Liquor Laws

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 30, 27 August 1892, Page 4

Liquor Laws

A San Jose paper says :— The new liquor license ordinance has gone into effect, and the prospects are that the Police Court will be blocked with resultant business. The ordinance requires that all entrance doors to saloons, bars, and other public drinking places shall be so constructed that at least one-half the superficial area thereof shall be oi clear glass, so as to afford to persons outside of such places a free and unobstructed view ot the interior and all business there conducted at all hours of the day or night, both when such place is open for business and when also ifc is required to be closed, and no curtain, screen, or frosted glass, blind, shutter, partition, or other obstruction shall at auy time be maintained which shall in any manner interfere with such view. Besides this, ali saloons aro required to close at 10 o'clock Saturday night, and then remain closed till 5 o'clock Monday morning. Squads of police were detailed this afternoon to notify all these places of business that the ordinance is to be enforced and the arrest of those who refuse to comply with the terras will follow. Every saloonkeeper on Market-street, with the exception of Fred Linne, whose establishment is north of Santa Clara, agreed to comply with the ordinance. The principal saloons in the centre of the town refused to comply with the ordinance, and the proprietors were arresced and released on bail. A jury trial was demanded in each case. Many more arrests will he made Tne saloon keepers believe the ordinance is un-constitutional.