The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1910-08-06
CAR LOAD OF BEER NOT A FAIRY TALE.
Twelve Thousand Pints Of the Amber Fluid
Brought Into Good Prohibition Town of
Gulfport. = Ninety-Four Cases Are Stored
in City Jail and Six Casks We're Taken to
Place of Alex McAllister.

| Place or Alex mcAfiisfef.
| (Gulfport and Biloxi Herald)
One solid car load of beer, comprising
100 casks, or 900 pints, was brought
into Gulfport, and at o'clock Saturday
was siezed by the police and placed in
the city Jail. The rumor circulated
Saturday that there was a car load of
beer in town and chronicled in the Daily
Herald of Saturday afternoon proved to
be no fairy tale. The beer was here.
Alex McAllister, a negro who runs a
grocery store and dance hall in the
negro quarters in North Gulfport, has
been arrested in connection with the re-
ceipt of the car of beer and is charged
with having liquor unlawfully in his
possession. Lawrence Tuggle, negro
driver of dray, has been also arrested.
Both men are out on bond. j. II. Mize,
their attorney, asked in police court
this morning that their cases be con-
tinued until Wednesday, and the request
was granted.
All during Saturday the police were
working on the case, locating the car
load of beer and trying to gain evidence
which would convict the party receiving
the beer. At o'clock Capt. j. A.
| Spiers stated that the beer would proba-
bly, be seized before night. Just where
the car was located the police, if they
knew, were not inclined to tell; but
| from the fact that in less than two hours
the LIQUID refreshments had been seized,
it is evident that they knew pretty well
where the car was.
| At little before o'clock the seizure
was made. Standing alongside of the
| Louisville and Nashville freight depo
was big yellow refrigerator car of the
| Union Refrigerator Transfer Co. No.
1854. The police opened the ear and,
taking off their coats, rolled the casks
out through the freight depot and on to
drays and wagons, half dozen of which
were pressed into service to carry the
goods to the city Jail. Officers Spiers,
King and Passon, and c. E. Burns, fire
chief, who was clothed with police pow
ers, all had their coats off, and the casks
were rolled out and hauled off in very
short space of time. The labels on the
casks showed the beer to be from Jos.
Schlitz, of Milwaukee, and was con-
signed to T. B. Ware, Gulfport. On
0oclyc "a M of tho
consignee had been scratched out.
Some of the beer had been unloaded,
and the parties who had entered the car
for this purpose had started to scratch
the labels. One of the casks opened
showed it to contain the familiar brow
bottles with the brown label proclaim
| ing the contents to be 'The Beer Tn at
Made Milwaukee Famous. The police
got forty-four casks. Six casks had
been removed from the car and, it is
said, had been taken to McAllister
place. T.B. Ware is said to be little
negro living in the quarters.
The hauling of the beer through town
on Saturday afternoon caused mild
sensation, and there were heard man
comments from the thirsty ones, VIII o
deplored the fart that the beer could not
be placed on ice and served out to them.
The place of McAllister, better known
as "Kid Alec, is near and just to the
| west of the terminus of the North Gulf
port car line. "Kid Alec's" place is a
large two-story building. Down stairs
there is a grocery and general store.
On the top floor is hall, which tue
negroes say is used as dance hall and
for barbecues and gatherings of various
kinds.
There is also warehouse and third
smaller building near the grocery stor e.
No secret is made of the fact that guam
titles of beer have been drunk at the
place, as on the gallery of one of the
small buildings are some six or seven
barrels filled with empty beer bottles,
and the gallery is Uttered with bottles
of various kinds.
1t has been learned also on good
authority that two loads of empty bot
ties have been shipped from this place
to New Orleans within the past six
months Biloxi -Gulfport Daily Herald.
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