The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-05-17
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Excise Commissioner Seibert yesterday
said that in his order to s~a1oonkeepe.s to
close their saloons between the hours Ct l
and a. m. he meant exactly what he said.
and that he would not tolerate any evasion
of the order.
Yesterday Chief Kelly submitted his first
report to the Excise Commissioner corcern-
Ing the enforcement of the order. Among
the ~saloonkeepers reported as having vio-
lated 1t Wednesday night are:
Peter Gilgenberg. 1928 North Broadway:
Herman Schneider. 1857 North Broadway;
August Delabar, 200 South Broadway: Au-
gust Froebel. 21s North Seventh street;
Theodore Ingola, Seventh and Pine streets;
Charles NJ. Ernst. Ill North Sixth street;
Klein & Hurley. 22l4 Pine street: c. g.
Baer. 2s56 North Broadway: F. w. Vahren-
horst, 1895 Lucas; Theodore Jenneman and
John Butcher. s7 North Fourth street: Paul
Angelo, 723 North Sixth: Jerry Dandon. 1926
Franklin avenue: Leonard Meier. 1919 O'Fal
lon; Henry Pohlman, $50 North Third: Daily
Bros, 1886 Franklin; Ryan & McGillicuddy.
COL Franklin avenue; James II. Cronin.
Twelfth and Walnut; George Hoefner. 1900
Clark avenue. and Frank Nagel. Sixth and
st. Charles streets.
public reporter and asked about the report
of the Police Department that a number OF
saloons had failed to obey the order on
Thursday morning at ! O'Clock, Excise Com
missioner Seibcrt said:
MY chief deputy. Mr.. Thompson, informs
me that such a report has been received ut
ton on these men to call at my office and
show cause why their license should not be
revoked for failure to obey this closing or
der. l mean business and l Will see ina.
saloon in this city.
"It is rather singular that out Of 2.1t0 sa-
looms in st. Louis only nineteen Of them
shows that the vast majority-in fact. prac-
tically all-of the saloon men approve OF
this order. and are law-abiding citizens. It
Judge too harshly those who failed to obey
the order at l o'clock Thursday morning:
Some Of them undoubtedly were deceived
Wednesday ias ay'e Of an alleged e statement BY me
to the effect that this order did not apply
to persons in a saloon at 1 o'clock. ana
drinks as long as they desired. That state
ment was not only misleading but false.
I cannot too strongly %denounce 1t. Such a
construction Of the order on my part would
the law. created by the authority invested
in me as the Excise Commissioner. and 1t
must and shall be obeyed i the Police De
It shall not be dallied with or treated in
contemptuous manner by any man, I care
no: WHO he , +. n.,or. . ..co,,n, =, .h,.
false statement. i do not want to Judge
harshly the people reported as failing to
obey this order. but. nevertheless. all of
them will be cited to appear and their cases
given a judicial hearing. II 1t is found in
any case that there has been q willfcl and
contemptuous disobedience of this order.
that mans license will be Immediately re-
voked. The order stands. means what It
says and is final"
Chief Deputy Excise Commissioner
Thompson said that he had been receiving
at least fifty petitions daily for more than
a week. asking renewal Of license. and had
yet to receive one where the petitioner did
not approve the closing order.