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EDITORIAL FINANCE SOCIETY SPORTS NOVEL, COMICS AIR LEGION CLASSIFIED LETTERS NEW YORK CITY, TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 1933 2 15 BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE Brooklyn's Pre-War Drinking Emporiums 'JOHN ERSKINE GIVES til 5 opinions NOTED CAFES AND FORMER BONIFACES Dispensers of Good Beer and Choice Liquors Bonynge Asks No Changes in Alimony Laws Favors Rather Jmlge Alter Their Point of View in Some Cases SOUNDNESS Willi Food to Please the Most Exacting Palate Dotted Downtown Section of Brooklyn Brooklyn, no I than Manhattan, had it bright sport in tho pro-prohibition ora, mtmorifi of which aro rovivod by tho near-nett of tho roiumption fo logal boor. Thi orio of article will omprito tour of omo of tho borough' moit famou tablihmnt that ditpomted liquid to-frtthmont in tho old day, many of thorn alto noted a oating plaeo. THE GENERAL A EUROPEAN VISITOR expressed ably surprised at the excellent the bank crisis. Europe knew, he By HARVEY DOl'GLASS ing powers, and the French are tenacious, and the Italians have pluck, but hardly any one thought we could show those qualities. The best opinion abroad was that our prosperity had weakened us, that money was our sole prop, and that when money was removed from us, we should collapse.

These ideas were offered as a compliment. When Europe gives us a compliment, the implications are often rather shattering. Here we are told that we behaved well, but no one expected it. Despite the fame which has accrued to St. Louis and Milwaukee as centeft of the beer industry in the United States, Brooklyn before prohibition produced nearly as much of the amber fluid as either of these cities.

Figures supplied by the United States Brewers Association for the year 1914 show that the product of Brooklyn breweries totaled 3,299.325 barrels, as against 3,564,721 for St. Louis, and 4,280.068 for Milwaukee. Coupled with what was produced City, therefore, was the greatest beer fVV 1-7. hiurope must have forgotten something which we also forgot, that every country there is a general soundness, and the people, when you know and understand them, are admirable. I doubt if there are any cxceDt'ons to this rule.

You can't indict a nation, but what is more Important, no nation deserves to be indicted. Individuals do wrong and make mistakes, and nations also do wrong and fall into fatal errors, and in the end pay for it, yet the rank and file are kindly and likable, and if they had a fair chance they would make good neighbors. I HAVE not traveled so far as I could wish, but in my limited experience I've found no country which I should not be happy to live in, and none where the people did not immediately respond to a friendly attitude. And none, also, where the people would not meet a real crisis in heroic fashion. It's Important for to remember this just now, when hatreds and prejudices are stirring again between nations.

You and I are encouraged daily by well-meaning blunderers to get up a strong wrath against the Japanese or against the Germans. Even those who thought they were pacifists do not hesitate nowadays to incite the kind of hostility which may lead to war. Japan and the present government of Germany seem to have made their share of blunders, but If you were in Japan now, or in Germany, you would know that the general run of folk are human and kind, and you would neither hate them nor wish to fight them. THOSE who know China are pretty sure to be on her side, Just as those who know Japan will sympathize with her. The Chinese, too, are an admirable pgople, and, like the rest of us, they have made serious mistakes, they are vulnerable in many places, they have let their government disintegrate, they seem to be at the mercy of their bandits.

Yet they behaved like men when Japan attacked them, and It may be Japan's attack, oddly enough, which will weld the Chinese into a great nation. Meanwhile I doubt it any two peoples understand each other better, or have In them greater capacity for neighborly friendship, than Japan and China. Unless it be Germany and France. I always have thought those in Manhattan breweries New York producing center in the nation, popularity as great with local con the West. over Place In its later days, before that adjacent to the old Montauk Theater, a block further up Fulton St.

