Evening star., 1913-12-17
HOUSE PROBE TO UPHOLD
ACCOUNTS OF REVELRy
Recommendation as Result of Foot
Ball Night Inquiry Also
Predicted.
Ebbitt House Proprietor Gives His
Version Of Incidents After
Georgetown-Virginia Game.


report supporting the newspaper
| articles published November 16 concern
ing the revels following the Georgetown
Virginia foot ball game will be pre-
sented to the House by the special sub
committee authorized to make investi-
cation. it was predicted today. The pos
sibilities OF the report are said to vary.
Although the resolution mentions nothing
specifically about recommendations. a
majority of the committee at present
feels as If some sort of recommendation
in connection with the District excise
law would not be out of place The
hearings closed yesterday.
George F. Schutt. proprietor Of the Eb-
bitt House. left with the subcommittee
statement outlining the nature of the
hotel business generally, and said he
would welcome a law divorcing the ho-
tel business from the liquor business
Statement by Schutt.
The statement says also:
Immediately upon the passage of the
present excise law I went over it para
graph by paragraph with my attorney
e4io itdo ~ Cpdi GU anu pllllI6u anu pidCGQ
in the hands of every employe of my
two hotels instructions containing the
provisions of the law relating to hotels.
These instructions We're carefully explain
ed to every employe who could possibly
have anything to do with the sale of
beverages. and the most positive instruc-
uons were given that it was to be i'm
plicitly obeyed in its every detail with the
further instruction that the penalty for
disobedience by any employe would be
instant dismissal. On the night in uues-
ton extra men were employed for the
sole purpose of aiding in preventing such
violations. just as extra help was hired
for the other departments of the hotel
Departmental System.
A business of the magnitude of the
larger hotels has to be divided into de-
partments and conducted under the direc-
ton of heads of departments These ex-
ecutive heads have been selected because
Of their peculiar experience long train
ing and fitness for the duties they are re-
luired to perform. Neither the head of a
department nor any employe under him
can possibly have any motive or incentive
10 violate the law. while on the contrary
every incentive and every motive is to
law has been violated in any detail i'm
either of the hotels which / operate.
1T is perhaps needless for ME to say
that I cannot personally attend TO all of
the details of the business. ! can neither
cook the food nor serve il myself. nor can
/ render any of the other personal serv-
ice demanded by my guests, and it is nee
essary that these details be delegated to
No one is. however, more interested in
knowing just what occurred at the E,b-
hitt House on the night following the
foot ball game than [, and | have con-
Quoted the most thorough investigation
tor the purpose of ascertaining just what
did occur. The reports contained in the
newspapers are grossly exaggerated and
are not supported by the testimony of
witnesses taken in court and before this
committee. Even when we examine the
testimony we find that it is mere asser-
tions and statements of opinion not based
upon any ascertainable facts, with posi-
bly, four exceptions. and l now ask your
consideration of those four things.
Custer of One Drunk.
The first is that drunken man was
arrested in the barroom. The result of
my Investigations is that a man came
into the barroom off of the street asked
TO be served with liquor and was refused.
lie tiitH ptsdI uSlIS pTOIdIlG Language,
when the head barkeeper called upon
Detectives Simpson and Howes who
We're then in the bar, to remove him.
which they did.
He was not served with any bev-
erage at the Ebbitt House, SO far as
nave been able to ascertain. l have
been unable TO learn that any other per
son was taken out of the barroom that
night. had man stationed III the bar
room for the purpose OF preventing
minors from entering. In the crowd on
few occasions persons thought TO be
minors succeeded in getting inc the bar
room, and when their presence was dis
covered they were Immediately told and
-eeuired TO leave.
The second occurrence was the re-
c2oval of a man from the lower corridor
%nich runs from 14th street between
The dining rooms. and to the toilet
which Is practically a public toilet A
man, twenty-five or thirty years old
came from the main lobby down a flight
OF stairs to this corridor and insisted
upon going into the cafe. but as every
seat at every table was occupied ne
was not allowed to go in.
Refused to Leave.
lie then began talking loud and did not
desist nor leave when requested so to
do, and the officers were asked to re-
move him, which they did. No table was
upset. no dish broken. and no disturb
ance created except what was necessary
20 take him, very small man, out of
a crowded corridor and into the street.
This gentleman called the next day
ana dpologtzed to the management for
his conduct of the evening before and
expressed his regret that he should have
been the occasion of annoyance to the
hotel. In this connection my investi
cation as TO broken dishes Is that bus
"a no. lrals r.
pose Of clearing the table and removing
solled dishes did on two occasions let
trays fall, once while passing through
this crowded corridor and once while
passing from the main dining room into
the kitchen. Each of these occasions
was an accident which is not at all an un-
usua! occurrence either in "a cafe or in
ones home.
Replies to Policemen.