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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-12-07
TO MEET PENN AT NETS
West Virginia Tennis Team Coming
Here Next Season

MOrgantOwn, w. Va. Dec. West
Virginia University athletic authorities
announced today that the Mountaineer
tennis team will invade the Fast next
year. Games have been arranged with
Yale, Pennsylvania and Rutgers. they
said, and invitations for dates have been
extended to Princeton, Lehigh and Co.
lumbia. The team will play Pittsburgh,
Carnegie Tech, Washington and JEFF
ferson and Bethany on their home
courts. Several matches with nearby
Ohio colleges will be played here.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-12-07
Seven Straight for Farren

r.I,s5 Isdren r. A. a. after defeating X9ndalia
Slbley and Ward have heen .thc outstanding
fatures OF the season. Farren would lkq
orange games with Forty-e1ghth Ward
., II. and st. Rita's. The Farren also is
kntered in the GiTard Theatre tournament
Eor games write John Wisler. 12l West
courtland street.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-12-07


=, Philahelphln Terminal vs.. Art Loom,
hesstono W.. F1eisher.
Last Nights Results
PHrI.A. MANUFACTURERS LEAGUE
Dobson. 12y Monotype. 10.
tional Harvester, 90
NORTHWEST CHURCH ASSOCIATION
Incarnation. 28; Fails Of SchuyIki;l, 81,
FIRST Church. 80; bethlehem. 30.
WEST PHIi.A. CHURCH LEAGUE
- Ninth Presbyteriai. 2e; Bethany Tenn
Biockley. 81; Centenary. 10.
NORTH PHII.A. CHURCH LEAGUE
st.. Michaers, 81; Mt. Hcrmon, 20.
Erie Second. 20; Mennonite. 10.
OTHER GAMES
Phila. AIl-Stars. 81; Birdsboro, 80.
Franklin Printing. 23; y. +. Ii. A., Is,
A. q. H., SO; Windemere, 80,
Farren A. A.. 28: st. AEatha's. II.
FINANCIAL LEAGUE
Franklin National, eli Fourth Street Ma
tional, 18.
PIILA. AMATEUR LEAGUE
Suburban, 24i Cleveland 20.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-12-07
San Antonio Golf Tourney

San Antonio, Tex. Dec. February Q
2 and 1 are the dates, announced for tho
open golf tournament which will he held on
the Breckenridge Park public golf course
here. A field OF sixty-hyc Is expected.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-12-07
McInnIs SIons Contract

Boston. Dec. THE signing OF "stuffy'
McInnis first baseman OF the Red Sox. to- a
contract for noxt year. has been ANNOUNCED
- President Harry II. Frazee.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-12-07
EASTERN LEAGUE

SCHEDULE FOR TOMORROW NIGHT
Keystone W.. F1eisher,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-12-07
PLAN BIG SUBURBAN GAME

My Fridays Article VIII Be on "Tho I
pOrtance OF Putting"
SveÌŒt = World. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1911-1939, 1921-10-07
ST'RANA g..

= Spanelska chripka neba-
villa nikoho. Ia to Spaniel
ska muSka'' rozesmeje kde
koho. V nedeIi 16. fijna v
Ceske SIM Sokol.
SveÌŒt = World. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1911-1939, 1921-10-07
KREV Sc NEZAPRE,.
(Dokonceni.l J

