The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-12-02
MASK IS OFF IN
BALTIMORE CITY
Cioven Foot Is Clearly Manifest
saloonist of Good Moral
Character"
SELL BOOZE WITHOUT REGARD
Thousand Soldiers Were fntoxicat-
cd and Other Thousands Disordcriy.

Baltimore Md, voted wet In 1915
( by majority of $4,000. tbs city In
g notorious distributing station for
| liquor mail order houses and whole
sale nquor dealers who supply wet
! goods to both wet aad dry territory,
including Washington. y. c. In fact.
IT is wide-open city where booze sell
{ lers have everything pretty much
their own way The following story
as related in the Baltimore News OF
November 3. therefore, shows what
could he expected in every city OF
the nation If salooukeepers were
given free rein Government orders
prohibiting sale or Gift of liquor to
soldiers in uniform evidently have no
terror for booze sellers in a commu-
nifty that has always given them
their owu way. OF course, patriotism
7 is unknown to them. The News says.
Coming to the city for the ttrst
time since the quarantine was placed
on all nearby military camps nearly
six weeks ago visiting soldiers and
sailors were unduly boisterous last
night.
/ AS a result. approximately thirty
soldiers are behind the bars at the
various police stations in the city
awaiting the arrival OF military police
to take them back to their respective
eaTn ps. -ases ls.4
= his ea #ls IF aligigs. shs saaa5esasa
and sailors 4asi night WAS aifflcnlf.
due 10 The fact that their presence
in such numbers came as a surprise
to the police. who were unaware that
the flu quarantine had been en-
itirelv lifted
{ Several persons including police
man were assaulted by soldiers. and
one man was beaten almost igto un-
consciousness when he refused to
give soldier Il quart Of whisky in 4
downtown hotel.
T Patrolman Harry birmingham ar
rested Private William f. Lenehan.
twenty seven years cid, Company ID.
Sixty-third infantry. who was en-
gagged in fight with a sailor at Bal-
timore and Charles streets. shortly
after I'VE o'clock this morning. Both
the soldier and sailor turned on him
and a lively fight ensured. The sailor
escaped. and Lenehan pounced upon
Birmingham. The policeman called
upon Harvey Bergeon. twenty years
old. 1415 North Fulton avenue. for
aid. who instead, sided with the sol
! der and attempted to wrest him from
Birmingham.
! Bergeon was fined s2s45 by JUS
tice Peach in central police court to-
/ day, and 1enehan la being held for
the military authorities on the charEa
( of assault
! While Marshal Carter was standing
at Howard and Baltimore streets
shortly after midnight. one of group
Sot soldiers hurled brick through n
plate glass window of West Balti-
more street store. The marshal went
to the scene, and was greeted with
sarcastic remarks.
] A short time later the marshal dis
fpersed a gathering OF soldiers at Flu
taw and Fayette streets. in the group
of which was a man singing. A sailor
Threatened the marshal. and he was
placed under arrest
''Of the possible 5000 soldiers
and sailors in the city last night, One~
third of them were intoxicated. more
or less" declared the marshal today.
and from now on ! am going TO Is
sue orders to arrest every drunken
soldier and sailor or those who Do
mot conform in accordance with the
law. The practice OF these me4
coming 10 the city causing trcun1A
must be stopped, and intend - pue
forth every EFFORT toward this end
+ II may strike some people ~ -
cul!ar that police do not show -
much energy. in seeking to apprchenA
the acknowledgements and liquor sellers
wha- violate the law in selling tho
booze az they show in PROSECUTING tt16
soldiers who obtained 1t. The saloon
keepers insist that the soldiers obtain
the LIQUOR from bootleggers. Root-
,leggers in a saloon infested city doeo
nor square with the argument Of tn
vets that prohibition liz respnnsfbSo
for bookkeeping Evidence Is said -
be at hand which shows that salporb+
keepers supply the bootleggers.