Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-27

| to arrive until twelve or one, but If
it was cabinet day they would stop
at II o'clock.
cat IL o'clock when / went in to
get shaved, / would usually get Mr..
Loeb in and dictate to him, or he
] would take up with me the mail
that had accumulated during the
orning and would receive instructions
about the various things that had
arisen during the morning. / would
also frequently see some member of
the cabinet or some man / knewin-
| timately during that time, or some
newspaper man would be allowed to
come in to ask questions, Mr.. Loeb
generally sitting by and waiting until
the answer had been given and then
resuming the work.
MIR. Loeb Would Follow Him.
"often Mr.. Loeb would follow me
out to the wash room and continue
talking to me, and get directions and
| lay matters before me while l washed
my hands. 1 would then go to lunch.
Immediately after lunch / would re-
turn to the Office. 1 might then again
work with Mr.. Loeb for an hour, or
some member of the cabinet or other
person with whom l had to talk over
details of official business.
| 81 never in my life. while in the
| White House or anywhere else have
ever left a room for the purpose of
| getting a drink between meals-and
| it would have been a physical impos
sibility for me to have left the room
| for any such purpose at any period of
my work and III the White House.
ION the 18th and 18th of February
last l was staying in New York with
| Mrs. Roosevelt and my daughter at
| the Marquis Hotel, IL East Thirty
| first street. To the best of my knowl-
edge and belief there is no bar in the
hotel.
MRS. Roosevelt and my daughter
and / had breakfast served in our
department at about nine. Immedi-
ately afterwards, ON both days, I
walked down Madison avenue to
Twenty third street, across to Fourth
avenue and into the Outlook office,
| doing work and seeing various people
until about $50 the first day and until
5 the next day. going out for few
minutes for lunch.
Takes Tea with Mrs. Roosevelt.
when I left the office on Monday
III walked up Fourth avenue to
| Thirty-first street and across to the
Marquis Hotel, where 1 had tea with
Mrs. Roosevelt. On Tuesday 1 left
| at S O'Clock and took the $50 train
| from the Pennsylvania depot for
Oyster Bay. On neither day did
| touch a drop of anything at any
time. When in town I usually, but
not always, lunched with some men,
bers of The Outlook staff, and during
the three years which 1 have on an
| average of once or twice lunched
with anyone, I do not recall an in
stance where / ever drank anything
except either milk, tea or coffee. On
these two occasions ! never went up
Fifth avenue, nor above Thirty
second street.
II have not been in the Waldorf
unless at a public dinner for GER
tainly three years, and / was not in
the Waldorf on either of those two
DAYS. On neither of those two days
did I go into or come out of any
building in Forty-second street, and
on neither of those two days did L
go about Thirty-first or Thirty
second street on Fifth avenue. Be-
tween and o'clock the avenue is
densely crowded.
Remembers Every Drink Took.
For Nthe last fifteen years / can
give you in detail just about what
have drunk, and / have given it SUBJ
;. stantially above. and neither during
those fifteen years or since l have
been of age have l ever under any
circumstances been in even the
smallest degree under the influence OF
!. liquor.
II do not remember within the last
dozen years drinking even a part OF
a glass of beer except once. That
was at the Deutscher Club. When
J ever / go to Milwaukee 1 try to &c
, to the Deutscher Club for call.
J, AT their request, ! think in 1908,
, drank a mouthful of beer. They of
, fered me beer and / asked If the,
could get me some white wine. saying
j never drank beer. They asked M
II II would not take a mouthful any
II way, because they said Il was tn