Evening journal., 1907-11-01


and the rest of the Anti-Liccnse campaign
committee as model. contributed with
out question its share OF prohibit on's
brand of prohibition. which does rrohib [
the legal sale Of liquor under legal restric-
tion and supervision and does not prohibit
these people from selling liquor and vile
liquor for the most part. TO any man.
woman or child who applies with the
price.
Pool rooms and billiard halls are numer-
ous in Biddeford, and pool rooms here
sell Boston Hop Ale" ON draught. In
some cases ID is beer, and in Others it T.
ale. not the ginger or birch variety. like
mother used TO make. but the genuine
kind that breweries used to make, anl
do yet.
One of these latter places, picked from
the many, was situated on Alfred
street, about three blocks from the head
quarters of the municipal government,
and the Boston Hope Ale" spigot was on
a counter on one side OF the pool room.
and was screened from view from the
street by three or four light boards
which formed a kind of partition.
But the aroma from this "llop Ale'
JOINT was sign enough. since the smell
that eminated from the front door was
as good a bar room sign as could be re-
quired. in reason, by even a blind man.
Here, for the small sum of half a dime
glass of ale was given without question
and tasted, the latter being done only to
assure of its being the genuine article.
This record shows that the statements
from the Biddeiord Record which have
been reprinted in Delaware and which
tell of this wide open prohibition town
are correct.
Apropos of newspapers, the following
from the Portland Daily Advertiser, of
September %, 1907, may be interesting
as showing how the police had TO work
to take care of those who were overcome
by prohibition i'm bottles. which com
prised 900 Of the total arrests of the
week.
again the century mark held good in
the number of arrests made by the police
department during the past week the to-
tai being lO3, and were classified as fol
lows; lnt0Xication. ~; larceny. 8 sus-
picion of larceny. 8; assault, 81 resisting
an officer, 3; running away from home,
2; forgery, 2 and one each for non-sup
port of family, ohsincting an officer
splitting on the sidewalk loud noises in
the street. aiiray. obstructinq sidewalk
suspicion of forgery, safe keeping, vag
rancy and a suspicious person and wit
ness
A return was made TO Portland for tho
night, and Lewiston was reached at SAC
a. m. Tuesday, September oath, 1907. II
twenty-five minutes from that time tho
writer had purchased half pint of whis
key at the well-known and popula
speakcasy just below Lisbon street ON
main street of Lewiston). on Ash st.. this
place Is solely devoted TO selling liquor
bar being in a room just back Of m
by 10 front room containing two show
cases, some pictures of wrestlers an5
pugilists, and few empty cigar boxe
in the window
In this town a stranger can easily tell
the places where liquor is sold. and 50
can "Sturgis deputies" aud citizens b.
the guards at the doors. AZ every few
PAGES. ON Lewiston streets, could be seer
these guards in front of doors of poo
rooms, lunch rooms and cigar stores. u
some of the latter real cigars are sold
but this applies to but few.
In one Of these places on Lishof
street, selected at random. some bottle
beer was purchased simply 70 show Della
ware that the Portland brand of prohibi
tion can be secured wherever one feel
like getting IT,, and has the price Ne
questions were asked at any Pace Thi
place IS half a block around the corner
from the city hall.
To return 10 the first exposition
of the efficiency Of these yaunted pro
hihitory laws, the guard on the door
who bore ON his face all the sign that
was needed to tell the thirsty passerby
that here was the thirst cure ii he had
the price, gave the writer a thorough in.
spection. and. while ] was looking over
the photographs of fighters and wrcst.
lers went through the screen door and
reported. Evidently his report was sat.
isfactory as he ierked his thumb toward
the door when he rcappeared. and going
In, the bar and six men, all of whom ap
peared to be about to see a retinuc oi
icthyosaurians come down the chande
lior. were found.
some glass only ON the bar az time.
said the bartender. as he produced il and
half pint bottle You see. the Hig.
Court Is in session ia Auburn, about ST,
blocks from here. and there are twenty
ono "Snrris deputies" I'M town attend
ing court and looking for us, and WI
have to be careful.
CONTINUED Tomorrow