The sun., 1919-07-20
1856 DRUG ADDICTS
GET DOSAGE CARDS
Limbo, One of Them, Blames
"Young College Guys"
for Reform.
HE PINES FOR OLD DAYS
Says Present Administration
Is "squeezin' the Life
Outa a Guy" .. .

$50
Among the ls5. drug addicts who OBJ
tanned dosage cards at the registration
bureau at lsS Prince street yesterday
was Limbo. Probab that's not the
name his parents conferred upon him
back in the days before he took TO
sleigh riding and other forms Of mar
cotic consumption, but that's what his
two friends called him.
II was raining pretty heavily and
Limbo and his two pals applied at the
Office of the Bureau of Narcotic Drug
Control looking a good bit like gentle
men who had passed the greater part
of the last three weeks underneath q
Staten Island ferry boat. Limbo s
friends were not quite so dilapidated as
he. They were not as old. And they
had not Limbo's experience.
II would be quite impossible to gauge
!. Limbo's age with any degree of
accuracy. Everything was against his
looking his best and he needed shot OF
something just as soon as he could get
It. But his tongue was facile and his
mood reminiscent and he had much to
say to anybody who chose to listen.
Perhaps his depth Of retrospection be-
trays his approximate years.
He Hates Reformers.
'Squeesin' the life outa guy. That's
what II is Squeezin' the life outa a
guy" groaned Limbo. hugging the wall a
bit closer in a futile effort to avoid the
Hlapting downpour
I'm sorry" apologized the reporter
for THE Sun. who had wedged himself
into the scant inches between Limbo and
rotund woman in a green dolman.
did l step on your foot?''
,''oh, hell returned Limbo. Il wasn't
meahin' you. 1 wuz talkin' about the
times. Things Is goin on all right
until some young college guys get a
lota notions about reformin' the city
and ME l f1atta go to wop photog-
rapher and be mugged SOS l can get
a yeler card to show the doc to get
me medicine. 'Taint bad enough that
guy can't get, room to live in no
more for less than four bits a night
with eight strangers floppin' alongside
him. And they amt satisfied that a
cupa coffee costs ten cents and the old
sandwich eight. And they hasta make
the town dry SOS guy can't get a
hoptoad for no money unless he wants
tn take a chance with prune juice and
alcohol and what's the use of that
while thefe's a roof to jump offa?"
II was evident that Limbo had been
wooing forgetfulness in some terrific
pefied on 4 breath that suggested much.
"Squeezin the life outa a guy that
wat they're doin'.' he continued. why
.tota guys is runnin' around tellin' va
what lota wrong guys was runnin'
the city twenty-five and thirty years
ago. Back in Commissioner Walling S
day n guy didn't hafta have nothin'
but. a dollar and speakin acquain-
lance with the right guys and he could
col in ri hat
pat the street cars outa commission
for week. - 4.,...s... go. - "a.
And va didn't have no trouble with
nothin back in Bill Devery's time IL va
did what the oops wanted va ia. And
INSPECTOR Byrncs didn't start no damfool
reforms. :, AL va had Ia do was 10 put
your two or four bits on the counter in
any first class joint and va got what va
wanted. = Why. Glass Top Mullen and
his Aflssus usta make a hat full OF dough
every Saturday night right In front OF
the Bowery Bank and there were hun
dred places where va could get the stun
In Ave cent whiskey and a guy didn't
hafta go no further than Chatham
Square to get. flop and hop layout
for, bone. Thinka that. kid?
You don't remember that You're toe
young. Whata you takin'? Coke
Won't do va no harm. Lookit me Beer
takin' what l could get for thirty-five
years and 1t amt hurt me none, has it,
He Can Lick Any of EN-.
But now lota college guys without
no experience is comm down ia tell u,
guys bow to live telin' US what we car
have and what we can't. Amt good fol
us. hey? Well, Tn tellin' the world tina
] can, Mex any college guy in this build
I'm and | guess it's full of EN-. Don't tel
'em nothin' they ask va, Give 'em a
Iota bull and I'll walt for va outside
Gotta snipe?"
When Limbo was ushered out of the
registration bureau he was less com
municative. He had tucked his yellow
card inside his shirt and, followed by hi.
two pals, sloshed off in the direction Of
West Broadway.
Gotta see doctor now" explained
Limbo by way OF apology for his hast,
TO be off. Won't rs much use becaus,
the docs aln't what they used ia be
Lettin 'em practice too young thes,
DAYS and they all .wanta ask a guy a 10
Of questions. Twenty-Five years ago
Limbo was dragged away by his pals
Detectives Judge and Hackett ARRESTED
Tony LapoTte. Monroe street, yester
day. Laporte, who is only IS. wa
searched and, according TO the police, h.
had nine one ounce walls Of cocaine II
his pockets. This Is an extraordinar,
lers to carry around. Laporte was sen
10 the Tombs. charged with violating tn
Harrison law.
The police say that they arrested tn
lad at Cherry and Rutgers streets afte
following him from Market street poo
room, where, 1t Is alleged. Laporte go
the supply, This pool room. the polio
say. may develop to be the clea ring hous
where most OF the downtown drug vend
ers get their wares.
Copeland Is disappointed.
DIR. Royal s. Copeland. Commissions
OF the Department OF Health, is disap
pointed by the Board OF Estimates re
lection of John ID. Rockefellers propose
gift OF hospital for drug addicts. TIL
Commissioner left the city for the wee
end. saying that he did not know Jus
where his department could establish
retreat for the addicts II hoped to cure
The police have been asked to arres
three drug addicts who escaped from tn
hospital on Riker's Island Friday nigh
The men are Harry Gems, 1872 Eas
1881 street; Nicholas Aurender 20l
Second avenue and Michael Nicolin
2l49 Second avenue. 1t is presume
that the men swan the Sound to tn
Bronx shore.
Dr. S. T. Silverman. president of tn
American Association for the Study O