"Aspon kdyby byl spadl',
litoval jeden vojak. "Mohli
jsme miti prilepseni'.
Coz je takova potvora k il
dlu?" diyil Sc strelec.
"Vsecko je k jidlu
"Vsecko je k jidlu", tohle
Ivrtalo onomu strelci hlavou a
| kdyz po nekolika dnech opet
byl ma STRAIT a pozoroval ovce
ibez dozoru cely rok ma zdej-
sich stranich ma spore travine
Sc pasouci - fla nahoda tomu
lchtela, ze ho napadlo brati 81
lie ma muSku. Il dlouhe chvile
- tot Sc vi - asi tax, jake
kdyz 81 naSinec ma prochazce
parapletem zamirf ma zajlce.
Ale stale Sc, re - mel pry
moe slime pero a zcista jasna
- bac! A ovce, tentokrate ma
komoru vzata, slozila Sc do
travy.
Opet vsichni vyjeli ma brad !
by; tentokrate byly V udoli
prikrceni, kdozvi, slysel-li kdo
lvystrel ma horach byly oyce
bez pastyre.
Co 5 ovci?
UsoudiIi, re by byIo Skoda
nechati j supum, a tax tedy Sc
jeden prS nj vypravil pres stra
ne a st'astne il donesl do ku-
chyne.
Kamarad jeden il tax upra-
lvil, re velitel-desatnik odvolal
dutku, kterou dal rano me
st astn6mu" strelci.
tgJenom ae, nebyt nasich mi
zelnych werndlovek, nebyl by
starry Komsija 20 case shledal,
"a mu schazi moe ovci. Cd te
DOLBY spouStely puSky kazdou
chvili.
KQmSija neco zpozorOval a
oZnamil to u mistniho velitel-
styl We Stolaci, uvadeje to V
souvislost Sc zahadnymi w
strelv.
Jenom re zapomn6l, re ce-
sta ma Osanic brdo je dlouha,
klikata a ze je S Osanic brda
vid6ti naramne daleko.
: Jakmile Sc komise vypravi-
la k vrchu, avisovala straz
lpevnustku a u te nastalo vSeo-
becne uklizeni.
Komise ovSem nenaSla mic a
starry KomSija, jenz byI ostat-
ne bohatym mohamedanem,
musil uveriti, &c V okoli byli
videni vlci, 20 ,nichz bylo Wy
streIeno, "a coz iovSem jsme
dostali vsichni poradnou dutku
a Bosnakovi naznaceno, re
nam vlastne ma byt vd6cen-'
"Vam?" Udivil Sc lesni, "tys
tam byl?"
Vypravejicf>se zarazil, ale
propuknuv We smich, odvetil:
"Vzdyt' ty taky"
) Ted ovsem strhl Sc smich
ma yesch Stranach.
"Krev Sc nezapfe", parodo-
vail pana lesniho..
"A zelena krev dokonee
ne, small Sc pan vrchnl Off
cial.
A Ease pfeSli ia Iowa.
"A iak jste no naucil LETT
20 zebriku?" ptali sc.
90, to ma take Y kryi'.
"Jak to?"
'"ro zdedii po SVEN dedu,
Donoyi, jenz patfil menu ne
boztiku tchanoyi d ten, totiz
Don, Sc tomu naucil sam cd
lsebe.
Chodil jsem totiz "a svou
Inyn6jsi zepou do tehle Iesovny
"a svobodna. Jeji otec, starry
Doubraya, vSak jste no zna-
Hi take - vdovec, byl takto
hodny chap, ale slizanf n6ia-
ke netrpel. A kdyz isem "a je-
! 10 dcerou casio prichazel, Wy
hrkl na mne, iaka je to sluzba,
kdyz Sc chodim miliskoyat
SveÌŒt = World. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1911-1939, 1921-10-07
s'BvE'Es'


