Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 19, 1920, Page 2

' ®AGE TWO J“in a rubbish barrel in an alley. " guard the Soldiers' monument. CLEVER TRICKS - OF BOOTLEGGERS lalne Vanety Have ‘Many *-Dodges to Fool the Federal Agents. FFOUNTAIN SYRINGES ~ USED awalking Speakeasies” Are the Hard- est to Catch—Lliquor Is Cached In Odd Places by Itinerant Venders. Buftalo, N. Y.—John M. Evans, who says he has had years of experience ‘In enforcing the prohibitory laws In the ‘state of Maine, stopped off in Buffalo, says the Oourler of that cty, for a few hours and related some interesting methods of conducting the ‘Mquor business under strict enforce- ‘ment. : Mr. Bvans told of many ways of . handling “wet” goods used by “boot- “leggers,” but not one of the hundreds ~ with whom he has come in contact ever used a bootleg as a depository for his stock in trade. “While the name still sticks to in- dividuals who defy the liquor law out- side of regular saloons and kitchen barrcoms, the bootleg full of booze ceased to be when the high boots with loose tops went out of style. Was Easy to Get Booze. “Up to the time of the passage of the Webb law by the federal govern- .ment a few years ago,” Mr. Evans sald, “providing for the labelling of all ‘wet’ goods handled by express companies and other common carriers, it was. a comparatively easy matter to get a plentiful supply of liquor from Boston wholesalers, and even after that most of the bootleggers managed to smuggle in by water or automobile, and there were some who concocted & mixture out of alcohol, water, burnt sugar and a dash of tabasco, which they passed off on many an jinsuspect- ing victim. “The hardest bird we ever had to contend with was putting out booze for years. We knew he was ,,(lnlng it, but we could not get the goods on him, .and it was a long time befoie we got “him, even after we were wise to his * gystem. This was his system: “At night he would load his over- =i coat up with pints, half-pints and oc- ; casionally a quart. These he would . #plant, one in a pile of clapboards In a ‘lumber yard, another in a junk pile “and’ still another under a doorstep or The next day his customers woulil come “to him, pay ‘him for their purchase, - and he would direct them to the near- " est plant. “We bhegan to be suspicious of him after a woman reported seeing a man remove a bottle from the muzzle of one of the two histeric cannon that Final- ly we trailed him at night, watched him sow his crop, harvested it and then placed him under arrest. Strangers “Not Wanted.” “We were unable to get a conviction against him, altbough the fellow: was not working and had no visible means of support. Tt was not until we caught ‘him napping with a couple of stool pigeons that we finally convicted him. In order for the system to work out well the bootlegzer must he well ae- quainted wigh his customers and have their contidence in a large degree. “Another popular method of dis- pensing the hard stuff was through a couple of fountain syringes, suspend- ed from the shoulders one in front and one on the back. Théy would fill' a flask or serve by the drink as desired. “When things begin to get 'too hot for the pocker peddiers,” Mr. Evans continued, “they solicit business and fill ench order one at a time by taking the customers’ money. going .to the nide and returning with the goods, 1 doubt if there is sufficient trust In one’s fellow man for this system. to work -out successfully in a city the size of Buffalo. i We have picked up men with a considerable stock of hooze on” théfr persons while to all appearinces it did not seem possible that the indi- vidual could have more than a flask or Ko, “In the days bhefore the form-fitting clothes, when long coats and peg-top trousers were in style, many a suit was 1 Ml with huge pockets in fhe trousers, and sometimes inside the coat under the arms, “The blind tiger, so popular in the South, was never used much in Maine. Its only recommendation is that it of- fers more or less safety in selling to strangers. You put your out through the opening comes a drink. Beer Was Too Bulky. “The methods used by saloon. keep- ers to keep out of the clutches of the law were almost as numerous as those of bootlegging. The first step of the saloon . keeper when the lid was clamped down was to’ eliminate beer ;and ale all together, as it. was too bulky to handle in the event of a rald. "In those days near-beer was a much despised and little known articlg’ In . Maine. But when the district -at- torne& haled all saloon keepérs who “ possessed a United States license be- fore the grand jury and fattened the -county's treasury by about $500 a head, they began to take more kindly "to mear-beer; as it proved an alibi for ‘the federal tax. ; “In dry spells somé nl_oons-wouldl money through a small opening in a wall and . J ‘ull only by the bottle to those tfiey WHY knew very well, while others would sell only by the drink, going on the basls that,liquor in a man’s system could not be produced as evidence. In the latter places the saloon keeper usually kept a pitcher full ¢f booze under the bar handy to the stak. Sev- eral convictlons were