The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-19
declares women IN beer
GARDENS INJURE business
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take men to Harrisburg to see our
goods and for some reason they get
away from us. When we find them. they
are in some hotel with two or three
women and drunk. This happened but a
short time ago at the Holman House.
cit happens not only in night time.
but during the day. We think the side
rooms should be shut to women and
girls. Harrisburg is much better. to-day
than it was year ago, but the side
rooms are the breeding places of bad
women and girls. We don t ask you to
refuse the licenses but we would like
to see you make clean hotels and you
can do it, too. !"
W. f. Straub, of Berrvsburg. is the
writer of the letter opposing granting
of license to W. H. Bowman for the
St. Lawrence hotel, in that town. Straub
mentions two men whom he refers to
as habitual drunkards. Out of thirteen
trips one Of these men made to the
hotel, he departed intoxicated eleven
times, so Straub alleges. The court di-
rected that the letters be filed and that
the attorneys for the applicants should
be given proper notice. The letters will
be considered later.
A Middletown Hotel Attacked
Most of the morning was taken up
with hearing testimony in the case of
Harry White, who recently took over
the Ann street hotel. Middletown, from
John \. Haas, and whose application
for renewal of the license Is being
opposed by more than 125 residents OF
the Second ward, Middletown, and more
than six hundred residents of the bor-
ough.
White 5 application is signed by 125
qualified electors of the ward in which
he seeks TO do business and he also
filed general petition signed by S5S
electors from all three of the borough
wards. The remonstrants closed their
ease Just as the morning court session
was adjourned.
Persons living Just across the street
from the hotel this morning declared
that thev for years had been deprived
of the enjoyment of sitting on their
front porches because of alleged boist-
erious and offensive conduct of the fre-
quenters of the hotel One woman
stated that she many times was obliged
10 20 TO the hotel to get her husband
and that not once did she find him
sober.
Samuel Ierley, who for many years
has conducted the Samaritan Free Mis-
sion, which is located about a block
and half from the hotel, besides saw
ing the hotel is not necessary and is
nuisance, declared that the frequenters
in the past became so boisterious at
times as TO make it dangerous for ped
eStrians TO pass the place at night. Con-
sequently, he said. he changed his
course in going home so that he would
not be obliged 10 pass the hotel in go.
ing TO and from the towns business
section.
Former Burgess Testifies
c. B. Erisman, former burgess of
Midiletown, whose home immediately
adjoins the hotel, said he didn t care
to admit that the section in which the
hotel is located is bad one butt
he did admit that other townspeople |,
regarded il as SUCH For two or three
years ami up until last fall. he said. he
frequently saw drunken men in ana
around the hotel: many times was an
noyed by their singing and fighting
and once was obliged to appeal to the
then proprietor TO prevent the playing
OF phonograph (which was run from
early evening until nearly midnight -
The former burgess said at least one
woman of Ill repute had frequented the
place, but he thought it would be bet, !
ter if the court and counsel for White |.
would not force him to tell her name. |
He was not pressed further for her
name.
William Stipe, janitor of a school /
building located within block of the
hotel, said he "saw a peg-legged fell /.
low many times 60 into the place when J
he was drunk but l never saw him come /
out.
Stipe added that he had not noticed |
this since White has had the hotel.
j. A. Kain, an Ann street business I
man, said he does not believe the hotel /
is necessity.
II have not used a drop of liquor
for more than a year. he said. ''but |
| do know that liquor caused me to
lose $4,000 and more.
Kain apparently took offense at the
manner OF eross-examination when I
Whites counsel asked if he did not 4
stop drinking when his wife ordered /
two hotel men to furnish him no more.
He said: "a man ism Z tied to the no
tel. but it is the temptation
Aims to Show Conditions Changed
Kain said in his opinion the hotel
is not fit place for the aceommoda
tion of strangers and travellers, ''and
besides ne added, Middletown,
which has a population of but 5000,
has twelve licenses, and Harrisburg,
with a population of $1,000, has only
sixty three hotels.
He then went on to tell of ''sys-
TEN" which he said, was conducted at
the Ann street place, when he was
drinking man. The window at the rear
of the bar room, he said, was on pulleys
and young men and young women fire.
quently, in days gone by, "got a can =
by slipping it in the window.
at is a bucket place" he said,
9 and j venture to say that more growl-
ers were sold at that hotel than at all
the rest in Middletown put together =
Kain argued with White Is counsel