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EDITORIAE FINANCE SOCIETY BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE Snc legion RESORTS CLASSIFIED LETTERS SPORTS NEW YORK CITY, FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1933 Ml 19. Brooklyn's Pre-War Drinking Emporiums JOHN ERSKINE GIVES HIS OPINIONS TWO BROOKLYN OASES OF DAYS BEFORE DRY LAW ST Famous Cafes, Dance Halls and Restaurants in Downtown, Bushwirk, Ridgewood and Eastern Districts-Some of Them to Be Reopened ThU tho fourth mnJ latt of a ri't of artieUt rt calling A I III! II IMMML popular of Brooklyn caff, pro-prohibition ora. A LAND OF HOPE WISH we could let down our immigration wall, and offer a welcome to the Jews whom Hitler seems determined to drive out of Germany. If there are others besides the German Jews who want to come' in, tho more nmrant, and boor garjont of tho By HARVEY Since the commencement of been deluged with recollections of I then I wish they too, of whatever permitted to enter. race or economic status, might be When Alfred E.

Smith referred the other night to the fate of Spain after she made the mistake of driving out the Spanish Jews, he reminded us, by implication, of the good fortune of such lands as Holland, which supplied not only by the owners of these places but by former patrons wn" somehow seem to feel slighted if mention has not been made of tne particular haunt they frequented In the cherished days that live i open our doors Just now to the Jews tu am BhA.n ItU.I wuuu ui oiucnu planum ground, rather than for any abstract now n'y ui the memory. Tt 1 1 1 I i uc list more than fraction of the provided them with a haven. To li ln wnv uui Bouiw iii tuaiij wisdom, which I would urge on that Idealism. Lj; I CityPartyGives Outline of Its Political Creed Defnite Exile of 'Royal Family of Tammany Its Prinripal Aim The City party, through Its Cen tral committee, today Issued a statement of principles, setting forth Its Intention to work for the ellml nation of wote, graft and corruption from city government; to work for charter revision and minority representation; the reduction of taxes when possible; Judicial and municipal service reforms. Also the extension of the city transit system and the maintenance of the five-cent fare; an economic method of acquiring property In condemnation proceedings, and city planning, with an effective sanitation system, supplanting of slums by model dwellings ani the expansion of the park and playground system.

The statement, given out by Maurice P. Davidson, chairman of the yiUnU committee, also declared that the party would not take part in State or national affairs except as they affect the interests of the city, working to this end with others having the same alms without Itself becoming part of any political party; and to elect officials devoted to the public Interest and not to the interest of any special group. Political exile ror the "Royal Family of Tammany, 2.300 Jobholders who do nothing," is the next obpectlve of the uartv. ac n'cn enjoyed a neighborhood or Though I admire the Jewish people, I do not think their intrinsic Qualities alone should induce us to give them refuge. Our best reason tor welcoming them is that it's good for a country to be a land of hope.

bered in the hundreds and this series of articles has sought merely to nit some of the high spots of the old glamorous era. Personal ac- Qua'ntance with more 'than a few of them would have exceeded the Perhaps tho shutting off of immigration, quite as much as the rais- i iii ii ii i i i in li 1 1,1 in 7, Vn, -in i if lng of tariffs, marked the end of our true prosperity. When we ceased to be a land of hope, we had to face the fact that we had become a land I of selfishness, and it took the heart out of us. We have never since been as happy as we were before. Nor as We are told now that to climb out of the ditch we must first have faith in ourselves.

It was easier to have faith in ourselves when the newcomers, pouring into the country, had faith in us. Now that so few arrive, we miss their encouragement. I DONT blame those controllers of our destiny who wanted to keep up the American standard of living, or who thought it might be a good thing to provide a more thorough education for the population we Above, Gus Durr's "Not A Word" Cafe at Broadway and Madison a typical "working man's" saloon of the old days; below, left, the elaborate bar of George Boemermann's place, Fulton St. and Nostrand and to the right one of the mural decorations In Boemermann's, characteristic of the art that adorned many of the larger establishments. already had.

