Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1896-05-16
FREDERICK A. GOODWIN.

reference to liquor, but nothing was said
about liquors.
FREDERICK A. GOODWIN.
Experience OF a Medical Student in
Burlington.
Frederick A. Goodwin Of New York, In
deposition taken at New York February D,
1896, said that he was a practicng 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:-
O. Will you state whether you even ordered
any liquor or drunk alcoholic drink at the
table? A. did.
o. will you state in what way the order
was given. and how 1t was served to you!
A. Either to the waiting girl or to the head
waiter.
served In the usual way.
@. 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.
Q. State whether it was opened at the
table or in the dining room! A. believe
Q. Did you drink at public table? A. l
did.
Q. You have been at other hotels: 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? 4. No, there was not.
o. Was there any secrecy In giving the
order? A. No.
Q. 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 you ordered ale or beer and drunk
1t 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.
Q. And have you seen others do the same
thing? A. have.
Q. Will you state whether or not from
your observation it was usual thing for
the Van Ness house during the years 1856
and 1887 and have it served to them! y.
q. Did you see that thing done by people
other than yourself? A. | have; YES.
Q. 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.
o. 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 1t In the usual way
that one pays for such things.
Q. That is how? A. The whole thing 10.
gether.
desk.
@. 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
1886 and 1887? A. Herbert Clark and
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.
@. 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.
@. On more than one occasion! A. I'm
doubtedly.
Q. 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.
that. A. l remember distinctly three Occa-
sions.
A. State what they were? A. The first
occasion was the graduating night Of 1856.
Q. That was in about what month? A.
@. July, 1886; what do you remember of
that occasion! A. After the reception at the
Van Ness house house was over party, con-
sisting of DR.. jackson of Barre, VT; DR..
Frazier of Prince Edward Island, a 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 aud paid it to the bell boy !;
the bell boy was paid for the drinks.
@. You spoke of bell boy; did you know
him to be one Of the employees of the house:
A. l 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. with
a short black beard, and very fiat feet: n
man who had been there long time, and
who had frequently seen around there.
Q. DO you remember any other occasion
when liquor was served to you! A. Yes, sir,
l do.
@. When was 1t; please state all you
recollect about II? A. During the second
winter carnival, think In the year 1887, l
with 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 a bottle
of champagne; we went to one Of the gen.
tlemen's rooms and had a bottle Of cham
payne there at his invitation. We then went
down stairs into one Of the rooms back of
the reading room on the main floor, and
there had several bottles Of wine.
Q. How many were In the party, about!
A. Six or seven.
4, @. State how the wine that you drank up
stars and that you drank downstairs was
ordered, and how 1t was paid for? A. 1t was
ordered from the bell boy and 1t was paid, as
far as l was concerned, 1t was paid for at
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. At
the time the wine was served paid the bell
boy.
@. On either of these occasions did you
give the money to the person from whom
you ordered the wine and tell him 20 20 out
side of the house and get It? A. No, never
did.
Q. Do you remember any other occasion.
A. On the night Of the graduation of 1887.
my graduating year, Mr.. =. W. Clement Of
Rutland. VT, came to Burlington. We
went to the Van Ness house to the reception.
After the reception he went to his room, and
there be opened bottle Of wine In honor of
the occasion.
q. Do you know how that wine was or
dered? A. From the bell boy in the usual
way.
Q. Now, when wine or liquor OF any kind,
SO far as youi observation goes, was served
in any of the rooms at the Van Ness house,
was there any different way Of ordering 1t in
the Van Ness house from what you observed
in other hotels? No, sir.
DIR. WILLIAM q. MOORE.
A Medical College Professor Teati-