The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1901-01-03
Some Of Them Have Gene 10 Selling
UnO Beer.
Others Will Keep Lunch
Rooms Only.
Sheriff Pearson Well Satisfied
With His First Day in Office.

Very little liquor oan be bought In
Portland today. The liquor deputies
were out yesterday all day, but made no
seizures, though they visited . score OF
places. The liquor dealers say that they
are going to take no chances and win not
begin selling again until they tind out
how the Cat is going to jump. Not even
In the drug stores can liquor be pur-
CHASED, and for the first tins in a decade
at least Portland was n dry town last
night.
Yesterday the liquor deputies were Wis
tied by some rum sellers who came up
to the office In the City building to say
that they had gone out of the business
and were only going to run lunch rooms
and sell uno beer and other ''soft
drinks."
1--WE want you to come down and see
US often," said one OF these men to Depu-
ty skilIings. I'VE hone you will lind 1t
convenient to make us frequent visits
and see that everything is all right"
Deputy Skillings did not say so, but
he thought 1t most likely that they
would drop around and visit these lunch
rooms few times during the coming
two years and they wouldn't let the
rroprietors know just when they were
coming, either.
MIR. SkiIiings said yesterday that he
had not quite got into the business yet
and that Mr.. Plummer was the man
who was doing the most of the plan
ming. 1--WE have found some hiding
places in some of the places we went into
yesterday, but we did not find any
liquor in any of them. Some Of these
places were SO artfully oncesled that
could not have found them alone and
would never have dreamed of suspecting
that they existed. But Mr.. Plummer
has the eyes of a hawk. At one place
be want into he looked at q shed which
had been built on to the main building
and after examining it's walls for while
went to one side and by the use Of a
jimmy pried open as neat hiding place
fer rum as ever existsd. l could not
have ssen 1t myself, but Mir. Pluminer
seems to know about all there is to know
regarding this business"
Yesterday the liquor deputies devot-
ed themselves to making some inspec-
tioDs about ths city, but, as has been
said, their visits did not result in any
seizures being made. Tuesday night at
q late hour they dropped down on Bucks
hotel and arrested a man whom thay
found selling liquor In a room on the
TOP floor. He was surprised to tes them,
but made no endeavor to escape.
1
liquor deputies visited was that of
Welch's, on Center and Pleasant streets,
where they meds two seizures on Tues
day. Neloh's place was open, but there
was no bar keeper or liquor in sight.
Then they dropped across the street to
another place they had visited on Tues
day but they found no enc here. Another
Commercial street, not far from Fort
land bridge. They found all the peopls
at home but no liquor, though they
searched around quite a lot. On their
way back down town tbs liquor deputies
tried to get into Barney Devine's place
on Commercial street, but 1t was closed
up and there was no one inside. Across
OAo HuASCS WNh @ paw ACRt W . AuAu
named Conley. He was selling lithia
water and uno beer. 81 am not In the
rum business now,'' he said to the depu-
ties. 81 am going to oDen a lunch ooun
ter here and will not sell drop OF
liquor. Come down often and see me-"
About dozen places were visited In
all, but without the deputies being re-
warded by any liquor being seized.
Sheriff Pearson was busy yesterday In
his Office IN the City building. He said
he was much pleased at the operations
of the first day that he has bean in
office. He has not moved his family to
the jail, in fact he cannot do 30 at pres
ent, for yesterday bis wife lay at the
point of death and ne was every mo-
ment expsc ting to be summoned TO her |
bedside.
AT the jail Turnkey Cummings has
been succeeded by Mr.. William h. Grover,
who has seen service In the same position |
under a number OF former sheritfs, and |
is one of the most efficient and expert |
encsd turkeys who ever serve there. |
Ths sheriff apartments are at present |
not occupied, but MIR. Grover and his |
wife are living at ths jail and are in |
charge OF the domestic arrangements.
Ex-Dsnuty Marshal Sterling, who has |
bssn appointed oyerseer Of the jail work
shop, is emphatioAliy the right man in |
the right place. He has had long expert
ence with men like those who are to be
under his supervision and he will look
after them with great care and success.
All the other employees at the jail re-
main as before. in fact all the others
are appointed by the county commission
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