The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-04-29
Council Liquor Regulation Com.
mittee Decides to Renew Ii
cense Despite Bitter Pro.
test by Rector
LATTER DECLARES THAT
BATTLE WILL BE KEPT UP
Puts No Faith in Promise That
Rum Shop Will BE Con-
Quoted More Orderly

once more, apparently, st. Barna-
bas Episcopal church, Fourteent tn
ave. and Breckinridge-st.. has lost
us night for relief from the saloon
OF George w. McCurdy. No. 9O1
Fourteenth-ave.. adjacent to the
church. The liquor committee of
the council, finding 1t either impossi-
bic or inadvisable to refuse a license
to McCurdy, has endeavored to patch
up an agreement by which McCurdy
viii keep a more orderly place, but
the Rev. Paul Ziegler, pastor OF St.
Barnabas. says that the fight to Gust
the saloon will continue.
This is the church second defeat.
Last year the church petitjoned the
council for relief. showing that Her
man Darmstaetter, of the West Side
Brewing Co., had bsen given a re.
newal OF the lease of the building for
hve years from May I. and that the
bowling alley In the rear OF the
saloon had been doubled In size. SO
that the wall was within six feet OF
the church and thawreetoryr- The
church held that the expiration of he
old lease and the expiration of the
license would give the council suf-
fcient reason for putting out OF bust
ness a saloon within 400 feet OF the
church. The council held up the mat.
ter for eight days, while a proposition
10 pay McCurdy $4,000 to move away
was debated. The church refused the
demand, offering. however, to pay the
actual expense OF removal. McCurdy
rejected the offer, and the council
granted the license.
Mr.. McCurdy has tried, ! believe.
TO conduct q more orderly place, but
he has not succeeded" said Rector
Ziegler, Monday. AT noon, drivers
hitch their horses to the trees on the
Breckenridge-st. side. Only one or
seven elms remains unchanged. and
TINS one Is so situated that horses
cannot be hitched to It. The others
have either been pulled up. broken
OF, or mutilated by the horses teeth.
Our attempts to grow grass between
the walk and the curb have been
spoiled by their hoofs. The church
lawn. at the side. Is used by the driv
ers as picnic place.
On warm evenings. the choir girls
coming to rehearsal and members OF
the church on their way to evening
meetings have to pass groups or
loungers before the saloon, and can
not help overhearing disgusting Ian
guage. often find fragments OF
bottles, which have been broken
against the bricks OF the church.
1T may be asked why we do not
appeal to the police. or the courts.
Would II do any good? We do not
want to hire detectives, and drag
through series OF lawsuits. To me
the law seems plain; but apparently
the liquor committee looks at the mat
ter from an angle which cannot un.
cerstand.
I'VE shall be forced to make our
fight again before the council sup
pose II will be as unsuccessful as our
former protest, but as church, stand
Ing for what we believe to be the
highest good OF the community, we
cannot give up
There are four saloons within
block Of St. Barnabas church, and
three Of them are less than 400 feet
from the chur. door.
Asked what the liquor committee
intends to do about McCurdy's sa-
loon, Aid. Dingeman said: IL can't
say anything until Tuesday night,
when our action will be made public.
but Rector Ziegier is certain that the
license will be granted