The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-19
Any Man Not Under Suspicion
And With the Price Can Get Drink

Summed I'D this is the outstanding i'm
preston clearly written in mind at the end
OF the tour:
That it is possible to get whislSey and
ether intoXcants in any town in the coun-
try. without much difficulty, provided, of
course, that you are able to convince the
bootlegger that you are not a revenue Off
Ger, and if you are willing to pay the price
demanded.
That IN many sections of the country
whiskey and in some places beer of high
alcoholic content, is being sold over the
bar
That there is much corn whislxey, illicitly
distilled, on the market to take the place of
bonded whiskey, which is more difficult
TO get.
That the joke about home brew beer and
other homemade intoxicants is not so much
Of joke after all, for there is almost in
conceivable home manufacture of intoxicat-
ing beverages, some of which has been
drunk with fatal effects.
BY all odds the wettest section of the
country is the Atlantic seaboard, where sales
are made over the bar, to persons who are
known, by the drink. and where there is con-
siderable traffic in case goods, the pur-
chasers being able even to specify the brands
Of whiskey, gin and other intoxicants they
desire. The wettest States perhaps are New
York and New Jersey, with~what seems to
be an almost endless supply.
The Pacific coast is close second to the
Atlantic. with intoxicants freely obtainable
ip such cities as San Francisco. Seattle
Portland Los Angeles and San Diego. Cal.
This is true especially in California, the last
Of the Pacific coast States to go wet, the
States Of Washington and Oregon having
gone dry by their own vote before the rest
Of the country.
There Is a fringe of territory extending
In from the Canadian and Mexican borders
from one TO two hundred miles where liquor
is readily obtainable. brought into the coun-
try by blockade runners whose stories Of
encounters with the revenue agents will in
the future be the source Of much adventure
fiction.
Louisville and St. Louis Are
Dryer Than New York and Chicago
The larger cities such as New York, Chi
cago San Francisco. Los Angeles Cleveland,
Detroit and Buffalo present only slight diffi-
Guilty for the stranger who arrives with a
thirst and plenty Of money. 1t is more diffi-
cult to get intoxicants in certain cities which
might, on the face Of past performances,
suom TO be the easiest--cities. for instance
such as Louisville. Ky: st. Louis, Mo. and
Kansas City. Mo-. long looked upon as
centres of the production OF Intoxicating
averages. In the intermountain territory,
ypihed by Boise City. Idaho: Salt Lake City
and the like. the most difficulty is encoun-
tered; the liquor Is there but the price is
high.
Minot. N. d. as a small city, easily takes
rank as the wettest spot In the United States.
IL is within sixty miles. as the crow flies.
from the Canadian border. and large guam
titles OF whiskcy and gin are brought in
continually over the line.
There are 80 many bootleggers In
Winot," the town joke runs, that they have
to wear badges to keep from trying to sell
liquor IN each other"
The buccaneers OF old had Few more ex-