pfistavil no X seniku hupky
nah0rll.
Co cert necntel ak jsem
byl nahofe, laval yltr shodil
mi klobouk pod lso.nu, mad niz
byl senfk, prave k Donov9
boude.
Nemaje casu na rozmysleni,
skryl jsem Sc q skrze sterbiny
N prknech jsem pozoroval, co
sc bude diti.
Jen jsem Sc prikrciI, byl tn
Doubrava Sc syJm jamnlkem
. vessel, niceho netuse, do do
mu.
Odlevilo Sc mi.
Bylo to k veceru a myslil
jsem, re S nastavajici noci sic
| du dolu a zmizim.
Vedel jsem vSak, re senik
ma jeste dvirka dozadu ma
druhe stran6 a re bych Sc mohl
odtud lined ztratiti, nebyti ne
St astneho klobouku.
Lehl jsem 81 Ease ma zem,
pozoroval, jak Sc tmi a kde Ie-
Z maj klobouk.
V tom vylezl Don z boudy a
prochazel Sc pod kolnou. Pri-
sci i k menu klobouku a oci-
chaval jej.
Napadla mne spasna my
slenka.
"DoneH' yolal jsem Sc
ptem. Done, primes, Done, pfi
mes klobouk!'
Don zprvu nechapal, odkud
to jde, ale zahy poznal muj
HAS a zavrtel prutem.
"Prines" povzbuzoval jsem
no.
Don popadl kiobouk a zami-
| I'll k zebrikU.
'Pojd' sem, Doner' .vabil
jsem no nejsladSim hl'asem,
stoupnuv ST Sc strany do viky-
re.
Plesal isem jiz v duchu,
kdyz tom ozvaly Sc ma "a
rrazi kroky Doubravovy.
Exam toho psa certi nesou,
Done!" ~ zaVolal a hvizdl.
Don Sc zastayil skoro naho-
Ie a ohledl sc.
"A ti to mas kIobouk, Do
ne?"
Lec Don, ~ edom 81 sv6 po-
yinnosti, spinal Sc pracne ma
horu.
"No, tohle mi nejde ma roz-
um - zahromoval Doubrava
:. hnal Sc po zebriku vzhuru a
vylcza nahoru prekyapil mne
prave, kdyz jsem chtel druhou
stranou Sc spustiti do sadu.
Nezbyvalo, nez slezti pokor-
ne "a Doubravou do dyora a V
pokoji vytasiti Sc pravdou.
Doubrava Sc mracil a zayo-
lal Toncu.
"Je to pravda?" spustil ma
Iii a y$e il vyprav6l.
"Je', skomirala Tonca, ,ehve
JIG Sc.
"Tak Wy takhlev' - "a
mratene Sc zamlcel.
J& zacal jeji pfitomnosti
nabyvati kuraze.
"Tak Wy 81 il chcete witt"
on Ease.
"Chci'
"Kdy?"
"Kdy to PRIDE zazadam
81 0 myslivnu, isem w stary
dost" - ia na to.
"a ty bys MIN az
Jen prikyvla.
"A mne, stareho vdovce, u
nechate?"
Tonca Sc rozplakala.
"Tak ia vam neco povim:
Ultra, podam zadost do pense a
primluvim Sc u pana Iesmistra,
abyste dostaI tuhle mysliVnu
il zGstal iako tumpachovy.
mo, me-" vzkrlkl m
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Observation-Disclosures
VYct,od a Zapad.
ROMAN z AMERICKEHO zIvoTA.
DIE anglickeho pfclozl A!bin Sraka.



