of saloonkeepers recently
indicted and fined for maintaining wine
rCCms, but they declared that they had
since torn down their wine rooms and
were not permitting women to enter
their saloons.
The license committee which con-
sists of Chairman Van Slyke and
Messrs. Arosin and Reardon, voted to
grant the four licenses in question,
though Reardon voted mo-" because
the places had been in disrepute under
previous proprietors. Mr. Arosin, on
the contrary, was willing to give the
new prOpr1etOrS Cndnce TO snow the
public that they could conduct orderly
places.
The resolution looking to a revoca-
ton of the liquor licenses to the Olym-
pic theater saloon and the Bodega was
laid over until the next meeting Of the
license committee, which will take place
next Wednesday afternoon. Mr.. Aro-
sin defined his position clearly with re-
gard to these two resorts. He said that
unless the Bodega and the Olympic
| theater removed their boxes or booths
and left everything open just as the
other saloonkeepers had done, he would
never vote to grant them licenses. Mr..
Arosin insisted that the proprietors Of
these two establishments had no
licenses to sell liquor up stairs. The
license restricted the sale of liquors to
the ground floor.
Chairman Van Slyke remarked that
many citizens had brought pressure to
bear upon the committee, with a view
to securing a revocation of the liquor
licenses of the Olympic and Bodega.
Finally, upon motion of Mr.. Arosin. the
matter was laid over until the next
meeting of the committee. and in the
meantime Messrs. Barr and Yeager will
decide whether it will pay to remove
their curtained boxes.