The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 13, 1922, Page 9

WOMEN REPLACE GAMBLING MEN Atlantic Liners Infested With Clever Dupes New YORK, N. YY. Oct 1— Women are replacing men as gamblers on the ocean-going ships and are doing a thriving business fe fMeecing the gullible rich. Of course no “gentleman” will protest if h@ loses heavily at cards to a woman who he has every reason to believe is an aristocrat of royal Diood. The nearest to royalty any of these gambling women ever get fp when they hold four kings or a like number of queens dealt off the bottom of a stacked deck “Little Eddie” Mallon, the watch: dog of the plers, whose job it ts to Sgpot” seagoing gamblers, ts author. tty for the statement. Hoe says the men claim they are going straight Divulging All Facts 7 the Business. How the Trade Is Followed in Seattle, Told From a Bootlegger’s Point of View. By a Man of Education Who's in the Game. (Bahor's Noter ‘This ts the third of a series of articles on the boot- legging indw: in Seattle, It is not a fanciful tale—it is a plain, matter: offact statement as made to a reporter for The Star by one of the prin. cipal “retailers” im Seattle, The reader must bear in mind that tt ts the story of the bootlegger, told from his own viewpoint, and that The Star does not in any way subscribe to many of his views) * *s* © BY JOHN DOE, M. D. (As related to Robert Bastien Bermann) Yesterday I told you who make up the bootlegging indus- try. Today I propose telling you about the manner in which they operate. Possibly a word of explanation {s admissible at this point. In the first place, as I have stated before, ALL the liquor which is smuggled into this section comes from Vancouver, THE SEATTLE STAR Mimi nm BARTELL DRUG STORES Thousands Buy GARDEN COURT Sale Ends Tomorrow Night By Saturday night over 12,000 Bartell customers will have taken advantage of this re- Decause they have found that trav elers are too careful and ship's offt B. C. Sailors may manage to smuggle an occasional bottle off the Oriental liners, but this is rare, and liquor comes ambiers, says Mal came to that conclusion just about the time a White Star cap- tain sent a well-known gambler to the detention aboard his ship following a spirited little party fm the smoking-room, when fists were Brought into WOMEN NOW CHIEF GAMBLERS But where men have dropped cards and dice, women have taken them up. The women are known to Eddie and to other detectives who help him watch the piers, but the problem is to cateh them. One big liner recently came into port and Eddie, as usual, met it at Quarantine. He lost himself as soon as he was aboard. But by the time the liner had reached the pier he popped Into view, sore and dingust- ed, with disappointment easy to read im his face. “I lost ‘the Duchess’ again,” he grumbled, His story was brief. He had re- ceived a wireless tip that there was & woman aboard, aristocratic and GUitured; that she had beem very Sweet to several of the men pas gengers; that she had reluctantly consented to play bridge pract ly every night at sea; that she had col lected heavily at the end of each sitting. MEN WON'T COMPLAIN “I talked to about five men about her,” continued Eddie, “and not one ‘Would complain. She was & woman. hospital action, into Seattle in commercial quantities only from Canada, of the liquor that ts smu; fs Scotch, ‘This Is due to the fact that rye and Bourbon are more easily counterfeited than Scotch and the habitual consumer has therefore learned to steer clear of them. As for the rest of the lquor that | ts smusglied In—about § per cent ts gin—Gordon's dry gin, becaum the }trade knows the name—and the re | maining & per cent will cover all the rye and Bourbon and, tn addition, the various odd wines and liquors) which are brought in on rare oc | castona, Now for the story. The wholesaler first has fo establish a residence tn Canada. He does this simply by staying at a hotel for a short time and becoming known. He Is, osten- sibly, engaged in some lawful occu pation. Usually he is an “exporter” —only he doesn't advertise the na ture of his exports. Well, he first gots his orders. As @ rule, no cargo of liquor is evr brought into this country unless the amuggier has orders for at least 60 per cent of it-—and usually more. This lMquor, which hae been brought In from Scotland by legal they say, and they were not willing | means, he buys from the