New-York tribune., 1920-01-16
Cafes Ready
ForLiquor's
Swan Song
Broadway to Have Last
wet Fling This Even
ing and Hotels 'SeuOut
for Great Celebration
Nation Goes "Dry''
12:Ol in Morning

Police Will Not Aid in
Enforcement, Which Is
tn to u. S. Officials
The Eighteenth Amendment to the
Carstitution of the United States,
which means prohibition, becomes eff
ixdve at precisely sixty seconds af-
nr IL o'clock tonight. From that
nomsnt any one who is caught buy
fnr drink containing more than
aae.half Of per cent alcohol is SUBJ
let TO a fine Of $500. A second Of
lender may be fined as much as
1900. Subsequent drinks will be
purchased at the peril of two years
ID Jail. The man who sells liquor
NAY be given from six months to
FIVE years in Jail, depending on the
number Of previous convictions.
&Fhe same penalties fixed for pur-
thasers of liquor apply to man who
Ecaught carrying flask on his nip
d taking a drink anywhere outside
lis own home or the home of
friend.
Hotels Prepare for ''Wake"
On that basis if every one who
violates the new law in New York
between this midnight and dawn to-
morrow should be arrested and fined
iM each violation there would be
enough money collected in fines to
mtire two or three Liberty Loan
| bond issues.
/. Nearly every big hotel and restau-
inat in New York was busting with
hetvity yesterday as employees sour
ftd about making preparations for the
aasl celebrations to be held tonight
\ mark the passing from American
afs Of habit, business, source of
fkasure, cause of crime, all of which
~ summed up in the name John
Mfeycorn.
single sip after 1891 q. m. from
highball glass at any one of these
;stvth will make the swallower guilty
tM offense against the government
Nu IN even money bet that there
lee not enough men left in the army
y arrest all of the people who are
going to violate the new law in it's
FIRST hours. However, Colonel Daniel
Porter, supervising internal revenue
tgent ia New York, who is. temporarily
sharged with the duty of enforcing
prohibition, has only 800 employees at
biz command-and most of those are
women stenographers.
Police Not to Participate
Colonel Porter, drumming his fingers
N the glass top Of his mahogany desk
. the Custom House yesterday. said
ass he had done everything in his
teFer to prevent infractions of war
tine prohibition, and that so far as his
once was concerned-for the present,
snJvay-war-time prohibition will glide
aucss the calendar and quietly blend
and rectify with constitutional pro-
/ mbition. Colonel Porter will be re-
Il lived Of the duty Of enforcing pro-
lmition just as soon as a state pro-
lbition enforcing officer is appointed,
j q provided in the Volstead act.
Chief Inspector John Daily of the
foiice Department said yesterday that
~ police will take no part in en-
'orring the prohibition law, for the
ssssssns, sssssa . anyway, So all that need need
dssion tonight is the possible pres
ee OF wood alcohol in the bottle and
as conscience.
me celebrations tonight are almost
atsainly the last public demonstra-
nns Of regard for John Barleycorn,
~ !ney are not the first to mark his
.ssiny. There was one Wednesday
s3as and at least three big ones last
as IN places which will not permit
4aNng tonight.
..yp'tal Of all the celebrations last
cat and the night before was the
sslaasreiia ball at the Cafe de Paris,
.esaeriy Rector's. Ten dollars cover
Y collected in advance. and when
came there wasn't enough sal
- a'eohol left in the place to jingle
II snx.year-oid child.
humber of actresses, motion pic
~ sad stage folk were there to con-
lor the honor Of wearing Prince
mlngs golden slippers, and no.
esfed darn about the fact that
.ae story it was a glass slipper.
sef, when the slipper was slipped
sae dainty foot Of Violet Mcmillan
~ and the judges declared her to
! ne winner, and moving picture
~ men exposed hundreds and hun
W. M el feet of. film while Miss Nc
sssss9 .ss stood ins&he glare Of specially
1870 are lights and exposed bit
- than her feet.
Another Claims Slippers
40 Just AZ everybody was ap
Mns the winner along came O'E1la
Mho used TO play in 1.-THE Cop
s With Lionel barrymore, and
mat she had feet that could
sennd In the golden slippers,
- ltdges told her that, however
m. est might be, the slippers At
AeAii,an's feet and that was all
&ss.x va 70 IL. So everybody sat
m !. and diseussed the situation
- me street ears began 10 clang
"a ss'eoway on the daylight sched-