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Show NO LIQUOR SOLD ON HERMITAGE GROUNDS Editor Standard: It is seldom that I break Into print, but your article of Wednesday signed "Lcota S Kenn-dy" Kenn-dy" Is so manifestly unfair both to the Hermitage and myself that I asg space for reply. So far as the allegation regarding liquor at the old saloon building l concerned. I have to say that the building referred to Is called the Log Cabin, and there has been no liquor sold in it for three years I gave the J use of this building to the Eagles, ths : Carpenters union, the Owls, the Mo- ' slcians' union and the Veteran Fire- a men, and these organlatlons brought j their own refreshmentss as they ha4 9 a right to do. So far as July 24 Is concerned, the Log Cabin was closed on that day. j Regarding the incident of the young I men on the car and the delay caused by the loss of a hat, I am informed b Superintendent Kline that the de- lay was not to exceed a half minute I and the man who lost his hat did not get back on the car. There i6 no liquor sold at the Her- j mitage grounds but many people who come to the resort bring llouors with them and this, I take It, Is their right and privilege. It Is generally admitted that the consumption of liquor at resorts In dry ferritor;. Is greater than when liquors were sold under license, as people j now take liquor with rhem and con- flume more than they would were It I available by purchase, as before the if- j quor law went Into effect. So far as drinking at the Hermit- JC age on the hill is conrerned. that is confined to the members of the club 'Sj which is operated under a state char- I (Signed i W G WILSON. |