Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-01
LICENSE COURT AGAIN
BESIEGED BY FOES
OF LIQUOR TRAFFIC
Many Protests Filed Against
Applications for Saloon
Transfers in Various
Parts Of City
j. F. GRAHAM PERSISTENT

Protests from big business houses hav
already been filed against proposed salooi
transfers In anticipation OF the openini
Of the new License Court next week, whei
the fight between the liquor forces ant
the temperance advocates will be renewed
| Remonstrances from citizens have been en-
| tered against granting Of licenses for th'
| reopening of places that are demoralis'
ing influences in the neighborhood.
The attack Of the anti-saloon folk will
| he directed against two places especially
| one of these Is the application filed by
| John r. Graham, who was unsuccessful in
| his recent struggle to effect transfer
| of his license from Broad and Fllbert
| streets, to sgd and Ranstead streets.
! Graham will attempt to reopen the case
| before the new court and the whole cues
| ton, upon which there was a neighbor-
hood poll taken during January, when
Graham was voted down, will be brought
up again.
I.urid tales on just what constitutes
"chiclSen" and a cabaret" Will be resur-
rected when the case Of Leopold Levy,
who has applied for license at 322V
Market street. known as "Whitey s. is
ratified or reopened. II was this case that
occupied the limclight of the brewers at
tacks on cabarets last summer the testl-
mony of many witnesses to the effect that
the place was conducted in too lively
manner being the basis of the objections
to the license.
Two big Nicetown manufacturers are
demonstrating against the proposed trans
fer of Patrick Connolly from 259 North I'd
street to 21st street and Erie avenue. The
Midvale Steel Works, the Link Belt and
Engineering Company and the George
w. Blabon Company have Joined IN the
protest, giving as n reason that the proN-
unity of the saloon will seriously AFFECT
the morals of their workmen.
o., ,,,i,i,h Inong
are now located have, in some cases ad-
Vised against the transfer of the license
on the grounds that the value OF their
places will be deprecated.
Remonstrances have already been filed
against new applications and transfers
as follows:
julius Fromhagen, 5th and Thompson
streets Rocco Durante, 232G East Alle-
gheny avenue Joseph p. Stairiker north |
west corner 18th and Ogden Streets Ru-
dolph Sweisfurth. 3O4S West Lehigh ave-
nue.; Nichol Izzi, southeast corner 57th |,
and Race Streets Morris j. Driscoll. COOS !
Haverford avenue; William c. Black, |
northeast corner Gath and Callowhill |
streets; Pasquale De Amore, southeast
corner 62d and Race streets; John b.
Featherston, southwest corner 61st and
Arch streets; Nicola Morrone. from SO7-
500 South 18th street to northwest cor
olas, from 2146 East Arizona street to
southwest corner 54th and Wyalusing ave-
1ue; Joseph f. Corrigan, from 1924
Walnut street to 3O01 North 26th street;
A Devlne, Jr., from 1884 East /
avenue to 1901 South S7th
street; Luigi Nccoletti 1908 Hegerman
street Joseph II. Barber, from 16 North
ith street to southeast corner 9th street
md Rising Sun lane; Joseph Pfeiffer,
corner Sth and Butler streets;
Joseph =. Tozar. from northwest corner
Water and Arch streets to northwest cor
Ter SD and Stiles streets; Patrick j.
'oen, from 769 East Passyunk avenue to
40 North SD street; Frank j. Rozna-
,owsti, from 27O1 East Somerset street
o 200 East Ontario street. Patrick
Galone, 1O2-O4 North Sd street to north
vest corner 60th and Pine streets
iustav A. Wacker, from 456 North 4th
treet to northwest corner Orianna and
Bristol streets; John A. Boyle, from 1914
'outh 9th street to northwest corner
pulaski avenue and Butler street: Will
am Schaeffer from southeast corner Sth
nd Dickinson streets to 3943 Kensing-
on avenue; Martin Dempsey, from 831
Vest Cumberland street to 4254 Richmond
treet,