New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-07-29
AFTER THE "4NNEY."
LarchmoHterS Begin fiction to Take
License from Hotel.

Residents of the summer colony at Larchmont
are deeply interested in proceeding begun in the
Supreme Court yesterday to forfeit the license of
the Mitchell House. well known summer hotel at
that place 1t is said the proprietors have opened
an annex" in an adjoining cottage. where auto
mobile parties, yachtsmen and other transient
guests are served with drinks
The annex is located in the centre Of the ex-
elusive section overlooking Larchmont Manor Park
and Horseshoe Harbor the anchorage of the lead
ing boat club.
The people who complain against the annex
say that there are noises or disturbances there
but from gold mounted cafe to a lager beer sa-
loon is only step, and that if a protest is not
made now there is no telling what class of places
may be established in the future
One of the prime movers against the annex
said yesterday:
bo We ARE not Temperance cranks mere Every
share Of ceys and high Balls but ibeTa S6os s
pe !nntatlons put on the sale Of drinks Ii NAV
hotels where meals are Included. but drinkfng
places should not be made a feature Of the placs
ment Of the people against places of this KIND
high class bo neP Lairchnont as it isa place of
of business ' ''S Aiio
II Is learned that some OF the leading yachtsmen
have done detective duty recently visiting the now
annex and ordering drinks. Their afidavits will
FORM large part of the evidence which will be
submitted in the Supreme Court in BROOKLYN. next
come up
The property owners interested have retained
lewis l. Deafeld. and. through his Arm have
applied for the revocation of the liquor license on
the ground that the excise law has been violated
oy the lndlscr1nlinate sale of liquor on Sunday and
upon the further ground that the manager of the
MOTEL swore n his application for the license that
he intended 10 maintain bona fde hotel while :
matter of fact the annex is being conducted
merely as a roadhoIse
Another suit will be brought for the enforcement
OF the covenants applying to the restricted section
ol Larchmont' which were. few years ago IN
held in the Supreme Court in the proceedings
brought against the proprietor of the Victoria
Hotel. and afterward confirmed by the Court of
Appeals
The decision of the courts was that Iiouor co,1d
not be sold disposed of at any hotel In the 70
strlcted section Of Larchniont except to bona hde
guests of the hotels and their invited friends and
that such liquors could be served only at meals or
In private rooms 1t is said to have cost the neonIe
OF Larchmont and the woman who kept the hotel
about $4,000 for the litigation which resulted in
this decision
For the purpose of testing the legality Of the new
A. De Lima, two of I.archmont's most prominent
residents, have agreed to act as complainants n
was stated yesterday that both would have the
support or the village president r. l.. Hopkins
and the other local authorities
The lessees of the Mitchell House will defend thu
pFoceedlnSs, claiming that their licenses cover the
dHHeA. ana mat they have as much right to sell
drinks as The other hotels and clubs.
Daniel Mitchell one Of the local justices Of +ba
town, lives at the Mitchell House and will proh-
ably be its legal adviser.