Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-10
ATTACK LICENSE
OF NANKIN GARDEN
Labor Men Declare Holder OF
Liquor Permit Is Not In
terested in Company.

Action was deferred by the Board
OF Excise Commissioners yesterday on
an application made by Henry Carless
to have the license for the Nanhn
Restaurant at $3.50 Branford place
revoked. Mr.. Carless, representing
Henry Lohse, A. j. Cozzolino, Philip
Warshauer and William ]. Brennan,
local labor men, produced affidavits
that the place was not being run by
Levi Weingarten, to whom the Excise
Board granted the license. The matter
will be decided January %.
The records in the internal revenue
office show that the place was in the
name of the Nankin Restaurant
Company, of which Herbert d.
Minor and Ho Chu were given as the
proprietors.
His four clients had personally
talked to Mr.. Weingarten, the coun-
sellor said, and Mr.. Weingarten had
told them that he had no interest in
the place beyond the fact that he
owned the building.
A subterfuge had been practised on
the commissioners, Mr.. Carless said,
to allow q Chinese. who was neither
citizen of the country nor a resident
of the city, to conduct saloon. The
matter was laid over by the commits
sioners until the next meeting of the
board on January %.
There was clash when the appli-
cation of Thomas Hankins for
transfer from 391 Halsey street to
Hawthorne avenue and Osborne ter
race came up. Several letters and pc
titionS were received against the
place and a few in favor of it.
Alderman William ID. Bleick, of the
Sixteenth Ward, Fred +. Meyer, Jr.,
of the Clinton Hill Improvement AS
ISOLATION, and Mrs. Frank L. Shields,
property-owner in the vicinity, ap-
peared in person to protest against
the granting of the license.
When Mrs. Shields had finished her
plea to the commissioners against the
saloon Charles Adolph, representing
the p. Ballantine & Sons Brewery,
who was present, declared that Mrs.
Shields had sold the property to the
Ballantine people, giving her consent
to saloon there if desired. Adolph
said that he had seen Mr.. Shields
and asked an explanation of the mat
ter and that the latter replied that he
was on the fence, as far as the sa-
loon was concerned, but admitted
that his wife had obtained sigma
lures for a petition protesting against
the saloon.
Mr.. Shields in answer to Mr..
Adolph declared that he was not OPP
posing the license, but that his wife
and several of the residents in the
vicinity were. In reply to question
of Commissioner Edwin Smith,
Shields said that neither he nor his
wife were aware that they were SELL
ing their property to the Ballantine
concern at the time it was sold.
Mr. Meyer declared that while he
was not opposed to saloons, there
were already too many in the i'm
mediate vicinity and the people were
unanimous in their opposition to the
place This brought from Mr.. Adolph
the retort that he knew Mr.. Meyer
was not opposed to saloons because
he had written to q certain brewery
at one time asking the concern to buy
his property.
Meyer characterized Adolph's as
sertion as ian Internal lie" and
threatened "to put Adolph to the roots
for it, IL he made another assertion
of the kind. Meyer said 1t was his
brother who had done what Adolph
attributed to him without the knowl-
edge of the rest of the family. When
the other members of the family
heard of 1t they Immediately called
off the proposition, he said. The
board decided to lay the matter over
until the next meeting.
Several letters of protest were re-
ceived against the granting of
transfer to Emil Plaster from 12l
Bowery street to 257-259 Sherman ave-
nue., and the board also deferred ac-
ton on these until the next meeting.
An application for a wholesale IL
cense at 234 Broome street was grant
ed to Nathan Steinfeld despite a Pc
tition from a synagogue and several
residents of the vicinity.
An affidavit from Samuel Rosen-
bloom, of 253 Broome street, was pro-
duced, In which he declared that he
had been persuaded by Benjamin
Geltzeiler to declare against the Ii
cense in the belief that he was de-
claring for it. Steinfeld was refused
a retail license for the same place
several weeks ago.