The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-03-06


tire application list in one day. When
adjournment was had at 4.SO o'clock ali
that remained to be done was to hear
arguments in two cases in which Hon.
John r. Kelly was interested. and
which could not be heard yesterday
owing to Mr.. Kelly's being taken Ill,
and two other cases, which were not
quite ready for presentation. They will
be heard this morning.
The usual plan of receiving the APP
plications was followed. Judge Arch
bald called off the list and If 1t was
an "old house" the attorney for the
applicant simply answered "old house"
and court went on to the next unless
there was remonstrance against the
place. Where a remonstrance had
been filed Clerk Daniels announced the
fact and the attorneys for and against
approached the bench and made their
arguments.
The first application against which
a. remonstrance was announced was
that Of William Kruger. Of the Third
ward Of Dickson City. w. W. Lath-
rope appeared for the remonstrants,
and John r. Edwards for the appli-
can't The ward has eighteen licensed
retail houses and four wholesale
houses, not counting those Of which the
court has no record. This year there
are applications for four new retail
houses and one new Wholesale house.
DRINKING PLACES ENOUGH.
Mr.. Lathrope claimed there were
drinking places enough in that local
ity and that Krugger's proposed house
is Objectionable to the people living
nearby.
Thomas Lally's application for a
license for his house in Blakely was
opposed by a remonstrance represented
by c. l.. Hawley. Two churches and
a large number of residents OF the i'm
mediate neighborhood comprise the re-
monstrants. F. J. Fitzsinmons argued
for the necessity Of the house. The
application has been twice refused. .
NJ. J. Ruddy presented an application
for a license for Frank Brosdowski, of
Lincoln street. Dickson City, which
has been refused five times.
p. J. Reagan's application for a Ii
cense for house on Dunbar street was
opposed by a remonstrance presented
by John F. Scragg and E. w. Thayer.
Hon. c. P. O'Malley, representing Re-
gan, claimed that the opposition came
from a prospective rival hotel-keeper.
Colonel F. L. Hitchcock and F. f..
Beers vigorously opposed the applica-
tion of Charles Paine, who wants to
establish a new house at or near the
intersection Of Olyphant road and the
Boulevard in the First ward. Mr..
Beers represented 105 residents and a
number of nonresident property hold
ers Of the ward, while Colonel Hitch
cock appeared for the Green Ridge
Presbyterian church congregation,
which has built a chapel within 705
feet Of where the hotel building is.
John NJ. Gunster and George w. Okell
appeared for the petition arguing for
the necessity of a hotel at that place,
the adaptability of the building and
the fitness Of the applicant.
John NJ. Harris and John NJ. Gum
ster. who appeared for John Luken's
application for a pew house on Lloyd
street. were somewhat non -plussed by
a statement to the court from c. w.
Dawson. representing the remonstrants,
that Luken had been convicted for
selling without license and that he
had spent nine months in Jail for par
ticipation in a fight in his house which
ended in one of the combatants being
laid up in the hospital for six months.
JONES IS UNDAUNTED.
Undaunted by five successive refusals
Matthew H. Jones, of Bulls Head, pre-
sented his application once more. John
X. Edwards, his attorney, said the re-
monstrance was instigated by a hotel
man who had a monopoly of the busi-
ness in that locality for years.
George w. Beale, representing the
remonstrance, denied this, saying the
remonstrance was headed by a woman
Of the neighborhood.
Some amuA<ment was created when
the application Of Peter Ccreni, of
Bulls Head, was presented. One of
the objections was that hole in the
wall has been conducted there and that
1t has continued even in the face of an
indictment of its alleged proprietor.
Joseph Connell
One of the exhibits of the petition
was large photograph taken a few
days ago, its purpose being to show
TO the court what nice, large and
we'll adapted building Mr.. Cereni ha 8.
The photographer, not being advised
to the contrary, photographed every
thing within view and when the photo
was presented to court yesterday it
showed each window Of the hotel to be
stacked with wine and whiskey bot
ties, while on either side was dis
played the unmistakable Anheiser-
Busch advertisement. Court smiled