The record-union., 1897-06-17
EASTMAN & HAUB WIN OUT.
Granted a License to Run a Saloon by the
Synagogue.
What Was Said on the Subiect-City
Trustees Help Out the En-
deayOrerS.

OGdVOTeTSs
An adjourned meeting of the City
Board Of Trustees was held last night
for the purpose of listening to further
arguments for and against the granting
of a license to Messrs. eastman & Haub
to conduct saloon next door to the
Jewish Synagogue, on Sixth street, and
TO dispose of such other business as
might come before it.
L. T. Hatfield briefly addressed the
board in relation to the expected visit to
the city of Eastern Christian Endeayor-
ers, who will attend the great conven-
ton in San Francisco next month. The
first body of delegates, Mr.. Hatfield ex-
planned, is expected here July 9TH, and
it is the intention to have them stop at
least six hours and show them all the
principal points of interest in the city.
He viewed the matter as bit of adj
vertisement for the city, and thought it
was one of those things which ought to
be assisted out of the immigration fund.
He understood, he said, that about $40
remained in the fund in question, and
requested that the same be set aside for
the reception of the Endeavorers.
The request was favorably received,
and. on motion of Pennish, the available
immigration fund, 500 SO, was ordered
donated to assist in the reception of the
visitors
An all-night license was granted to
Tague & Vandermarl<, who conduct a
saloon on street, between Eighth and
Ninth.
The proposed ordinance regulating the
width of sidewalks in the eastern and
southern portions Of the city was laid
over until next Monday evening.
SYNAGOGUE AGAINST SALOON.
The matter of granting a license to
eastman & Haub to conduct a saloon
alongside of the Jewish Synagogue was
taken up, and Rabbi A. Simon adj
dressed the board and protested against
allowing the saloon to get a foothold so
near the place of worship
He said he had understood that the
petition for the license had been referred
to the Chief of Police, who had reported
adversely on the matter. AS the officer
who would be most likely to thoroughly
comprehend the situation, he thought
the advice of Chief Drew might we'll be
followed by the board. Beside the adj
verse report of the Chief of Police, sew
eral hundred other citizens, many of
whom were members of the Jewish con-
gregation, had petitioned against the
granting of the license and he hoped
their wishes would be consulted, seeing
that they, more than any other persons,
We're directly interested.
The members of the synagogue, the
speaker said, were before the board, not
as Jews, but as citizens, and not the
citizens who fill the jails and saloons of
the land, but who are law-abiding, and
who help pay the taxes.
The rabbi called attention to the or
dinance adopted three years ago, which
provides that no saloon should be con-
Quoted on the same block with a public
school The Jewish Synagogue, he con-
tended, is a school, and in it are taught
the primary principles of good American
citizenship. In it, he said, ennoblement
of character as well as culture of intel
lect is taught, and it justly deserved the
protection thrown around other educa
tional institutions. While the matter
was one of sentiment, most things
hinged on sentiment, and he would
rather see a nation of ignoramuses than
a nation without hearts. He felt that
the board would not, in the interest of
morality, grant a license which was OBJ
noxious to several hundred persons who
gathered to praise God in the manner
which seemed fittest to them.
JOSEPH RAKES UP HISTORY.
Isaac Joseph called attention to the
fact that in 1856 prizefghter had con-
Quoted a saloon within six feet of the
Synagogue, and that no complaints had
ever been sent in respecting it. There
was no reason in the world, he said,
why the license petitioned for should
not be granted. It was true that a
number of members Of the Jewish con-
gregation had requested that the license
be granted, but that President Vein
stock had taken a prominent part
against the proposition.
In answer to question propounded
by Trustee Mckay, Mr.. Joseph said
that to refuse to grant the license
would make the widow who owns the
property, a charge on the county. He
believed many members of the Syna-
gogue would favor the granting of the
license.
DEVLIN GIVES REASONS.
4NCDS1b L. OGN1lll dOQISSStQ liie DOaIu
in opposition to the issuance of the IL
cense. 1t had been attempted, he said,
to throw a widow into the breach, md
make the matter one of sentiment. AS
matter of fact, if a loss occurred it
would fall upon the shoulders of the
lessees, and not upon those of the les
sor. When prizefighter John Keenan,
had conducted his saloon in 1886, the
present prohibitive ordinance had not
been adopted, and there was no sub
stantial ground upon which to enter a
protest against granting him a license
Mr.. Devlin contended that the Board
OF Trustees had an undoubted right to
refuse to issue one if the members so
desired, and that it would be in the
interest of morality and good govern
ment for them to do so.
ALBERT JOHNSON TALKS.
Albert NJ. Johnson contended that the
applicants for the license asked only
for privilege that the law allowed
them. The Synagogue had been estab-
lished for forty years. and since it's
founding the city had grown up around
1t. Whenever, he said, q synagogue
church, or other business structure was
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