Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-01-26
3 MORE SALOONS
LOSE LICENSES
POLICE BOARD CONTINUES IN
vESTlGATl0NS
Brewery Control of Permits Sufficient
Cause for Cancellation, in opin-
ion of the Commits
sioners

After the police commission had con-
eluded its labors last night three sa-
loon licenses had been revoked and the
saloons ordered closed This makes
five of the 214 retail permits now in the
hands of the commission.
If the testimony of l.. Harris of san
Pedro given to the police commission
last night is correct it is possible for a
saloon keeper to be in the grip of the
Maier Brewing company and still tread
a pleasant path of finance. Incidental
ly, there is one less saloon In San Pc
dro.
This saloon is located at 420 Front
street and has been conducted by Har-
ris, but Harris told the commission
that the saloon is actually owned by
the Maier Brewing company. He de-
clared he had once owned the saloon,
but sold it three years ago to the Maier
Brewing company for $11, 600 cash. Soon
after he sold the saloon to the Maier
Brewing company he was asked by L.
p. Roberts to assume charge and con-
duct the saloon. He testified that he
paid the bills and received all the prof
its, often $3.50 a month, while all the
brewery got was $1O5O a barrel for the
draught beer which is $1.50 higher than
the market price at San Pedro.
The permit was revoked when t. P.
Roberts, who held it, admitted 1t was
in his name only as an agent for the
Maier Brewing company.
Damaties & Pecetto. 712 East First
street, lost their permit to conduct a
saloon chiefly because of police re-
port on the senior partner. The license
for their saloon has been held IN the
name of T, P. Roberts, credit man for
the Maier Brewing company. The two
partners confessed they did not own
the license and had paid only $3.50 for
the saloon.
The saloon license at 4O1 North Los
Angeles street for which the permit has
stood in the name of Puissegur broth
ers, was revoked by the commission.
Puissegur brothers confessed they had
no interest in the saloon, that they had
owned it once and sold it to the Maier
Brewing company Commissioner Top
ham reported it was disreputable
place and the permit was revoked and
the saloon closed.
A number of applicants for retail per-
mits in which breweries are interested
were laid over until February IA for
further action. In the meantime 1t is
expected that the council will revise the
LIQUOR ordinance and the commission
can act under new laws. In nearly all
the cases the permits are held in the
names of others than the actual own
ers of the saloons, some of them agents
of breweries.
Two were made happy when the COM
mission granted them transfers of the
permits for their saloons from the
holders Of record. One was c. p. Cook.
His permit had been held in the name
of j. II. Nash. Cook was once under
the domination of the Maier Brewing
company through the lease Of his prem
ises' but he showed that he had sew
cred all connections with the brewery.
The case of Bogy brothers, 346 South
Spring street, was similar. This per-
nit was held in the name of Adolf
Hauerwaas, but was transferred to the
real owners by the commission last
night.