Cream ale, served with a rarebit, was a specialty here and the fame of "The Bank" at first catering only to men, grew so rapidly that the management was finally compelled greatly to enlarge it and to admit women. This was, in its essentials, an Eglish style chop house, with rarebits, broiled pig's feet, hearty stews, English mutton chops and other dishes appealing to the tastes of men patrons as the distinguishing items on the bill of fare Above, the bar of Fred Schumm's famous cafe, Fulton near Adams, and below, the bar of Raub's restaurant, now Joe's, Nevins near Flatbush Ave. The Insets are, left, of the late Herman Raub, and right, Fred Schumm, as he appeared when his piace was a mecca for the sporting element of Brooklyn. wiwcwwuaffOT two countries predestined to complete stood together they would dominate pose the other countries will see to OUR side of the world we in I I cation about our neighbors. Mexico, still less of Central it arid and which were washed down with all sorts of alcoholic libations.

One of the town's gay places was the cafe and restaurant of Herman Raub, Nevins St. near Flatbush now occupied by Joe's Restaurant, and where the first of Brooklyn's elaborate cabaret entertainments was given. Raub also organized the Consumers Park Brewing Company and was its president for seven years, and so popular was he personally that, in 1906, he was chosen King of the Coney Island Mardl Gras. Raub's, opened In 1907, later became the Ronzo. It had an elaborate and spacious countries there is an interesting and often beautiful civilization, which we can hardly afford to ignore.

From some points of view Mexico is probably the most engaging country When I was in school I got the idea that the Canadians went around in furs, like the Eskimo, and that South Americans went around In himself the other day as agree behavior of us Americans during said, that the British had stay and cordial co-operation. It they Europe, perhaps the world. I sup that they don't stand together. the United States need much edU' We know little of Canada, less of of South America. In all these on this tontinent.

not to blame for my false notions, not, and a man who may be InnO' we cannot give back to him. to say the least. by John Irjklnty- of ourselves ot foreigners because of "moral tur and I rather think the intellectual monopoly on the sort of barbarous rejoice. Poly Boys Leave Norfolk Tonight Special to The Eagle Hampton, March 28 The 14 members of the Brooklyn Poly Prep Orchestra who spent part of their Spring vacation here as guests at Hampton Institute, the Negro university, win leave Norfolk to night, arriving in Brooklyn tomor row. Yesterday the orchestra mem bers drove to Yorktown, Williams burg, Jamestown and other his tor leal points, picnicking in midday on the banks of the James River as guests of President Howe of Hamp ton.

In the evening they gave a concert for the Hampton students. PINNACLE WINS AT 1006 Warwick, England, March 28 UP) Mrs. Chester Beatty's Pinnacle, an American entry, at odds of 100 to 8, today won the Leamington Handicap Plate over a mile and two furlongs by three lengths from Lord Movies' Estate Duty, nothing. The school, I am sure, was Supreme Court Justice Paul Bonynge, who haa come to be regarded as the champion of the alimony payer, surprised member of the Alumni Association of St. John's College School of Law In Brooklyn last night when he let it be known that he is not in favor of any changes in the alimony laws aa they now stand.

The justice, who addressed mrm-bers of the Alumnt Association at tho Law School at 96 Schermerhorn gnve his views on divorce and alimony paying in response to a question from the floor. Though he has recently gained wide attention In view of decision favorable to certain individuals who have found themselves unable to meet the high cost of alimony paying, he said last night: 'Only Viewpoint Change' "It might surprise you if I tell you am not in favor of any change in the law. The only change should be in the point of view of tho Judse and In his approach to the matter of a particular case." Justice Bonynge recited a typical case wherein alimony and counsel fees were fixed by the court after oral argument by counsel. The alimony, he said, is usually fixed by pretty snap Judgment." He said that he had thrown out of court a number of actions where the wife had already secured alimony and where "in three or four cases had had the husband put la Jail for nonpayment of alimony." 'No Hard and Fast Law' Regarding prospective changes in the law, he said: "You can't lay down a hard and fast law. The judges must first be told to be more sympathetic and deliberate In awarding alimony He cited several specific cases, without mentioning names, where women have applied to him for alimony to which they were absolutely entitled and which, incidentally, they did not get.

