The evening world. Newspaper, July 7, 1920, Page 17

. " i" THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 1920.~ ee Sn _ —_— — — the road. gets hin pockets loaded with | hooten at $5 a quart, and comes right back again. it’s as simple as rolling off a cliff. The boys at the border service sta-; tion say the sleuths aren't after the smaller fry. ‘The Federal dick or the deputy sheriff doesn’t care to molest a cheerful party with only enough to supply their needs, If by chance the sleuth should stop your car, he will search to gee if there's boeze abourd. But he will not touch your pockets! Every man's pome is his castle, | they say, and in Maine every man’s feet. 80 far, none of the Jackman natives has gone to the county jail, On nights when the booze sieuths are Known to be active the tip is in circulation at the border bar. Any chap that invests in a hip-pocket pur- chase up at the Line House Is warned when there's danger ahead. Practi- cally all booze sold there in minor quantities is guaranteed for 5,000 miles down the Jackman Turnpike. The midnight dashes over the bor- der are the expeditions that roll up the dough. Hootch tg ‘bought in wholesale quantities at Quebec, eighty pocket is his cellar. The main idea} miles down the road. As soon as the is that @ hootch enthusiast has the|load passes the Canadian customs, privilege of carrying over the !ine as|ten miles from the dotted line border, ~FLOOD OF WHISKEY POURS INTO MAINE OVERCANADIANLINE siadasipiviane Trucks Stopped, but Thirsty an Ae ;: much stuff as his pocketa will carry. | the car is on its way toward the land Citizens Carry In All Hip | Xir‘or which has affected the of the free and the home of the Pockats for hip and side slits. ‘There thirsty, At the line {tselfthere ix no ‘ockets Hold. of dough walting for the firs one to stop It. In fact, you wouldn't a tailor that invents the keg-sizo| know ae the line but for the pocket. signboard announcing Mr. Blair's By Neal R. 0’Hara. Line House. Anywhere along the fifteen miles of wooded road between the border and Jackman there's a chance that the sleuths may be ac- tive, but that chance is small like a debutante’s feet But if the customs man or the What the sleuths are after when they hit the trail are the guys that bring booze in on trucks. Those are the birds that rank as the rum run- ners. When the transborder motor- tet carries a heavy load in his tour:ng car or concealed in a heavy truck, he is running his chances of getting|Sherift should happen to be iurking nipped. But the Jackman wise set|on the trail to the Pine Tree SI believes that the chances are émaller!is he who 1s taking his chance: than the claws on a humming bird's t! For the b JACKMAN, Me., July 7.—Maine this week 1s celebrating the 100th an- Miversary of her Statehood and the first anniversary of national Prohibl- tion. Tho one she celebrates with flags and banners; the other with +flasks and bootleggers. For though Maine takes great pride in her State- hood, she takes greater protit from Prohibition, And the real colebra- ‘tion is along the border line, where ‘hootch is trickling into the United _States from Cunada like water trickles over Niagara Falls for chasers, : ‘The town of Jackman, Me., !s near- est the Canadian Club frontier, and all roads lead to rum. It has 1,001 imhabitants—1,000 plain citizens and one United States customs officer. This Federal representative has as much chance of checking the in- bound flow of hootch as Noah. had of checking the flood. And it will be remembered that Noah took things as they came, including many days and nights of dampness, If Mr. Volstead could see his act fn operation, he'd have it rewritten by George M. Cohan. Cohan could at Jeast put a little life in the act. But Keeping cool ~ j as it stands now, it has all the water- 3 Mi: perils be ealiva, Whe Vale is such a simple matter when you have some f stead law acts only as a protective Tetley’s Orange Pekoe Tea! The very sight ; tariff for American made booze. It has of a fr 5 adel; ; % Nfted the price of Canadian Club osty dripping glass, tinkling with whiskey to $15 a quart in the Unitea States, at which price the American Tetailers are now unloading their own stuff. Washington crossed the Delaware Po— with a lot more trouble than Johnny Walker is crossing the adian por- @er now. Washington had to fight against the ice floes. The only thing that's lable to stop you from Import- ing your own bunch of booze through Jackman is a pu or a blowout Once in a while a Federal sleuth may stop you, but once jn a while isn’t every day Jackman ts fifteen miles from the] border and the nearest town on the Blue Book route to Quebec. Custom House is in Jack that's where the Federal offi ¥ And sleeps is right. He's certainly Not an insomnia victim. The Ameri- ean citizen with a thirst simply goes to the border line fifteen miles up OPPENHEIM. Guns & @ FULTON si Ritit—BROOKLYN fragrant, full-flavored Orange Pekoe starts your temperature ‘cool-ward.’”’ TETLEY’S TEA makes good tea a certainty Wise selection, skilful blend- ing, careful packing— that’s Tetley’s! JOSEPH TETLEY & CO., Inc. New York, N. Y, An Out-of-the-Ordinary Sale of Shoes---Thursday 1500 Pairs Women’s and Misses’ Oxfords and Pumps Group 1— 6.90 An appealing selection of white Canvas Pumps, Oxfords and Theo Ties—Cuban and Louis XV. heels. Group 2- We 75 A splendid collection of smart Pumps and Oxfords in a wide variety of leathers and styles in broken sizes. Values to 14.50 cw 10,75 Comprising the highest type of Sports Shoes in modish com- binations of white, kid or buck- skin with black or tan trim. This Sale Also Applies to Our New York and Newark Stores porters are reputed to carry a load of d4-ealivre jead and to pull a mean and convincing trigger. re ie as who must hold up wid de#peradoes. Tt ‘8 within the province of the County Sheriffs, of course, tu hold up much kick to @ rum runner's gun as} traffickers; but they've side- there is to the hootch he brings over. ed the J round Jackman at And any guy that would try to stop for a legitimate reason. them should have his last will and the 8 stay had tried testamont si, . They shot and| more or loss ly to stop the rum killed one 1 in @ rum fight near| runners, It was found that the ex+ the Line He last fall pense of the work was staggering This Volstead act has certainty | Yes staggering worse than a bordor- line souse. Whereupon It was discovered that | while Somerset County (in which |Jackinan sets like a diadem) Spending the dough to wallop traffic, the wh skey was for the m part being sent through to other counties, So with Yankee shrewdness the officials figured they wouldn't be kyped that way. If the other coun- ties wouldn't chip in on the expense, then Somerset County would pass the thing up. With the result that Som- changed a lot of things besides the 1920 complexions in men's noses. In Maine nowadays rushing the tin 2an simply means loading the flivver with booze and hustling it over the border on high. Offhand, we can think of no job quite so exacting as the Jacknian deputy collector's except that of tie guy that ran the Sultan's harem. But at that, har 00 or 700 Turkist chtckens wa: and pleasant w t After six months of tremendous business we find some odd lots of rugs, carpets and linoleums which, for no ap- parent reason, have not moved as rapidly as they should. We will place these goods on sale for Thursday and Friday at less than cost. This is a money saving sale of. unusual character. Floor Covering Remnants 60 Bot. None C. 0. D. No Exchanges. Cc $60 9x12 Royal Axminster Beautiful assortment of Linoleum patterns; 2 yards Japanese Grass Rugs al Hall Price tary floor covering made to-day. Mill lengths; In all enough of a pattern to cover large sized room; square yard Extra heavy, very close woven all wool Axminster rugs, tall, soft nap; beautiful assortment of patterns. There are Persians, Oriental, Floral and Chinese effects. Special for this sale. Extra heavy, close woven, sturdy rugs for in and outdoor use. the latest colors and patterns. Regular Size Special Sale Price $11 8x10 .$5.50 Ciba 10818 0356: - $5.50 fee nee $4.00 -4.6X7.6 - 9x12... 20 TO 40% CONGOLEUM RUGS REDUCTION Best Sanitary Rugs, known throughout the world for their wonderful wear; mill seconds, at half their regular prices. $4.00 9... 81.93 | $12.00 . $18.50 ..9x10.6...910.98 $9.75 $5.98 | $14.25 . $2.50 Inlaid Linoleum Nairn's Inlatd; colors through to . $3.00 $7.00 $2.50 Heavy Velvet Carpet Eire CAT tonite a, Oe Se able ‘tor baile. and most, durable; recog: Deeleat very cutie selection of patterns: throughout che Unit: inches wide. Spe- Extra heavy Velvet Carpet, sult- ed States. Squaro yd. 1. 55 olal, yard .... 