Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-24
SALOONS LICENSED,
DESPITE PROTESTS
Montclair Council Listens to
Opposition of 400, Then Re-
tires TO Vote.

The determined effort of those OPP
posed to the saloons in Montclair has
stirred up the saloonmen TO high
pitch of excitement.
Nearly 400 men and women at
tended the council meeting last night
and vigorously protested against the
granting of any licenses, but par
tioularly those of Patrick J. Farrell,
proprietor of Union Hotel and
Charles A. Cole proprietor of the
Hotel Montclair
Mrs. J. G. Fernald, representing the
Women's Christian Temperance
Union. protested against the grant
ing of any saloon or hotel licenses
and presented a petition signed by
all its members setting forth the
temptations to which the young men
Of Montclair were exposed. Similar
petitions have been presented each
year by this organization and it has
come to be looked upon merely as an
annual protest and nothing more.
1t remained for Robert Hoe Dodd,
of Upper Montclair however, to fire
bombshel into the ranks of the
saloon men. when he read a petition
a license being granted to Farrell.
The Union Hotel has been licensed
continuously for nearly fifty years,
and Mr.. Farrell has conducted it for
the last fifteen years. The DIRECTORS
made it known that they had NJ
complaint against Mr.. Farrell, their
objections being against the site. The
Union Hotel is located on the south
west corner of Bloomfield avenue and
Valley road. The new municipal
building occupies the northeast cor
ner, and the new theatre is being
erected on the southeast corner and
an effort is being made to have the
new Federal postof1ice building erect
ed on the northwest corner. This To-
cation is also the transfer point for
passengers changing from Bloomfield
avenue trolley cars to the Valley road
cars.
The DIRECTORS claimed that the pu-
pills attending the High School and
Hillside Grammar School are COM
PEELED to pass the Union Hotel.
The Rev. DR.. Herbert f. Randolph,
pastor of the First Methodist Church,
presented a petition against granting
license to Charles A Cole. proprie-
tor of the Hotel Montclair. 1t was
signed by 172 citizens. The objec-
tons were based on the facts that
the hotel was being largely used by
young society men and women for
social functions, such as dances,
musicales, ETC., and the fact that IL
quor was served In the grill room
was source of great temptation to
the youth of Montclair. 1t was stated
also that some young men had al
ready formed the drink habit and
that their first drink was taken at
the big hostelry.
Among those who spoke against the
granting of these licenses were Nolan
r. Best, James NJ. Speers, the Rev.
DR.. Charles S. Mills and Mr.. Ives.
The Council adjourned to the ante
room for a conference on the matter
Farrell's license was granted by
vote of to 5, and the Hotel Mont
clair license was granted by vote
of to 2,
All the other applicants also re-
ceived their licenses one or two vot-
ing no in each case. Councilman David
Henney who represents the Upper
Montclair district, and where ma
jority of the DIRECTORS live, voted mo"
in all cases.
Those who received licenses, all of