The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 25, 1921, Page 20

RUM RUNNER SPENDS ALL ON ORGIES \ Investigator Attends Beastial | Party in. the Bahama Islands BY ROY GIBBONS MIAMI, Fla, Nov, 22-—Most of the ill-gotten gains from the rum traf- fic between the British Bahamas and the Southeastern coast of the Unit @ States is squandered in drinking, gambling and debauchery. While investigating rum-running I was invited to a fire dance that ® group of rum-runners pulled off im celebration of the successful fin- teh of a big booze deal. Once the fire dance was a re ligious ceremony. But in the hands of the rum-runners it has become the most indecent and disgusting ergy debased human minds could conceive. ‘The Hiquor smuggters and traffick- ers Invited to the fire dance met in the negro quarter of Nassau and ‘were driven in carriages to a clear- ing about six miles from town where the actors—about 25 native men @nd the same number of women— were gathered, Miss Pauline Thayer, 19, TOM-TOM BEATS could hold a high placevin the AND DANCE BEGINS society of Philadelphia, but The rum-runners presented each|she plans to forsake society “of the natives with sbveral shillings,| for @ career as a concert Shen plied them with liquor, and) violinist. She is a daughter Se eee teat he great (Of the late John B. Thayer, Donfire, gathered together, was|vice president of the Penn- ey ; eo sylvania railroad, who was rng tl ena _ihaneo eg | Lost in the Titanic. The audience cheered fo ‘on, yelling coarse jests. or overcome by drunken stupor, fell shillings, more whisky. The) SMseless on the ground began a sing-song wail that] Then the carriage drivers sought wild shrieks. The audience |Out the rum-runners, half dragged in their shouts, and passed| half carried them to their vehictes, | bottles round and round. loaded them aboard and haul Far into. the; night the reveiry| them Sack to town until the dancers, ex-) WHISKY REVELRY by their fiendish exertions) LEADS TO ARREST —_—_— Tt was rumrunners’ revelry that Thick, Heavy Hair! got me inside the Nassau prison, I had spent the evening with several liquor traffickers whose tongues, loorened with much liquor, were telling secrets of the trade, They took special delight in nar rating how they cleared in ballast for Canada, got liquor outside the Bahaman three-mile limit and then delivered it in New York or other -35-cent Bottle Ends all Dandruff, harbors. Or how they cleared with Stops Hair C as quor for Canada, but deliver to American boats outside the 12- mile limit. They talked of million aires whose private yachts met them. In this party was a young fellow in Nassau on business not cennect- ed with the rum traffic, and my- self. He was considerably the worse for drink, so I escorted him to within a block of his lodgings. I had_,enme only a half block my- self, when I heard cries for help. and looking back saw my casual acquaintance being borne down to the ground by three men. RUSHES TO SAVE HIS COMPAN “A holdup! the thought that flashed thru my mind. Casting discretion to the winds, I rushed to the rescue, “Let him go!” 1 yelled, breathless, and kicked one of the attackers, who was wearing overails, A blow in the eye felled me, Then @ whistle shrieked. In a few sec onds 4 small army bore down on us, When I got to my feet, I found they were native police, tho they were dressed exactly like steve- dores. In court the next day each of us was fined five shillings. Afterward, I revealed my true identity to several Bahaman offi cials. One of these said to me: “Prohibition in the United States | is spelling the moral ruination of many of the natives‘in Nassau. This was @ law-abiding community before the rum-runners infested it. I wish| the United States would keep its scum at home.” 4 Ant de was right. For rum-run- ning from the Bahamas is pure! ime Minuten after _ Ane sosasggprd an American industry, finiead by| can sg . ype ome toa phous money and carried on by ‘sealp will | nok Mah, bat. whet Will ootea ona. tee oo soup la mas please —_ i: aLipaedl ps Rng ie 1 Ron Ask any official in Nassau and he gly auras “ first—yee—but | 7! blame Americans for debauch } 1 pew kair—qrowing all over ing the natives. My own experi-| Ncalp. Danderine fa to the hair | ences 4. observations, during two {tredh showers of rain and #an.| Weeks’ assoclation with liquor smug- ‘wha are to ¢egetation. 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