Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-10-24
County Commissioners in Ses-
 sion at the Court Room.
THE sAYLEs LICENSE OPPOSED


 Experience With Saloon Keepers, Sa.
 loon Frequenters and Officers of the Law-The Commissioners Visit. ed the Place This Afternoon.
 The application of Michael sayles for liquor license at 3O1 Bishop street was heard by County Connlis. sioners Walter and Thompson in the district court room this forenoon. The remonstrants to the applicationn were M. p. Brennan, Joseph Stephens. James Hef11rin, Mrs Thomas Delaney. Edward Hayes, John A. Leenev. Thomas English, John Henry, P. Bowling and T. J. Coyle. There was over score who favored 1t. All of them did not testify to what was tak- en for granted. Those who tesfif5ed were the applicant, Sayles, John c. Butler, Timothy J. Hennessev. Fred ". Engert. Mrs Thomas Walsh. Robert Savers. NJ Negro and Thomas Gallagher. The drift of their evidence was that the present location of Say less saloon is not proper place for such business, principally on inc grounds that it is damp. John J. Dawson the. first witness, said he had known the place for years and thought SOl was far better place than 3os. the present location of the saloon. Sayles has remodeled the first floor of his dwelling for saloon purposes arf It has been found satisfactory to Prosecuting Agent Pierce
 While all of the witnesses objected to the present place chiefly because of it's dampness. John O. Butler had par ticular objection to it because it was basement, and in his opinion basa- ment is not a fit place 10 stable horse. Timothy Hennessey knew the saloon for 51 years and during all of that time he has known it to be damp To-day 1t is damper than it ever was Fred W. Engert made the astoisnd- ing statement that the proposed place for the saloon has no back door. Commissioner Walter could scarcely believe this You don't mean to say there is no back door to this place g'' he asked in amazement, but the wit ness said he did.
 "A saloon in Waterbury without back door," exclaimed the counais- sioner while Commissioner Thon1p- son could scarcely control hinisalf: with laughter. Bu. Prosecuting
 
 I of the place as it was wle he inspected it and he dispelle0 the 1 commissioners amazement by showing 1 a side door Sayles said he would use the pres l ent place for a store house provided lie | is granted a license for the proposed l place But it developed later that he has been notified to leave the present
 
 l cense, which is in his wife's i1ame. ex- 1 pires The owner. boy named James Flanagan, his wife's nephew. has leased it to Patrick Cavanangh. l formerly bartender there.
 Commissioner Walter exami11ed Sayles as to his record and the reputa ton of the place and it fz.anspdred | that he settled a case for allowing minor to Ioiter on the premises soa1le months ago. Tt was a technical mat ter. however. and 1t was settled out of | court for S30
 The next witness was the Rev Fath- CT Crowley. pastor of St Thomas, church. He was not called to tlle stand but was merely asked if he de- sired to say anything. He said he understood there was another appdca- tion for license filed by another par tv. Cavanaugh. for where SayIes is now doing business. On general prin- cipIes and from personal kn0wledge of the way things have been going on at the upper end of Bishop street he would oppose both applications For the past five years the saloon under discussion has been the meeting place for ala the l1uTl1s in the city. < par tic11Iar reason dle had for opposing tlae application was the c4.osenre of police He has complained to the police on beat in that part of the street. com plained also to the chief of police. He has pleaded. threat tened and coaxed. but all was no good. Violation of the law was a common thing. The place was not proper one for 8 saloon The present saloon was never conducts ed properly. He could not say how Sayles would conduct one but if he had his way he would have no saloon there at all and he believed the people of the neighborhood had no use for saloon fhere. The way things were conducted there last summer was q heartbreak to him. He spoke to the owner about it and was told they could not make a living without sell- ing on Sunday. Still he would he in- clineA to give the applicant a show if he promised to carry out ,the law in the performance of the flisiness. Still, he would oppose both applications.
 He was asked if lie knew there was q back door to the present saloon and he said he was not certain about that. but he knew that until a few years ago there was no need of a back door. for the people used to enter by the front door
 As for the place 301, he said i1i0 business was done there last summer.
 'sYou mean at 30S Father Crowley. said Commissioner Thomnson.
 "No. I mean 3O1." said the clergy man. He qualified this statement lov explaining that. while he did not see the law violated there he could pro- duce his proof
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