Those ideals are shared by us all. But we committed ourselves to what seems now the wrong method. We decided that those who, by mere chance, had got here first were to have all the benefits, and those who had the bad luck tocome too late were to stay out. Well, we have kept them out, but none of the benefits have appeared. The standard of living has slipped down into the bread line, our educational system Is threatened, misery and crime have Increased.

It's to be doubted whether selfishness, no matter how concentrated, can be made into a complete philosophy. You've heard that there should be few children in a family, so that they can enjoy a more intense bringing-up, a better preparation for life. (I hope Mrs. Sanger won't get angry at me if she happens to read this. I'm not attacking birth control.) But so far as I have observed, the children in a small family do not necessarily get a better bringing up nor a better preparation for life tha the children in a large family.

They are not better educated. They usually miss the best part of their education, which would have come from domestic friction with brothers and sisters. THE limitation of immigration Is like the pruning of families. You don't get the same results as with fruit trees. You can keep down the population, you can cut off competition, but you also deprive yourself of those sources of energy and hope which keep a country young.

If we were ready to admit the truth, we'd confess that our restriction of immigration was an emotional outburst, an exhibition of prejudice, of exactly the same kind as stirs up Hitler and his companions. We suddenly took a dislike to the rest of the world. The War gave us too much foreign travel all at once, and not in favorable circumstances. Also the doctrine of Nordic superiority went to our heads. We regretted the old days when this was an English country.

We forgot, of course, that in the old days the English had along with them a few Irish, Scotch, Germans, Dutch, Swedes, Norwegians, Italians, French, Spanish. And other nations and races also were honorably represented, Including the Jews. I can't see that the conglomeration was bad thing for us before the Revolution, or before the Civil War. There's no sane reason why it would harm us now, not even if we added other racial strains. As to those supposed scientists who tell us that this or that racial strain is inferior or superior, my humble opinion is that they are just as scientific as Mr.

Hitler, no less and no more. Copyright, 1933, by John Irsktna ing Company comes announcement that Trommer's Is to have a rival in Middle Village, Queens, where plans have been made for an American "Unter den Linden," to be known as the Bismarck Beer Gardens, and that it Is said will be among the largest In America. 'rnough full repeal is not yet here, the brewers and old-time cafe owners are Oiled with optimism over the advent of the 3.2 brew, particularly those establishments which have long featured meals with the serving of drinks. These look forward not only to a new era of prosperity but to a return of much of the old spirit of conviviality and good cheer that was associated with the days when there were no restrictions on consumption of the amber fluid and stronger beverages. Monday Former and present club life In Brooklyn.

and cheese and crackers on the lunch counter. Over the line In Queens County were a succession of picnic parks and beer gardens frequented on Saturdays and Sundays by entire families and where the German societies held sangerfests, target-shooting contests other celebrations and festivities brought with them from the homeland. Many of these places, both saloons and beer gardens, also had bowling alleys, bowling being one of the most popular recreations of the period. Conspicuous among the resorts capacity of the most confirmed el- bow-bender. One of our correspondents, calls attention to the omission of reference to John Ryan's cafe on Fulton near the Flatbush Ave.

extension. Ryan's, he declares, was one of the best regulated saloons in America and was known as the "Sportsman's Rendezvous." Ryan was the husband of the famous Maggie Cline, celebrated for her song, "Throw Him Down McClos-key," and his white-coated bartenders each wore a fresh rose daily. Ryan was never known to serve a customer who appeared intoxicated. His three brothers, Mike, Eddie and Willie, worked for him behind the bar. In later days, ori an opposite corner was Heyman's chop house, formerly King's, and earlier Blankley's, a popular stand where the cocktail hour found the bar lined three deep and that also had upstairs dining rooms where excellent meals were servea, There also for many years was Siebert's "Fountain House" on Flatbush near the Riding and Driving Club, operated by Roy Guindon.

