New-York tribune., 1920-11-05
Saloons, Restaurants and
Delicatessen Stores In
vaded i'm Districts Once
Controlled by Tammany
24O Dry Agents
In Surprise Coup
lao Brought From Other
Cities; Report U. S. Will
Empty All Warehouses

Federal prohibition agents yesterday
ralded 100 cafes, restaurants, delica-
lessen shops and soft drink establish
n cnts IN the lower East Side. where.
it was charged, liquor was being sold
n violation of the Nolstead act. More
'han seventy arrests were made.
Whisky, gin, cognac, vordials and wines
were found hidden in hair tonic bot
ties, coffee pots, fruit jars and barrels.
In one Bowery cafe, the raiders as
were found and great quantity of
coloring.
The raids were conducted by Frank
l.. Boyd, Supervising Prohibition En-
forcement Officer of the State. Armed
with search warrants, 24O agents, some
Of whom had been sent from Balt-
more, Philadelphia and Boston to as
sist the New York staff, shortly after
noon began descent upon districts
near the Bowery.
Proprietors Of many places tried to
shut their doors, the agents reported
onG bartenders in many soft drink
shops hurliodIy assisted their em-
llcycrs in surreptitiously dumping half
cmptied bottles into drainage SINKS.
Tammany Districts Raided
Prominent East Siders expressed
surprise yesterday as to why their sec
Ion of the city had been marked for
special raid. The districts in which
places were raided are regarded as
alAcng Tammany strongholds. They
lrcluded the districts of Tom Folev.
Tammany leader in the I'd Assembly
nistrict, or the old 4th Ward; of John
I. Ahearn, former Borough President.
arQ of +. J. Scully, now City Clerk,
and the old Tim Sullivan Bowcry dis
trct.
Explanation was offered by Mr.. Boyd,
aoWever, that the Federal government
hao no intention of .eaking the East
SIDE any dryer than the rest of the
CITY. He said the raids, which were the
"'oest IN scope yet attempted, were
Only the beginning of d drive to bring
9hout greatec respect for the pro
hbition laws
THE quantity of liquor taken wss
mparativcly small" said Mr.. Boyd.
ms was because the proprictors have
I
crly couple Of quarts When they
scll out their supplies at the rate Of
rom so cents to s. drink, they re
Ienlsh them from large stocks held
e!Sewhere. Our purpose in going after
the East Side IS to put stop to this
retail traffic, which, by maintaining
steady outflow Of liquor at cx-
crbltant prices, is doing much harm
among the poor in those sections.
we are still handicapped by an in
2cequate force Of agents, but the fact
that we borrowed 40 of them from
nearby cities to help cur staff of 100
shows what our intention is as to en-
lclclng prohibition in New York"
Where Arrests Were Made.
Among the places at which arrests
were made were:
H. B. Michaclson. 58 Blocker Street;
benjamin Rosenthal, 233 East Fourth
street; Harry Silverman, IS Ridge
Adolph Altman, l25 Grand Street;
Gusslng Markowitz, Broome and Pitt
streets; Samuel Morrison. 1874 Park
Row; Herman Derilman, $50 Cherry
Street; Morris Sorgen. 23O Chcrry
Street; CHARLES +. Denninrcr. Pike
Slip and South Street; George Smith.
G2 Third Avenue; Charles f. Schaltcr.
BOND and Lafayette streets: Samuel
Wohlstater. ~ Avenue A; Max JOS
wosky, 2,3 Stanton Street; Martin
Adams. 523 East Sixth Street; elsie
Cossy, 112 Avenue A; Lewis Spiro, 81
Third Avenue; Gottehern's Cafe, 100
Avenue ID; Antonio Salato, 51S East
fourteenth Street; A. Shapiro, 15O
Lewis Street; Jacob Kranz, 73 Ridge
Street; John Hoffman. 223 East Fifth
Street; Ivan Lodozich, SO jefferson
Street; Jacob Lindener, 33l Bowery;
William Reilly. 2S7 Bowery; l. Marko-
W.T.. ass East Houston Street; Thomas
Sullivan, $50 Park Row.
Two agents who raided an apartment
said they found a complete wine press.
twenty-five barrels of wine were
seized, One of the places raidcd was
Just across the street from Police Head
quarters. After three agents had
knocked over dozens OF bottles ana
tested the contents of barrels in the
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