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

| V ANY other Dell boy nave access. A. No,
sir; only my night clerk.
O. Do you recall a time in 'g3 about Gov.
Woodbury. calling your attention to the
Transaction of BOYS getting % cents or some
money at the counter to 20 out for some
thing. A. do, very distinctly.
q. Since that time have bell boys 10 your
knowledge, at the Van Ness house, been
given any money to 60 out for intoxicating
| liquor. A. No, sir, not to my knOB led q
and l don't think they have.
2. Has 1t been, all the years you have been
there, a common thing for guest 10 require
small amount Of cash. A. Oh, yes, that Is
quite common.
q. Has it been since that time common
thing for guest to want and for you or your
clerks to supply the guest with small amou 5
of money. A. Yes.
2. You have taken pains to 90 over The
register for 1894 to determine how much c. =.
10 driblets you have handed out to guests. A.
| Yes, have.
Q. How much did it foot up. A. shonll
say IN round number something like S4!j
about that amount.
Q. Give some of the instances, some OF tho
purposes. A. Well, there would be thu.
sand things wanted in a hotel-perbnps
wanted TO have a check cashed that "A guest
couldn't get cashed that night and if [ couII
would; II couldn't he would say Give
me half dollar and will paw YOU when /
cash the check" Or they might want 10
send out and get their clothes pressed, or
buy flowers or laundry, or a thousand an
one things, different things to let a gentle
man have cash for 10 accommodate him. and
| always have done 1t, express matter, etc.
Q. Have you gone through the register r
the year 1872 TO determine how much yod
handed out. A. Yes.
Q. How much did that amount to. A, In
round numbers something like $3.50, SON
where near thai
@. The amount varies from year to wear.
| A. Varies, of course; sometimes largn
amounts, sometimes small; sometimes peo-
| pie have C.. .. ID. packages, and let IN ,uey
| out for that and charge them.
| Q, You took 1892; that is the year before
| YOU had this talk with Gov. Woodbury., and
1894, the year succeeding that. A. Yes, Si-.
| Q. Ana you took the calendar years, froAl
June to June. A. Yes, Jan. to Jan. or April
| to April; Jan. to JAN, think.
| Q. Have you had any liquors there in the
holel for culinary purposes. A. Yes.
| Q. And who has bought those ordinarily.
A. Mr.. Woodbury. later years; Mr. Drew
| used to buy them; | had nothing TO do with
those except to pay the bills.
@. Have you done all the paying. A. Yea,
q. You paid all the bills. A. Yes, all the
bills.
| o. have you looked over your accounts TO
determine the amount you have paid out per
year. A. For liquors.
@. Yes. A. can't tell exactly; shnuld
| say the average would be from SO to S75a
year; not to exceed S7j, and | think il
would he less than S75 for all liquors for
| cooking purposes
@. You didn't tell me whether Won had
looked over your books to help your ildg.
ment in that respect. A. Yes, / did look
| them over.
@. l don't know but you may have some
| figures there that you could show upon the
subject. A. From 1882 to 1896, somgthing
| like $1,000 50 for the 10 years.
@. Do you recall time when Gov. Wood
| bury called your attention to the fact that
the head waiter, Seelet, or that he had heard
that the head waiter, Seeley, bad some in
| tOXcating liquor in his cupboard for sale 10
| furnish Inc Eguests. A. [ don'L think he
worded it in that way; think he told Inc he
had heard he had some liquors in his cup
board there; l think that is the way he
spoke to me about it first; and asked Inc TO
go and see.
@. What did you do. A. l Immediately,
as soon as | saw Mr.. Seeey-I called him
right in there; he didn't have a chance TO
put anything away; | did it at once when
saw him, and | asked him to unlock bis cup
board, which he did, and / saw two or three
bottles of lager beer, l think, not over that
i wouldn't say there was three, know
there was more than one. That is all | did
see. have looked in there since that time
and l never saw anything, never found
anything.
Q. Did you call his attention to the rumor.
A. 1 called his attention TO what Gov. Wood
bury spoke to me, and | says, mir. Seeley,
this Is something Gov. Woodbury. don't
allow, and don't know ANYTHING about it,
and it is good for you that he does not know
it,"
Q. What explanation did he give you. A.
His explanation was 1t belonged to some
guest of the house; l didn't ask him what
guest; l told him what to do after that
never to be allowed sgain, ard It passed off
that way that was the last; l know that he
has never had anything since, because l have
looked in there number of times.
@. And during the whole IA years, has any
head waiter com to you and ordered
through you or sent out through you for any
Intoxicating liquor to be taken into tue
dining room. A, You mean the head waiter
coming out himself
@. Yes. A No, dOn'tremember that he ever
came out TO Inc, the head waiter; he would
send his boy out himself, yes, sir; but that
very seldom, very rarely.
Cross.eXamination by MIR. Prouty:-
@. You say that at some time in 1898, YOU
had conversation with Gov. Woodbury.
about furnishing the money of the house
with which to buy liquor. A. Yes.
Q. And that after that the money OF the
house was not used for that purpose. A. No,
sir, not to my knowledge.
Q. You say not to your knowledge. A. 1t
has not, Sir
@. understand you by that to mean that
you haven't used it in that way and YOU
suppose it has not been used in that way.
A. Yes.
@. OF course, il some clerk used it that
you didn't know anything about. you
wouldn't be responsible for that. A. No.
Q. You say that after that time the money
of the house was not used in that way and
you called up the bell boys, didn't you, and
told them that after that they must not have
liquor charged on the books. A. | don't re-
collect as | gave them-I gave the BOYS in-
structiOns what Gov. WOOdbury's views
were about taking the money from the Office
and going out for guests for buying liquors
with, and | says, Boys, you must not come
to the Office for money if you know it is go
ing for that purpose"
Q. When Gov. Woodbury. said anything 10
you people in The hotel as though he meant
1t you generally attended to it, didn't sou. A.
l generally did, yes, sir.
@. In the summer time, did you keep
what is known as a transfer ledger. A. Yes.
@. Tell us, peas what that transfer ltdg
was. A. The arrival of the guests winch
are on the books, are transferred to the
ledger after the days work is over, after the
trains are all in. My clerk sits down and
call off to him the names from the book on
which they register, and 1t is transferred to
that ledger.
Q. What is the object of making that reg
lister. A. By carrying out their time, and
different rates. There are different rates
in hotel for some people, and
their time is carried out, so In the morning
when the guests are all in hurry to settle,
when there are 100 or $50 guests. we can
turn to that transfer ledger and see what
that man owes, so we won't have to stop aud
figure it up.
Q. That transfer ledger shows exactly
what each man owes when he pays his bill.
A. Yes.
@. Suppose go to the Van Ness honsc,
on the 26lh day of January, and register my
name In the morning and have breakfast.
What Is there that shows you whether pay
for breakfast, dinner or supper. A. My
cash book would show that, my transfer;
my cash book would show the amount that
you paid.
The American house lease and the agree
ment between Gov. Woodbury. and Mr..
Drew were offered In evidence by the plain
tiff, and there followed discussion about the
way from the American house into The
American house bar, which Gov. Woodbury.
had said he ordered closed. Gov. Woodbury.
was finally recalled In his own behalf and
testified again in regard to it,
The last witness called by Gov. Woodbury.
and the last in the case, was Miss Mabel
Percy, who testified TO examining Van Ness
house registers for entries of P.W. Clements