Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-07


doors, two doors swinging that way,
or one door as the case might be.
q. Did YOU notice any instances
where they had one door to go in and
one to go out so that loaded iiggers
could keep to the right in passing?
a. There is one on Preble street
where there is a door al each end of
the bar room.
O. Now YOU may 80 on. A. We
went up onto Fore street and visited
the Calf Topsail Here was another
regular bar room. with a bartender,
and this bartender had on "A white
packeta whit coat, and was wait
ing on the men who were drinking nj
the bar From there we went back
onto Commercial street ana made one
call i'm at a place where they were not
selling liquor or had any suspicion
that they We're selling. then came
back onto Fore street and at the
corner of Union and Fore streets we
visited another bar room, fully equip
ped with swing door. but this had no
partition. we entered directly into the
bar room from the street without hay
ing entered a front room to get there.
Here was another bartender waiting
en- "A number of people, don't re-
member how many-severaL From
there we went UP to Center street and
exayhined conditions there. On Center
street there were some mere Of these
places like those | have described, but
we dn+n,t go into them ut that time
Then we went dnd got some dinner
and after that we went. to Preble
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q. Is that the place that hats been re-
ferred u as Hollywood? \. Yes sir.
@ VIII YOU describe that place \.
This IS large bar rnnm having a floor
Of mosaic work ef same kind mag
nificent bar plate glass mirrors behind
the bar: arranged on the shelves were
glasses of different kinds with little
napkins stuck into them, such a. ] have
seen in 4 licensed city. and i think a
bar thai would average better than those
that | have seem aVera ged To see in lii
rensed cities. suppose it must have
cost several thousand. dollars 10 fit M.
that is my judgment It WIS bar-and
nothing but a bar and couldn't bc used
without being changed over for any
thing bur i bar. There wasn't even
lunches ar anything Of the kind served
there.
@. How. if at all was passer-by
prevented from looking in 10 see what
was going on? y There WIS an en-
trance at each cn1 Of the building. Tie
entrance went into other ways. one Of
which bad stairway up. and the other
Of which turned sharply to The right and
went into a bar room. From either of
.4att +1H ~
entered There was middle door. or
what looked as if il might have been
but il WIS boarded up with common
boards on the outside. but on the inside
shelthed up in such Il manner that the
common boards didn't show.
@ And couldn't passcrs-by from the
street. without opening one Of these
doors see in and observe what was ee-
ing on? y don't think it would be
possible. The windows We're covered
with something like whiting or soap,
something rubbed IN 50 that you couldn't
see in clearly enough 10 see what MIS-
going on Int ii didn't exclude the light
O. What. il any. evidence of the pres
ence OF intoxicating liquors in that place
!. a tiiat tome did xaff=ahserYe2s n. l-saw
on the left-hdnd enl If the shelves, near
which a gentleman was seated, the
shelves behind the door. two long necked
bottles and on the bar could he seen. as
we sat in front of it, there is a shelf
right in behind the bar, below, and
standing against the bar YOU. could see
the neeks OF the bottles thar were stand
ing on this shelf. / don't attempt to say
what was in the bottles
q AT that piace We're there any beer
faucets \. There MS whole battery
Of them.
O. rpon this occasion whether or not
any others than yourself and Mr. Berry
visited the pi.tce2 y There were four
men drinking something that looked like
beer, ana one other man. who was seat
I'd, | don't know what relation he had
to the place, whether he was Il customer.
He came out and went up the street
with Ms.
O. Whether or not some one behind
the bar was serving these people who
were there? y. There was.
O. And in any of these places to which
YOU have now referred. did YOU hear any
call whiie you We're in there 10y any
person for any particular article 10
drink by any person other than YOU or
Mr.. Rerry3 a. | don't recaH distinctly
enough to testify.
Q! Now did You upon this same dav
visit any ether places? \ / did
@. Gu on. y. From there We went up
Preble street and down on center street
10 the old Jim Weleh place, that has
been notorious for years as a saloon 4
is the Jim Weleh place, | understand he
is dead, but the place silly retains his
name. We went into the bar roam. Mr..
Berry and together, he going TO one
end of the bar, the further end of the
bar and | turned to the first end of the
bar as | went in the door. There were
4 number of men drinking in this place.
l called for half pint of whiskey.
which was Immediately handed to me
by the bartender. who was behind the
bar and | saw Mr.. Berry do the same
thing. Then VIC left the place.
Q. Go on To the next place. A. My
recollection is that that was the last
place that We went into; it is possible
there We're others.
@. You have for several years engaged
in field work for the Christian Civic
League have you? A. For about seven
years.
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