Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-11-20
TWO LIQUOR LICENSES GRANTED.
p. L. Shea viii Get One for a Saloon In
the milestone Building and c. c. Tur-
ner One at American House.

p. L. Shea viii Get One for a Saloon in
the milestone Building and c. c. Tur-
ner One at American House.
The wheel of fortune in the local IL
cense situation has made another turn.
Two more first-class licenses have been
granted by the board of license commits
toner's Cecil C. Turner, who has leased
the American House, will get one and
Patrick l.. Shea, shoe dealer in the Ray
building, will get the other. Mr. Shea
will establish a saloon in the vacant store
in the north side of the Milestone build
ing A public hearing on the application
of Harry b. Haus foG "A first-class Ii
cense for the Melrose House in West
Brattlehoro. which he bought last week,
will be held a week from tomorrow night.
Meanwhile George II. Danyew, who APP
piled for a first-class license for the Brat
tleboro House at the same time Mr..
Turner and Mr.. Shea applied. is on the
waiting list. The commissioners have the
power to grant only one more license, so
their next decision will be between Mr..
Danyew and Mr. Haus.
The public hearing on the applications
of Turner. Danyew and Shea, the latter
asking for two licenses, was held Sat
urday night in the selectmen's ROOM
There was n large attendance. Mr.. Tur-
ners application was considered first.
Rev MIR. Miles asked If Mr.. Turner was
one of those against whom the minors
testified at the hearing before the com
missioners recently on the matter of the
revocation of licenses. The testimony was
not at hand so the question was not an
swered satisfactorily. No objection was
made Mr.. Danyew's application next
was considered, but no objection was
made
The applications of Mr. Shea then were
taken up Lawyer r. C. Bacon, who APP
NJ lgnH no
titions Directing to the granting of Ii
censes to Mr.. Shea had been filed with
the board, and Chairman Putnam handed
him two which had been given to the
board earlier in the evening. Mr.. Bacon
read them. One objected because Mr..
Shea wished to open a saloon. 1t was
signed by w. II. Ninton, S. b. Emerson,
A. F. Boynton and f.. l.. Stebbins prop
erty owners. Mr. Bacon said that the
petition did not amount to anything be-
cause it was not signed by a majority OF
the property owners within 400 feet on
either side of the place where the Ii
cenSe would be operative. The other pc
tition was signed by citizens headed by
II. f. Brooks, but gave no particular
ground of objection.
Mr. Bacon said that the town had beer
unfortunate with the hotel licenses ant
that he thought 1t was time to try
another tack and have a saloon. Then hC
the applicants Mr. Turner" he said
was not a good citizen in the matter o
the prohibitory law" and then he reaC
extracts from tho testimony before Tho
board of commissioners, in which it wa:
shown that several minors testified tina
they bought liquor of G. c. Turner. He
had nothing to say against Mr.. Danyew
AS to Mr., Shea Mr.. Bacon thought he
was the best qualified to have a license
and said no one could bring anything
against him.
Lawyer E. w. Gibson, who appeared fo
the hotels, said that If it was desired III
could prove that Miss Sadie a. Turne
had no interest in the Brattleboro Hous
and that Mr.. Danyew rented it for $17
a month. The lease he said, was no
contingent upon his getting a license. HI
said he understood that T. Frank Turne
had no interest in the American Hous
and that c. C. Turner had leased it will
no contingency as to a license. HI
thought the liquor business could be bet
ter handled in the hotels than in n Sa
loon and said something about there be
ing thousands of dollars tied up in tn
hotels.
Mr.. Bacon understood Mr.. Gibson t
mean that the lessees having thousand
of dollars in the hotels, and proceeded t
state the real situation in that respect
He said it was a matter of public recor'
that the Vermont Savings bank had
mortgage of 81 900 on the Brattlebor
House. that when Frank L. Hunt sold
to Miss Sadie A. Turner for $4,000 Mis-
Turner assumed the mortgage of $11. 90
to the bank and gave mortgage of $500
covering the balance and the furniture
to the Springfield Breweries company
Springfield, Mass, that Crosby & Adam
owned the American House and that tn
only interest the Turner's had in it wa
the furniture, which was covered by
mortgage held by II. r. Brown and j. 7
Kaine.
S. B. Emerson objected to the granting
of a license to Mr.. Shea, not that he wa
in any way unfit to handle the business
but because, using his own words. "he
too good a man to sacrifice on this altar
Mr.. Emerson closed his remarks by stat
ing that If the license law was failur
in the hotels it never should have bee
voted in Brattleboro.
The commissioners reserved their de
csion until Monday night, when they de
cded to give licenses to Mr.. Turner am
Mr.. Shea and to hold Mr.. Danyew's ap
plication in allegiance until after actin
upon the petition of Mr. Haus. The II
censes are granted to run until som
time next April, at which time the Ii
censes which We're revoked would hav
expired. and the cost of them will be a
the rate of $1,000 a year.