West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1897-08-19

ne crowd hrst stopped at the Ho-
tel Gordon and the proprietor re-
fused TO keep them, because OF their
condition, the only time in his life,
he says, that he ever turned away
anyone. II further says that he
heard Mr.. HAmll. of the Journal.
say that they had several gallons Of
liquor with them altogether. Mos
Of them went 20 the Exchange Ho-
tel, and some of them left without
paying their bill. Below we give
the certificate of Mr.. Smith, Of that
hotel, IN answer to the charge that
they got their drinking stuff in
Kingwood:
A PLAIN STATEMENT.
hereby certify that the crowd
from oakland. Md, that stopped
at the Exchange Hotel. Saturday,
July 31st, 1897, unloaded at least
four dozen of beer bottles from
their vehicles, which .hey brought
with them, and asked me to lock
same UP for taem in nv stable.
Also several of them brought pint
bottles Of liquor with them, which
they gave me TO lock up for them
when they first came, and a portion
OF them were intoxicated when thew
arrived, and were very disorderlv
all the time they were here, while
portion of them behaved very
we'll. Among other things, they
had lot OF beer and ice i'm their
room and allowed the ice to melt
and run down on The plasterlng be-
low. p. r. SMITH
of the Exchange Hotel.
KinSwood, WA, Aug. IL, 1897.
On the ball ground this crowd all
gathered squarely IN front Of the
seats occupied by the ladies and
proceeded to execute an Indian
ghost dance, giving a continuous
performance and shutting of the
view OF nearly all the ladies from
the game, and because we com
PEELED them to take seats or move
around from in front of the ladies
they took 1T as an awful Insult.
Good seats were offered them free.
and they were first kindly and DO.
lltely requested to take seats or
move to another position equally
as good, aud any sober or decent
man would have complied at once.
but no, these gentlemen" from
Maryland, my Maryland" had to
be compelled to exhibit the least
sign of sense and decency. After
that there was no trouble and all
went along nicely, and Oakland had
nothing to kick about EXCEPT that
some of their dead game sports in
sisted on putting up their money
on their "Invinclbles" and drop-
ping /. here in our little hay seed
town, and the aforesaid 'EInvInci-
bIes' went home with their tail
feathers dragging in the dust, and
the bondre that was all ready to
burn that night renamed out in
the cold as silent monument of
"Man's Inhumanity to Man." and
some of the drunken rooters even
disturbed Oakland's peaceful Sc
renity by fighting among them.
selves after their return from here.
and the trouble even got the Mayor
into a fight.
The proper thing for the Oakland
papers to have done, was to apollo.
glze for the conduct Of their crowd.
and then said as little az possible
about the whole matter, and spec.
Tally the editor of the ReDub7ica,l.
who got his wife here and who left
the grounds in disgust at the con-
duct OF their crowd, and said SO to
several people.
We very much regret to be com
PEELED to publish all these unpleas.
ant facts, but both truth and false
hood (the former OH our part and
the latter on the part Of Oakland.)
compel us to do so.
Plainly submitted,
j. SLIDELL BROwN.
Manager K Il. b. G.. & p.
This article was writer for pub.
lication last week but left out. ow.
ing to the crowded condition OF our
columns
a Market street mother who 10