New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-23

you can name your own price for.
Brandy will be extinct.
"No, there is no danger of New York
going dry before its time. There is
plenty of liquor and there are plenty
of wines, but a man will have to have
fair rating in Bradstreet's if he is
going to buy drinks at retail. The
only chance of the man with a moder-
ate thirst and moderate income is to
store it up. And there isn't much
more chance. Wholesale prices shoot
up the minute the revenue bill is
signed, AID retail prices will double"
thoughtful and farsighted drinkers,
of course, began their purchasing long
before last week. But even they found
bullish market. One we'll known car
toonlst. with a CLASSY eye toward the
future, remarked yesterday: owe been
buying and buying till l have no stor-.
age space left. | find | can allow N.Y.
self one quart a day for five years.
After that | don't know what I will do.
Probably move to Europe, unless the
league of nations puts in prohibition
plank"
Found In Best of Homes
A slightly bearish impulse may hit
the local rum exchange with the an
nouncement that the drys are attempt
ing to add to the prohibition law
clause which will prevent any person
from having more than quart of
whiskey or rum for beverage purposes.
Such rider would disturb the ar
rangements for cellars.
Judging from the activities of the
last week and the climax which is
about to be staged, many New York
home may be justly suspected of con-
tanning the ingredients of at least a
round of cocktails.
With the increase of price for liquors
there is surprising decrease in the
price for bar fixtures. Said one dealer
yesterday: at used to cost about $4,000
to furnish bar. Now a fellow ought
to be able to set up one in his home for
about So" Whiskey and cocktail glasses
are being sacrificed to the highest bid
der. Cocktail shakers and other i'm
plements of the bar trade are finding
no takers.
This will be comforting news to
those who have become used to resting
their weary feet on the third rail. 1t
will cost next to nothing to bring the
atmosphere of comfort that used to
lure them away from the fiat into the
fiat itself. Mirrors and backbars will
be cheaper than wall paper.
Much Goes Home Internally
Wholesalers predict that more limou-
sines will be pressed into service to-
morrow. as the drays are not able to
shift all of the rum that must be moved
before the revenue bill is signed. Mi
lady's dog will have to do without it's
Fifth Avenue airing while the car car
ries the ingredients Of miladys cock
tail to safe place.
Brokers will take the subway to their
Offices while their chauffeurs arc en-
gagged in the more important work of
brand of Scotch to safe places. The
killed whiskey is becoming scarcer
every minute.
In the meantime. there is feverish
rush to carry home all that is possible
internally. New York's liquor rush is
not ostentatious, but the quantity that
is shifting ownership and the rapidity
with which it is being stored make
the Toledo-Detroit traffic look piker-
| ish.
DETROIT, Mich, Feb. 22.-The
illicit traffic in liquor across the
Ohio Michigan border is all but under
control tonight, according to J. Her
bert Cole, special agent of the De-
partment of Justice, who returned
mere tonight from Monroe, on the
state line.
County, state and Federal officers
are patrolling the border, armed with
John Doe warrants, for the search of
automobiles and blanket injunction
against the use Of all highways for
marked decrease to-day in the
number Of whiskey runners as re-
suit of wholesale arrests at Monroe,
Mr.. Cole said