News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1896-05-14
FREDERICK A. GOODWIN.
Experiences of a Medical Student i'm
darlington.

FREDERICK A. GOODWIN.
Experiences of a Medical Student i'm
Burlington.
Frederick A. Goodwin of New York, In
deposition taken at New York February D,
1896, said that he was practicing physician,
that he graduated at the Burlington medical
school in 1887 and was in the school through
the two college years preceding. He often
went to the Van Ness house in 1886 and 1887
and took meals there. The examination pro-
ceeded:-
Q. Will you state whether you ever ordered
any liquor or drunk alcoholic drink at the
table? A. did.
Q. Will you state in what way the order
was given, and how it was served to you!
A. Either to the waiting girl or to the head
waiter
o. And how was it served? A. 1t was
served in the usual way.
Q. What kind of liquor did you order at
the table? A. As a usual thing, beer or ale.
@. Was it brought to you in bottles!
A. Yes, sir.
o. state whether it was opened at the
table or in the dining room! A. believe
so.
Q. Did you drink at public table? A.
did.
q. You have been at other hotelsS A.
Yes, sir.
o. Was there any difference in the way the
beer or ale was served to you at the Van Ness
house and the way it has been served to you
at other hotels? A. No, there was not.
o. Was there any secrecy in giving the
order? A. No.
O. Did you usually take your meals, when
you ordered beer or ale, in company with
...11, A In, hot
Q. Have you ordered ale or beer and drunk
It at the table in the dining room at the Van
Ness house? A. have.
C. When others were sitting at the same
table with you? A. | have.
@. And have you seen others do the same
thing? A. ] have.
O. Will you state whether or not from
your observation it was a usual thing for
people to order liquor in the dining room at
and 1887 and have it served, to them? A..
Yes, sir
o. Did you see that thing done by people
other than yourself? A. have; yes.
@. You say you had ale or beer to drink
at the table; how did you pay for it! A. To
| my recollection, at the office.
Q. You say at the office; did you pay for
it separately from the charge for the meal. or
| did you pay for it in paying the charge for
that one pays for such things.
Q. That is how2 A. The whole thing to-
gether.
desk.
Q. To the clerk at the desk? A. Yes, sir.
| @. Who were the clerks at the Van Ness
house that you remember during the years
1856 and 1887? A. Herbert Clark and a
young clerk named Griffin.
| n IND did Won nav the money. the price
of the meal, and the ale or beer, to one OF
| these clerks? A. | did.
Q. State whether or not you saw othel
| people pay in the same way to one OF Tho
clerks for meals and liquor which had beer
served at the table? A. Yes, sir.
@. On more than one occasion? A. I'm
doubtedly.
O. Will you please state whether you eve
saw liquor served in any other rooms in tn
Van Ness house than in the dining room
A. / have.
@. Please state all you can in regard t
TINT? A. / remember distinctly three occa
A. State what they were? A. The frs
occasion was the graduating night Of 1886.
@. That was in about what month? A
July.
@. July, 1886; what do you remember o
that occasion? A. After the reception at tn
| Van Ness house house was over party, cor
sisting of DR.. Jackson of Barre, VT; Dr
Frazier of Prince Edward Island, gradu
ate of 1886; myself and others went into tn
reading room back of the main offic
of the Van Ness house for a ger
eral conversation. Some one propose
having drinks; beer was ordere
and was brought by bell boy in the hote
Several rounds were served and we RENAME
in that room perhaps an hour. We divide
up the expense aud paid it to the bell boy
the bell boy was paid for the drinks.
@. You spoke of bell boy; did you knON
him to be one of the employees of the house
A. did.
Q. Did you frequently see him prior an
subsequent to this time? A. Yes, sir.
Q. Can you describe himY A. ! have fol
gotten his name ne was a large negro, wit
{ | a short black beard, and very flat feet;
man who had been there a long time, an
: who | had frequently seen around there.
@. Do you remember any other OccasiO
s when liquor was served to you? A. Yes, sil
q l do.
@. When was It; please state all 20
recollect about it? A. During the secon
I winter carnival, think in the year 1887,
? with party of friends met two men fTol
: Boston. We went TO the Van Ness hous
| should say about o'clock one afternoon
:. we went upstairs and had a bOttl
of champagne; we went to one of the ger
i tlemen's rooms and had bottle of chan
I payne there at his invitation. We then wer
! down stairs into one of the rooms back c
the reading room on the main floor, an
!. there had several bottles of wine.
4 q. How many were in the party, about
, | A. Six or seven.
a Q. State how the wine that you drank VI
3 stairs and that you drank downstairs wa
: ordered, and how 1t was paid for? A. 1t Wa
! ordered from the bell boy and it was paid O
far as | was concerned, ii was paid for
D the time we had it.
/ Q. Did you pay for one of the bottles? A
c One or more of the bottles.
D @. And how did you pay for 1t? A.. A
D the time the wine was served paid the be
boy.
Il @. On either of these occasions did 70
give the money to the person from whOi
D | you ordered the wine and tell him 70 20 gu
side of the house and get it? A. No, nevG
did.
| Q. Do you remember any other occasion
t A. On the night of the graduation of 1855
a my graduating year, Mr.. p. W. Clement G
! Rutland, Vt, came to Burlington. w
I went to the Van Ness house TO the reception
After the reception he went to his room, an
!, there he opened bottle of wine in honor {
{ | the occasion.
Q. Do you know how that wine was o.
deredI A. From the bell boy in the usu
| way.
q. Now, when wine or liquor OF any kline
so far as yOur observation goes, was serve
I lin any of the rooms at the Van Ness house
N was there any different way of ordering IL |
the Van Ness house from what you observe
in other hotelsY No, sir.
DIR. WILLIAM o. MOORE.