obtained in such cases, however. The combina- tion of’ finding a whisky glass, the odor of liquor and the presence of & drunk or two in the bar room being sufficlent to convince the Judge. . “The wiser ones would have two pitchers, one on each side of the sink, one full of ammonia and one full of whisky. One sweep of the arm would dump them both into the sink. The "odor of the ammonia would prevent the odor .of whisky to be noticeable and the contents of the sink could be analyzed only as spirits of ammonia. “All the saloons in the state were filled with ingenious ‘hides,’ most of which defled detection, When a ‘hide’ was discovered 1t was generally the result of some disgruntled employee giving the thing away. ey range in capacity from ‘hides’ large enough to hold a half-pint close to the bar itself to false cellar walls behind which ten barrels might be concealed.’] Most of the saloons had large and small ‘hides,’ thie smaller-ones being filled up dally from the big one by the boss himself. - *“Some of the ‘hides’ consist of tanks set inside of hewed-out girders in the floor above. These were connected with a small pipe which generally ended in a little ‘office’ right off the bar. You would order'a pint, the bar- tender would return to the ‘office close a door, remove a calendar from the wall, behind which was a little disguised gascock, from this he would remove a cap and draw off the re- quired amount. Other stores of booze were kept in the tanks of flush closets, which could be flushed from behind the bar in case the searchers got too close and the evidence would go down the sewer. “Some had their maln ‘hides,’ on adjoining property that would not be covered by the Search warrant, to which access was had by means of gsecret doors and subterranean pas- sages.” Beer Sold Openly. “What about 2.75 per cent beer?” was asked. “Ever since 2.75 per cent beer was brewed,” he replied, “it has been on sale openly in Maine. Fruit stores and small ‘stands of all kinds paid $25 for a federsl license and put in a stock of bottled beer, while the sa- loons sold the bottled and draught goods both. If the saloons have a right to sell it because it is non-in- toxicating and if it is non-intoxicat- ing I can’t see the necessity of carry- ing uan excessive tax. I can't see what is there to prevent soda foun- talns or anyone selling 2.75 beer af- ter paying the federal tax of $25. “Prohibition’ in Maine for many vears was a joke exceplt forsoccasional spasms of enforcement just before an electlon when the party in power figured that they needed votes or the county treasury needed money. It is an interesting game® to chase the evaders and I anticipate it will be even more so in the etent of nation- wide prphibition.” i R i Engineer Refused to Spoil This “Lie” . Pinehurst, \\ C.—The defer- ence paid to golf here is lpres- sive. Miss Metealf Keating ‘of the Agawam ‘Hunt club, hgoked her drive to the railroad fracks near the c¢lub house just as a train was coping n!m}g. The, engineer, leaning out of the cab window, saw the ball come to rest between the rails, saw. it perch. ifself upon an ideal but precurious tee in the form of a tiny plle of cinders, grasped the situation and the airbrake control at the same time and brought the train to a . sudden stop. _The passengers may have been slightly shaken up -In the pYoc- ess, but Miss Keating's lle was not disturbed. The train waited until a good recovery shot had " heen played and then Tesumed its journey mnorthward to less mnsn,rme climes, | 0 D S N Y Y Y Y N R S N R Y YRR RN . P A P U SRy ? to bbb bt £ WAX FIGURE OF “PUSSYFOOT” Amerlcan Prohibition Worker Is Put Among “Immortals” in Lohton. . London.—A wax figure of W. E. (Pussyfoot) Johnsgn, the American prohibition worker who recently sac- rificed an eye to the “dry” campaign in England, has‘'been placed among the “immortals,” in Mme. Tussaud's museum of wax figures. The figure representing Mr. Johnson has a patch over the injured eye. Mme. Tussaud's establishment, which has been runnlng for more than half a century, has come to be almost a national institution. In It are to be found the bust$ and statues of people of all periods who have achleved "fame or notoriety. Pitch From Fir Trees. Portland, . Ore.—Pitch is soon to be extracted from Oregon firs in an effort to restock the country’s waning supply of turpentine. A permit, the first of its kird, has just been issued by the district forester to allow the extrac tion of pitch from Douglas fir timber on 160 acres near Disston in the Ump- qua national - forest. | proper food. has been making a short THE BEMIDJ, D Men of Medicine Oppose ' Euthanasia Although attempted suicide is & felony punishable with -severe penal- ties: these are rarely Inflicted, cor- oners’ jyries being inclined to assume that trouble or pain had driven the sufferer temporarily ingane. And dle, a right to demand that his physi- clan give him a lethal dose of poison that will end his sufferings with a painless death, called euthanasia.. But’ a doctor®who lent himself to such an arrangement ‘would be committing murder under the law, and the gross- est of malpractice, that would at least result