The sun., 1897-05-11
"oLUB" President ARRESTED.
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| Law-Hoteis That Arc Not Hotels.
Michael Heuman, President of the Gormania
| Quartet Club. which meets at Terrace Garden,
las East Fifty-elRhth street, Of which he 10 the
| owner, was arraigned in Yorkville Court yester'
day for violation of section %. subdivision 8, OF
| the Raines law. He was arrested on Sunday. Mr..
Heuman has fivo hotels on his premises. II his
arrest is followed by conviction he will have to
pay $4,000 a year for licenses; he now pnys
$1,000 He will also have to pay $40 night for
a special all.night license.
Detective Herman Kerns Of the East Fifty
| first street station went to Terrace Garden at
11:3o o'clock Sunday night and applied for adj
mittance at the hall where the Germania Quar-
tet Club was having a social time. The door.
keeper asked him IL no had invitation. He
said he had no invitation but had large thirst.
The doorkeeper smiled and let him In. There
were about a thousand people in tho hall, many
drinking beer. The detective ordered a glass Of
beer, got II, paid for 1t, and arrested Heuman on
the ground that the club had sold liquor to a
person who was not q member.
In court counsel for the prisoner said the club
had been organized and chartered In May, 1887.
Of Rs law IN To
trafticking In liquors with others not mem Scrs OF
He contended that section 81, subdivision 8,
Of the amended law which forbids clubs to sell
or give away liquors to people not members
subsequent i aRpH'SM to March @ 2s 1896. ISso '''
Heuman said that the club had perfect right
to invite friends of the members and sell or give
them liquors, and on Sunday had invited mem.
bers Of the German Sick and Benevolent Fund
and their friends.
Magistrate Cornell said he wanted to bring
out all possible evidence In the matter before
sending 1t to higher court and put Off tho cx-
animation until Friday. Heuman being admitted
to bail.
Terrace Garden is q resort for Germans who
are fond Of enjoying their beer in quiet way.
1t was said that the Germania Quartet Club had
passed. but was revived after the law went into
effect. This apparently does not affect Its le-
gality.
When Policeman Grove of the East Sixty
seventh street station went into the Raines law
hotel kept by Fritz Sarbarcher at 1922 Second
avenue on Sunday, Elizabeth Sarbarcher, the
proprietor's wife, was behind the bar. The po-
liceman had obtained information that Sar.
barchcr had violated the law by renting one of
his ton rooms to a Bohemian and his wife, who
used their bedroom to mako cigars in. When
the policeman started to arrest Sarbarcher the
baloon-kceper said:
Don't arrest me. Take my wife, tho woman
behind the bar"
He called his wife and told her to go with the
policeman. Later he got bail for her.
The Magistrate said there was clear case Of
violation Of the Raines law in tho saloon-keeper's
allowing the Bohemians to make cigars in their
bedroom, and held the woman for trial.
John j. Healy was held for trial because he
rented some of the ten rooms Of his Raines law
hotel at 500 Second avenue to four families. who
did their own cooking and washing, and conse-
Quently were not guests Of the hotel.