Edgett's restaurant on Fulton St, at fi. bush Duke Gubner's, "The Magnet," opposite Borough Hall, and in earlier years Bernard McElroy's chop house at 152 Pierre-pont St. and later in Elm Place, a fcpoi irequeniea by old-time stage folk, all enjoyed popularity. Valentine Schmitt. owner of the Hof Brau House, at Fulton St.

and KocKweii Place, mentioned previously, advises The Eagle that with the advent of 3.2 beer he, like Fred Schumm, may stage a comeback in the Borough Hall section. One of the famous places In the Bedford section was George Boem- rmann at Fulton St. and Nos-i trand later the Ormonde, and that was one of the handsomest caies me enure Borough, with elaborate mural decorations executed by Prof. Severinus. Boem-ermann's boasted one of the most elaborate bars to be found in the entire city.

George Boemermann has been dead for a number of years but the location Is still owned by members of the family and the place may be reopened. Nearby, at Fulton St. and Tompkins was "the Elephant," a cafe that was unique In Its appointments and decorations, and at Fulton St. near Bedford Ave. was Charles Kroll's, a well patronized saloon with a dining room in the rear.

At Broadway Ferries The Eastern District boasted many famous places in the old days, two of the busiest in the entire city, Mike Minden's and Os-terman's, being located at the entrance to the Broadway ferries at the foot of Broadway. In these cafes, of an evening, hundreds of ferry passengers tarried for a few moments to consume beer or whiskey and to partake of the generous free lunch that was a feature of both places. There were tiny and succulent sausages, enormous hams, roast beef, stew, pretzels, herrings, pickled mussels, welsh rarebit and other tidbits served here for the asking to customers and it is probable many a man went home to his supper with his appetite already dulled after dropping into Minden's or Oster-man's. When with the opening of the Williamsburg Bridge, traffic was diverted from the ferries and they finally closed. Minden's and Osterman's opened places further up Broadway that continued popular until prohibition ended them.

This roadhouse was once the famous Hiram Howe's. Broadway also boasted several famous restaurants that were favorite luncheon and dining places for Williamsburg residents In the old days, notably Peter Luger's at 178 Broadway, still in existence, and prosperous. stepped up, fired twice, point-blank, and then ran away. They pointed out, however, that De Angelo had on a shirt and coat that had no bullet holes and admitted they doubted his story. Michael Montalto of 126S 74th St, Brooklyn, the driver of the taxi-cab, said De Angelo had not told him he was wounded when he stopped the taxicab.

De Angelo asked the detectives to bring an East Side character known as Sam the Barber to his bedside, as he wished to tell him about the shooting. Stop-Gap Licenses In New Jersey, Plan Trenton, N. March 31 (IP) A temporary system for sale of legal beer In New Jersey April 7 will be drafted by the State Liquor Control Commission today. It will provide "stop-gap" licenses for sale from April 7 to May 1, prohibit Sunday sales and fix weekday sale hours from 7 a.m. to 1 a.m.

PLAYFULNESS AT WASH BOWL Children sent to the bathroom to wash up for meal time often stay to play and splash the water about Sometimes this can be avoided by sending in only one child at a time and by providing each with something interesting to do the moment he is through washing. DOl'GLASS this series of articles The Eagle has old time eating and drinking places. wiuun i xie minis oi avaiiauie space places in each locality of Brooklyn wider popularity, as thev were num. horn Sts, scenes of many balls by fraternal and labor organizations, both had large bars over which flowed barrel on barrel of beer consumed between the dancing festivities on the floor but, unlike today, most of the drinkers were men, women and girls in the pre-prohl-bition era indulging in alcoholic beverages, even beer, sparingly, If at all. In the Ridgewood and Bushwick sections, largely populated by German-Americans, nearly every corner had Its beer saloon, with a pinochle game In the back room Leonard P.

