Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-05-28

of any kind and drank the Apollinaris
water. When l went to bed l took
two spoonfuls of brandy in milk and
that was the only drop of liquor
| touched that day. While at the White
House ] never touched brandy OF
lwhiskey, excepting the mint juler
above mentioned and possibly on two
| or three occasions when DR.. Rixey
prescribed a drink of whiskey. Once
when he and | had made a hundred
mile ride together and came in
through a snow storm he gave me
some whiskey and 1 dislked it so that
after taking sip / got cup of tea
instead.
"Outside of these prescriptions
Dr. Rixey we usually had at lunch
some white wine if there We're guests
unless there We're guests ! drank moth
| ing at lunch and often | drank moth
| ing if there were guests At formal
dinners we had champagne of which
| | would drink a glass or tive Will.
at Washington almost all the enter
tainmeuts were at the White House
itself but each member Of the cabinet
gave a dinner and believe there was
/
and | drank a glass or two precisely
as at the White House. Also on per-
haps half a dozen occasions went ont,
for instance to the Grldlron Club dim
ner or to the reception on Speaker
Cannon's SEVENTEEN birthday or to a
dinner of the New YORK delegation in
Congress. On those occasions | drank
precisely as when in the White House
ON the occasion of Mr.. Cannon's eve
; ming reception / went in company
with Mr.. Loeb and with James Sloane,
n Secret Service man. The occasion
was in the evening, We left the White
! House shortly after 8 and returned a
| little after II o'clock. On all public
occasions Mr.. Loeb went with me and
! also two Secret Service men.
con the Cannon occasion | remem-
| Der tilat one of these men was Mr..
Sloane il was the duty of the Secret
Service men to go with me and To see
me safely back to the White House
I but on this occasion as Sloane was in
| Cannon's district and had number
| of friends there, he did not come back
| with me but said goodbye at the car
! riage and returned to the gathering.
| Mr. Loeb. however, returned to the
White House. | was with Mr.. New
berry. Mr. Cortelyou and others while
there. Neither on this occasion nor on
| any occasion did / take a glass Of
Whiskey or brandy or liquor in any
form. ON this occasion | took sand
WITCH and a glass of champagne which
| / drank standing up proposing the
health of the Speaker on his SEVENTEEN
| birthday.
When Col. Roosevelt remarked that
he might have drunk a half dozen
mint juleps in year at The White
| House, a litter went around the room
when Attorney Pound. on direct ex-
animation, asked if he drank them all
| at one time or more than one at
| time.
TO the best of the plaintiffs recoi-
lection he had never in his life taken
more than one on the same occasion.
The Cross examination.
| Cross examination occupied only %
minutes. 1t was conducted by Horace
Andrews of the defence as follows:
| You have never lived in the state
of Michigan No.
outside of flying trip made
| through the state of Michigan yos
have never been in the. State during
the last year a
have never been in the state of
] Michigan within the last s or 10 years
except upon the flying trips ! made
So / would be correct in saying that
Won have not been within the state OF
Michigan within the last Is years
Yes, sir.