The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-05-04

The car struck the fence tnat
was maintained across the street
end at the canal, smashed through,
struck the pier and, by the mo-
mentum, was carried about 26 feet
out into the canal
Two passengers and the conduct
or tumbled off the rear platform
before the car reached the end OF
the track and the morcrr,an jump
ed off before the car took the
plunge.
Capt. j. w. Miller, a harbor
master who mastered the harbor
instead of running tug boat over
in another, state, posted q buoy so
that vessels could veer TO the Park
Point side of the canal and avoid
the submerged trolley car
Duluth original Bowery was
on Lake avenue. After the via
duct was built and the passenger
boats began docking around the
fcut of Seventh avenue W., the.
storm center for rummsellers and
roysterers moved westward, also,
and settled down in that section
of the city along Superior and
Michigan streets, between Fifth
and Sixth avenues W., and over
flowing towards Seventh avenue
West.
One of the most notorious grog-
geries on the Bowery was the
"Sailor's Home conducted by
the late Martin Smith, at No. 511
w. Superior st.
Smith had been a Norwegian
sailor and then a Duluth police
man. For bad booze, foaming
beer and noisy hilarity, the "Sail-
ors' Home" took the prize.
Something over a score Of years
! ago, the "Sailors' Home" build
ing was given rather extensive re.
pairs. While the work was under
way, the saloon was conducted in
a tent on the back of the lot. There
was sawdust on the floor and
plenty of booze behind the impro-
vised bar. When lumberjacks,
sailors and harvesters took about
two drinks of that improvised
whiskey, they became unconsei-
Gus.
Martin Smith scorned to run
his hands into the pockets of the in
sensible patrons. But where there s
a will, there IS a way. In dragging
away the paralyzed patrons, it
was customary to grab their legs
and lift them high in the air.
Usually, any money in the pockets
of victim slipped out into the
sawdust. There it was picked up
by the proprietor who considered
it gift from the gods.
+ The Stockholm, at No. 513 w.
Superior St., was a prominent
Bowery saloon for many years.
Rip-saw readers will remember
how, some months ago, Charles R.
Carlson was convicted of conduct
ing blind pig and his soft drink
license revoked, thus putting him
, out of active business.
It was Carlson's custom to keep
his whisky in d silver pitcher and,
at the slightest warning, to- tip
over the pitcher in the sink, thus
spelling any evidence.
That trick succeeded once but,
next time, detectives Roberg and
Youngberg put up quite a wrestle,
saving enough for evidence but
getting it over their uniforms with
such force and effect as to make
them smell like Louis Loeb's old
rectifying plant.
When Duluth went dry last
year, Col. Carlson moved all kinds
of wet goods to his home. A car
penter employed there for some
days, helped himself rather freely
to the stored juices of joy. When
] he came to collect his pay, Col.
Carlson, whose sharp eye had
noted the carpenterial indulgence,
deducted so cents a day from his
wages in payment Of the illicit
booze he had consumed.
+, 1t is hard to break an old dog
of his tricks.
The Rip-saw is Informed that
Col. Carlson now is guarding
Fifth avenue S. against the Huns
and all alien enemies who may
desire to blow up the waterfront.
1t is assumed that Col. Carlson was
given his job to protect property
on the basis that it takes a dodger
to catch a dodger. a.. ~.
HOUSTON HUN-HUNTERs.