Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-11

After Recess.

After Recess.
Convention called to order by the Pres
ident at go p. NJ
THE PRESIDENT: The secretary will
, call the roll of the convention.
PRESENT:-sen. Allan of Washington
Sen Allen of kennebec. Allen of Ma.
G 1ii, Sen. Bailey, Bass, Bcnn, Benton,
Bragdon of sullivan, Bragdon of York,
Bucklin. Sen. Burleigh. Butler, Sen.
Chase, Chick. Clark of New Portland,
cochran, Sen. Colby, Sen. Cole, Sen. Co
ICyr, Davis. Descoteaux. Doherty, Dun
ton, Dursn. Eastman, Eaton, Eldridge,
Elliott, Estes, Farnham Farrar, l. olson,
Eranck, Gallagher. Gamache. Goodwin,
Gordon, Greenleaf. of Auburn. Greenleaf
of Otislield. Sen. Hagerthy, uanes, Har-
man, Harper. Hartman, Haskell, Sen.
ms, Irving, Jengins. Jennings, Sen. Jill
son, johnson. Jones. kimball. Lawry
Leary, Libby, Marston. Mason, Sen.
Maxwell of sagadahoe. Maxwell of
| Boothbay Harbor, Mcbride. McFadden,
| Merrill Midon, Sen. Millken. Mitchell
of kittery. Mitchell of Newport, Mooers,
| Sen. Murphy. Newbert Mute, O'ConnelI,
! Packard of Newburg. SEN Patten OF
! Hancock, Peacock, Peaks. Pendleton, Pc
| ters, Peterson Pitcher, Putnam, Quinn.
Sen. Reynolds of kennebee. Reynolds of
| Lewiston, Sen Richardson of Penobscot.
| Richardson of Canton. Roberts. Robin
tSOI rousseau, SanDOrn, SanuerSOn, Sar-
gent, scates, SHELTON, sldllin. Sen. Smith
of Penobscot. smith of Auburn, Smith of
1 Patten. Smith of Presque Isle. Snow,
| Spencer Sen; stearns, Stevens stuart.
| Tryon; Umphrey. Violette, Sen; Walker,
Sen Wing; Wise, Yeaton.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT. Brennan, Brown,
Chadbourne, Churchill, Sen Clark of
/ York, Clark of Portland. Donovan Dress
err Dunbar Sen. button, Emerson, Sen.
cock, Hodsdon, Hogan. kehoe, kelleherI
of Portland. keleher of Watervlle.
Leader, LeBel Leveile, Sen. Mansfield.
Mathieson; Maybury. Metcaif, Morneau,
Flummer, Price. Ramsay, Kicker, Rolfe,
sherman, Smith of Pittsfield. Sprague,
Stanley, Stetson, SWEET, Thompson,
,, Trimble. Twombly. Wheeler.
THE PRESIDENT: The roll call dis
closes tho presence of 135 members of
the convention.
Judge Cleaves. you will proceed vita
the case.
Mr. EDWARD H. EMERY, having
been duly sworn. testified as follows:
Examination by JUDGE CLEAVES
Q. Your name is Edward II. Emery?
y. Yes sir.
Q. And you live at Sanford? A. Yes
sir.
Q. You are one of the field secretaries
of the Christian Civic League? a. II
am.
q. At any time during this year. have
you visited Bangor and other places of
| that county to make observations In re-
gard to the sale of intoxicating liquors?
y. 1 have.
Q. What was the date of your visit?
y. March II.
@. Will you tell us in your own way.
keeping in mind the location of the
places, general description of each
| place before you leave it, what you OBJ
served within those places, and if you
purchased anything. state il. A. On the
suggestion of Doctor Berry, the super
intendent of the Civic League. / went
to Bangor to make some observations
as to whether the prohibitory law was
being enforced or not. and If it was vio-
lated, to what extent, and how openly
He instructed PIE, If | could, in every
/ instance, to buy liquor, to try a few
places and see what | could do. l ar
rived there between and 6 O'Clock in
| the afternoon and started up Exchange
street and turned into the first place.
which l think is 70. 1t looked like u bar
| room. This was p. II. MeNarama's
|. place, or at least had his name on the
window. a partition within the room
goes part way across the room. leaving
an opportunity at each side of the par
tition to pass berind it. On the left hand
side, there was counter that extended
, through the room next to the street, back
to and used on one end as a cigar ooun.
ter and behind this partition is a bar
in ha int
the bar, both ways. but could not see
/ the bar itself l mean the counter over
which the liquor was served / could
see the shelves behind the bar and CD
those shelves were arranged various bot
| ties OF liquors. There was a portiere
J hanging over this door Intended to cover
:. it, but 1t was pushed back and did not
! cover ii. went into the place and
| around the other end of the partition
and up to the bar and purchased half d
pint of whiskey for which paid % cents
! The whiskey was taken from behind
| that bar where the bottles were piled
/ up like stove wood on their sides.
then went to about Ill Exchange
| street 1t was not Ill but near there.
do not know the number for | could
| not see any on the door. This was q
| regular barroom arranged as barrooms
| are. as they have been described so
| many times here. with a partition back
| from the door do not remember what
WAS in the front room, hut in the back
| room there was intoxica ting liquor on
| the shelves. | bought half q pint of
| wniskey and brought ii away for which
| | paid 30 cents. This was put UP for
| me by the bartender. From there l
| went to Center street. where got some
| supper ard then went to the Winslo.T
bar, so-ca!led. This is at the rear of d
| barber shop located at Harlow street.
| Passing through the barber shop, and
| passing gambling machines which We're
being operated, | came into this bar
| room which was large and had a NICE
ly furnished bar. There was quite u
= | stock of liquor on the shelves behind
| the bar. Three men were sitting at the
table in this room drinking beer, but
other men We're being served at the bar,
and l stepped up to the bar and called
for half u pint of whiskey for which