Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-10-30
MAD DRINK ORGY
FILLS CITY COURT
WITH PRISONERS
Lineup of Eighty-two Men lot
Intoxication Breaks All
Court Records.
COULDN'T BAG EN- ALL
L. -, Zur-irc, kcr-nlunk'

That's the NJ ,c Of tifc breaking Ot all
CITY Court re ordS for ''drunks. Ii
banpened this moNing when no less
than elchtv-two individuals arrested yes
tcrdav and last night for intoxicat,on-
eiuhtv-onc men and one woman-wcrc
lined up before Judge Churchman.
Yesterday was bad enough, forty-one
being the total count but today Just
naturally and SIMPLY doubled the casualty
list The wild saturnaha and orgy "i
drinking set iii Monday morning just AS
soon as the saloons opened up alter the
Sahara which fell upon things when the
Board Of Health shut them up on October
> Long-repressed thirsts, quenching OF
which was prevented when the occasional
oases caused bv doctors prescriptions
were greatly circumscrlbed burst iorth
Monday morning with tremendous vlr1i-
lence. All dav the heart OF the city was
conspic,lous for It's drunken men IN ones.
tvoS and threes FortN-onc OF them
landed IN limbo Yesterday, the effort
10 drink It all up continued, the hang
overs" from the previous day giving
the bibulo,,s ones good start
PolltE BUSY ~ BEAVERS
(,oodncss knows the police were busy
the first dav OF the carnival. But yester-
day they worked like lot Of beavers
and at that they didn't get them all.
II wasn't a question ol not wanting 10
oct them bv a long chalk Rather was
i the question of where to put them
after they were gotten. he potlcc
station cells vii hold just 50 many and
no more. and when they are tuii to over
flowing arrests more or less automatically
must stop because YOU can stand a
drunk up in a corner like a barrel OF flour
or i sack Of potatoes and expect TO ilnd
him there IN the morning.
At any rate. cightv-two was what the
officers regulars and special officers,
together seincd IN and hauled % the
u.olicc station Policeman Icsta had
eight Gamble two. DE Frisco three,
~pccial Officer Lewis eighteen, Sweeney
one. Bradford one, Special McAttccr,
aided bv Special Moore, twelve. Dawson
two Ahrahams four. Sergeant Donohoc
two. Laskovski four, Payntcr slX, BurchI-
mai siN. special Hummer one, Reese one.
RodenhtIser eleven. Elliott. one
AlcAttcer and Moore, who are Com
pIIsory Work Bureau men. made
regular killing. Early Yesterday they
went down on the coast on the lookout
for 0rupks who might also be work-shy
One batch they rounded up took the
patrol wagon four round trips 70 haul
auax, regular waiting list being Kept
with 4 copper on guard while one lot
Was Deine earted of. Some Of their
srrcstees I'm the sorting and docketing
cot more or less mixed up with others.
wherefore the official record shows on
twelve 10 their credit. And when YOU
remember that each and every one Of the
eiehtv-two had to be slated and searched
and slowed away YOU viii zee that the
police force and especially the house
sergeants and patrol crews sure enough
earned their day pay
CONE FROM EyERYwHERF
And when the line was formed tins
morning for City Court the corridor
leading 10 Assistant City Solicitor Nal
lows Quarters was chock-a-block, like
wise the lavatory and ditto the quarters
themselves 4 Sorrier-lookng lot OF
individuals YOU wouldn't find IN day
tourney -unkempt. dirty, bieary-ey ed and
some of them palpably not yet sober.
Where did they come from? Every
where. apparently. This city had ITS
Quota strong Then came Philadelphia,
Chester. Salem. Penns Grove, carney
Point. Connecticut. Baltimore, Illinois
Trenton Cincinnati, Port Penn. Long
Island. Edge Moor, New Castle, Marcus
Hook. Avondale, and all points south,
east. north and west, as the railroad
announceTs say.
And the tales they told One Con-
necticut Yankee said he'd been here one
day. "Al right said Judge Church
man. One dollar" Another SAID he
had been trying 10 get man arrested TO
get him off the street and got drunk
himself doing II. The Job cost him IS
fine Another-a Carney Point powder
worker-said he only had had three
drinks. but the excuse didn serve
Three turned up who had figured In
court YESTERDAY morning Their lesson
then had not been learned This time
the charges were $40. Still another had
been in court on the same charge three
dozen times before Still another, who
had been up eleven times this year in
sisted that he had not been drunk. be-
cause he had been forbidden to drink on
account OF q bad heart None the less,
II was shown that he had been full as
lord. One chap, who got away becaUse
nc had not been IN court for three Years.
cheerfulv badc the court goodbye az
he hurried out
No less tllan twelve OF the cIghly-tW
prisoners were turned over TO the Com
pulSorN Work Bureau. which will find
more essential jots for them than the
stevedorine Of liquor into their systems.
The WorkEouse i also feeling the efect
q The drink orey Monday TWO prisoner,
a1riyed there to wcrk out fines ester
da<. out Of the before CITY Court no
less than T.; coudn pay and mere sent
ou: 10 Grcenbank. 4 lot Of today :
batch will follow suit
What will the harvest be tomorrow