Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-12
WOULD EXTEND
SALOON ZONE
TO SOUTHWARK
Lon gpre'S Request
Gets Setback
French Promoters Would Establish a
Palm Garden Here for a Family
Pesort, but Council Inter-
poses Obstacles

Failing to get permission to sell
liquor by special permit in big palm
garden to be established in the An
gelus rink, Artist Paul de Longpre and
Frederick X. Limouze filed an amended
petition with the city council yester-
day asking that the liquor zone be ex-
tended. This amended application Is
now before the committee Of the whole.
1t was stated by the petitioners that
they propose to establish a high-class
garden and concert hall at Eighteenth
and Main streets, and Artist de Long
pre- mentioned incidentally that it was
for arts sake"
This aroused Councilman wallace,
who asked if the Hollywood petitioner
would like to have the concert hall To-
Gated next door to his beautiful home
THAT, according to your statements,
would be a concentration of art said
the councilman from the Fifth.
"Well, my home is not the center Of
a big city" said he, and we do not all
agree as to liquor. We could not run
a place like this and sell only ice
cream and ice water. People can't
live on that. In fact 1t is the worst
combination you can take"
Your claim is then that you can't
advance art without associating
liquor with it." continued Mr.. Wal
lace.
THAT is a very difficult question for
a FrenChman to answer. l am
F'renchman. We see no wrong about
1t in France
Dromgolu wanted the committee on
legislation to take the permit under
consideration, seconded by Wren. Wal
lace wanted the petition dismissed and
Blanchard seconded it. While other
amendments were being discussed the
petition was withdrawn and the
amended request providing for ex-
tension of the saloon zone was put in.
Palms Petition
The petition which raised the dis
cussion is:
THE undersigned respectfully re-
quests your honorable body to grant
his restaurant liquor license for the
premises formerly occupied by the An
gelus ring at the corner of Eighteenth
and Main streets. The premises are
beyond the liquor zone, but your pc
titioner believes that upon proper in
vestigatior your honorable body will
see fit to so amend the ordinance as to
grant him the privilege asked.
lively associated with the manage
ment of the Coliseum in Chicago, noted
throughout the United States for the
excellency and tone of it's band music
and as a great family resort. 1t is
proposed to establish in the city of
Los Angeles a beautiful palm garden
at the Angelus rink, conducted on Coli
scum lines. Already your petitioner
has engaged Ferullu, greatest of band
i se- 1~Afn FNryt nc
Angeles, to conduct a band of forty
five pieces, mo- of the players being
of the great Ellery organization, whose
wonderful music delighted thousands
at the Venetian gardens in Venice dur
ing the winter and spring of 1905-1906.
Thousands of dollars have been spent
in beautifying the Angelus gardens to
duplicate so far as possible the Coli
scum in Chicago.
Chicago Man Attempts Reconciliation
The gardens, when opened, will be
place where gentlemen will be glad
to take their families for an evening
to listen to the highest class music
by the best players in the country,
with the assurance that they can do
so at a minimum of cost. 1t will be
possible for a man to take his wife
to the gardens and at the price of a
glass or peer ana SdIluNlCH pass
away the evening, listening to the best
band in the United States.
Balconies have been artistically Gre
ated where those who do not care to
buy refreshments can for tritle hear
the band programs. The gardens are
to be conducted in the very highest
form. The enterprise has the personal
Endorsement of Mayor Harper, who has
been fully made Cognizant of the plans
and purposes. The police commission
has no jurisdiction until authorized to
grant this license by your honorable
body.
"Chief of Police Kern has investi-
gated the proposed garden and he
lieves it will be a great boon to the
music loving and the tourist element %
the city of Los Angeles. The manage
ment courts the fullest inquiry by
your honorable body, confident that
when such inquiry is made such legis-
lation viii, be enacted as will make
the openin< possible.
THE undersigned requests that the
request be referred to the proper COM
mittee for investigation at the earliest
possible time convenient to said com
mittee, and that action be taken inn
mediately after such investigation"