Evening journal., 1914-11-20
Court Grants THE
KOERNER license
Presence Alone of Pool
Table Not Sufficient to
Revoke, the Ruling
NEW ORDER, TOO,
AS TO SIGNATURES

Contested liquor license cases en-
gagged the attention of the Court OF
General Sessions today. Chief Justice
Pennewill and Judges Boyce and Rice
were on the bench.
The first ease called was that ct
Louis koerner. Nos 223-25 King street.
Horco G. Eastburn. representing the
Law and Order Society, which filed re-
monstrance against the rclicencing OF
the hotel, said the only ground for the
remonstrance was that Mr.. koerner
kept pool table in his place of busi-
ness. The Law and Order Society would
not contend that patrons of the place
played on the table for money. At this
point Chief Justice Pennewill asked MIR.
Eastburn if this was the only ground
for the remonstrance.
Mr.. Eastburn -eplied that it was. and
that the table was evidently in the "a
loon only for the entertainment of the
patrons of the place This being the
only view of the case before the court
the remonstrance was ignored and the
license granted.
made the following announcement OF
modihcation of suggestion made some
time ago by the court on the license
question;
This Court recently made certain
suggestions respecting liquor licenses
with the hope that conditions might
be improved, but It was not intended
that any of these suggestions should
make It impossible for a licensed
dealer to obtain a renewal of his
license If such is the effect.
It is owing to the fact that
the Court was not sufficiently in
formed Of the conditions existing in A
rev OF the wards of the city respecting
the number Of resident freeholders.
We have now learned that i'm some
of the wards there are moi enough
freehoiders to enable licensees to OBJ
tain twelve such signers If a person is
not permitted TO sign but one applica-
ton; and this is so even though all
the treeholders were willing to sign.
which we, Of course, cannot assume to
be the case.
An insistence upon our original
suggestion would make il Impossible
Tor some licensed dealers to Obtain
renewals, and it might tend TO mag
Nifty the importance of the freeholder
TO the applicant in certain wards. and
result in improper efforts TO obtain
such signers The applicants who
succeeded would probably he those
who were the most diligent and not
necessarily those who are the most
deserving.
We say, therefore. that the seventh
suggestion heretofore made, which
has reference to the signing of LIQUOR
applications, shall be annulled ans
stricken out except so far as it pre-
vents one liquor dealer signing fol
another.
But while we feel constrained. fol
the reason given, TO make this modif.
cation, we still think different an.
plicants should obtain different sign
ers so far as they can by the exer-
else of reasonable efforts
The next remonstrance called was
that against the application Of Ed
ward p. Conway at Rising Sun The
grounds of the remonstrance were
Not sufficient accommodations for
travellers and horses; a secret door
that blinds prevent view from the
outside; that quarter kegs of beer
have been sold; that the place is a
resort for minors. and that Conway
/ has sold TO minors: sold on Sunday
and to habitual drunkards.
Frank e. Healy testified that he
( never knew that Conway ever cared
for horses at the hotel. He said he
had noticed the shutters of the win
dows closed on Sunday. When the
shutters are open it is possible to see
only part of the bar. When patrons
are close up to the bar is the only
time they can be seen, witness said
John w. Brady, who appeared for
Mr.. Conway, asked the witness if he
had ever been in the stable of the ho-
tel and could tell If hay and straw
were kept in the second story. lie
described the plan of the barroom
The Rev. Thomas r. Van Dyke was
called to testify regarding the opera.
tion Of the screen law on Sunday.
Witness testified that on Sunday
October is, he say the windows of the
hotel closed at Q o'clock al night
James Cheney, Sr., and Thomas S
Luton gave similar testimony as e
the shutters of the hotel being closed
on Sunday.
Mrs. Ellen Stewart said she was
in the place four month ago tc
/ caution Conway against selling liquol
TO Ellsworth Reed, her brother. WIT.
ness said Conway told her he would
sell every time any man had the
money to pay for what he drank.
Mrs. Martha Spear, another sister
of Reed, said she had seen hei
i int 81,
produced half of a half pint of liquor
which she said she took from Reed
on a recent Sunday. The witness
said her brother did not have the
bottle when he left home that day
but brought it home with him. She
/ Judged but could not say that Reed
got the liquor in Conway's place.
James Reed, a brother, gave simi.
lar testimony.
William Ferguson said he had beer
in Conways place on an average ol
three times a month, and had bought
soda water there. He said he viii
be nineteen years old next week. HI
said he did not know the differenc,
between weiss beer and lager beer
On one occasion he said he saw Sam
uel Berry drink beer in the place.
Samuel Berry was then called. H'
testified that he was in Conway:
place last March and got a glass o
beer. He was Is years old last May
That was his first and last visit tS
the place, he said. He said Mr.. Con
way sold him the beer.
i Regarding the sale of small barrel'
of beer. James II. Yates. clerk OF thu
I l.. n.