The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1902-01-30
TIE LICBGsE COURT.

lTNSl oihNO thC pdSodSS vi tuS
Brooks High License Law the
Courts have been troubled so to
construe its not we'll expressed or
digested provisions as to formulate
and establish uniformity of prac.
tice in the granting of licenses, or
at least to agree upon rule where
by the discretion of the Judges
might be guided. The first section
of the Act enumerates house, room,
place, hotel, inn, tavern-and in
the fourth section it gives hotels,
taverns, inns, restaurants, saloons:
this still left eating houses, named
in the Act of 3Ist March, 1856. P.
L. 200, unenumerated, although a
license may be had for one, as per
Morris License, Pa. c. c. Rep.
7o and Gilbert's License, Chester
Co. 26o.
We have in the law, therefore,
six separate localities with recog-
nized names, which a man may OBJ
tain license to keep and maintain
and in which he may sell by retail,
vinous, spirituous, malt or brewed
liquors or any admixture thereof.
l have been at pains to gather from
the Century Dictionary the defni
tions Of those words or names and
present them for consideration and
comparison and distinction.
HOTEL "A house for entertaining
strangers or travelers-an inn
especially an inn of some style and
pretensions.
INN-A house for the lodging
and entertainment of travellers; In
la7U, public house kept tor the
lodging and entertainment of such
as may choose to visit it, and pro
viding what is necessary Tor their
subsistence, for compensation; a
tavern; public hotel. In conse-
quence of thus holding out the
house as place of public entertain
ment, the keeper comes under the
obligation to serve all comers, and
to answer, within restrictions pro-
vided by law, for the safety of their
property.
TAvERN-A public house where
wines and other liquors are sold,
and where food is provided for
travellers and other guests-an inn:
Synonyms-inn, tavern. hotel,
house-In the United States, inn
and tavern are rarely now popular
ly applied to places of public enter
tainment, except sometimes as
quaint or affected terms; but in law,
faOeyn is sometimes used for any
place of public entertainment where
liquor is sold under license. Hotel
is the general word. or, often, house,
as the name of particular Hotel.
REsTAURANr-An establishment
fo- the sale of refreshments, both
food and drink: place where meals
are served; an eating house.
EATING-HOUSE-A house where
food is served to customers; a place
of resort for meals; a restaurant.
SALooN-A place where intoxi-
eating liquors are sold and drank
grog shop.
Thus far the Dictionary-where-
by it appears that the saloon is at
the bottom of all places where
liquors can be obtained-and where
nothing else is furnished. Some
thing more may be said about an
Eating 1t was held in
Morris License, Pa. c. c. R. 7o,
"rhe court will not license an Eat
ing-house, unless the accommoda-
tions are, in a measure, provided
which are demanded by the locality,
the habits of the people and their
wants. An eating-house located
in cellar, without accommodations
for ladies, who have occasion to
resort to it for meals, ETC., refused
until proper accommodations are
furnished. And in Gilberts' Lii
cense, Chester County, it was held
that, "The general license laws OF
the State require that accommoda-
tions for the supply of meals to the
public shall be furnished by those
applying for eating house or liquor
license. If there is no demand for
such accommodations, it is conclu-
sive evidence that a restaurant OF
Eating-house is not needed there
mere tipping places or drinking
saloons not being legalized by the
general law Of the State" These