Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1919 — ONLY RICH DRINK [ARTICLE]

ONLY RICH DRINK

Maine Woodsmen Now Have to Pay $5 for Pint of Whisky. Bangor, Me.—-War, which used up so much alcohol and starved the distilleries. and the bone-dry law affecting the shipment of liquors from wet into dry territory, have made anything like warm sociability, let alone hilarity, impossible in Maine to any save the wealthy. In the olden days a woodsman or a sailor went into a Bangor bar (and at

one time there were 181, including seven varieties to choose from), laid down a dime and took a drink of what could easily be identified as whisky. But now a drink of whisky is served with Black Hand secrecy, and many a wink and whisper of caution in some dugout up an alley, or maybe taken in a dark hallway from the dirty glass of a bootlegger, and costs 25 to 40 cents, while a half pint costs $2 to $2.50, a pint $4 to $5, and a quart $6 to $10, according to quality, time and place. There seems to be plenty of whisky, or near whisky, here and elsewhere ir Maine, but the high cost of drinking has driven common folks out of the