in his ‘expulsiop from the pro- fession. Those who argue for euthana- sla would have the law and the rules -of the -medical societies changed to permit what they would call this work of mercy. . Physiclans, howéver, do not desine to have any such responsibility thrust upon them. It is all very well to talk of “hopeless” cases, but no experi- | enced doctor dares call any case “hopeless,” for all who have had a large practice can-recall cases that have seemed utterly hopeless suddenly take a turn for the better and recover. In the words of the Lancét (Lon- don), “the medical profession would disclalm anything approaching infalli- bility.” “While there is life there is hope” is ampld proverb that the medi- cal man has 'to justify by providing examples of its application. i Nor would the doctor care to share the responsibllity with any one else. Is the pdtient to be the judge? Must the sufferer’s wife or other relatives be consulted? How about the insur- ance companies that hold policies-.on his life? Then there are the many possibilities of complications after death. . Suppose, for instance, a ques- tion were to be raised as to whether the condition of the patient justitied the legal murder, as it very well might be. This would scarcely make for the .peace of mind of the responsible physi- cian, . * This summary of the Lancet's argu- ment leaves out of consideration all the religious and ethical principles that are involved. ' AIDED BROTHERS IN FIELD How Women in Civil War Times Went About Their Activities in Work of Mercy. The activities of women in war work recalls the work of the women,{dnflng the Civil war in a little village of New York. Willam H. Shelfon, in & reminiscent article in Century, says: “Our village had a decided op!nlgn' about the ‘war, .and when the ladies who had played battledore and shuttle- cock wanted to do their bit in a Red Cross way they selected the little red cannon house as the scene of their activity. . The yellow gun carriage, with its double trail; was wheeled out upon the grags, its brass gun actually pointing south, with the round iron balls hard by in the portable chest, to make way for tables and chairs. Here at fixed intervals the ladies met to make havelocks and pick lint. For the first they brought good cotton drill- ing, and for the soft lint they scraped the “oldest sheets and pillowcases of fine linen from their grnndmothers‘ wedding chests.” Why War-Time Diet Was !eQ. Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, a Hoosier who became famous as an authority on the visit to Indiana friends. He says, ac- cording to the Indianapolis News: + “T regret that the American people so soon abandoned the restricted diet enforced by the war-time food admin- istration. The use of white flour in- stead of the war mixture is’'a step backward so far as the public health is concerned. The war bread was more nutritious and i» every particular more to be desired than the bread we are using today.” Doctor Wiley says his family went | on a war diet before the rest of the country and the same diet'is belng kept up, even though restrlctlona have been;, to a large measure, removed. He also thinks the curtailment of su- gar was a great thing for the country and is,sorry the sugar bow! has gone back on the restaurant and hotel tables. ; How Hairpins Aid Surgeons. De Angelo L. Saresl of New York, who has been serving as surgeon in the Itallan army, sends to the Journal of the American Medical Association a note on a novel but simple method of retracting- the skin and flesh in minor surgical operations. “When spe- cial retractors are not available,” he sdys, “ordinary hairpins may be used.” And he shows some of the many ways in which they may be bent for the purpose. They can be made self- retaining by hanging a small weight to them. How Saying Originated. It used to be customary for the god- father of an infant to present him with a silver gpoon at baptism. In the case of a child born lucky or rich, the it was anticipated at the moment of entering life and the child was then u!dtobobomvmha“aflverspoon n his mouth.” Why: 8he Suited Him. Newlywed—What a tiny little woss- an your wife is. Justwed==She’s just that. But, then, xpartment rents are so high I can't afford house room for anything larger than a gnome.—Knoxville Sentinel. many persons hold .that uhder certain circumstances a person has a right to ;i . DR. EINER JOHNSON Physician and Surgeon Bemidji, Minn. . L) AILY PIONEER BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL VETERINARIANS ~—mn . J. WARNINGER VETRAINARY SURGEON +.Office and Hospital 3 doors west.. of Troppman's. Phone No. 808 $rd Street und Irvine ave. Dr. W. K. Denison—Dr. D. R, Burgess DENISON & RURGERSS Veterinarians. Phones: Office 3-R; Res. 99 . Bemidji, Minn. BUSINESS —~— e A T, E. M. SATHRE Buys Small Houses for cash and sells them on small monthly payments DRY CLEANING Olotbes Cleaners for Men, Women FIRE INSURANCE '/ REAL ESTATE REYNOLDS & WINTER 212 Beltrami Avenue Phone 144 D. H. FISK, Atterney at Law Oftice, Northern National Bank Bldg. "Phone 181. Collections a specialty. H.'C. 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