Cites Cast-off Families But, he said, on the other hand, there are those husbands who hava made drudces of the women they marry and then cast them and their children aside for other women. "A husband of this sort," said Justice Bonynge, "turns to society and says, 'I have this new woman. Vou ran take care of the ojd It Is then that we say, 'Thank God for Without such implements as alimony, counsel fees and contempt, the Justice said, the court would bt impotent to decree Justice. RuggrsU Careful Reading He suggested that Justices read the papers carefully In each case before them and see the parties before fixing alimony and counsel fees. He said that certain women, wh0f.

cases have no merit, do not want to appear in court and are able to have trial of their actions put oft indefinitely by' one pretext or another. As a result, he said, "there are many men in Raymond Street Jail tontRht who have not had their day In court." 'Face Strange Problems' Justice Bonynge warned the lawyers that comprised his audlenca that they would be confronted by strange problems within the next few months, and certainly within the next few years. He told them, they would be astounded at soma of the changes that will come in th guise of law. Our insurance companies and savings banks. Justice Bonynge said, have withstood the deflation in stocks and bonds.

It la a serious question whether they can stand the full shock of tumbling values, of urban and suburban land values on mortgage holdings and weather the storm. 'Forced by Necessity' The astounding changes that will come In the guise of law, he said, will be ''wrought by the sheer necr s-slty of the times." These may include such things as the arbitrary deferment of the date on mortgages become due and the legislative reduction of the guaranteed interest on mortgages. Companies making mortgage loans and selling these loans with a guarantee, Justice Bonynge said, have been closed by the fiat of the Su-perlntondent of Insurance. He called such closing an sort of twilight sleep." He said that, according to the order to close, these companies function for some r'ir-poscs, while for others they are asleep or dormnnt. Thev nre declared tnsolvent.

he snld. pnr tr thev In the process of 'Cannot Meet Obligation' "Yet," he said, "they are not permitted to meet their contractual obligations." He said that the Constitution is under full sail only In fair weather, that when storm clouds appear only Us police power remains to hold it to Its course. Supreme Court Justice Philip A. Brennan and Dean George W. Matheson of the Law School wera Introduced before Justice Bonyng spoke and each spoke briefly.

Mines and Highways Guarded in Hiotircr Wst Frankfort, 111., March 28 UP) tfioclal deputy sheriffs putmlcd Franklin County highways and guarded mines today aa the bitter struggle between the United Mine Workers and the Progressive Miners' Union centered in the southern Illinois coal fields. One man waa killed and two wounded yesterday. but I picked them up during the years when I was supposed to be im 2 Brooklyn Fellowship Will Pursue Facts proving my mind. 'M AFRAID those countries which I lgnorantly misjudged have I sounder reasons for thinking meanly of us. At this moment they are reading about the Mooney case, with all its shadowy and shady and many of its brews achieved a sumers as those which came out of Many Old Breweries Many of the Brooklyn breweries of pro-prohibition days are still In existence, and on April 7, or as soon thereafter as the law allows, will again be supplying thirsty Brooklyn- ltes as in the old days.

It is more than probable that the actual consumption of beer in Brooklyn exceeded that of any city in the country, in view of the tremendous German-American population residing here, whole sections of the borough being given over almost entirely to this element, so that the Eagle Almanac of 1914, the year of the start of the World War, devoted nine full pages in agate type to listings of German-American societies and this newspaper carried a daily column devoted to the activities of these societies under the heading of "In German circles." Keen connoisseurs of lager, these old Brooklynitss found delight in the brews of Piel Brothers, Lieb-mann's, Trommer's, Peter Doelger, Consumers' Park, F. M. Schaefer. Hittelman, Michel, King's and others whose beer found equal favor with that of Ruppert's, Ehret's and other Manhattan breweries. Downtown Bars But beer was, of course, not the only alcoholic beverage called for in those days, and Brooklyn boasted many cafes and restaurants, each with a distinctive clientele, ana noted for its own particular type of hospitality.

