New Britain herald., 1914-06-01
HALLORAN'S LICEkSi
 REFUSED ONCE MORE
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place he opposed the license on the ground that many of the 1850 chill
 dren who attend St. Marys school
 have to pass by the Hotel Washing ton and he thought it would have a
 demoralizing effect to have them
 walk past a saloon. He opposed the
 license in the second place on the
 ground that it is in a residential dis trict. Father Winters said that there
 is no doubt but what the lower end
 of Lafayette street is a little Bow cry and even though it has forty
 four stores there are seventy odd families living over them. From Washington to Beaver streets he called it purely residential and said that the upper end could be looked after by the factories so it was this section he was trying to protect.
 Tabs Are Jnsultcd.
 Continuing the pastor said he con- sidered it a rap and an insult to put a saloon so near the Y. M. T. A. & B. society building and said that inas- much as the association had been es- tablished there first he thought they should have the preference. He ex- plained that the Y. M. T. A. & B. so- ciety is not a prohibition society but merely a temperance society ana that it is his belief that all saloons which were established before their advent into this section should be un- m molested, but on the other hand he thought that he has the r fight to pro- test against the installation of any Sin that the Tabs" have been organized for over twenty-five years and have the best wishes of all busin nessmen in their locality even the saloon men themselves, because of their non az gressive attitude. AS another argu- ment against granting the license, Father Winters stated that he rep resented about $30,000 worth or property near the site of the Hotel Washington.
 He told Attorney Barbour that he was simply speaking as the pastor or the church and the chaplain of the Tabs. as he had not been officially ap-
 pointed to protest, having declined to
 oo so when asked by the society. Factories Oppose License. E. F. Hall, representing Humason & Beckley, said that this factory is opposed to the license on the ground that it is too near their buildings where ninety men are employed. k. M Pratt from the Corbin Screw cor poration, said that his concern em- ploys over 1000 hands and does not want another saloon so near Its gates He replied to question from
 MT. Barbour by saying that it was not the custom of his concern to molest saloons which were established before his factory built near them.
 Another factory man to voice pro- test was l.. P. Ships, representing Rus sell & Erwin's where 1,60O men are l employed. He said that this shop is
 always opposed to the granting of new licenses near their works. R. H. Crawford, superintendent of the Boys club said that his directors had in structed him to speak against the r granting of the license.
 One Over on Barbour. Leo Andrewlivich, the principal of | the Polish Parochial school, made strong argument against granting the | license on the ground that fully one third of the children in his care would | have to pass by the hotel in going to and from their homes. Attorney Bar
 
 l to why he had not been opposed to re- newing the license at Sheehan's or Glover's saloon. Each time the wit l ness said that he had not done so on | the ground that they were established
 before he came here and therefore he | did not consider 1t his business to molest them. As Attorney Barbour | kept pressing the question however, MT. Andrewlivich suddenly turned on | him and said: Well, MT. Barbour, IF you will start a petition against Sheehan's or Glover's I will sign 1t willingly-but I will not start one on my own initiative "You're excused replied the lawyer.
 After a couple of others had testified the witnesses were excused and in few minutes the commissioners had announced their decision. Their argu- ments were short and Commissioner Lyons was the only man who was in favor of granting the license, the two other men voting against 1t. Attorney Barbour immediately filed his inten-
 tions of an appeal to the superior