The Penn's Grove record., 1915-11-19
HOTEL License REVOKED
The Great Battle Against Booze In
PennS Grove Wins

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South Jersey by the temperance folks for
the ~revoking of a hotel license was made
in Salem County Courts this week against
the license granted Joseph G. French, to
place in The Borough and Tow nsIiip
where liquors were publicly sold. The
large number Of mel employed by the
dnPouts, which varies from 10000 to
II, 600 gives a big patronage to the one
hotel which is reported to have been
81, 900 to 5000 a week.
A petition for the revoking Of the
license was made a month ago. The
hearing was postponed because OF the
illness Of Col. French who is so years old
and had a paraIytic stroke several months
ago. During the past month the bar has
been closed.
Tie case was called last Monday before
Judge Edward G. Washington, in Salem
Court House. Tie petitioners were
Nathan Trainor, who came from Valley
Township, Chester County, Pa, to Penns
Grove last February 81, to work as a
carpenter for the duPonts, and Charles
f. Lane, who came from Waterford. n.
Y, and has had a fruit stand ON Main
street at franklin for some months.
Their attorneys were S. Rushing Leap
and Daniel V. SummeriIl, Jr., State
Prosecutor, OF Penns Grove; j. 5. Grad
we'll and Edward Sliarpless, OF Camden;
aud Marshal Diverty, Of Woodbury..
Col. French was represented by former
prosecutor j. Forman Sninickson and
Thomas G. llilliard.
The charges were that Col. French had
sold liqnoIs contrary to law to persons OF
intoxicated habits and visllly under tile
influence of liquors, also to minors that
he had permitted tippling, %carousing,
misbellaviour and had harbored drunken
men in the barroom and grove.
Much of Monday was taken IN argd-
ment Oh tile contention Of French's
attorney that HE illaged violations q .aw
were not in accordance with the statute
The court upheld the remonstrance,
dismissing the motion. The defense
then attacked the jurisdiction OF the
court, alleging that the petitioners are
not residents Of PENIS Grove. The court
called the petitioners, and after an ex-
animation, dismissed the motion.
The testimony OF the petitioners was
strong abutted by that OF Revs. Edward
NJ cunt, w. A. Boyd, w. L. Morton, also
Mayor 4. f. Willis, and N. A. Lakier, a
detective OF the Pinkerton Agency, who
worked "a days on the case.
On Tuesday the testimony OF many
witnesses for tie defense was heard.
Among them were John Barnett, and
John Meagan, b%artenders; W. I. CARR
son. contractor; w. T. McClinchar, u,
Foster. II. X. Smith, who boarded at tile
hotel: Capt. Horace Wilson, of the Ferry
Co.: Henry Hates, who kept the restau-
rant in the grove; A.. r. Naylor, Jacob
Adams. Augustus Woke, who has shoot.
ing gallery opposite; John Black, Clar-
encs Dougiitem, Joseph G. Sparks, Harry
Sterling, P. j. McKewen, Chas Fred, j.
K. Duffy, Esq, and Others.
The testimony showed hat there was
drunken revelries, that drunken men
not only Law in the grove day aud night,
but in other parts OF the town; that
MANY arrests were made and the two-celI
lookup was full to overlooking nearly all
the time. During the past month since
the bar was closed the arrests were few
and some nights none were in the lookup.
While Col. French had kept an orderly
hotel since 1869, that during the past
months he was i'll and could not give his
attention to the management which fell
to his son-in-law, A.. II. Chandler. He
and his assistants had failed to keep
Sithin the bounds of the law with so
large a population of workmen at the
Powder works supplied at one bar.
The defense was that the hotel had
been conducted properly in the past;
that men slept all over town because
they had no place to go; that considering
the big population OF workmen to be
accommodated the hotel was conducted
the best possible under the circumstances:
that liquor was gotten in Wilmington and
men came across the river drunk; that
men who worked in the ether at the
powder mills became like drunken men
and such were easily effected when
liquor and ether got mixed. The testi-
WAS all in Wednesday. The at
torneys summed up the evidence on
Thursday morning.
Mr.. Sinnickson argued that the charges
were those OF fanatics whose aim in life
was to hound those engaged in the liquor
traffic; they CAL see no good in place
nor man who is thus engaged, and the
charges had not been proven.
Mr.. Leap, for petitioners contended
that if only one OF the many charges had
been proved the Court was bound to re-
woke the license and he commended that
all had been proven.
Judge Waddington said there was but
one conclusion to reach. Section 10 of
the Bishops act had been violated and
the Court was bound to revoke the
license.
81 regret this action. as the Court has
knowledge that Colonel French i'm the