1.59 Closed All Day Saturday During July and August New York Floor Covering Co. 60 Flatbush Av LBlock trom BROOKLYN ultcn St nized as Corer Livingston,’ WHALEN BROTHERS: | Brooklyn's Biggest 6 a Credit House ; 219, 221, 223, 225, 227 | | (ofa yea 164, 166, 168 and 170 Grand Street (Smith Street Cor. Driggs Ave. BROOKLYN Cor. Wyckoff St. Lowest Prices and Easiest Credit Terms in the City Buy Your Summer Clothing on Easy Terms ictrolas *"¢,ierort* #0" ~~ Aeolian Vocalions ““ No Discount on Talking Machines. High prices are exploded in our Bedroom | / Sulte Department. Here vou, will find desliens of n Clothing EASY “TER MS Ladi Bult GET WISE! SAVE MONEY Lat custors made “aught wore iisnis and uncall Suits, $5 to $12 oo Pants $2.50 Up Betis “than casas new “Sieh aE irs SAMPLE SUITS $15-$25 | Merwss vale COHEN 115 ith Av.8 Pd OPEN 6 4. MT $1. WEEKLY OPENS AN ACCOUNT #3. DOWN ON #502" 5, DOWN ON #75: % DOWN ON Hoar 1 ISHER BROS | COLUMBUS. AVENUE BET 103° €-104" Crs Gordon &Dilworth == REAL = OBANGE MARMALADE erset County no longer takes more than a passive interest In what hap- pens around the place. Thiis tt ts that the fob de a single man, and his prob pretense of wishing to make effective under the surveillance of some Mr. Volatead's pet rules, The Jack-|ber of the rum ring. man Collector 4s not even empowered! ‘This ring, whose alcoholic tent pives on | to charge for gasoline he burns up in| 1 0 0 Quebe id | spread out from Quebec and en in, briefly, | Pursuing the booze gang. The depart-|the land as far as Boston, with, hi is this: He has no Instructions from) ment makes just one concession—it | dreds’ of way:stations fn bet the Treasury Department (under | will let the Collector charge for auto! takes no chaiees with the one which he works) with regard to stop- | hire, provided he is absolutely certain! who is likely to queer their game, He js only required toot his case ut unless he has his | all time: erever the ( J enforcement of- | man cold, he's denied the privilege of | ho is vate cious ody ton + and not to inaugurate a cam- | sneaking over a possible joy ride atjever he atarts 4 n of his own. And since no the expense of Uncie Sam. ent offic In such circumstances any sleuth Colle might well be discouraged from pur- ficial busine f re is|suing the high path of duty. And plenty without butting in on the hoote uly so when there are other trunk line to Bangor, Portland, Boa- to keep him on the hop. But ton and points south. even with bi ensury Dep: he 14th Street Armory c||SHOE SALE Aj BIG SUCCESS!) The Combined Surplus Output of Nine of America’s Largest Shoe Factories Brings 4 SHOES BY THE MILLION AT} HALF PRICE AND LESS! Money Back If Not Satisfied ' Because of the very bigness of this great shoe sale, arranged by FRANK & PINERA CO., Inc., (Exporters of Shoes and Leathers), many of America’s foremost shoe manu- facturers vied with each other for the privilege of OFFERING THE NEW YORK PUB- LIC THEIR SURPLUS STOCKS AT LESS THAN COST TO MANUFACTURE. We have accepted but nine of these great factories, basing our choice SOLELY ON THE HIGH MERIT OF THEIR SHOES, famous from one end of the country to the other, and now offer you HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PAIRS OF THE FINEST FOOTWEAR IN THE WORLD—for men, women and children—positively at half and less than half regular retail prices. border, the word precedes him to Canadian line, Whereupon all mets bers of the inner circle yank the em gency brakes and stop their traffic the Collector govs back to bed. So all up for Maine, boys, Canada is near, but its beer isn’t. And that is aine's success Of the very finest make and finish—faultless in fashion, perfect in fit— P the same identical shoes you will find in the most exclusive retail stores ‘5 in New York today, and made by identically the same manufacturers. Ve a lvise an early selection, while assortments and sizes are complete. Fifth Ave. Shoes Below Factory Prices! A Boon to Every Woman—And a Bargain in Every Pair ay] $B.99 hae" $9.99 Sem SES 99 Every pair of the highest standard make and absolutely perfect in every detail, They come in every size and every width—in black, tan, white and colors—and perfect fit g ceed. Your personal inspection is the most convincing argument we offer you to buy these stylish boots, pumps and oxfords at only $3.99, $4.99 and $ Men’s Genuine Goodyear Welt Shoes Munson Last, U.S. Govt. Specification Shoes Fy $ 95 $10 to $15 Values ° Guaranteed 100% Genuine Leather Made for comfort and wear—the ideal shoe for conductors, motormen, policemen, postmen and all those who are required to be much on their feet Navy Specification Shoes §!} $6.99 Child’s Welt Bal Shoes Sizes 5 to 8 $6.50 Values ‘ : ’ ‘ Children’s Shoes & Bal Oxfords (infants’ Sizes) Sizes 5 to 8 $5.50 Value Child's and Misses’ in Proportion Dress Pumps Patent Leather, (Infants’ Sizes) 79c Child's as Other "NINTH COAST DEFENSE ARMORY | 0 A.M. to 6 P. M. Dal'y__ ] 4th STREET— West of Sixth Aven of Sixth Avenve. Convenient tu Labware and Elevated Lines ¢ or 1th St Cresstewh—A ba from Hudson Tube