Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-05-22
he FINDS SALOONS IN FULL BLAST
And Fills His Poor Little Craw With
All Sorts Of Bad Corn
Juice.
"OLD DCAP'S LAST, GREATESTRIYAL.
"SPsctl.,ei Cho.ly,' the Boy Detective Who
Was Born on Bright Sunday Noru-
Ing, Wins Glory off Of the Red
Handed, B,Ooiy-M.niei
Maine Sl.0Ol.Sl

New YORK. May 2l.--A Portland, Me g,
special says The agitation in West Viz
gjuia over a proposed prohibitory amend
meut in that State has led several persons
10 write to prominent temperance men in
Maine asking for an exact statement IS to
the practical working of the liquor law
here
\ great many replies have been gent de-
failing the excellent effect OF the cOnstitu-
tional amendment telling in glowing
terms how rum has at last been banished
from the pioneer prohibition State, and
saying that not q glass Of liquor Is now TO
be had for love or money.
The letters were read in public AT several
temperance meetings in West Virginia,
and had a marked effect until New York
paper reached there some weeks ago, with
an accurate and circumstautial account Of
the discoveries OF corresT )ndeut who
was sent through Maine - ind out exactly
bow the liquor law works,
Charles Burdette Hart, of the Wheeling
Mf,HigtRgsr, came to Maine on q tour Of in
yestigatlon for himself q short time ago.
M. Hart arrived here with the belief that
the paper mu-t Hc mistaken, hat before he
had been In town tweuty-t0urs hours he
cOuCluded thst tue correspondent had made
a truthful and unbiased report Mrs. Hart,
who accompanied her husband was en-
thusiastic in her support OF the prohibitory
law, hasiDg her belief on the letters she
had read.
Mr.. aud Mrs. Hart reached here on sat
urday night aad remained over Sluday At
first class hotel At dinner to their
profound astOnlshment, guest seated op-
pcsile them ordered a bottle OF wine, aud
tue waiter, in q matter OF fact way, drew
the cork and filled the g.ass. Still think
ing that an exc ptiou 70 the law had been
witnessed EiItOr Hart started ont the
next morning for a stroll about town. 10
two hours he retained aud told his wife
that he hsd visited over forty saloons
where liquor was sOld openly by the glass
Thoroughly surprised at what had been
discovered, be determined TO probe the
matter 10 the bottom, and took his depart
ure with his wife for Augusta The first
thing Mr. Hart did on arriving in Augusta
VAS TO 20 To- the State Library In the Capt.
toI with the expectation that IL wGs well
stocked with prohibition literature. i"
his further s-tODIshmsut search from
Hoor % ceiling failed to unearth a
single volume treating Of prohIbl-
tiou or dealing with tine forbid
den traffic In any way. In a
tour about town he found without much
difficulty, some practical illustrations oi
the workings o, the prohIbitory law. He
had been informed that there were several
places M Augusta where 1t was possible
Tor the weary traveller 10 -lake his thirst,
and a large number OF saloons was visited
aud liquor purchsSed IN nearly every one
At one part OF Water street, in a length OF
about four hundred yards, he found nine
bars where liquor was sold, and
PURCHASED LIQUOR HIMSELF
or saw il bOughtat every one OF them. He
visited twenty shops where liquor was
sold openly during the two days he was IN
Augusta. aud ascertainlt that upward OF
thirty special licenses had been taken out
by Augusta dedlerz
But this was not all He called upon
one OF the ,eadlug citizens, a pronounced
temperance man, aud asked him If he was
aware OF the extent OF the liquor traffic IN
the city and that rum was being sold open |
ly on the street. The Augusta gentleman /
proi-ssed auBE ameut aud said the author |
itips would no. allow Il. The West YIr-
glulln 10 his t1ru was surprised and in .
formed the citizen OF what he had seen 7.
with his own rye-.
Editor Hart continued his travels to /
Bangor, where the condition of arurs was /
even worse than ia Portland and Augusta. |
The hotel me stopped at was equipped with .
q 6rst-class bar room, and guests had only .
% press au electric button and the hell boy |
promptly served the best brands of liquors .
and wines which money could buy. Here
again a formidable array Of open rum shops .
were discovered, and liquor flowed freely .
on every hand. Mr.. Hart also visited .
other cities IN the State and in nearly all
found the same condition OF affairs as IN
the Others. lie leaves the State with no
very Hlttgriug opinion OF the efficacy Of
amendments aud il at loss to .
account for such q condition OF affairs in .
the banner prohibition State.