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

Mr.. Lambisaid thatihe was's teacher. in New
York, but went through the regular course
in the university and during all four years
did some service as clerk in the Van Ness
house lS9O-lS93. His examination, con- |
Quoted by Mr.. Wilds, proceeded thus:-
o. While you were acting in the capacity Of |
clerk in that hotel how did the guests of the |
hotel obtain entertainment, in respected in
toXicating beverages, il they. did. and If you
know A. | could not say positively that
the guests received any liquors; the only
way ! could guess at such thing was the
fact that the bell boy would get permission
to 90 on an errand, aud when questioned
where they were going they would say to
the drug store; they would 90 to any drug
store they wished, sometimes boy would
go to La Fountaine's or Stems, according to
his choice.
Q. What was the process by which those
boys could be sent out on those errandsy n.
When call was made from the enuncator
boy would be sent up, and the guest would
want him to go on an errand for Linn, he
would come to the office and say he wanted
TO go out for the guest.
O. What followed? A. He would say he
was going to drug store or perhaps to
clothing store, a man wanted a collar, and
perform his errand or message aud come
back.
Q. Did the bell boy always have to make
| known to you, as the clerk, where he was
goingy A. He would make it known, per-
haps, occasionally know occasionally
| boy was allowed to 90 out without my know
| ing precisely where he was going, just simply
| on an errand.
Q. But generally he made known to you
where he was going? A. Yes, generally.
Q. And did you furnish him with funds
| TO go on his errand? A. In case he had not
enough money; occasionally he would not
| have any money; very often | suppose the
| guest would give him the money if there was
| any purchase to be made, and at other times
| when the boy hadn't money he would bOr-
| row the money of me.
Q. Where did you get the money from: A.
| would borrow the money of the till and
make an account of it.
| Q. Where did you make the account? A..
| memorandum as reminder; | would some
times, always in fact, put the amount loaned
| the boy. calling it cash on the ledger, on the
| register rather in lead pencil, so that 1t could
be erased as soon as the boy paid, and that is
the only record of the account that was kept.
@. Was the entry on the register made OPP
| posite the name of the guest from whose
| room the call came? A. Yes; on the regis
ter the same line that the name was of the
man occupying that room
| Q. And how was the house reimbursed for
that money? A. In different ways; at times
the guest would pay the charge with his bill ;
at other times, and as was preferred and the
boys directed, he would collect the money
himself from the guest and pay me back
what had loaned him.
| @. When guest paid his bill at the office,
if it had not been paid before, the money
that was furnished at the office was then paid
by he guest? A. 1t was paid by the guest
| n paiH of bo nfipo hV tbo ptpgtr A
That was the only place he could pay; yes,
| @. Some of the time the boy collected the
money of the guest and returned it to the
office, and some of the time the guest paid
directly at the desk? A. Sometimes he
would get the money from the guest and pay
me the money | had loaned him.
| q. But did 1t happen not infrequently that
the guest paid himself at the office? A.
don't know exactly about infrequently; more
frequently it was paid the other way.
Q. Less frequently it was paid at the office
by the guest? A. Yes less frequently.
Mr.. Lamb went on testifying about the
packages brought in by boys after the!
returned from these errands, saying that
they were of various sorts and sizes, and
said that he thought boy went out to a drug
store at least once day. He continued -
O. Did you ascertain what these boys
went TO the drug stores for? A. Never.
@. Did you try to? A. 1t was none Of
my business what they brought into the
house, if they didn't bring explosives or any
thing of that kind, didn't care what they
brought in.
| Q. Did you try to ascertain what theil
errands were A. Never that | can REGAL
did | ask boy what he was going to buy hC
would get so much money, perhaps as mucl
as 30 cents-then | must take that back,
think what | said about asking the boy
when he would ask for large amount o
money, say matter of dollar and half,
would ask him what he was going to get
and he said he would have to get bottle o
claret or bottle of champagne, then | would
know it was all right to let him have tn,
, | money.
the boy applied for was above a tritlin!
amount, that is above a half dollar, was i
your custom to inquire of them what they
) wanted it for? A. If it was up to tina
amount, if 1t was in that vicinity, ! SHOULD
always ask the boy, because would want Il
know what it was for.
After some questions as to card parties
ETC., in rooms evenings the examination con
tinued in regard to bell boy errands -
@. Was there any reason why you ddn'
care to know what their errands were
A. Well, from my first experience | knew
, the proprietor's feelings in the matter of pro
! hibitiOn, and while have never been spoke
to directly about it, was little fraid of a
my time being called upon to explain why
+ let the boys go out for liquor by Co
Woodbury.; he was colonel then.
q. Did you ever have any instruction
, from any one in tn management of the hOtG
with reference to the furnishing of intOXicat
, ing liquors to the guests, with reference t
your duties as clerk in that respect? A.
= think my knowledge of the proceeding wa
/ from observation; | noticed what Mr.. CLAIR
, did when boy came down and don't reca
that he ever told me what to do, but TO
lowed his example.
Cross-eXamined by Mr.. Foster the witnes
said that there was never any liquor in tn
, house owned by the house to which servant
could go, but that guests sometimes had win