The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-07-24
Asked to Take Something i'm Portland.

The Bulletin" recently asked the
ADVERTIsER to explain the fact that
the consumption of whisky in Ire
land had fallen off by very large
amount owing to the closing OF public
houses on Sunday. The figures ex-
plain themselves. The law was en-
forced, and the sale of spirits fell OF.
And now would the "Bulletin" ex-
plain the following dispatch to the
Boston "Globe," which exhibits how
the working of the Maine liquor law
appeared to members of the Grand
Army of the Republic, lately in the
capital of Maine:
BROCKTON, June 25th. = Fletcher
Webster Post, No. Is, G. A. r., re-
turned to Portland on the O'Clock
train tonight, and were met at the
| depot by James A. Garfield Camp, Sons
of Veterans, headed by the Sons OF
Veterans band, and the Cunning
ham Rifles doing escort duty. AS the
procession moved down Main street,
which was packed with people,
Martland's band, for the first time on
the streets, of Brockton, played the
new march composed by Director w.
F. Burrell, and dedicated to the
favOrite local statesman, Colonel
Whipple. AS an acknowledgment
of the compliment, Colonel Whipple
invited the band to an elaborate sup
per at the Hotel Belmont, with the
Mayor and Board of Alderman. Pre-
viOus to the repast the Colonel
had just returned from a prohibitory
State, and as the hotel was unfortu-
nately within 400 feet of a school
house, with prohibitory Mayor and
restrictive Board of Aldermen
present, the time would be strictly
informal and prohibitory.
When the cigars were passed
around the veteran "Billy" Mart
land thanked the host of the evening
for the generous repast provided, and
stated that the band had found it
harder work to get something to eat
this week than to drink. Why,
he said, I chad no sooner reached
Portland than I was asked to take |
something, and we adjourned to Ho-
tel -, but the stuff was very poor,
SO we went to Hotel -, and it was
not much better, but as happened to |
have certificate that I was o. K,
we went to an apothecary's store |
where the goods are more palatable |
)applause; Colonel Whipple is a
but not being quite salts
fled we adjourned to still another |
apothecary, and there we were well |
The next day We went to |
Old Orchard and 1 asked the land |
lord of the hotel where stopped if / !
couldn't get something to take. ooh, |
no." said he, 1--WE don't sell anything |
here" [ asked him how long that |
had been so, and he asked what I |
meant, when 1 replied that No. Z
used to contain enough, and when he |
was reminded of the Knight Tenn
plars' excursion from Massachusetts,
he said: "Here, John, show this man
to No. 2" 1t was different room
with the same old fixin's. An old |
army friend frem Michigan and an
other from Iowa subsequently piIoted
me to their respective-places, and
before [ left 1 decided that Maine was
not so prohibitory as Brockton under
Mayor Keith.
1t should be added that the Grand
Army Encampment will be held in
San Francisco next year, where every
man takes care of his own eating and
drinking, and where, as a leading
newspaper states, the Grand Army
will see less drunkenness than thew
lid in prohibition Maine.