Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1897-04-09
BOSTON LETTER.
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE. /

so-callcd hotels ia the Tendrrloiu
where all kinds OF drinking aal ca.
rouSing are carried ON AT all times OF
the day and night, and such other
"cusSedness" as may be imagined
where young girls are enticed and de.
banched by men and women old in
crime. That such places exist, and
where they exist, is no secret either
10 the police or public. Last week a
lady whose daughter had become a
victim and regular frequenter of the
Columbian went in the night to drag
her daughter away. The poor lady
was insulted. jeered at, tripped and
otherwise maltreatcd. but She got her
girl. and then had the sense and the
sand to go straight to Governor
Nolcutt. And tn, governor was not
simple enough to call in the aid of the
Boston police which knew and winkrd
at the state of things. He sent two
members of the State police. who saw
the most shocking and disgusting
things during the two nights they
were ON guard. Then Governor ,vl-
cott laid the matter, with the evidence.
before the police board. which prompt
ly revoked the hotels license. The
matter was not new to the board. The
same state of things practically OBJ
tains in good many other of the hO-
tells in the Tenderloin. The most of
these and some of the downtown ho-
tells are little more than houses of as
SignatiOn, only the downtown hotels
do not keep girls ION file" This was
one sensation. Another is the formal
filing of charges with the Governor
against General \. =. Martin, chair
man of the police board. The law eN-
plicitly states that members of the pu-
lice board shall be engaged while on
the board in no other business. II is
Il curious fact that when a member
gets Off the board he almost invaria-
bly, goes into some brewery aS man
ager or president or something, show
ing pretty cOucluSiyely that his rela-
tionS with the brewers while mem
her of the board were not at arms
length. General Martin has made an
exception to the general rule. He is
president of company whose pro-
duets are consumed largely by bar
rooms and ..u,els, which lutter are de-
pendent on the board of which Gen
rral Martin is chairman for the IL
cenSe to carry on business. The Pearl
Hill LIthia Spring Company is en-
gagged in the business of bottling and
selling water and manufacturing and
selling ginger ale, and of this com
pany General Martin is president and
director. He is also president and di-
rector of gold mining company, of
an accident association. and of Il bank
ing firm. but these latter do not cut
SO much ice" But the charges 90 ON
to say that said Augustus Z. Martin
has engaged with certain brewers and
wholesale and retail liquor dealers,
James W. kenney and Michael II. Cur
ley, each OF whom holds license is
sued by the board of police for the
sale of Intoxicating liquors, in the
business of bOttling and selling spring
water and ginger ale on capital large
ly furnished by said kenney and Cur
ley, and that said Augustus =. Martin
has through Il third party made Il
sale to sand company. in which the
capital was almost entirely furnished
by said Kenney and ,urley. of certain
real estate in ward "A of the city of
Boston at a sum so greatly in excess
of its assessed valuation aS to warrant
an inference that said Augustus =.
Martin has Drotited, unwarrantably,
by reason OF his association with and
influence over said Kenney and Curley
bV reason of his official position as
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said Martin has permitted the stock
of said Pearl Hill Lithia Spring Com
pany and the stock of the said Ere
MONT Gold Mining Company to be Of
fered for sale in certain liquor saloons
in the city of Boston to persons hold
inc licenses, for the sale of intoNicat-
ing liquors issued by said board of
police That he has permitted hlS SUD
ordinate agents and officials to solicit,
by cards, circulars and letters bearing
his name, for the sale of the spring
water in the various saloons, hotels
and restaurants of the city of Boston,
holding licenses for the sale OF IntoN-
icating liquor, and to make such sales
largely Dy reason of the TACT that he
is. chairman of the board OF police, and
has authority and influence IN the
issue of licenses Tor the SAFE OF lhtoN.
icatmg liquor, and that by reason OF
his official position as chairman OF the
board of police, all other persons and
corporations engaged in the sale of
spring waters and table waters have
been very greatly preiudiced and their
legitimate trade improperly interfered
with, by the sales of an inferior water,
backed by the influence of the chair
man of the board of police as pres
IS'eIpu H,',l ", rLat ognnts of the Pearl
mn Lima ma 'opInmS I,,n5s IJ' of money for nj.
cepteu IarSF SUM sum, V, a;d t,n,,1t,s y
ieSeu Iiii"e'i't t,, .''na " of licanses for the
Mar' III ~ l.a'iaatino NE '1'" iiamor from per-
S"'e o' ll',oNnv"o,,7I o,r71IinantS for licenses
sons WHO Ntlt "PP''>' - -.