Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1890-05-09
essex County Asrald.
ISLAND POND, Vt. MAY 9.
A Reply Wanted.


Woodbury., bar exists over winch
intoxicating liquors are sold con-
trary to the law" Col. Woodbury.
denounces this statement as "a stu
pendous lie" and says "eyery citizen
of Burlington knows il to be So"
lie further says "wheu bought the
Van Ness House nine years ago
there was a bar which contained
some liquors; these | had removed
and none has been kept i'll the house
for sale or to he furnished or given
away. The same may be said OF
the American House that is used for
hotel purposes that | rent. There
is a billiard room and telegraph
Office in the American Hotel build
ing which | have never rented nor
had any more control of than the
Ed tor of the Landmark"
Here Col. Woodbury. is accused
Of owning hotel where intoxicating
liquors are sold. In effect he replies:
No liquors are sold in the Van Ness
House which | own. Mono in that
part of the American House which
/ rent. | rent all of it, but the
Billiard room and Telegraph office,
which | do not rent and have no
control Of.
Billiard room and Telegraph
office! Why does Col. Woodbury.
refer to them? No one has said
anything about his keeping any Bill
lard room and - oh all ! - very
stupid of us - we see now - like
the boy, we never heard it called by
that name before. Col. Woodbury.
means what in the rural portions Of
Vermont is called a Bar, Saloon, or
when an attempt is made to be very
sly, "the back Office" but he gives
to it the more refined and metro
politan name of Billiard room and
Telegraph office" Well Colonel
call it by what name suits you best.
1t is liquor annex to Burlington
Hotel which is run in your interest
all the same--the hotel not the
annex, and as We ale used to the
old fashioned name we will stick to
it. We might get mixed on the
Burlington name.
Now Col. Woodbury. will you
please answer a few straight ques-
tons?
LIST. Is it not true that in the
part OF the American House not
rented by YOU bar is kept, and did
YOU not know Of its existence when
you rented the main part Of the
building?
2nd. Was it not to avoid the
name and lespo nsibility of being the
proprietor of a liquor saloon that
You did not rcut that part of the
building called by you the Billiard
room and Telegraph Office?
3rd. l. ii not true that the part
of the American House not rented
by you was in fact, with your
knowledge, rented by one or more
Of the managers OF your Hotels OF
by some parties in their int crest?
I'll. Is it not a fact that this
Bar" not rented by you is, with
your knowledge, run alongside an(
in connection with your Hotels, anC
is there not just the same free com
munication between your part Of
the American House and the Ba
that there always was?
9Th. Men who have been guest
of tic American House have state,
that upon application at the otiic
of the Hotel for something to drinI
a card bearing some kind of legen'
was given teen, and on presenting
this at the Bar in the Billiard room
and Telegraph office they obtaine'
wha. liquor they wanted. Is thi
true, and did you know it?
9th. Other guests Of the Va
Ness House have stated that bee
and wine are served to guests at tn
table. Whether the beer and win
is furnished by the hotel and charge
in the bill, or whether it is procure
elsewhere aud brought to the hote
by the guests our informant did nc
know, but the hotel walters opene
the bottles and served the guest
Is this true, and did you know
Colonel?
The HERALD is not Prohibtio
paper. 1t advocates License la
as beng much better for all tina
the present Prohibitory law. III
HERALD also advocates opennes
frankness, candor, in all, especial
or the part of those who are seekn
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