Grant Gets War Medal; His 2d Decoration Leonard P. Grant of 882 14th St. has just been awarded the silver star medal by the War Department, a decoration given for "gallantry In action." Mr, Grant went overseas at the outbreak of the World War with the 165th Infantry, the old 69th, and later joined the 26th Infantry of the 1st Division, Regular Army, as a second lieutenant. He was cited by Gen. Charles P.

Summerall for "gallantry In action" and for "being wounded In action" on Oct. 4, 1918, In the Meuse-Ar-gonne battle. He received the Order of the Purple Heart last September. Mr. Grant Is a member of the Elks Lodge 22, a grand knight of Chapelle Council 1041, K.

of and a member of the Parkvllle Club. Lehman Urges Bill To Aid State Banks EmI Rura, Capitol Building. Albany, March 31 Governor Lehman today asked the Legislature to pass a bill to permit State banks and trust companies to borrow money from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation during the emer- bracing the benefits afforded In the Congressional act signed by President Roosevelt, Governor Lehman said: "In order to remove any doubt as to the power of any State bank, trust company or Industrial banking company to Issue capital notes nr riphrntnrp nrntnmrnri thp amendment nf' t.ha hanlrlnff law to empower the board of directors of auch institutions to Issue capital ntes or debentures for their pur. chase by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation when so specifically authorized by the Superintendent of Banks." Mrs. Lam mot du Pont Asks Reno Divorce Special to The Eagle Reno, March 31 Charging i cruelly, Mrs.

Caroline H. du Pont i naa nied suit for divorce here from i amimt au POnr or winnm'ton, i chairman of the board of Oen- eral Motor, and head of E. I. du Pont tU Nemours Company. i As Hard Times Made Janet Owen Author Fourth Book Written to Keep Wolf From Door of Family Home Also Confirms Her Urge to Go Capitalist in Big Way Shot in Chest, No Hole in Shirt, Youth Takes Taxi to Hospital By ISABELLE KEATING Hard times made an author and a capitalist out of Janet Curren Owen of 37-60 85th Jackson Heights.

At least hard times made an author of her and if her first book, "Family Reunion," which Harper's will publish on April 14, is a success, she plans cording to Benjamin Howe, assist ant mrrcior, in an nclrtress last nlnht before the "33" Club at 50-01 15th Ave. In spite of municipal economies, that number of political appointees is still being "quartered" upon the city, according to Howe. He promised that the City party, which, he declared, greased the ways for ex-Mayor Walker and sharpened the ax for Sen bury, will next get to work at replacing them with civil service employes. I'nknnwn to Judges "If you were told that Holland, with Its population equal to New York, was supporting a royal family of 2.300 persons, paying them $16,000,000 a yenr for doing nothing, you would marvel at foreign stupidity. Yet we are paying in taxes the salary of court clerks, for example, who appear so seldom that the Judges actually do not know them.

"In every department, people have been planted by district leaders, appearing perhaps once a week to smoke a cigar and give orders to employes who do the work at pitiably small pay. Secretaryships are 'handed out' by district leaders and Installed while competent civil service leaders wait." R.F.C. Makes French House Loan at 5 P.C. Special lo The Eagle Washinnton, March 31 The Reconstruction Finance Corporation today had approved a loan of up to $8,073,000 to Fred F. French Opera, tors, of New York for replacing the "lung block" on Manhattan's lower East Side with a model housing colony to be known as Village.

The loan Is the corporation's first advance on a housing project. It provides for 5 percent Interest and amortization of 2 percent yearly. Awarded $4,000 As Heart Balm A Jury In Supreme) Court hna awarded $4,000 damages to Louise Koch of 1500 Kenmore Place, wh was engaged for four years to Benjamin O. Canariato. Jeweler, but never reached the altar with him.