government to accuse a woman of cheating at| warehouse. The price ts high, be €ards. So I had to let ‘the Duchess’ | cause Canada Is capitalizing her wet- | come ashore, and she has just|/ness by chersing a duty of $19 a/ Passed her baggage. She probably | case, er more than $1.50 a bottie, on) will be back on the French line/ all iiquor imports. Bext week, laughing at mo. ‘The prices varies, of courses, ac “That's the big trouble now. We! cording to the quality of the liquor could beat the men at the game,| purchased. but now the men passengers who} Gordon gin ts the cheapest—it have lost cither won't admit a wom sells for only $40 a case, includ an could outwit them, or else they ing duty. The fine brands of Won't complain. The women are! Scotch, like John Halg’s Dimple, getting away with it simply because | they are women.” WIFE GIVES * UP HUSBAND CHICAGO, Oct. 13.—Sympathy for the “other woman” and an unborn Baby has caused Mrs. Marie Reinert, $1, of Chicago, to forget the love for her husband which had lasted thru 88 years of married life. Mrs. Reinert was granted a @tvorcs hd $80,000 alimony from Mathias Reinert, wealthy realtor, after she Wad testified she wished to care for! young Marie Bourgeous and the un-| bern child of which Reinert admit- tedly is the father. ) Miss Bourgeous now ts living with Reinert’s daughter, Mrs. Martha El-| up of shoes or candles. gas. Reinert met her while touring} The wholesaler almost tnvartably Germany last winter. He brought | uses a very small power boat with her back to his home, introducing her | lot of speed. Most of the boats are! | 40 oF S0-footers. The reason for us-| On April 23 the Reinerts separated. | ing such small craft fs obvious. step is to “sell” it. thorities, you ee, know nothing. o tenaibly, of the wholesaler’s real bust- ness, and therefore everything must be conducted regularty. The “sale” ie usually made to a Mexican firm, fictitious or otherwise, all the proprieties being observed as| rigidly as tho the cargo were made/| In} Reinert going to the home of another | the first place, these boats will carry | daughter, Mra. Marie Williams. He| as much liquor as can be landed with | Offered no defense against his wife's any degree of safety, because, ni charges. juralty, the danger of seizure in creases tn direct proportion to the size of the automobile convoy which is required to take the cargo from the boat. Secondly, the smaller the boat, the lose the wholesaler will lone in case it it confiscated—and you must always bear in mind that the wholesaler tig ures on losing his boat eventually This expectation ts reflected tm the price of every bottle of liquor that | you buy—the price is arranged so that It will cover the purchase of « new boat when needed, in addition to the normal profit, To get back, however— The 160 cases of liquor are bought for something like $8,000. They are joaded aboard the launch—quite openly, of course, because this is an} entirely legal shipment—#o far, The boat clears tn due course for! some Mexican port—Mazatian, we'll | say. And the Cana government | officials are down at the wharf when it leaves to bid It God-apeed Everything has been con- ducted thus far along strictly Ie gal lines—but the legality ceases once the boat is under way. The boat ts disabled at sea—and she is foreed to put in at some American port to get repairs. This port is never very far from Beattia An advance notice has been wired to the wholesalers Seattle agent, of course, and a convoy of automobit is waiting Just at the spot where the boat lands to whisk the liquor off and convey it to a cache tn Seattle, The landing, as you no doubt know, ts always made under cover of darkness and the unloading is done with the greatest speed possi. bie. Speed is the most necessary attribute of the whisky-emuggier— because the leas time a job takes, the less chance there is of interference. There's one thing that I want to explain at thie point, There's « Pretty widespread impression that whisky cargoes are a! brought in under protection, This is errone Colonial Club Shaving Cream Makes beard. Mag-lac Tooth Paste recta “acid mouth.” freshing favor. lac—It doesn't burn. Fountain Pens 95c Our Fountain Pen Departments pleased you so well with t Midget Pen that our stocks are exhausted. For Today and Saturday they offer you a full nize, evlf-filling Eclipse Pen, with 14k. gold pen and tridtum tip, for.... 95c A $2.00 Pea Fancy Pencils 95c Ladies’ Faney Pencil with rib bon sautolr, Uses Ever sharp leads; propels and te pels. Limited 95c supply At ..