The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-05-12
BATTLES IN
BOOZE AFTER DRY
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IlllOU VI TEh1lUI
Carnival Of Debauchery Follows
Restoration Of the Right
to Sell Fiery
Liquor.

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Gary are now almost bathing In
booze" A food OF beer and whisky
was let loose when the Lake county
commissioners, at Crown Point, granted
licenses to 1888 applicants. and the
thirsty celebrated by fairly "sousing''
themselves In int%oxicants.
Gary had been dry. in name by re-
monstrance for wv years, and in ex-
the blind pigs which had been doing
business on the sly and a nuraber OF
reputable saloon keepers laid in large
stocks Of liquors. Wagons We're busy
for days delivering wet goods. and
when the 1873 aloons opened they did
an enormous business. AS q result
there were many headaches and some
of the employees of the steel mill who
spent the night In the '.patch,-the
liquor flooded levee district-are not
working yet.
Era of Good Feeling.
An EZRA of good feeling" was started
with a blaze of red fire, band music,
,torchlight parades and countless jags.
About 100 of the saloon keepers who
went to Crown Point to get their Ii
|%fcenses in the afternoon, We're so elated
T1c,-rcr he rscss.essreets that they
a 'keg party in the county seat town,
and some Of them failed to arrive in
Gary in time to open their places at
night. Twenty-Five or more of their
more sober brethren had opened their
saloons at Z o'clock and called the po-
lice to protect them from the headlong
rush Of patrons.
Some 5000 persons who have had to
take nance with q blind pig" for
liquors crowded the downtown district,
try @ h II, ~ fyNy,, 1E 49, W. ~ 1nnN tn " n \
filling the night with noises and their
system with exhilirating potions.
A delegation Of women from the re-
sorts Of Chicago was here early. The
long deserted Patch" Gary's leyee
district, was ablaze with light and
with jewellers.
The exodus from Gary to Grown
Point was picturesque. Headed by
Mayor Thomas Knots, every prospect
I've saloon keeper and those interested
in kindred ventures began the Pilgrim
age early. Some went In automobiles
n some drove in carriages. Those
more modest organized hayraek parties
and stratled the farmers along the line
with their noisy progress. Every train
was crowded.
At Crown Point the Gary contingent
broke into the courtroom just III time
Ito greet % Of their brethren on trial
under Indictments charging them with
running blind tigers. The defendants
were excused long enough for them to
go to the commissioners room and get
"a license which would relieve them Of
the necessity of selling their wares
from their blind pigs. Not one of them
was refused the coveted document.
Gary a VeritabIe Babel.
Gary was a veritable Babel from sun
set until early in the morning. Thous-
aiids, speaking a.scer Of languages.
,Mardi Gras of their own. A band made
life miserable for the 20 policemen.
The more temperate Of the people
found safe points of vantage from which
to watch the antics Of their foreign
neighbors. Torchlight parades We're or
gantzed, in which the Italian and Rus
sian, Greek and Pole marched side by
side. Race prejudices were forgotten
and toasts were drunk to every flag on
the European continent.
The Gary saloon men left at Crown
Point also celebrated, n were ordered
by the police to be more moderate in
their hilarity. 1t was given out that no
arrests would be made as long as, Or
binary drunkenness was the limit of
the celebration. Although some fix
lures n windows We're broker in the
rush Of patrons no crimes had been
committed at midnight, and no arrests
were made. The police force was in
adequate to handle the mob in the
streets.
Ten large depots for liquors have
been established in Gary, and there is
mo danger of the supply of cheering
liquids running out.