The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-30
IMITATION BLIND TIGERS" ARE RA|DED Thriving Business Done In
 Atlanta WATER NOT WHISKEY Bishop Gum Will Confirm the Next Class ta Sacred Heart Church.
 Settling Affairs Prepara-
 tory to Leaving
WATER NOT WHISKEY

Atlanta, August 29.--(Special.) )-Atlan-
 tans who have been stung by blind
 tigers" recently have taken heart since
 the announcement that the police have
 put out of business the factory which has
 been busy manufacturing imitation"
 booze.
 Those unfortunates who have not had
 the facilities of clubs afforded them have
 had to depend largely upon the thriving
 blind tigers of the city who have been
 doing a rushing business on Decatur
 street
 Recently, though the thirstiest of the
 booze consumers have bought whisky only
 to find that they had secured water, or
 some other weak looking and weaker
 tasting drink, that afforded them not the
 slightest satisfaction for their thirst
 Recently one of the sellers of this kind
 of booze was brought into police court, where he made the defense that he had not sold booze. he had only sold water,
 or soft drink, or something else of the kind, and therefore he had not violated
 the prohibition law.
 This did not help him very much, how ever and he is still at the stockade, thinking it over, wondering why techni- calities are of such little avail in the re- corder's court, when they do so well in
 other and higher places of justice. It had always been believed however, that it was an individual scheme, this selling of imitation booze" but the sue cess of the detective department in raid ing a house on Courtland street and in | tlnat.a -hsatr yc1 that an organized firm had been conduct Ting a business, at very little outlay Of capital, no trouble and only a minimum amount of danger
 The raid disclosed hundreds of bottles, all of which had been decked out in every color and kind of wrapper and label. It would have been possible for any one to
 ask for his own particular brand and to be supplied without the bat of an eye Chief Beavers has issued orders, how ever, that the blind tiger must go and the imitation one will not be treated with any greater respect than the real article 1 Announcement has just been made that | the next class at the Sacred Heart church will be confirmed by Bishop John l E. Gum, of the diocese of Natchez. This comes as a graceful compliment to ] the new bishop from Bishop Benjamin J.. Kelley of the diocese of Savannah, of which Atlanta is part.
 | The confirmation ceremony Is always conducted by the bishop of the diocese. | In this instance, however, Bishop Kelley | willingly yields to the new bishop. The class will be confirmed some time | in october. At that time Bishop Gum will be passing through Atlanta on his way to the celebration of the birthday | of Cardinal Gibbons in the east, He Will | stop overin Atlanta for affew daxs.sg ] | Although Father Gum became bishop | today he will not leave for some time | for his new diocese, having a great deal of routine work to settle before he will | be able to turn over the Sacred Heart
 parish to his successor.
 l He will remain in Atlanta for probably l ten days longer after which he will leave
 for good, after II years work in Allan | ta, where he has gained numberless | friends.
 | He will preach at the Sacred Heart | church on next Sunday morning. saying | the o'clock mass, which 1t has been planned to make a parish communion. | That is every member of the parish or | practically so, will go to communion that morning as a farewell offering to their pastor.
 On Sunday morning the children will be given an opportunity to tell him good bye and extend their congratulations at the same time. While no announcement of an official nature has been made up to date, it is practically settled that Father Rapier will | be the next pastor. Father Rapier IS the son of the business manager or the New Orleans Picayune.