Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-28
WOULD CREATE
WHOLESALE ZONE
SEQUEL TO TUNNEL LIQUOR
LICENSE
Grown Hills, Boyle Heights and Other
interests Favor Better Regula=
ton of the Saloon
Interests

Though property owners in the Crown
Hill district yesterday learned to their
surprise that a wholesale liquor license
had been granted for a location west of
the tunnel on Third street they lost no
time in taking steps to ask the police
board to rescind its action.
| Whether this can be one is doubtful,
as the promoters of the license immedi-
ately took out the papers and paid their
first SIS monthly installment, though
only four days remain in March. They
will not use the premises until Monday.
Under the law good reasons must be
shown for revoking license, the courts
hold.
The charge is made that the present
license was slipped through by means of
a frame-up of the Royal Arch in which
the board members were innocently
forced to do the work.
Work a Coup
New business before the board is usu-
ally kept in a separate package, the
papers being inclosed with rubber
bands. The Third street petition was
not with the others, but was dropped
on the table quietly while the secre-
tary's attention was distracted. One
Weisbarth, it is charged, tried this
same coup some months ago with
West Washington street license, but
reporters detected the scheme and as a
result Weisbarth failed to get the
license. He attends all board meetings
as a representative of brewery.
1t is now proposed to get the Boyle
Heights, Grown Hills and other asso-
Citations together and establish a whole
sale zone. The retail and restaurant
license zones are already established.
II this is done the districts can be ar
ranged to cover the Third street case.
Mayor Harper said last night that he
would be glad if wholesale zone were
established.
Crown Hills Opposition
The following communication reached
the police board yesterday:
"By this mornings papers / notice
that you have taken Favorable action
! in the matter of granting a Wholesale
liquor licence west of bird street tun-
mel. Heretofore all former police COM
missions have recognized that the peo-
pie west of the tunnel who are obliged
to use Third street have an interest in
Third street between Figueroa and
Hope, which does not apply to other
streets where people can 60 around a
block and avoid disagreeable things.
"Third street tunnel is hole in the
ground in which at best MANY people
are afraid to pass through, aid hereto
fore it has been recognized by the legis-
lative people that anything put behind
the hill that would have a ten1ency to
make it worse has been opposed by
them.
"In one instance many hundreds and
perhaps thousands of dollars were prac-
tically confscated by the tearing down
of prize fighting pavilion. And here
tcfore the number of people in the dis
trict west of the tunnel have been SC
unanimously opposed to the granting of
a liquor license of any kind west OF the
tunnel that 1 am satisfied very few OF
them knew Of your contemplated action
or they would have been heard from
"Will you please delay further action
toward the consummation of granting
any license west of the tunnel unit
next weeks meeting and in the mean.
time / will ask the people to sign Pc
titions and appear before you and make
their wishes known for or against it.
think it is a mistake to grant a liquot
license west of the tunnel and am op-
posed to it.
| (Signed) III. C. WITMER."