Starting downtown, at Washing ton and Johnson was the Clar endon Hotel, still existent, and that, under the management of John Hill, had a cuisine the equal of any in New York. Here were gathered at luncheon or dinner some of the city's most prominent men, with a scattering of women. The Clarendon also had a famous bar where the choicest brands of liquors of every description were to be had and that was a frequent gathering place for politicians and office holders as well as for newspapermen and bon vlvants. Around the corner on Fulton Bt. was Silsbe's chop house, one of two restaurants of that name in Brook lyn, the other first located on Fulton St.

near Flatbush Ave. and later In the Offerman Building. Oppo site Silsbe's was the Assembly, which outlasted prohibition by several years. Hole in the Wall' In pierrepont near Fulton, was "the Hole In the Wall," a saloon of modest proportions that also served food and In which, in the afternoons, many a friendly game of pinochle was played. Proceeding up Fulton St.

to Adams, one came to the famous place of Fred Schumm, a mecca for the town's sporting element where millions of dollars in bets on political contests, prize fights and other events were placed with Fred Schumm aa stakeholder and betting commissioner. Schumm had spent practically his entire life in the liquor business, having worked for Barney McElroy at 152 Pierrepont St. and James Duffy at 52 Court St. before opening his own establishment in May, 1889. Now In the hat business.

Fred Schumm, who had a bar in the front of his place with a restaurant in the rear, may possibly become a boniface again in the event of prohibition "epeal, he said today. He does not think much of a beer-drinking regime that prohibits a bar and sees no opportunity for a successful business until repeal is accomplished in toto. He boasts the distinction of never having accepted a drink or a cigar from a customer and of never serving a woman with liquor, tchumm points out that there was no need of an Income tax in pre-prohlbition days, the revenue to the Government from liquor making it unnecessary. Mecca of Lawyers In Boerum Place, near Fulton in the basement of the Jefferson Building, headquarters of the Democratic County Committee, was the Court Cafe that dispensed liquor with meals and, as its name indicated, was a favorite place of lawyers, attaches and others having business in the nearby courts as well as of Democratic politicians. A block further along Fulton at the corner of Red Hook Lane, was the Imperial, a large restaurant that also maintained a famous bar where, in the late afternoons, free lunch, with Hungarian goulash, a piece de resistance, was liberally dispensed.

A block away was Gage Tollner's, one of the oldest of Brooklyn mating places, that In those days served beer, ale, stout and other drinks to its patrons. One of the most famous of all Brooklyn restaurants was King's, "The Bank," at Fulton St. and Han- GET THEIR REWARD IN STUDY aspects, perjured testimony and what cent passing in Jail the years which These countries may be reading also of the trial of those Negro boys in the South, a quest for justice in such an atmosphere of race antagonism as makes justice difficult, We can't be sure that outsiders, reading of such matters, will that you and I are decent folk, who would not willingly harm any living creature. (Copyright. 1933, A Few Kind Words bar and 1,000 patrons were accommodated in the main dining room, while on the upper floors were what was known as the Rose Garden and halls for beefsteak parties and other events.

A woman's orchestra supplied music and well known entertainers took part in a stage entertainment in the main dining room. Should the law allow, the old bar will be restored. Talk of serving beer at the theaters and which is now going the rounds recalls the rathskeller at Percy G. Williams' Orpheum Theater, where, during a 15-mlnute intermission, the patrons, both men and women, went downstanrs to a finely furnished room with a bar at Winners and Fancies Dr. Barbara McClintock work of other winners at the Whit ney Museum.