++eee- A Real Camera $1.50 ‘Takes pictures 1%22% Inches A roll of film free with each camera eold. = = = Ay = Therefore, the average importer does not advertise the arrival of his boat by buying protection. He finds good deal better protected by not having it As soon as the liquor ts loaded aboard the automobiles it is con. veyed without delay to the whole saler's cache. It wouldnt be quite fair to the boys to go into too much detail ax to the character of this cache, Suf. flee it to say that the cache ts so cleverly cloaked that you may live next door to one of them for a year and never suspect its character. It's) usually downtown, in « district) where no suspicion will be aroused if Innocent-looking bundies are car. ried out of the building now and then. The delivering starts the very minute that the liquor is stored in the eache, As 1 explained, the wholesaler has most of his orders In advance, and these are delivered at once, Because, nat urally, the quicker the bootleg ger gets rid of his liquor the Tomorrow ts Candy Day @ ¥ the ore! Geiden Peanut Brittle, ib. carton Chocolates and A milk of magnesia paste, Cor. Mild and re States. Remember Mother, Wife, a box of candy. Oh, yes, the Kiddies, too, markable Garden Court offer. If you are not one of the fortunate ones, take advantage of the opportunity Today or Saturday. Garden Court Toilet Goods are made by master manu- facturers. The materials used are of the highest quality, and the blending is perfect. You will be delighted with the distinctive fragrance of the preparations, and the at- tractive packages. 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It drives out impurities which cause matiam, makes the blood rich and | we. land the really big men in Senttie | almost invariably buy in this man.) brings exnetly The bulk of these deliveries are| made to retatiers—men like me and Roe. We have our orders, too, made! in advance just like the wholesaler’s The rest goes direct to the con- wumer—the great drinking publie, It's much cheaper, you see, to buy) in case lots than it is by the bottle, ner, ‘The deliveries are made by auto mobile, tn small quantities, It is very rare that more than two cas taken on a single trip. liquor is wrapped up in half.case packages—just about the size of the average laundry bundie All deliveries are strictly ©. O. D. The delivery man arrives at his cus. tomer’s home and first goes to the door empty-handed “Mr, Blank?” he inquires when the client answers his ring, “I am from Ed's, I have @ little delivery, In it all right When 1 is assured that everything's all right he goca back to his car and brings out the liquor, never carrying more than two packages al once. As soon ag the customer has checked over his purchase the delivery man announces the charge and collects it at once in currency. And so, within 24 hours after a cargo of liquor is smuggled into the city, Mr. John Blank, president of the Nineteenth Na- tional bank, is giving « party at his home with part of the pment as the principal attrac- ti Now, aa to prices. ‘There In one odd tradition in the business, whic is entirely arbitrary and unsound—| yet it persists, All liquor i# sold by the*wholesaler at a fint rate, ro gardiess of what he paid for it That ix, gin, bought at $40 a cane, | the same price as| John Haig's Dimple, which costs $65 in Vancouver The wholesale price fluctuates, of course, to a certain extent, but {t's| junually in the neighborhood of $70.) r-Eaxtra Chocolat land © gain and boy It for a little less. But the legistimate wholesaler usually gets $70 @ case on the average, This is not exorbitant—It doran’* allow nearly as much profit as many so-called “respectable” merchants de mand, Let's just see bow it comes put. To start with, a cargo of 160 cases costs about $8,000, figuring on an average cost of $50 a dor on, To this must be rr the wages of the two men who usu- ally make up the crew, and the four or five men who drive the automobiles on this side of the border, These wages come pret ty high—$100 » week is an aver. age, And, 4s a bont can rarely make more than one trip a week, you have to add a whole week wages to the original cost. This means $700. Then there's the Investment— about $10,000 in the boat and at least $10,000 more in a@ cash