New-York tribune., 1920-01-18
Day-0ld Dry
Law Sees but
our Arrests
Two Seizures Made by
Local Police, Indicating
City Intends to Help
Enforce Volstead Act
New York Nearly
AS Arid as Sahara
Ship With $2,OOO,OOO
Liquor Cargo Sails After
5000 Gases Are Seized

O,VUV Eases Are CeIZeO
Twenty-four hours of constitutional
prohibition left New York dry and dis
consolate- There were only four ar
rests in the city yesterday for alleged
violations of the Volstead enforcement
act, yet it was more difficult to get a
drink of anything even family re-
sembling whisky than probably has
been the case since old Hendrix Hud-
son sailed into the bay.
Two of the arrests were made by the
police in raid directed from head
quarters on a Coney Island saloon.
TINS was the first time. the police had
shown. anything like professional in
terest in the new sort of crime and
was believed to indicate cha nee OF
Rpolicy since last Thursday.
Then Chief Inspector Jonn DAILY de-
clared the police would not hunt for
vlolators of constitutional prohibition
even though Colonel Daniel L. Porter
supervising Internal Revenue agent, de-
clared that the police were just as re-
sponsiblc under the law for the en-
forcement of constitutional prohibition
as the agents working under him.
Held Under Vclstead Act
Detective Picco, of the Special Ser
vice Division at Headquarters, and
three other detectives led raid on a
saloon conducted by Eusebio Paciello
at 28D1 West Seventeenth Street. Coney
Island Detective Picco said that &azio
Paciello, the bartender and brother
OF the proprietor, had sold--him. four
glasses. Of claret on Fgiday in viola
tion Of wartime prohibition, and ar
rested him on the charge of violating
wartime prohibition. Eusebio, how
ever, was charged with keeping and
maintaining a nuisance in violation of
that section Of the Voistead act which
relates to constitutional prohibition
Both men were taken to the Adams
Street police station, as were three
demijohns of whisky, one barrel of
wine and 204 quart bottles Of whisky.
Michael Minden and his bartender,
John II. Larke, we're arrested at 1905
yesterday morning by Internal Revenue
Agent Moses Rosenthal, who told
United States Commissioner Michael
+. McGoldrick that the bartender had
sold him 4 glass Of brandy Minden
was held in $1,000 baiA on the charge
Of maintaining nuisance, and Larke
in $500 bail on the charge Of selling
liquor in violation of the Volstead act
They are to have an examination Janu-
airy %.
The freighter Yarmouth. Of the Black
Star Line, a negro-owned corpora
ton, cleared from New York yesterday
afternoon for Hevana. In the ships
hold were champagne. gin and whisky
valucd'at S2,000,000. There were 10000
cases in the cargo.
Spurred by promises of big bonuses
longshoremen worked fcverishly on
Pier %, at the foot of Roosevelt Street
in the East River, all Friday night
loading the vessel, but they worked
agents, who held watches in their hand
There were 5000 cases still to be load
ed when 81 neighborng clock tower
sounded midnight. A minute later the
agents formally seized the uAloadcd
portion Of the curgo and informed Cap
tain 'Cockburn his ship could not sail
until they learned if it was permiss-
BILE.
Fifteen Men Arrested
The 5000 cases were removed from
the pier yesterday and locked up in a
government warehouse
The big consignment is said to have
been brought to New York by boat and
rail within the last few days. The Var
mouth was loaded so hurriedly that, as
she started down the river yesterday
afternoon, waterfront spectators com
mentcd on decided list to starboard
The police Of the Oak Street station
within the last few days have arrested
fifteen men found intoxicated in the
vicinity Of Pier %, and whom they
1 ,+r ~ =
the Yarmouth's cargo.
Internal Revenue agents watched the
efforts Of crew Of salvagers at work
in the Hudson River off Ninety sixth
Street yesterday. The men were trying
to rehoat a sunken barge loaded with
about 700 barrels Of whisky which had
been intended for export. The ice fees
in the river battered a hole in the
hulk below the waterline and the pre-
cious cargo sank When the salvagers
failed to ref1oat the barge before 1901
yesterday morning Internal Revenue
agents were sent there to seize the
whisky as soon as it is brought to the
surface.
IL Warrants Issued
Piled on the sidewalk against the
wall Of the Custom House yesterday
morning were 150 cases of whisky
They had been seized Friday night by
internal reycnue agents who observed
heavily laden truck stop in front Of
saloon at Liberty and West streets
Forty CAGES had been taken into q
nearby cellar when the agents arrested
the men in charge Of the truck. AS
result Of Information gained from
these men twelve warrants were
issued yesterday for men in Pittsburgh
and Baltimore who are supposed tt
have shipped the whisky from Pitts.
burgh to New York, by way OF
Baltimore.
During the night the 150 cases were
stored under strong and trustworthy
"dry" guard in the Old Slip police sta
tion. II made the police nervous, how
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