Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-08

sary details, but want to run these
pieces down as rapidly as can
places that you mentioned in xour
iioie. AZ Fore street, how long have
YOU known that as a saloon? 4 MOI
leng
g. We'll, how long? Somewhere near
how lone2 n Oh. perhans . .xea ,.'''
@. Southwest corner Of Fore and
men \. l should say that had
teii dflnklnS place for at least >
years.
q, No lpnger9 a. l don't know,
couldn't say
Q. You wouldn't say that ii. had
Lot been for eoad deal longer than
sft' y. wouldn't say it had not
been. no.
q. Northwest corner of Fore and
mon \. Well, | couldn't say as to
ehat, mat was occupied as "a tailor
siop at hrst. 1t may have been a
ii4uor saioon there for a year or less
q. Now, 1873 Center street,-that
WAS hop beer place you say? \. 1t
seemed to be like that
- You took 1t to be that? A. Yes.
q You didn't see any sign of any
thing else about it? A. No. sir.
g You didn't see any indication
that 1t WIS anything more than that?
\. M. sir.
e. pass YOU this paper-it is n
plan similar to the large plan which
Erc. cieaves showed YOU House Doc
hment No. G67-and on Center street.
| want to ask You if you visited 90
| Center street? \. l think / did.
u New is that Il bar room? A. 1t
is fitted up as a bar. yes.
q. Are they selling liquor there?
\. There was none sold there when
was there. | think there were two
men in there.
q Were there indications that i,
was liquor saloon? \. Why. moth
ing only the bar. and the man there.
II was an open place with a bar.
don remember seeing anything be-
hind The bar
Q Did you visit 50 Center street.
y. | think / did.
g What did you find at 50 Center
street \. About the same as at 81.
.. That is, You saw no liquor
there A. Only the men drinking
beer. | couldn't say what kind of beer
II was.
Q. At 20 did YOU see men drinking
beer a. No, sir.
@. The 80 wasn't like 90 in that re-
spect2 At SO you saw no signs of
liquor at all? a. II was fitted IN.
about the same. had bar just the
same
.. Al 80 did you see any sign of
liquor a. ! did may not have the
same number-there were two places
there ON Center street at about that
locality. At one place there were two
men sitting at the table. no men at
the bar, and no signs of drinking. A,
this other place, up the street a little
further, an oldish man took up a glass
of beer out of a brown pitcher.
q. Now you memorandaed the
number of the street and the places
YOU went into-put them on a meme
random I did. | may have got
the numbers wrong
@. But ii is important to get them
right, if We are going to pursue this
investigation intelligently. Now have
YOU anything to Indicate that there
was any liquor sold or anything look
ing like liquor selling going on ut, 80
Center street? 4. No. sir
q. Not thing? A. No. sir.
Q.. And that ON this chart Gndicating)
is one OIL the black places. put down. IN
black? A. Yes. sir. ts #
O. Now at 50 Center street you saw
man served with beer out of brown
pitcher? \. Yes. sir
@. Now there are in Portland places
that you refer to hop beer joints? a.
There are. yes. sir
Q. Now do YOU know whether 80 was
hop beer joint or barsroom- A. No.
sir, | don't.
Q. So far as your Observation went
it might have, been one of those hop
beer joints? a. Yes. sir, &
@. Now come to Il Center street
What If anything did you find there to
indicate liquor selling? A. don't re-
member that | went into that place.
9. Didn't go in there at all, so far
as you remember? A. No, don't think
l did.
@. Now at 50. what did you find. ir
there? a. That was fitted up
with bottles behind the bar, and glasses
behind the bar, and white-coated bar
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