fund which jlose his boat after 98c Menthol, Eucalyptus, Wild Cherry and Tar Relieves coughs quickly. Contains Bo narcotics, chloroform, bromides or other sedatives, and is equally safe for children and adults, A bottle of this eplendid cough remedy should be in every family Medicine chest, for purchases and—contingencies. The Interest on this will figure something more than $20 a week. Next, the the element of loss. The wholesaler figures that he will 60 trips. This 25c, 50c, $1.00 TM He sells his Nquor at $75 @ case— getting $12,000. Thus his actual profit ts only $2,580-——which I consider a y low margin of profit considering the fact that all of us are flirting with Me will mean a loss of $18,000—$10,000 | Net! Island. for the boat and $8,000 for the cargo, So $300 has to be set aside on every trip to provide for thin. Then there is the protection iterm—$100 = week, we'll say, on the average. This is usually paid to the patrolman on the beat where the cache is located and to his sergeant. Now then, let's see how ft works out. I'll tabulate, Here's the way a “normal” cargo of 160 cases is tig ured: Original cost Wages . Interest Sinking fund .. Protection .... Running expenses « “Pape’s Cold Compound” Breaks a Cold in Few Hours Tivery druggist here guarantors each package of “Pape's Cold Com pound” to break up any cold and end Sometimes you may be stuck a litte Atippe misery in a fow hours or more; sometimes you may wet @ bar- ‘money returned. Stuffiness, pain, headache, feverishness, inflamed or congested none and head relieved with first dose. These safe, pleasant thbleta cost only a few cents and millions now take them instead of sickening quinine, Tomorrow I will tell, in detail, about the retailer's business, American, French, British and German wireless companies have formed a pool to establish one large station in Argentina Probably this baby doesn’t know he'll be a king some day. He's the Prince Michael, son of the crown prince and prin- cess of Rumanio Fort Orange 1,000 sheets to roll; finest quality tissue $1.60. Bale price... Fountain Syringe, 2-quart aise, same quality and make ag water bottle. Regular $1.50, Bale Price scene --eee DOE “Weetot” Rubber Crib Sheets, for baby’s bed. Regular $1.25. Sale 89c price . Sale of Soaps and Cleaners ‘j Ends Tomorrow Night ay we Rose - Glycerine, 7- oz. bars, 4 for. 25¢ Fels-Naptha, 8 for ......17¢ Lux, 2:for....17¢ Rinso, 8 for...17¢ Old Dutch Cleanser, 3 8 for vcs. sean -25¢ Lighthouse Cleaner, ¢ -Al¢@ = 3 for ......,.....17¢ BARTELL DRUG STORES oe deeees Palmolive, 8 for ......20¢ er OF 00. Lifebuoy, uid 4 for ......25¢ Cocoa-Almond, 7-02. bars, 4 for. .25¢ Jergen’s Royal Palm, 4 for Ivory, large, size Second and Union 610 Second Ave. Fifth and Pike Ballard and 2tnd N. W. 1908 Boren Ave, Warns Against New * Counterfeit Bill Chief Moran of the United States secret service has sent out warning of a new counterfeit $20 federal re- serve note, It is on the Federal Re- serve bank of Atlanta, the check let- ter is “H," face plate number 33. The |counterfelt ts believed to have been printed from Nthographic plates on genuine paper, obtained by bleaching genuine bills of smaller denomina- tions, “The bill ta crudely printed, the portrait of Cleveland being partic’ larly bad. The numbering looks tho it had been done by hand, and this should be a means of dqtecting Bet He Could Do It - and Did It and Die NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 1 Ashton bet he could eat three oysters and five steaks, He did died, Churchman of 86 Acquires a Brid« SANDWICH, Eng., Oct, 13.—Rev. & C. Worthington Valpy, aged 86, married Mrs. Isobel Seymour, 55. The bridegroom has been rectop of Staple for half a century. the counterfeit, if examined,” say@ the secret service chief. 5 theca hesihinces MRR “CASCARETS” move every day-—yet your thirty feet of bowels may be lined with poison ous waste which is being sucked into your blood, keeping you half sick, nervous, despondent and upset. Whether you have headache, colds, sour stomach, indigestion, or heart palpitation, it is usually frem bowel poison, FOR BOWELS — When Sick, Bilious, Headachy, Constipated, for Sour Stomach, Gases, Bad Breath, Colds Your bowels may seem regular-~,* Murry! One or two Cascareta ” night will clean your bowela By morning all the consti potson and sour bile will move thoroughly! Cascarets will not you-they physie fully, but venience.