Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-01-17
JONES DEN0UNCES
EXCISE BOARD AS
V|0LATOR Of LAW


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street southwest: Mary A. solan. 1908
7th street northwest; Paul Allen. n
street northwest: Patrick Rafferty,. 22S
18th street northeast; Dennis J. OCon-
nell: al ~ street southwest; Gustave
Brahler. 40 e street northeast: Pat
rick J. Callen, 23S I'd street northwest:
John Morris. 1910 street northwest:
Peter Lotus. 329 1874 street northwest.
Austus LOTUS, so2 N street northwest;
street; Daniel F. Driscoll. LOT III street
northwest: John J. Sullivan. 1881 35th
street northwest; A-ichael J. ODonohue,
81 l street southwest; METROPOLITAN
Club. 100 H street northwest; Army
and Navy Club. 1897 street northwest;
Patrick J. Mcdonald, 643 Pennsylvania
avenue southeast: Henry c. Hibbs. 1000
K street northwest; Lena Morgenweck.
II 4th street northeast; Thomas J.
Leonard. Anacostia: University Club,
900 18th street northwest; Anna A. e.
klotz. 1908 G street northwest: Patrick
Bridget Leech, 1s47 L street northwest;
Charles w. Edwards, 4s1 Missouri ave
nue. northwest: Daniel Scanlon. los II
street northwest; Stoneleigh Court, 1919
connecticut avenue northwest: David
Cohen. 11s LIST street northwest; Hugh
northwest: Charles Wolf. 1902 Water
street southwest: George F. Neitzey.
llo6 Water street southeast: John
J. Madden. 401 Az street southwest;
Charles c. Leavens. New Jersey avenue
and street southeast: Walter Spauls.
2o!2 street northwest: w. ]. Boyle.
6ol Massachusetts avenue northwest:
Patrick Smyth. 101 D street southwest:
the Monticello Club, 1901 4th street
northwest: Century Club. SIS Vermont
avenue northwest: Peter ]. Lynagh. 523
9TH street southwest; Terminal Com
pany. A G street northeast: Hotel Belle
| Vue, 18th and / streets northwest: Fran
els x. Cox. 1913 u street northwest;
John H. Harris. Is Massachusetts, north
west: jeremiah Costello. SCI / street
southwest; the Portner. 18th and U
| streets northwest: Commercial Club.
1884 1 street northwest: Mary Sullivan.
70 I street southeast: Daniel Doody.
1872 North Capitol street: Mary f.
Frank, 319 G street northwest: Michael
Gordon. 916 18th street; Congress Hall
Hotel, 233 New Jersey avenue southeast:
Harry Winniger. 631 Pennsylvania ave
nue. southeast: John D. kelleher. 1858
Saengerbund. 314 c street northwest;
the Cairo. 1915 Q street northwest: Cap
itol Park Hotel. North Capitol and E
streets northwest: Luke ]. Kearney, 1911
l. street northwest. and Charles II. Nor
ris. 2029 X street northwest"
Il Senator Jones read from the law to
show that it was prohibited to issue
licenses to saloons within 300 feet OF
an inhabited alley or "slum" of the
District.
Disgrace to Capital"
I'VE all know that there are perfect
hell holes. in the city of Washington
said Senator Jones. which are dis
grace to the nations capital. where
l
a prey OF commercialism, and saloons
of these holes I present to the SEN
ate a list of twenty-eight licenses
| which have been issued in violation OF
this provision of the law. They are:
John P. Sheehan. 701 North Capitol
street: Michael McInerney, 1926 7th
4th street northwest: Leopold Bickle
I1245 H street northeast: Jeremiah
lO'Connor. lis AN street northwest; w
E. O'Connor. 234 AZ street southwest;
avenue northwest; William Doyle. 1918
Wisconsin avenue northwest; George P
Harrigan, 729 9Th street southwest;
James O'Connor. 1929 North Capitol
southwest; William Hanlon. 1888 7th
street northwest; Stephen Chaconas.
46s Pennsylvania avenue northwest:
Daniel J. Altman, 244 14th street south
west; PatrlcR r. Nengan, lSoS l4tn
street northwest; John N. Trant. 62s
AZ street southwest: Gregor Kramm,
224 14th street southwest: Minnie E.
Costello. As H street northeast; John E
Bonini. 72s North Capitol street: Kate
Maurice Ganey, SIS 7th street south
west; Patrick ]. Bligh. 235 Az street
southwest: Patrick J. Daily, 62S Az
street southwest; Francis j. Stanton,
1905 Wisconsin avenue northwest;
ffo1,a a1 ~ Of
west; w. J. OLeary. 1913 North Capitol
street; w. T. Darlington, "a H street
northeast, and Thomas Cannon, 1858 H
street northeast.
vided that no licenses should be issued
beyond the western fire limits of the
city of Washington. The law was not
to go into effect until six months after
it's enactment. So somebody started
out to move the fire limits of the city
farther westward 1t is clear that the
intention of Congress was that the fire
limits as they existed at the time of
the passage of the bill should be the
boundary, so far as the issue OF licenses
| was concerned.
1 Changed the Limits.
But somebody got the fire limits
changed so as to include two or three
of the most disreputabIe places in the
4 ne cASiS0 podiA Souiu ia Q
refused to grant these licenses. saying
that their construction of the law was
as I have put it. But did they do so?
, They granted the licenses to those sa-
| looms. 1t is true that they got the
opinion of the corporation counsel of
the District, who held that the boundary
for the issue of the licenses was the
fire limits of the city as they ex-
listed six months after the passage of
the law.
There was no statute. however.
compelling the board to issue these
licenses. That question, am glad to
say, is now in the courts.
THE law said. too. that the excise
board should give consideration to the
recommendations of the chief of police
in the District in the matter of issuing
licenses l want to call your attention
| TO the case of Edward Gardner, who
| was the proprietor of the Grand Hotel
| on PennsylVania avenue near Polls
| Theater. He had license to run a
har there, and he had a beer garden
in the basement. He was arrested for
| selling liquor to a girl under eighteen
| years old, and he was found guilty
Of selling liquor illicitly, but his Ii
cense was not revoked by the trial
court The case was taken to the
Court of Appeals, which overruled the
decision Of the lower court and ordered
Gardner's license revoked.