Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1896-05-16
p. w. CLEMENT.
Tho President Ofthe Herald and Globe
Association Gives His Experience.

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| Association Gives His Experience.
| The next witness called for the HERALD
was P. w. Clement. Here is his evidence In
FULL
| @. The Herald and Globe association, the
defendant In this suit, Is a corporation, is it
notP A. Yes.
Q. And are you the president of that as.
ISOLATION? A. Yes.
@. And the principal stakeholder? A.
Yes, the largest stakeholder.
A. Mr.. Perkins is the editorial and business
manager.
@. Have you been at various times guest
at the Van Ness house. A. Yes.
| Q. And whether you have been served
there with Intoxicating liquor. A. have.
possible the occasions, what you were
served with, where you paid for it. A. 1
can remember of an occasion a good many
| years ago.
@. want to confine your attention to the
hotel since Gov. Woodbury. became the pro-
prietor, If you know whether he was or
wasn't at that time. A. This was in "a or
1t was an occasion when | was returning
from the first-one Of the first hearings In
the trial-taX suit-between the Rutland
| railroad and the Central Notwithstanding
from st. Adams, and I stopped at the Van
Ness house for dinner, and at that time or
and that was served with the dinner.
Q. Before / leave that occasion-when you
ordered the ale, what, il anything, was said
as to the procuring of it. A. ordered 1t of
the servant girl, the waitress, and she spoke
to the head waiter. The head waiter came to
sent out OF the room and got the ale and
brought it In there and served it. There was
nothing said about it.
Q. That is what wish to know. Where
did you pay for that. A. paid at the Office
when paid for my dinner.
Q. Proceed to the next occasion. A. An
other, occasion-I can't tell whether 1t was
the next oceasion-was on an occasion when
l had room over the old dining room, and
at that time had some cocktails served In
the room. Iordered them in the usual way.
The bell boy brought them up, and cannot
remember about that payment. Ipresume I
may have paid him; don't know. Another
occasion I came here with party of ladies
and gentlemen on visit of a day to the city.
We were served with wine in the
dining room and that was paid for
at the office. That was ordered in the same
way, ordered through the head waiter and 1t
was brought in and served to us. On
another occasion, came here in the evening
and 1 had supper here with one of the physi-
clans who lectured at the medical college
and some friends of his; we had wine
served on that occasion that paid for at the
office. On another occasion, the time that
my brother-n-law was graduated, think in
1888, at the medical school here, came here
and we had bottle Of champagne served in
my room. That was paid for at the office, as
/ remember it. don't remember of paying
i think didn't pay-in the room, but l
am not positive about that. On another
occasion, we had meeting of the directors
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house. and after the meeting we had some
cocktails served in the parlor. Now, those
are all of the occasions that l can-that
have been able to remember to specify.
@. Now, what, If anything, was said to
you upon any of these occasions by the
party Of whom you ordered the liquor as to
the necessity Of sending out of the house for
It, or what, If anything was said about it.
A. Never was anything said about IT..
@. Simply took your order and brought
the liquor. A. Simply took my order and
brought the liquor.
@. And what, If any, difference did you
observe between the service upon these oc-
places upon similar orders. A. l could see
no difference.
Cross-examnation by Mr.. Foster:--
@. The first occasion to which you re-
ferred, / understood you to say was In 1884
or 1885. A. Yes, 1 think SO. ,.,.
@. Can you be more definite as to the
time, as to the season Of the year, for in.
stance. A. I could be definite, think, as to
the day, by looking up our records to see
when this hearing took place. / know
Judge Barrett was with me at the time.
G. / am only getting at cas- nearly as you
can, now. A. cannot now be more specific
than to say think 1t was in 's4 or 's5.
Q. Have you any recollection as to the
season of the year. A. 1t was not in the
winter time.
@. You were registered at the hotel. A.
think so, yes.
Q. Did you say Judge Barrett was with
you. A. He was with me, James Barrett
q And he was doubtless registered also.
a. think so, yes; presume SO.
q. And you have given me all the infor-
nation you can as to when 1t occurred.
A. Yes.
Q. You speak of something that would
help you, have you any such help In town.
A. l have nothing here, no; but | can de- |
termine just-very likely the very day that
that was.
g viii you do so, please. A. 1 will,
Q. You than referred to another time, per-
haps not the next time. when you had some |
cocktails served you in room over the old |
dining room. A. Yes.
@. Can you tell MS about when that was. |
A. can't tell when that was; have been |
toni
@. Never mind your custom, just answer
the question. Can you be any more definite |
than that,-than you have been already as to
when it occurred. A. No, l can't be any
more definite.
@. You know. suppose. it wasn't in 1895.
A. 1t wasn't In '95; it was good many years
ago, should think 10 years ago; it is along
among the earlier occasions.
q, On that occasion, were you registered.
A. Yes, undoubtedly.
Q. How many did you say were in your
party. A. At that time, as l remember it, 1 |
think there were two persons with me-
three Of us.
@. And the cocktails were brought up on
a waiter, in glasses. lssuppose. A. Yes.
@. You then referred to time when you
were served with wine In the dining room.
Can YOU tell us when that was? A. There
were two of those occasions that referred
to there.
@. am taking them up in the order In
which you mentioned them, This time Gov.
Dillingham; says you had some ladies and
gentlemen with you! A. That was probably
Ia SO or 'S7.
@. Is that as definite as you can be-? A. |
That Is as definite as can determine that.
@. You do not now recall the season of the |
year? A. 1t was In the summer time.
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