Norman Douglas himself, con trary to all protestations In his book, sent her to Capri as the original of that mysterious isle In the Medi terranean for her material. He even helped her buy her ticket at Cook's. "He was very casual about it," she grinned. "He told me to be fanci ful about the illustrations and to put plenty of vegetation In them. I still have a guUty feelln? that I didn't put In enough." Her treatment of any book, she said, is to Interpret Its feehnj in her drawings rather than tho literal Incidents of the story.

She is not in the least realistic in hrr work nor in her life. Her Interests, she said, center entirely In her drawing and not at all in such a practical matter as hniuse- keeping. Matthew Josrphson, a former one end where dlnks were served. either standing or sitting, as one preferred. Opposite the Orpheum, at Fulton St.

and Rockwell Place, was the Hof Brau House where there was also to be found, food, drink and entertainment and where, like ita namesake in Manhattan, beer was a favored beverage. Continuing up Flatbush Ave. to the Long Island depot was the Long Island Hotel, with a bar of Immense proportions and where travelers waiting for a train and other transients, made it one of the busiest cafes in the borough. Tomorrow Some Flatbush Oases Brooklyn Women Share $1,426,985 Walker Estate Four Brooklyn women are among the heirs to the estate of William Macy Walker, who died on Feb. 8, 1932, a transfer tax appraisal, filed In Manhattan Surrogate's Court today showed.

The grass estate is $1,662,899 and the net value la $1,426,985. Mrs. Grace Munsey of 352 E. 8th St. will receive an annuity of $5,000 from a $150,000 trust fund and three of Mr.

Walker's granddaughters. Cornelia Macy and Lorraine and Paula Walker, all of 570 1st will each receive $5,000 outright and income from trust funds established under the will. Mrs. Pauline D. Walker, the widow, of 29 E.

29th and a son, Isaac Henry Wnlker, of Putney, were both loft annuities from trust funds, the principals of which will pass to the granddaughters upon their death. Mr. Walker's holdings consisted for the most part of railroad, highway and bank securities. Healy Bequest to Chnrch A bequest of $1,000, In the principal of a mortgage, la made to the Rev. F.

J. Hcntz. pastor of the Church of Our Lady of Guadaloupe 72d St. and 15th "to be used In the erection of a new church building," in the will of James F. Healy, 1815 73d who died on March 15, which was filed for probate today In Surrogate's Court.

The documents on file make no estimate of the size of tlie estate. A bequest of $500 is made to a brother, JerPmlah J. Healy, and the residue Is left to his Mrs. Honora G. Healy.

of the 73d St. address. Margaret Lucy described as "also known as Lucy O'Calla-ghan." a former draident of Brooklyn, who died in London on Aug. 27 last, left an estate estimated at more than $20,000 in the will. The estaate la to be converted into a trust fund for a daughter, Mary T.

OConnor of London, until she reaiTies the age of 21 or is married, and then revert to a sister, Mary OCalla-ghan of Presentation Convent. Mulligan County. Ireland Lena RIndlaub. 821 Lincoln Plare, who died March 20, left an estate estimated as more than It is not so long ago that we intellectuals of the U. S.

A. used to with a sort of reverse-English patriotism, over the uncivilized spectacle we Americans were making Evolution-hemy trials, exclusion pitude," Ku Klux Klans and prohibition gave us a unique distinction, No other country had those things and none was as barbarous We intellectuals liked to point with shame-faced pride at the civilizations of Europe. And now look at the things we have left to point at Klan and prohibition and monkey trials and turpitudinous morality are gone, and across the ocean we see England with its comic-opera treason trial, Russia with sabotage heresies, Italy with a drive for babies, uermany wim niuer Barbara McClintock Will Study General Genetics Mrs. Petrina to Pursue Art Work Brooklyn's two Guggenheim fel lowship winners, both women, will now Journey to foreign lands, the one to pursue her facta and the other her fancies. The announcement of the awards yesterday found Dr.

