Dodging the Excise.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2999, 10 September 1888, Page 2

Dodging the Excise.

I _ Speaking of the methods employed j in Portland by therumseller, to evade 1 the prohibitory laws, the Portland Expiess says :--In one saloon, the reporter found an innocent looking sink. No one would think for an instant that anything besides harm-, less Sebago water ever came.' from that faucet. A workman with a dinner pail in his hand, camo intf) the saloon. He walked up to the. bar, and laying' down his pail requested the bar tender to fill it, The dispenser of liquor walked over to that identi: cal sink and filled : the pail' with foaming heer iiotn the faucet. ■■■■"' In another, tho barrkeoper wna bringing forth beef from a hole in the wall, at the back of the counter, Suddenly a',' watoher rushed in and cried, ''Here dey cum ,Presto,, change. In an instant tho hole in, tho wall was covered with >y of" Washington crossing the Delaware." Glasses were thrown dowjr a trap door into the cellar, and when the deputies enter, the smiling clerk ; is busily engaged in sellinq cigars, There is another, where tho customer sees only a cigar counter and no person in charge of it, when he enters, At tho end of the room ija ' . plank partilion with a holo about six ■ inches.square in it, and a smaller - - Peep hole about a foot ajioye. The ' customer walk's to the hole, calls for his liquor, and lays down l|ia pionev on the shelf A hand takes the tponey vdifsete out the drink. That hand is all the customer see's/ .' ' ; 1 ;