Evening Star Newspaper, January 18, 1923, Page 4

-g . REPORTERS VIS 85 LOUORFLEET Disprove “Dry Navy” State- ment That There Are No Rum-Runners. 100 LADEN SHIPS COUNTED 37,500 Feet of Booze to the Mile,” Seen by One Newspaper Man. Yix the Associated Press. EW YORK, January 1s.-—Report- «rs and photographers of four New York morning newspapers put out in + speclally chartered tug yesterday.| nd toured the rim of the three-mile limit off the New Jersey coast to see ¢ the fleet of rum ships described in ccent Associated Press reports was till there. It was. In a single line the ships of the flest rode from a point reckoned to o three miles north of Seabright,! N. J. to another due east of Sandy iTook and from twelve to fifteen miles disagreed as to the ut of the scores | or the decks re piled with ¢ The World reporter ed he saw 100 vessels which he ieved to be rum runners, although he party did not have time to visit them all. Refute “Dry Navy” Report. zone chief in charge Dapers published their front page stories on the fleet that his observers at High- ands, N. J. prolific rum la reported there wers Mo rum runners in the vicinity. d he had word that eight or ten with rum | cargoes from the Bahama: @ men were ready for them. coast guard cutter had been sent t by the customs department this orning. however, to warn ths «hips already present, a olation of “traffic I ad been charged, th th, Vi and that Not “Pipe Dreams.” All the reporters were inclined to wit enforcement authorities, who «harged that reports of wholesale smug- gling_of liquor into the United States way of the Jersey and Long Island shore: first carried by the Associated - | meetings “will b, Press, were exaggerations. The newspaper men declared they | were.offered bargains in liquors of all kinds, and that the conscience of their skipper was the only thing to prevent thern from bringing back a thousand or moré cases had trey been so in- olfned.i. They did not report sighting any dry navy boat Schooners from Many Ports. There were two-masted schooners trom Nova Scotia, and Nassau, flying the British flag, they reported. There were two-masted schooners from St Pierre Miquelon, flying no flag at all, and there were three-masted schoon- ers and barkentines from Canada and the Bahamas. All were | riding low. | The New York World representative figured the fleet in statistics, saying: ' “On the shelyes of the three-mile limit there are whiskies, ry Scotch; ~ brandies, champagne other alcoholic liquors in cases abos :nchored ships, three ships to the mile, 5,000 cases average to the ship. The case of a_dozen bottles of whisky | is about two feet six inches in length 7,500 feet of booze to the mile.” e i VRGINAN T0 ADDRESS COFEDERATES OF . {Judge Goolrick, Wounded at Fort Harrison in 1864, Heads Re- i union Program. | Judge J. T. Goolrick of Fredericks- jburg, Va,, will be the principal speak- ier at the annual reunfon of the Con- |federate Veterans' Association of the ! District of Columbia, which also will 'be for the purpose of celebrating the birthday anniversary of Gen. Robert at Confederate Memorial Vermont avenue, tomor- row night. Judge Goolrick was the first com- mander of the Fredericksburg Con- federate Veterans: is now the staff of Gen. Julian S. Carr, com- mander-in-chlef of the United Con- federate Veterans, headquar- olunteered in Fredericksburg _Artlilery, also known as Braxton's Battery. He was severely wounded at the battle of Fort Harrison, in 1864, but upon re- covering, rejoined his’ company and surrendered “at Appomattox with it, The program for tomorrow night's | singing of “Dixie.” Rev. J. W it will give the invocation, w be followed by a violin solo, “Medley of Southern Air; Lee Crandall, {Jr. accompanied by Mrs. Lee Crandall, Col. J. M. Follin, adjutant of Camp {171, will read Order No. 9. the last one fssued by Gen. Lee; Mrs. Lula | Armistead Hibbett will on, accompanied b At No Other Time In the history of real Washington ever had as found in the Shannon Intown estate development has successful a suburb as is & Luchs Suburb 14th Street Terrace And at no other time has the public ever had such a wide range of choice Homes in one locality. These, together with which these Homes are of individual distinctive the price and terms upon sold, have been the gov- erning factors in the wonderful success of thi Washington's most convenient suburb. 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