Barbara Mc Clintock at the California Insti tute of Technology, working as she has been for the past two years, upon special research in the field of genetics. It is hard, cold facts that she wttl study In her next year, facts that will, she hopes, go toward proving a revolutionary tncory of general heredity that she has advanced. But Mrs. Carlotta Petrina, the other woman who won the fellowship, will have little to do with facts and a great deal with fancies when she sets sail for Paris and six months' work upon the illustrations for a book. Illustrated 'South Wind' Her imaginative illustrations for a limited edition of Norman Doug-las' "South Wind'' were respoaslble for two recent steps In her life: her decision to make the illustrating of fine books her life work and her application for the fellowship.

The latter, she confesses, she did "because it was the thing to do" and waa most surprised when she was chosen. Dr. McClintock, who is Just 30 years old, is a Brooklyn girl, the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Thomas McClintock of 158 Rutland Road.

She received the first notice of her award along with the earthquake, which she shared with Einstein, who waa working at the institute at the same time. She was graduated from Erasmus Hall High School and from Cornell University, taking her Ph.D. at the early age of 25. But she began her scientific observations at the age of 3 with a most unscientific and rather bloodthirsty deduction. "I know," she said where you can get blood.

It cornea from straw berries." Since then, her auither related yesterday, she has spent her time in such researches with, however, an Increasing accuracy in her con clusions, Eh combines, her mother said, Mrs. Carlotta Petrina an Intensely Inquiring nature with a great love of athletics. She is particularly good at fancy skating. For the past two years she has been working on Rockefeller fellowships and she will use the latest award for study in the mechanisms of heredity at the Kaiser Wilhclm Institute for Biology in Berlin. The Petrina family would make a study In heredity for Dr.

McClintock. for the Italian looking and sounding Carlotta Petrina turned out to be born in Kingston, N. the only daughter of Gilbert and Hplen Kennedy. But her Italian husband, Joseph Petrina, a teacher In art at Pratt Institute, haa blond hair and blue eyes. They live and have their studio at 51 Poplar which they refuse to dignify, by calling Brooklyn Heights "because it Is too low." Mrs.

Petrina has heretofore been known for her lithographs, some of which are in the print collection of the Brooklyn Museum and that of I the New York Public Library. Now 31 years old, she -married when she was but 20 and both she and her husband were studying at the Art Students League In New York. Her illustrations of "South Wind," done In pencil, were done in Capri. There are 84 altogether and fame are at present on exhibit with the 1 think there is a moral In all that, moral is that no single nation has a stupidities that make lis intellectuals Some Restaurant Chains to Sell Beer Some of the- large chain restau- rants will serve the legalized 3.2 percent beer, others have decided against it, and still others have reached no decision, spokesmen for the various interests disclosed today. In some of the Chllds restaurants beer will be sold as an experiment, It was announced, and final policy will be based on the results.

Other restaurants which plan to serve the beverage are the St. Regis chain, the C. L. Lunch Cempany, the Sterling Sandwich Shoppea. the Sherman Cafeteria and the Tip Toe Inn.

Frank O. Shattuck, speaking for the Schraft chain, said beer never had been sold and that he saw no reason for a change in, policy. The Ewhange Buffet Corporation is waiting to "see how everything works out" before making a Brooklynite, who now lives in $5,000 In personal property and real Gaylordsvllle, was also property comprising lota in Masaa-among the winners of the Ciug- pequa and Amltyvlllc. L. I.

The genhclm awards. Mr. Josephson, i real property and a $500 bequest who left Brooklyn about ten years are left to a cousin, Scott Jones, of ago, has been a newspaperman, a Westlield, Mass. Bequests of $500 broker, a magazine editor, book each are made to Blanche Oabrlel editor of Macaulay's and of recent i of Jersey City and Mary Lloyd, 187 years an author and magazine Woodruff and the residue is writer. Among hla books are "Jean loft equally to Mrs.

Annabelle Jones Posscau" and "Zola and of Wcstfleld, and Mrs. Fanny Hla Time." Klrby of 420 State St..