The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1896-05-15
FREDERICK A. GOODWIN.
Experiences of Medical Student i'm
Burlington.

Experiences of "a Medical student i'm
Burlington.
Frederick A. Goodwin of New York, In a
deposition taken at New York February 3,
1896, said that he was a 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 1856 and 1887
and took meals there. The examination pro.
ceeded:-
@. viii you state whether you ever ordered
any liquor or drunk alcoholic drink at the
table? A. did.
Q. viii you state in what way the order
was given, and how it was served to your
A. Either to the waiting girl or to the head
waiter.
Q. And how was it served? A. 1t was
served in the usual way.
@. What kind of liquor did you order at
the table? A. As a usual thing, beer or ale.
Q. Was it brought to you in bottles?
A. Yes, sir.
@. State whether it was opened at the
table or in the dining room? A. fbelieve
Q. Did you drink at public table? A. l
did.
Q. You have been at other hotelsy A.
Yes, SIR!
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.
@. Did you usually take your meals, when
you ordered beer or ale, in company with
some one or alone? A. In both ways.
Q. Have yeu ordered ale or beer and drunk
it at the table in the dining room at the Van
Ness house: A. haye.
c. When others were sitting at the same
table with you? A. have.
@. And have you seen others do the same
thing? A. have.
Q. Will you state whether or not from
your observation it was a usual thing for
people TO order liquor in the dining room at
the Van Ness house during the years 1886
and 1887 and have it served to them: A.,
Yes, sir.
Q. 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
the meal: A. paid for it in the usual way
| that one pays for such things.
Q. That is how? A. The whole thing to-
gether.
Q. At the office! A. At the office; at the
desk.
Q. To the clerk at the desk: A. Yes, sir.
Q. 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.
| Q. And did you pay 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 other
people pay in the same way TO one of the
clerks for meals and liquor which had been
served at the table? A. Yes, sir.
| Q. On more than one occasion: A. I'M
doubtedly.
@. Will you please state whether you ever
saw liquor served in any other rooms in the
Van Ness house than in the dining room:
| A. | have.
| @. Please state all you can in regard to
that: A. / remember distinctly three occa.
sions.
A. State what they were? A. The first
occasion was the graduating night of 1885,
Q. That was in about what month? A
July,
Q. July, 1886; what do you remember OF
| that occasion! A. After the reception at tn,
| Van Ness house house was over party, con
| sisting of DIR. Jackson of Barre, VT; DR.
Frazier of Prince Edward Island, gradu
ate of 1886; myself and others went into the
reading room back of the main office
of the Van Ness house for gen
eral conversation. Some one proposed
having drinks; beer was ordered
and was brought by a bell boy in the hotel
Several rounds were served and we remained
in that room perhaps an hour. We divided
up the expense and paid it to the bell boy
the bell boy was paid for the drinks.
Q. You spoke of bell boy; did you know
him to be one of the employees of the house
A. did.
Q. Did you frequently see him prior and
subsequent to this time: A. Yes, sir.
| Q. Can you describe him: A. | have for
gotten his name; ne was a large negro, witt
a short black beard, and very flat feet
man who had been there a long time, ant
who had frequently seen around there.
Q. Do you remember any other occasion
when liquor was served to YOU? A. Yes, sir
| do.
Q. When was it; please state all you
recollect about it: A. During the secon(
winter carnival, think in the year 1887,
with a party of friends met two men from
| Boston. We went to the Van Ness house
| should say about O'Clock one afternoon
| we went upstairs and had bottle
of champagne; we went to one of the gen
| tlemen's rooms and had bottle of cham
payne there at his invitation. We then wen
down stairs into one of the rooms back O.
the reading room on the main floor, anC
there had several bottles of wine.
Q. How many were in the party, about
A. Six or seven.
@. State how the wine that you drank up
| stars and that you drank downstairs was
ordered, and how it was paid for? A. 1t wa
ordered from the bell boy and it was paid, "a
far as | was concerned it was paid for a
1.-THE time we had it.
q. Did you pay for one of the bottles? A
One or more of the bottles.
q, And how did you pay for It? A. A
the time the wine was served paid the bel
| boy.
Q. On either of these occasions did vol
give the money to the person from whom
you ordered the wine and tell him 20 go out
side of the house and get it? A. No, / nevel
did.
Q. Do you remember any other occasion
A. On the night of the graduation of 1887
my graduating year, Mr.. p. w. Clement OF
Rutland. VT, came to Burlington. W.
went to the Van Ness house to the reception
| After the reception he went to his room, anC
| there he opened a bottle of wine in honor O.
| the occasion.
@. Do you know how that wine was or
| dered? A. From the bell boy in the usua
| way.
Q. Now, when wine or liquor of any kind
| so Tar as your observation goes, was served
in any of the rooms at the Van Ness house
| was there any different way of ordering 1t ii
| the Van Ness house from what you observed
in other hotels! No. sir.
DIR. WILLIAM o. MOORE.
Medical College Professor Testi.