The Washington herald., 1919-02-25

Another young ocean OF booze flow-
ed into Washington yesterday via au-
tomobiles, steam and electric lines.
Washington still has twenty-four
hours more before donning the bone
dry mantle and the respite due to
the delay of President Wilson in sign
ing the revenue bill is expected to
cause another day of heavy travel to
Baltimore.
The police OF Baltimore yesterday
were forced TO take a hand to pro-
tect the stock OF liquor dealers.
At many large wholesale houses the
crowds were so large that patrons
were admitted two at a time. The
police kept the lines moving and pre-
served order
Traffic Baltimoreward on the inter-
urban cars OF the Washington, Bal
timore and Annapolis became so heavy
early in the day that four-car trains
were substituted for the regular two
coach schedule.
Travel on the steam roads started
early. but were soon jammed TO the
doors.
The Sales Total $4,000.
An idea of the enormous amount
of cash that has flowed to the Golfers
of the Baltimore wholesale dealers
may be gathered from the announce
ment by the manager of one of the
largest houses. He told newspaper
correspondents that when he had
completely checked up his business
yesterday it totalled sSS.ru.
The gate tender at HyattsvIne de-
cided before a. m. yesterday il was
going to be busy day. At that
hour more than ten large automobile
trucks had crossed the tracks bound
for Washington, all loaded to the
limit with booze.
Baltinoreans Joined the thirsty pill
srims from the Capital yesterday in
, the descent upon the liquor dealers.
The fact that the new revenue bill
puts an additional tax OF $50 a gal
Ion on liquor caused Baltimore resi-
dents to stock up.
SuitCases were again the popular
receptacles. although all kinds OF
travelling bags were to be seen. And
the way they were weighted down
as the buyers left the stores indi-
Gated there will be more bow-legged
people in Washington than ever be-
fore. for their legs seemed to be fair
ly bending under the strain. II ap-
peared that no suitcase came back
to Washington with any untitled
space.
Bottle Houses damned.
Liberty street was again the center
Of attraction for the buyers. The
bottle houses were busy from the mo-
ment they opened, and when the auto
mobile patrons joined the throngs in
the early afternoon, the police were
called in to assist
The Washington boulevard for the
past six days has been the greatest
booze road in the United States.
Mounted policemen have stopped
trucks loaded to capacity only to find
that each consignment of liquor has
the accompanying affidavit testifying
that the booze is for the personal use
of the consignee.
District police have been quietly
keeping tabs on some large consign-
ments which they suspect have been
imported for bootlegging purposes.
Bootleg business in Washington has
practically suspended for few days.
The bootleggers find that their best
customers have been buying their own
supply.
Pullman Instructs Police.
Maj. Raymond Pullman, superin-
tendent of police, yesterday had a
conference with his captains, in
structing them that the law is not
a new one and has been upheld
in the highest court of the United
States. In the afternoon a bulletin
issued to every police officer con-
tanning the Supreme Court opinion
upholding the statute was issued
Mai. Pullman emphasized that
the law made it illegal to bring in
any amount of liquor and provided
for a fine of $1,000 or six months
Imprisonment for violators. One