They became acquainted In 1922, when both were employed In ft downtown Manhattan shop. A year later he gave her an engagement ring and for four years they saw each other daily. She told the Jury in her breach of promise suit that he broke off the engagement In 1927 without Justification. He told the Jury that In 1927 ht learned she had been previously married to a man named Gorman, and that the marriaife had been annulled. This, he said, made It impossible for him to marry her.

Slit replied he knew she had been married. Wcinstein Freed In Bank Looting After less than two hours deliberation a Jury last night acquitted Jack Wcinstein, former not teller at the Joralemon St. branch of the Manufacturers Trust Company, on a charge of grand larceny, first denree. Welnsteln, who lives at 312 New Lots had been on trial before County Judue McLaughlin, accused of having appropriated $2,000 of the bank's funds and of havlnf charged the sum against the account of a depositor. Asslstan8 District Attorney Ralph K.

Jacob was the prosecutor and Alderman Walter R. Hart was counsel for the defendant. The former teller was arrested with three others, Frank X. Gallagher, Albert C. Pallmeyer and Edward Bell, who pleaded guilty larceny last June, and are now awaiting sentence.

The four were aliened to hove misappropriated ft total of nearh $170,000. was the beer garden and restaurant of the Bushwick section but drawing visitors from all over the city of the J. F. Trommcr Brewing Company, that has maintained Its popularity through the prohibition era with one-half of 1 percent brew. Fine food, tables In the open, good music and beer fresh from the brewery marked this resort in the old days' and still does, the only difference being the alcoholic content of the beer and concerning which there will no longer be any cause for complaint within a few more days or weeks, as the case may be.

Trommer's, supplying as it does cafes and restaurants throughout the city with beer, visions the largest activity and prosperity In Its history once an agreement on beer legislation In this State is reached. From the New Amsterdam Brew SUCCEEDS Janet Currro Owen structlve that her own curtailed years of schooling were a stroke of unmitigated good luck. She loves clothes, chrysanthemums and food, Is known for her superlative chocolate cakes and Is unashamed to be stirred equally by Rudy Vallee and Bach. Vanderbilt Appeals Tax Assessment Washington, March 31 Wj William H. Vanderbilt of Newport, R.

locisy appealed to the United tales Board of Tax Appeals to re. determine rtpfirion inMm. uci.rniiiHe a aeririency income tax assessment of $11,496 filed against him by the Inwrnal Revenue B- mu. X. It- Leo De Angelo, 20, of 1632 Bay Court, near Emmons Ave, stopped a taxicab at 7th St.

and Avenue Manhattan, shortly after midnight and directed that he be taken to Bellevue Hospital, where physicians found had been shot twice, and is in a critical condition according to hospital authorities this One bullet wound was in the chest, the other In the left arm. Detectives Meyers and Ransburg of 5th St. station, reported that De Angelo had told them he was standing on the Avenue corner when a man not known to him 3 Held in Raid On Mona Lisa Club Three employes were arrested and five cases of alleged liquors seized shortly after 12:30 o'clock this morning after detectives of the headquarters division announced their identities to more than 40 diners In the Mona Lisa Club, 64 W. 55th St. The diners were allowed to finish their meals before leaving.

The prisoners, booked on Volstead charges, are John Herbert, 30, bartender, of 2374 41st St, Astoria; Angelo Defalco, 24, cashier, of 408 7th Ave, Astoria, and Arasmus Ber-nabl, 46, of 3743 70th St, Jackson Heights, Queens. 2 Croups Protest Way Relief Funds Are Distributed Protests against methods of dls-trloutlng relief funds by the Emergency Unemployment Relief Committee were registered at two meetings held In Brooklyn last night under auspices of associations of the unemployed. About 200 persons attended a mass meeting held at 1703 Pitkin Ave. by the Brownsville branch the Workers' Unemployed League, organized to Investigate "grievances" of unemployed sufferers of Brownsville and East New York. The other meeting was held at 199 Atlantic Ave, by the Association of Unemployed.

