News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1896-05-14
SUPPLEMENT.


q. DO you recall his manner A. | think II
was George b. Smith; he sold clothing. He
was very noisy at times.
Q. Now, In the dining room when you
acted as head waiter, what was the process
by which payment for intoxicating liquors |
was effected? A. In regard to a mixed drink |
at the table, cannot say that l had any |
knowledge Of that, but as to bottle of wine |
or bottle of beer, would order it, serve it |
and have it charged, but sometimes they |
would pay for it at the table; sometimes |
they would pay for il before and bring the |
money to the office, but mostly 1t was
charged TO them.
Q. Did parties, with several in the party,
occasionally meet there for card playing for
several hours when this sort of entertain
ment was furnished to them from time to
timer A. Yes, sir.
@. And how frequently did that happen
do not suppose that you can tell how many
times a week or month? A. could not tell
anything about how many times, some even
ings, and especially Sunday evening, good
many commercial travellers would come to-
gether, or perhaps through the week or Sun
day afternoon; it may occur perhaps none
in a week, and then it would be three or
four or five parties in a week and perhaps
like that, but as to how many | could not
say.
Q. And would the entertainment for such
parties be repeated during the evening, that
is, would they require entertainment from
hour to hour as the evening went along?
A. What do you mean, reciprOcate back, one
| another in drinks and such as that?
@. Yes, would the parties have to be
served several times? A. Yes, sir, it would
not be very long at time when they would
Order-it would not be very long between
times that the bottle was empty and when
they would order again.
@. You get my idea now, don't you, that
the party sitting down to play cards would
perhaps every hour or every three quarters
of an hour or every hour and a half, they
would want to be served again with in
! toxicating liquOrs2 A. | would get pint
| bottle, would get pint bottle in the early
part of the evening, it might last an hour or
1t might last two hours, then would get
another one and perhaps it would be three or
four, perhaps sometimes only one or two,
more or less, as would be in the party
Q. When the compensation for intoXicat-
| ing liquors was furnished at the office, where
was the money taken from, taken right from
the money till? A. 1t was taken from the
money drawer.
Q. During your entire period of service
| there, how frequently did you have to render
entertainment in furnishing such enter
tainment to the guests of the hotel?
A. As / said before, 1t might be very
often at times and then again 1t
might be quite awhile, but | would say rarely
Il day passed that something was not bought
by myself or by some other boy, but as | was
the oldest boy there in the EMPLOY of Mr..
Woodbury., and through Mr.. Clark | always
on his side surrendered my whole service the
number of years | was there, and therefore
in that light when they saw me doing so and
in the right manner they gave me more
privileges about that house than any other
boy that ever worked there.
Q. Perhaps your long continued period OF
| ont tbot
do that business properly? A. Mr.. Clark
never objected at any time, when he was
back of the otlce-he never objected to my
going after any liquor, that is, in regard to
its benefiting me, and only wanted me to see
that the guests were supplied in the right
manner.
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@. Now come back to the question, did
Mr.. Clark know that what you had to dc
with furnishing liquor to guests was matter
of profit to you: he didn't know that you in.
creased your income there by what you did
in that line? A. Only in this way, many
time could have got liquor in-he was per
fectly willing; can't say that he really ever
objected to my going out but what he knew
that was to make something upon it. Mr.
Clark knew that | got this little dividend
back upon those bottles, as | used to get al
least from dollar to two dollars a month OIL
! bottles; that he knew
Q. What was done with the empty bottles
A. That Is what am speaking of.
@. What was done Immediately after they
they were taken from the room? A. The
empty bottles, when | would serve tbs
liquors in the rooms, | would say, ''Wil
you kindly leave the vial in the dressing cas-,
drawer or leave it in the stand drawer,
because that was my little point in getting
that little ten cents for pint, of five cent
? for half pint bottle.
@. Did you accumulate these empties? A
, All the time, and returned them back to thu
place that got them from.
q. In quantities? A. The bottles that
had there in the house, that was my own lit
, tie business. Some | would keep, but mos
all of them went back.
@. In returning the bottles, did you return
them In quantities or did you return then
one at time? A. | never returned under
dozen at time
@. Now, was there, aside from what yol
: say about the conCealment of cocktails wheI
Z you brought them into the house, was ther,
any attempt at cOnCealment in the FURNISHING
of guests with this entertainment either IL
their rooms or on the dining room tables
/ did you attempt to cover it up in any way
! that you were doing that kind of service
, A. | know in this light Mr.. Clark use(
J to know when l had the parties on that
: would get stuff ahead sometimes, because
could not get it in late, he knew that.
Q. Now, wine or ale or anything of tina
kind, when it was served at the dining table
| were there any precautions taken that othe
people present should not observe what wa
: going on? A. Sometimes we would have /
T right out in the sink In two or three or foul
{ or five bottles put up in a pail of ice, whicl
f didn't seem to be covered up very much.
I @. Do you mean that you used to havt
liquors, ale wine and beer in quantities Their
| at the hOtely A. | cannot say that we haC
wine in quantities, but in regard to quaint
il ties of beer of Bass ale, do say so.
( Q. And were those both intoxicating liz
4 uors? A. Yes, sir.
i Q. And how large quantities would yol
r have on hand for the service of guests: A
@ The service for guests l should think mOstl,
f was gotten to order; If | was on late watcl
r at night, and knew ! was on late watch.
L would 20 over and get half dozen eXtr
n bottles; | always kept more of half pint
than | would of pints.
Il @. You kept them in the refrigerator read
r for guests as they called for it? A. Not il
!, the refrigerator; | had my own little place
r for it.
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s Q. Do you remember some one occasion
& that there was fair or something when an
|. considerable number of small bottles of liquo
y. were brought into the hOtel in anticipation
A. During the state fairs | used to get quit
\, | Il large quantity duBdu uHstll'
Q. How large quantities? A. Perhaps
e had two dozen half pints and perhaps
d dozen pints.
r O. Where did you keep it? A. Well,
!, used to hide it most anywhere.
a Q. Now, with reference to the service II
IS the dining room, asked you few moment:
o ago whether there was any attempt to con
II zeal from other people In the dining room
y the fact that guests were being served, wa
& 1t done openly right in the dining room, die
they have it right on the table openly? A. |
1t was placed right at their places, poured on
G to them In glass just the same as you g
d down into the cafe of this building and hav,
il served at table.
G O. Was there ever, to your knowledge
g any attempt to serve in any way so that on,
sitting near by would not observe that th,
y guests were drinkngY A. No, sir.
o Q. You spoke about the cOncealment o
cocktails; what did you mean by that, how
1t did you conceal it? A. / would take then
o sometimes in a side pocket, or have 1t so
Il could put a paper over it, but | woul,
!. always bring 1t in beer glass, not cocktail
= glass.
II @. With reference to the billiard room
5 seryice-I don't know as you know anythtn,
r about what was going on in che billiard
r room, whether the parties playing billiard
: would have Intoxicating liquors served L
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