The herald., 1897-01-20
POLICE COMMISSIONERS
Another Attack on the Horseshoe Sa-
loon-General Routine Business

| The police commissioners met yes
terday with Mayor Snyder presiding,
and Commissioners Forman, Wyman,
Mclean and Preuss in attendance Chief
Glass was also on hand, as was also City
Attorney Dunn. Councilman Toll was
an interested spectator, and several citi-
zens finished in the picture as wall flow
ers.
After the reading of the minutes Coun-
| Gilman Toll addressed the commissioners
on the matter of the saloon license of
Henry KOCH for the corner of Main and
! Thirty-second street, which was granted
| by the old board, and for which transfer
was granted by the present board to a
building about forty feet from the orig
| inal location. Mr.. Toll explained that
on the original application of Koch the
| people took no action because it was
for building which they knew he could
| not obtain, but that now as the transfer
had made it possible for Koch to carry
on his business. the people had become
aroused and they wanted the license re-
voked. Mr.. Toll said that the Fifth
ward had long enjoyed the distinction
of being without a saloon, and they did
| not now want one.
A letter was then read from John A.
Pirtle, protesting against the granting of
the saloon license to Koch, and claiming
4 necessary
| frontage.
Chief Glass stated that this new turn
mad put him In peculiar position. The
! application for the license came I'D in
| regular order and was duly investigated
! by Mr. Moffatt There was no protest
whlch caused some surprise, as protests
had always been filed heretofore
City Attorney Dunn also spoke against
the granting of the license saying that
| he knew nothing of the application.
though he probably should have done So
| He did know that the sentiment of the
people Of the Fifth ward was against sa-
! looms.
After some further debate the whole
mater went over until the next meeting,
and the clerk was instructed to notify
| Koch to be present and in the meantime
to go to no expense pending final
! action.
| M. McGreal, contractor. was in
| troduced by Councilman Toll, and en-
| tered complaint against the pound
| master, saying that a couple of horses
| belonging to him had disappeared and,
although he had inquired at the pound,
and was told that the horses were not
there, one of the animals was after
ward sold from that place. AS the
! poundmaster is under the control of the
| council the matter was referred to that
| body
On the report of the chief, the appli-
cation of H. @. Bleisdell for appoint
ment as special policeman without
| salary was denied.
Thomas N. Badger was granted per-
| NIT to carry revolver for self-protec-
| tion
The demand of Detective Steele for
| $25 on the relief and charity fund. the
reward paid for the capture of an es-
cape from the Preston school was ap-
| proved.
! A raprasartativa of tho Nro+hod,.A
| ministers melting appeared and present.
| ed a lengthy protest against the con-
| tinuance of the license of the Horse
shoe saloon on Alameda street, and
asking the revocation of the same. The
| communication is as follows:
THE Methodist Preachers meeting of
Los Angeles appointed the undersign-
ed committee to carry to your honora-
BILE body protest against the continual
tion of the notorious Horseshoe saloon
| at No. no Alameda street. From the
time it was opened it was a menace
to the peace and good order of the city, a
| breeder of vice and crime, resort of
| criminal classes, a trouble to the police
authorities, a nuisance and disgrace to
the city.
More than year ago the license then
held by Theodore Bauer was revoked by
the police commission by order of the
city council. Since then a license has
been sought under various pretexts and
by different men, but without success
| until quite recently. when the city was
shocked to learn that shortly previous
to the retirement of the late board of
commissioners a license for this saloon
| was granted to Jean Rapport
THE surroundings of this notorious
saloon are so well known that refer
ence to them is scarcely needed to justi-
fly our singing it out as an object of
| special protest. 1t is in the midst of the
notoriously immoral section of the city
1t is opened especially for the patronage
of lewd women and their depraved as
sociates, and is so connected we are
told, with the dens of the harlots and
PROGRESSES by which it is surrounded
as to be ready, on signal, to furnish
them with liquor at any moment. 1t is
openly and professedly panderer to the
viest lust, and it's profits are largely
from patronage of the wretched wo-
men whom it further degrades and
whose vile business it facilitates by add
ing fuel to the fires of their victims
lustful passions.
IA saloon there cannot answer to any
demand of decency; it can have no pat
ronage of respectability; there Is no de-
mand for 1t but by the vicious classes it
can be nothing but the source of more
vice and crime of lawlessness and out
rage.
1T seems to me that a great city like
Los Angeles should, under any pretext,
be induced to sanction business that