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

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little dance hsre avery Thursday
night: You ought to come up some
time. a
ssIn come up next Thursday night, y
replied the chappie from Oliver, "and
I'll bring some Of the boys. I" s. e. :
g Do 50, - said the hospitable Sadie.
seI 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 Oh
iyer A couple of weeks ago, met a
couple Of Austrians out at New Duluth
who, were so drunk that they hardly
could make their homeHard way and a
chap with them said that they had
been mp to the Grand .h6tel to see Mad
am Blanche and the giris."
tsBabe . 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. -. Il --e
"We are going to Locate over there"
said Col. Spooner to friend who for
got the exact numte of the new
dump on Tower ayenue. "Come over
to see us and bring the boy" " -.
Earl Spooner is the ehap who cracked
Sergt. Jimmy Wood 3 cad some years
ago and was sent up fa1 the cruel deed.
-Ha- 1..zrrad ..sosaef ! 81 than o wear,
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 a previous adventure, had a
habit of greeting guests of the eompla-
cent Elgin dump with the question:
"Do you want to see my little broth
er, Earl Spooner9'' g.. ..-
For 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
er will make a welcome and popular
addition to Bingoland society. He will
10 well, however, not to arouse the
jealousy of Claude Torrance, Bob Dill
on, Jack Lavinsky, Col. Jack Colahan,
5ergt Miller, Al. Powers, Jim Colt, Col.
Js CdHlco DuIuoluOS III SuOI DCil, tuO
Peterson boys, Emanuel Stevens and
,ther members of the nobility and aris-
toeracy of Superior's Bad Lands. But
all that is another story.
The Grand hotel is next door, on the
East, to the Central hotel, where the
wicked Madam Edith LeMay- Powers
Bartolli- Donahue was landlady for
nearly year and where she pulled the
leg of William Chisholm and several
other weak and foolish men. -
There's barber shop along there
somewhere and the boys tell how one
of the BARRIERS formerly had a custom
of going to st. Paul at II p. m. every
Saturday night and coming back Sun
lay night with two suit-eases heavily
loaded with blind-pig booze. He bought
low 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.
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 a door. ~
A woman usually opened the door
"Is Mack info the visitor would
ask. That was the password. g.
"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 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
Sellwood building. Every door along
there does not lead up to q dirty dump,
but entirely too many Of them either
10 or haye done go, during the past
year or two, if not longer.
But, when il comes to blind-pigs one
| must go out to certain sections-pf 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
| .cffers soon would burst with coin and
the heather rapidly would be turned
from their pagan ways. That's another
story, too. Z.