Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-06-02
HINSDALE NEEDS MONEY
so WANTS A LICENSE ISSUED TO
GALE 4 COMPANY.
Proceedings at Hearing in Concord
Before License Commission Of New
Hampshire = Town Officials and
Business Men Make Statements.

The New Hampshire license COM
mission held hearing Friday on thu
petition Of +. c. Gale & Co. of Hins'
dale for license to be exercised In 8
part Of that town known as The Is
land. No conclusion in the matter
was reached, the hearing being post
poned by request Of F. T. Woodmap OF
Concord, counsel for Gale & Co.. nc
date for continuance being fixed Mr.
Woodman stated that he desired tc
make some Investigations, to complete
which would require several days.
At the hearing the town of Hins-
dale was represented by f. j. Temple
of Hinsdale. The firm of Gale & Co
was represented by f. T. Woodman ol
this city and Charles c. O'Connor OF
Manchester Only the case of Hins-
dale was considered Friday. Mr.. Tenn
pie stated that Gale had always con-
Quoted an orderly business which
caused no trouble to the town. He said
that as the town had voted for IL
cense by a big majority. nearly all OF
the tax payers and prominent citizens
of the town were In favor Of Gale hav-
ing a license. He explained that at
the present time the town was under q
heavy debt. and the money derived
from the license was badly needed,
and that, owing to the expense OF
building a new town hall and other
buildings, the tax rate had been con-
siderably raised, and that every avail
able way to get money legitimately
was needed at this time. the tax rate
at present time being $3.50, having
Jumped from $1.9S to the present fig-
ure to meet the debt.
Several of the officials advised the
granting of the license to Gale q Co.,
and shared the belief OF Mr.. Temple
that the interests of the town. morally
and otherwise, would be subserved py
so doing. James O'Brien. chairman OF
the board of selectmen OF Hinsdaie.
said that as far as he knew there was
no objection against granting Gale &
Co a license. Fred A. Buckley. mem-
Der of the board of selectmen. could
see no reason why they should not be
granted a license. He said that the
petition against Mr.. Gale had been
signed by men who were not large tax
payers. Emerson ]. Richards, the third
member of the board Of selectmen. de-
clared that a large majority OF the
town was in favor Of granting the flrm
a license. He also said that the town
badly needed the money.
Waldo Rouillard, prominent farm
er of Hinsdaie and proprietor OF a
summer hotel there, said that the peo-
Die In his part of the town were IN
favor Of the license being granted. he
said that 1t was a great accommoda-
ton to him, as he ran no bar IN con
nection with his house. Liquor couid
be procured In Brattleboro as easily
as in Hinsdaie; that any one going TO
the drug stores could get anything they
wanted. the druggists putting little
something with 1t and labelling 1t. He
said he knew this personally to be
fact. Judge Gardiner s. Howe OF the
Hinsdale police court said that instead
of the drunks going from the island 10
Brattieboro 1t was just the opposite.
the drunks in Brattleboro would come
across the river to the island to es-
cane the authorities. He stated that
the larger part Of those convicted OF
being drunk the past year were Brat
tleboro people, who had come over 10
the island and been taken by the Hins-
dale authorities. Nearly all of the
prominent business men of the town
of Hinsdale favored granting Gale q
Co. a license, he said.
In closing for the town of Hinsdale'
MFR. Temple said that he saw no rea-
son WHY the people of Brattleboro
should be allowed to dictate the poll
CIV of the state of New Hampshire. He
said that the town of Hinsdale had
voted license, and that the majority
of the citizens were in favor of grant
ing Gale & Co. a license.
To a representative of the Reform
er Mr.. Gale stated Tuesday that he
had heard nothing further from the
New Hampshire commissioners and
would probably hear nothing until the
date for the continued hearing was
fixed. Mr.. Gale said that the commits
sioners would allow him to have IL
cense in the village Of Hinsdale If he
wanted one but that he intended to
continue his efforts to secure one on
tho island