Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-12

| hiee VI these Diack patches ateng this
j street, and especially want you 20 .ss-
serve below Pine street, which is here
indicating) and on which the city rail-
IS located Lincoln street--another frs-
portant business part of the city, .leavz
ing Main street at the point indicat7
ed. and following down here Gndicat-
inS)--you will observe the black spots
along the Two sides of that. street. =
l call your attention further to Park
street. Here is the location of the Park
Street Methodist church. There you OBJ
eerve, perhaps not over 200 feet from
that church, one of the black spots. and
two Oh the other side W.
| call your attention particularly to
Middle street because there will be vo.
luminous testimony offered as to the
amount of business being done at one
place in particular on that street, ana
you will observe, right where my pointer
now rests, one of the largest school
buildings in the city of Lewiston, the
Oak street school, and intermediate
school and training school for teachers,
with Middle street leading directly from
Main street. and the place that / midi
cate for the pupils to pass by.
We shall show an immense quantity
of liquor coming In to the city since the
first day of January. We have taken
| some pains to examine the records of
| shipments, and I have witnesses here. to
prove the results. As you probably all
know, there are two railroads leading
into Lewiston. the Maine Central and
the Grand Trunk. We have had an OPP
portunity to examine the records of the
Maine Central only, not that we We're
treated any different by the other road
but for lack of time we were unable to
make detailed analysis of those at both
roads. but at the Lewiston station of the
Maine Central Railroad-and we have
the freight clerk here with the original
records to substantiate that statement
IN due course-at the Lewiston station
of the Maine Central Railroad we found
that in the month of January. 1913 they
received large quantities-I will not Tn :
dertake to read them in detail now, that
Will be placed before YOU latcffs7 but
among other things. 535 barrels. 81 kegs
and AZ cases of ale, 1851 barrels, so kdgs
} and 1913 cases of beer, 81. barrels, 49, kegs
and 230 cases of whislsey, and so ON. the
hard liquors of course In smaller idaan-
titles. ~
In the month of February they reeeiv !
ed 3SS barrels of ale and 91S5 barrels Of
beer, and in the month of March sSsa barr
rels of ale and 97Si barrels of beerf In
other words, this one railroad. exclusive
of the Grand Trunk. brought into the city
of Lewiston during the three months un.
der consideration, 2l7 barrels ard odd
kegs and cases of whiskey, 80 barrels of
rum. 126ia barrels of ale. 3l6i barrels of
81,
dy and miscellaneous liquors.
That is the record of one road for the
three months Now we shall tsshdw no.
only that, but we shall show that one
dealer received 90 barrels of beer and ale,
and loa barrels of hard liquors.: another
dealer received So barrels of beer and
Al ale, and similar quantity OF hard IL
l auor; another received 49, barrels or beer
t and ale and of hard liduof another.
received $685. barrels of beer and gale and
{ q barrels of hard liquor; another receiv-
ed 14S barrels of beer and ale and q of
hard liquor: another S25 baffefs of ale
: and 81 of hard liquor, and SO on through
: what might be made an extended list. =
f This place that l have referred to near
/ the school buildings on Mfidie street
: starts in January first with this record
. at the Maine Central station bi5he.e and
has continuous record of receipts OF
: intoxicating liquor amounting to 3f6s bar
rels of beer and ale and 49, barrels of
! hard liquors, this one place, within a
7 few hundred feet of a large school build
: ing for young people to which I have
called your attention. so
Now, gentlemen, we are going to un-
dertake to show you not only that these
tremendous quantities of liquors have
been coming in there day after day and
week after week. but we must show you
Ithat there has been no attempt to stoI
. it. because of course if the sheriff's de-
partment stopped it. the county attor-
ney would not need to act, If the sher-
IFS department didn't stop 1t, the stat
ute makes it the clear, duty of the coun-
ty attorney to try to do something him.
self towards stopping it.
II We find. so far as raids by the sheriff 5
department were concerned. and thi.
must be the excuse, of the county attor-
ney for taking no hand whatever. If there
is any excuse-we find that during tina,
three months, out of the 1851 barrels oil
beer, they succeeded in Selling l06 gal
Ions; out of the 1861. barrels of ale they
apparently didn't find a drop; of the "a
barrels of whiskey they got Is gallons
and Is auarts-that would be u gallons
and one quart We will give you the
figures more in detail before we get
through with them.
We find, referring to these particular
places that have mentioned, that a SELF
ure was made on January 23rd at the
place of Romuel Currier. one of those
places that l have called your attention
to on Main street between Auburn and
the head of Lisbon street our principal
business street. As | have said, it APP
pears that he had received 80 barrels
and one case of beer and ale and 10l bar
rels of hard liquors. The deputy sher-
IFS went here on January third and
\ what do you suppose they found? They
| found pints of beer, and quarts of
hard liquor and they haven't been there
since that time. There is "A place on
Main street Nay & Co., or Patrick Nay.
where they received IS barrels of beer
and ale and barrel of hard stuff, and
| the pfticers want fbara ~. Iapuar.t 2rd