Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-25

port or the Committee on Petitions and
Remonstrances, relative to the appli-
cations of saloon keepers who were
turned down at the last meeting of
that body. AS the matter now stands,
applicants will be required to satisfy
Council and the City Solicitor, of their
intention to prevent women from
drinking on their premises. In any
event, the dozen applicants will be
without license. when the present
license year expires on the first Mon
day in May, unless a special meeting
of Council is called, and their appli-
cations are acted upon favorably. The
next regular meeting of Council will
be held upon the Tuesday following
the Monday upon which the license
year expires.
The matter came up in the Second
Branch upon the reading of the report
of the Committee on Petitions and
"Reminiscences. There was no objec-
ton to the application of Jacob Will
helm, and it was approved by both
branches. Before the committees res
olution regarding the other applicants
was taken up, Mr.. Ross Chew stated
that he had received a letter, evidently
written by a person who was interested
in the subject and he asked permits
sion to have it read by the Clerk.
President Maxwell-"If there is no
objection, permission is granted"
Mr.. Burke-"I object to reading pri-
vate letters here. We don't know what
it is about"
Other members did not take this
view of the matter, however. and a
motion to allow the Clerk to read the
letter was carried by a vote of Is
to /. Clerk O'Brien then read the fol-
lowing:
WHEELING, April "a, 1900.
Mr.. Ross T. Chew, membe of the CITY
Council of Wheeling:
My Dear Sir:-It is with a heart OF pity
that I sit down to pen you these few ines;
what l learn through the papers that you
are and mean to be a fearless representa-
I've VI lIlO pCOplC, L u d0l soo wa SST
port of every parent in this city give this
epistle the widest circulation in the way
that it may have the most effect. Now, as
to the facts: 1 unfortunately am the mo-
Their of two daughters. both of whom, II
pains me to say, are members OF that
class (neither of them being. yet seventeen
years of age) who frequent some of the
drinking houses of the city where they
meet the lowest of men and drink, and
Coz knows what else they do, and my LIE
is not my own if take them to task about
it. l am glad to see that the city council
made a step in the way of suppressing
them: and again l fear after reading the
committee that the big red brutes, with
their rolls and their diamond studs got
my own, are going to have all the good
that has been done set aside and they once
again granted license. In the name OF hu-
manity, especially. every mother in Wheel
ing don't allow this: encourage your bro
Their members not to do It. These places
are a terrible blot on the fair name of
Wheeling. No one knows 1t better than
l do, as on my rounds looking up my own,
I could see young bits of girls and older
ones, of course. in the company of vaga-
bonds, entering and lounging about the
entrances to these places. Trusting you
VIII use this as | said above. and that the
same will accomplish some good at least,
and that members of council may be
strong and resist this awful temptation,
1 am A HEART BROKEN MOTHER.
President Maxwell CMr. kindelber-
ger in the chair) took the floor, and
dwelt upon the Importance of the
matter about to be acted upon. He
cautioned the members to act in the
matter carefully and cautiously. He
said that while standing at his desk
in the morning, his attention had been
called to a young man, well known in
the community, who was on the oppo-
site side of the street, in company with
a girl who could not have peer IL
years of age, both drunk. He con-
Guided that they had been together all
night in a place OF designation, and
added that the girl might have been
one of the daughters of the oma
who wrote the letter to Mr.. Chew.
The applications of Robert Clark,
colored, and John G.. Kline, both for
Market square, were taken from the
list reported unfavorably, and the
Second Branch voted to grant license
to both. Clark has never been in
business, but asks for license at the
Buckley" Jones stand. The First
Branch refused to concu in this ac-
ton, and the Second Branch asked for
a conference committee, and named
Messrs. Kindelberger, McMechen and
Bloomfield. 1t was late when the ac-
ton was communicated to the First,
and that Branch refused to take up
the matter. The applications of Clark
and Kline therefore stand rejected with
the others.
Mr.. Marschner moved to grant
licenses to all the other applicants.
The ayes and noes were called, and
the motion was defeated by the fol-
lowing vote:
Ayes-Burke, Fox, Marschner, Maur-
er, Ritter-5.
Noes-Beckett, Bloomfield, Brad
bury, Chew, Caldwell, Fair, Healy,
Kalbitzer, Kindelberger, Long, Nc
Mechen, Radcliffe, Watson, Ziegler,
Maxwell-15.
Mr.. Marschner then wanted to take
up the applications, and act upon them
in order, but President Maxwell ruled
that this could not be done unless the
previous motion was reconsidered. An
other member wanted to know what
action would be taken Upon the re-
mainder of the committees report.
'sYou have practically adopted it." said
Mr.. Maxwell.
The First Branch c~oncurred in the
action of the Second on the remainder
of the report.
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