The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-12-13

little dance here every Thursday
night. You ought to come up some
time"
"Ill come up next Thursday night,'
replied the chappie from Oliver, land
1 III bring some of the boys.'
"Do So" said the hospitable Sadie.
''I expected to get good snort Of
booze up there" the visitor later in
formed a Rip-saw inspector. "Madam
always had some when she lived in o.
liver. A couple of weeks ago, met
couple Of Austrians out at New Duluth
who were 50 drunk that they hardly
could make their homeward way and
chap with them said that they had
been up to the Grand hotel to see Mad
am Blanche and the girls"
"Babe' no longer hangs out at the
Grand. Some weeks ago, if informa.
tion is correct, she hooked up with
Earl Spooner and pilgrimmed to Supe-
rior.
"We are going to locate over there,'
said Col. Spooner to friend who for
got the exact number Of the new
dump on Tower avenue. "Come over
to see US and bring the boys"
Earl Spooner is the chap who cracked
Sergt. Jimmy Wood e. head some years
ago and was sent up for the cruel deed.
He served something less than year,
! when he secured parole. Last win
ter, Spooner was credited with lying up
| in the Elgin hotel A frail woman up
there charged him with being the
father of her child and her little daugh
| ter, by previous adventure, had "a
habit of greeting guests Of the compla-
| cent Elgin dump with the question:
"Do you want to see my little broth
er, Earl Spooner9'
Fop a time, Spooner was credited
| with paying something to the woman's
support, but it is suspected that she
| shared the wages Of her sin with him
| as her business agent.
Madam "Babe" and panderer Spoon
n will make welcome and popular
addition to Bingoland society. He will
70 well, however, not to arouse the
'calousy of Claude Torrance, Bob Dill
on, Jack Lavinsky, Col. Jack Colahan,
3ergt. Miller, AL. Powers, Jim Colt, Col.
J. James Burnside, "Chet' Bell, the
Peterson boys, Emanuel Stevens and
,ther members of the nobility and aris-
;ocracy of Superior g Bad Lands. But
I'll that is another story.
The Grand hotel is next door, on the
East, to the Central hotel, where the
wicked Madam Edith LeMay-Powers.
3artolli- Donahue was landlady for
,early year and where she pulled the
,eg of William Chisholm and several
other weak and foolish men.
There's a barber shop along there
somewhere and the boys tell how one
If the BARRIERS formerly had custom
# going to st. Paul at II p. m. every
Saturday night and coming back Sun
lay night with two suit-cases heavily
loaded with blind-pig booze. He bought
'ow and sold high, cleaning up during
the week.
There's some sort Of private club
up in a nearby building on that same
side of the street. It is whispered that
a tiger with sharp claws and stiff
| whiskers is kept up there. As to that,
the Rip-saw inspector will not say
further at this time.
. Unless it has been taken away, there
IS little blind-pig upstairs at No. 21S
West Superior street. The ship-yard
boys patronized the place some weeks
| ago. Those who thirsted for burning
booze went up the stairs, down the hall
and knocked at door.
A woman usually opened the door.
els Mack ins'' the visitor would
| ask. That was the password.
"Come in" the woman then would
say.
The visitor next would lay down so
cents and the kindly lassie would pour
him out a snort of booze that would
make him feel able to whip a stack Of
wild cats.
There certainly are some nasty and
unlawful pimples on the municipal face
between the American Exchange bank
and the City National bank in the
ssllwood building. Every door along
there does not lead up to dirty dump,
but entirely too many of them either
| 10 or have done so, during the past
year or two, if not longer.
But, when it comes to blind-pigs. one
| must go out to certain sections Of West
Duluth and then to Gary. Many be-
lieve that if Duluth donated as much
to foreign missions as the manufacture
and sale of illicit booze brings in. at
West Duluth and Gary, the missionary
golfers soon would burst with coin and
the heather rapidly would be turned
from their pagan ways. That's another
story, too.