Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-12-14
WHEELING REGISTER. TUESDAY DECEMBER a, 1897
4 LIVELY SESSION.
Of the Council Committee on Petitions
and "Reminiscences.

An Application for a Liquor License
Laid on the Table-The "Hotel
Clementine" Recommended to Be
Closed as Disorderly House.
The Application at No. 81 Sew
enteenth Street Deferred--Meet-
ings of the Fire and Finance Com
mittees.
The Council Committee on Petitions
aad Remonstrances met at the City
Hall, last evening, and had rather an
interesting and picturesque session.
At the outset Of the session the ap-
plication of l. C. Greensburg for a
liquor license at No 81 Seventeenth
street, was taken up, and variety OF
testimony was heard. 1t was stated
that the applicant was a stranger,
who had kept a hotel in Huntington
and Philadelphia, and that there was
no CROOKED business" in connection
with his application. After a good
deal of discussion, the matter was
temporarily laid aside.
The application of Mr.. Stephens fer
a saloon license at No. 224S Market
street, where the saloon business was
formerly carried on by Hermann
Kirchgessner, was then taken up.
General T. S. Riley appeared for Mr..
Kirchgessner, and stated that his client
had been closed up, but held q full
paid license until the end Of the
license year, May list, and was willing
TO transfer it at its cash value; that
Mr.. Stephens had offered lower sum,
and it not being accepted, was now en-
deavoring to obtain a second license
for the same premises. General Riley
said Mr.. Kirchgessner was willing to
make transfer at any time Clerk
Watkins was called in, and said the
transfer could be obtained just as
cheaply as the city would give a
license; but he also stated that the
Solicitor was Of the opinion that the
city could issue a second license for
the same premises. After large
amount of discussion, the matter was
laid aside until tonight, before the
session of Council, to see if the parties
directly interested could not come To
some amicable agreement.
Then came the event of the evening
"a "kick" by residents in the neigh
borhood of Market street and Market
alley against the saloon kept by Nc
Fadden & Smith, at the corner named.
Mr.. Feinler, who lives directly oppo-
site the saloon, made the charge that
the house was a notorious resort for
women, that women lived in the upper
stories, that they and men could be
seen disrobing there at night, that the
saloon was open all the time-Sundays
as well as other times-and that it
was regular dive
The Committee digested this evil
dence for a time, and then sent for
Chief Bennett The latter said he
knew nothing particularly against the
saloon, but added that if other par
ties did, it was their duty to swear out
warrants, and he would then act imme-
diately and close that or any other
offensive place up. He could not go
through a citizens house, however,
without a warrant
The Committee discussed the matter
at considerable length, and finally a
motion to recommend to Council that
the license be revoked was put and
carried.
The application of Greensburg, at
No. 81 Seventeenth street, was then
taken up, and after a long and hot
discussion was deferred until infor-
nation could be obtained from other
cities as to the character of the appli-
cant.