The Lengue Is protesting against the manner In which funds for rentals are distributed. The practice of the relief committee, aococrdlng to Dr. Simon Frucht, chairman, Is to wait until families are evicted before landlords' bills are met. The families are then forced Into new quarters, and both landlord and tenant suffer, Dr. Frucht holds.

Headquarters have been established by the League at 219 Sack-man St. One of the main protests of the Association of the Unemployed, part of city-wide organization. Is that unmarried men without means are turned away from home relief bureaus or are sent to "flop" houses. B. Baraz, chairman of the Borough Hall group of the Association, said last night that a mass meeting will be held next Thursday at 199 Atlantic Ave.

Teachers' Transfer Stands, Says O'Shea Dr. William J. O'Shea, Superintendent of Schools, will not reappoint Ralph Faiiln and Miss Helen Wcinsteln to Public School 225, he told George Dyson Friou. chairman of the Emergency Committee on School Overrrowdlng. following an Inspection of the records In the ca.se, Friou said today.

The teachers were allegedly transferred for taking part In a demonstration by parents and students at the school to protest the overcrowded conditions. 200 Workers Strike In British Britfffs DHKenham, England. March 31 (O Tlie strike at the Ford automobile factory, setttled Wednesday, had an 1 echo tonav in a strike tnr 'wage, amo'iir 2 000 men en nlnvert hv llectuig 10 percent oi the workm. Peter's Tavem at Broadway andigency. In urging a State law em to go capitalist in a large way.

"I'd love to be a capitalist," she says. She nailed her colors to the capitalist mast when she was a child them flying through a financial crisis that cut her schooling short before she finished high school, and only ran up a new and more strident banner when the skimpy salary she earned In a Philadelphia publishing house landed her In a minor and unofficial bankruptcy. Not even the spectre of unemployment, lying across the Owen doorstep last Summer, made her desert her capitalistic guns. Her husband lost his job. Her Socialist sister, three years Mrs.

Owen's senior, began to bombard them with Socialist literature. They did go to hear Norman Thomas. But Mrs. Owen came away more of a capitalist than ever. So in the manner of the rugged Individualist, she sat down and wrote a book; wrote furiously In a race with the dwindling family resources.

Three times before she had written books, not with the Idea of having them published, but because they milled around Inside her head and bothered her until she 8ot tnpm on paper, nui mis lourm dook was wriiwn with a deadly serious purpose. It had to be published if the Owen family, which Includes two sweet small girls, aged 6 and were not to feel the pinch of want. Within one week she finished the first rough draft. Forty days later she finished the third and final copy. It had only begun the publisher's rounds when It was accepted.

And at almost the same time, Mrs. Owen's husband, an advertising man, found not one lob but three She Is an attractive young woman of 26. this author-perforce, a for- mer member of the Junior Servlr- i iiiriiun-i ui mr uiuur Corps of Holyoke. which Is 1 an embryonic Junl' League. She Is convinced that education Is NOW Llnden St.

Well Known Dance Hall A typical cafe of the old days was Gus a Durr's at Broadway and Madison opposite Percy O. Williams' Bushwick Theater. Durr, a former vaudeville performer got his name and the his. tne fact nia vauaevuie aci consisica en- being spoken throughout the entire offering. As was to have been expected, Durr's was largely patronized by members of the theatrical profession, practically, all of thn performers appearing at the Bushwick Theater visiting It.

The back contained photos of many theatrical celebrities, constituting personal gifts to the proprietor. Like most saloons of the day, It had a free lunch counter and catered to! tne woricing man' as well as to; me more lamous. The Brooklyn Labor Lvremn 9 WUlojighb, and 8aenRer- nd Hair, at Smith and Schermer- 949 bund SUNDAY EAGLE Pfv In Greater New York The Brooklyn Eagle announces its contribution to the New Deal with a return to its old Sunday price of 5 cents in Greater New York. SIWDAY IKHOOKIVX KAf.LK.