The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-05-17
LIQUOR Regulation

Liquor Regulation
To the Honorable the Common Council:
Gentlemen-four Committee on Liquor
Regulation, TO whom was referred the APP
plication and bond OF Edward Anglim 10
conduct a saloon az lie Randolph street.
s ssme ,nds repor1 mat we have mao
To state that Mr.. Anglim's application
was approved for his old location. SO
Gratiot avenue. but no bond was hled
TO make way for the new Goldberg
Building. now In the course OF construc-
| ton. and I'm view hereof he now asks
that his application and bond be APPROX
quest your committee recommend be con-
CURED In
Respectfully submitted.
GEO. III. ELLIS.
JOHN HARPER.
FRED W. KNAPP.
ALBERT r. ALLAN.
JOHN G. CARNEY.
Adopted as follows:
Yeas-Ald. Allan. Brozo. Burton.
Defined. Ellis. Field. Garvey. Gilman.
HARPER. Hindle. Heating. Keusch.
Koenig. Knapp. Littleheld. Lodge.
Lynch, McCarty. Mason. Merritt.
O'Brien, Ostrowskl. owen. Rosenthal.
schultz. Skrzycki. rheisen, Thompson,
| Tossy. Vernon. Walsh, Watson, and
/ the President Pro Tem.-34.
Nays-None.
FROM THE SAME
To the Honorable the Common Council;
Gentlemen Your Committee on
Liquor Regulation, 10 whom was re-
ferred the application OF Julius Hart
man for LIQUOR license at 204 Michi-
gNn Avenue, respectfully report that
your committee have had same under
consideration pending an opinion from
the Attorney General: That We sub
mitted the matter through the proper
authorities 10 obtain said opinion and
outlined the circumstances as they eN-
| ist I'm this instance. showing the To-
cation OF the premises proposed to be
Occupied and also the public school;
giving street line measurements and
also showing radius line OF 400 feet.
| and under date OF the nth inst. the
Attorney General. Hon Franz G. Kuhn,
Informed the Hon. Philip I. Van Zile.
Prosecuting Attorney. as follows;
| Dear sir-Your letter OF April 10,
| enclosing letter from the Secretary
OF the Common Council Committees
| OF the City OF Detroit requesting an
interpretation OF the General Liquor
Law. ass amended by Act 2sl OF the
| Public Acts OF 1909 duly received.
| For reply thereto Will say that un-
der the provisions OF section 81 OF
said act the distance between school
house and a saloon Is required to be
| measured along the street line from
the front entrance OF one TO the front
entrance OF the other. This Department
has construed the provision requiring
measurement along the street line 10
mean along the center line OF the
street. Ii Is also the View OF TINS de-
partment that the prohibition OF the
staue applies Notwithstanding the
school house may be upon one street
and the saloon upon another street.
IL does not appear from the map en-
closed with your communication
! whether or not the distaS>e between
the schoolhouse and the saloon as thus
measured. either by way OF Third
street or Second avenue. Is more OF
! less than four hundred feet II the
distance between the schoolhouse and
the saloon measured as herein indi-
| Gated. Is more than four hundred feet.
the establishment OF a saloon at the
proposed location would not be a vio-
! lation OF section 81 OF said act. IL
the distance is four hundred feet or
less as thus measured. the establish
ment OF the saloon would be prohibit
Very respectfully yours.
(Signed) FRANZ c. KUHN.
| Attorney General
In strict compliance with the opin-
Ion your committee submitted the mat =
ter TO the City Engineer 10 deermine
ne exact distance each way from the
proposed location of the school house,
and the result thereof is that the dis
tance by way of Third avenue is So so
feet and by way OF Second Avenue
$50 feet. so that the distance either
way Is more than 1875 feet greater
4 than the limitation contained in sec
ton 81 OF said act. and I'm view here
OF your committee can see no other
course to pursue than recommend that
the application and bond filed by said
julius Hartman for conducting a sa
loon at 2ol Michigan avenue be APP
proved. which is the recommendatio ton
or your committee
Respectfully submitted.
GEO. A ELLIS
JOHN HARPER
FRED w. KNAPP
JOHN G. CARNEY
II Aid Allan moved the report lay on
the table for one week which motion
| prevailed