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actors was seen as a significant intrusion into the restaurant operation run by Ortenblad at Stadt Hamburg and also by the owners of the city's first-class hotels, Tornquist at Hotel Gustav Adolv and Fritz Kramer
at Hotel Kramer, who, like Ortenblad, had also received an extended serving time, could not reconcile with the uniformity shown to the Tunneln restaurant. It was soon found by the police department that during the fall and winter months, the police had to intervene multiple times against drunk people who left Tunneln at 11-12 PM and caused disturbances on the streets and disturbed the peace of the neighbor- hood, as well as against those who behaved disorderly and offensively within the establishment. The police believed that the cause of these disturbances was the fact that "anyone who wanted could be served" at Tunneln, which did not happen at the aforementioned hotels. Because of these circumstances, on the recommendation of the police chief, Philip Wester, by the decision of the city council on January 29, 1876, the consul Friis was informed that the right to operate the Tunneln restaurant was restricted no longer than until 11 PM and was ordered to close the establishment and not allow guests to stay any longer, citing the regulations in the Royal Decree on the conditions for selling spirits of September 18, 1874 and the special regulations for the city.
However, due to the disorders that occurred within and outside the restaurant, and as Friis found it inappropriate to let the establishment be run by a woman, he had already acquired a "reliable head" who could maintain order. This could have been done much more easily as the former manager had resigned her lease due to marriage by the end
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