"An6, mama jsem a jeste
vice odvetila Ethel smutne.
l"Myslim. vSak, re prehanis ne
bezpeci, ktere ii mym jedna-
MIN hrozi. DedeGek mne milu
je; on nenl tax mstivym clo-
Tvekem, "a jakeho no drzis. On
nebude tob6 splaceti, co isem
zavinila.'
"To Sc ukaze. Ty jsi jedna-
la die sve hlavy, ale jeste shle
daS, re to casio velmi draze
! pride. chceme-li svou hlavou
proraziti, hlavne zalezito-
stech lasky'
Iris byla pri idle mrzutou;
Ethel opustila ruzovy letohra
! dek byla rada, re usla teto
matce, kterou nikdy nemiIova-
la a ktere. nikdy jeSt6 h6jake
tajemstvf nesvefila.
Stmfvalo Sc, kdyz prisla do
panskeho domu. St'astnou ma
hodou vecefel dnes Godfrey
Greyiock $ jednim lazenskym
hostem V Blackportu. Ethel o.
debrala Sc do~sveho pokoje,
jelikoz do osmi hodin pouze
nekolik minut chybelo. Otevre
la Satni skrin a vyhala y nj
! iedpoduchy sediFy plast',s klo-
bouk a zavoi te same barry 4
lnevzala ami pen6z ami slvostu.
PAX uchopila Sc tuzky papi-
ru. chtic psati, stala okamzik
nerozhodnuta a pax opet odlo
lila ODE veci. Ne, nechtela "a
nechati TEN, ktefi il byly nej-
blizsimi a nejdrazsimi ami je-
dine fadky.
Alabastrove hodiny ma krbu
oznamovaly csmod. Byla to ra
dost di zalost lasky, nasled-
KEN cehoZ zbledla iako mrtvo
LA od hlavy k pate Sc "a
chv6la? Regnault il volal, ona
masela jiti, ably splnila pfisa-
hu, kterou ucinila pred n6ko-
lika tyhodny pfi odchodu .
'pensionatu.
Venku ma chodbe slySela te-
tn Pamelu udileti stare Hop
l1insove rozkazy. Zastavi.a Sc
a cihala az hlasy umlkly, pax
letela rychle 20 schodech do
! la a Y domu ven.
XIV. u solnych jam.
Vecer byl, jako den, vetrny
a zamraceny. Bylo vsak dost
jasno, aby Ethel videla ma ce-
stu, kdyz bezela stromoradim
a IA silnici zahnula.
Zamirila rovnou cestou k
hromade kamenl. Nejvice Sc o
+ bayala potkanl yraceJlci Sc e.
kypaze dedcvy; avsak osud
byl il pfiznivym, nepotkala a.
nj ziye duSe. Rychle zahnula
re silnice ma dzkou p6sinllu a
pospichala pevnym krokem k
staiym so'nym jamam.
Tam stal, opfen o hromadu
kameni, kterou Mercy Poolo-
va ma pamatku svemu nev6rnc
mu, mrtvemu milovniku z5u-
doVala. Ano, byla to jeho kras
nj, stlhla postava Y znamem
drzeni divadelneho reka. Jeho
temne oci rozhlizely Sc kolko-
lem. X pkraceni casu zapa!il
81 doutnik, ktery jako hv6zda
temnote zaril.
kdyz Sc Ethel blizila, odho-
dill doutnik a pospisil j vstric
v nejblizsim okamzeni lezela
v jeho naruci, a on tiskna il
naruzive' k srdci, pokryl jeji
b edy oblicej polibky.
Ethel neodpovldala; chlad-
ne a bez pohnuti jako socha
poslouchala jei.
Proc isl volil toto misto k
nasi schultz 'vypravila konec
ne ze sebe pohlizejic zdesene
na kamenny pomnik, stare sol
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ma
mad zvlastnostmi jinych
nemame zadneho prava, Pa
mdlo,' odpoy6del Godfrey su-
Sc" Kazdy name sv6ho konic-
ka."
"Neskalpuji zapadni divosi
tax dobre anglicke slechtice ia
ko americke obcany?"
"Bezpochyby, maji-li k to-
mu prilezitost."
PAX Sc obavam, re slech-
tieky titul sira Gervasa brzy
ma jineho pribuzneho pfejde. "
'Nesmysl! Slibil, re Sc ma
podzin vrati ma vychod."
Nine Sc ida, re ieho nahly
odjezd zadnemu z mas lichoti-
wynn. neni. Co mysliS ty, E.
thcl?7
Tato pozvedla zrak svuj a
zodpov6dela otazku tety S nu-
cenym humorem: "Obdivuji
dobrodruzneho ducha barono-
va, q takove latky jsou zhoto-
veni rekove. Nestarej Sc 0 nei
tetinko, on dovede chraniti Sc
nebezpeci"
Kdyz vstali od sto'u pribli-
I'll Sc Godfrey Greylock ku svG
vnucee q .pe5eptal il: @Chces
MI neeo rici, mile dite?'
Ethel zbledla ieste vice, lee
zatfasla hIavou a odvetila:
"Ne, dedouSkur
Jeho hnev vzplanul znova.
Nechtela Sc tedy ami jemu
syeriti.
V poledne obedvala Ethel V
ruzovem letohradku. Tam ma
nj cekala nova zkouska. Iris,
ktera nespustila panskJ dun
y oci, yedela O. odiezdu baro-
noyu
Vzaia tedy Ethel ma w
'slech, jakmile Sc tato posadila.
"Oh, ty posetiI6 diter' zvola-
la. Vim, co isl ucinila; nemu
sis mi TO ami rikah Den pri-
jde a sice velmi brzy, ne svou
posetllost hofce pykati budes.
Jak isl ien mohla toho muze
odbyti2 Nezuri tvuj d6d?"
"Obavam Sc. re ano," vzdy-
chla divka, an dosud nerekl
nicehoz. Nemiuyme tom de
le, mako, jsem nemocna.'
Irisin oblicej vyhlizel starost
live Zdalo sc il, ze il visi Da
mokluv NEE mad hlavou
Uzavfe "a sice $ muzem y
kocicim herberku smlouvu
co vsak stane Sc z nj, kdyby
Godfrey Greylock svou vnuc-
ku zavrhl, coz by bezpochyby
take acinil, kdyby pfisel ma
stopu zapletek Regnaultem?
Cd neho tax nenayidena mat
ka zajiste by sdiIeIa osud dl-
tete. Nebezpoci hrozilo, KAN
koli sc ohlcdla
"1thell Ethel" pocala zno-
"a. "kdyby isl Sc byla provda-
la "a barona, bylo by vse do
bre byyaIo. Jeho laskou chra-
nena a jeho jm6no nosic byla
by's mohla vzdoroyati vsem
nasim nepfatelum. ia bych by
la Sla tebou do Anglie, kde
bych pred - pred vsim jista
byla. Nyni vsak stoiime osa-
m6le q muslme sc pOdrObit
svemu osudu. "Koho bozi chit
zkaziti, toho rani slepotou".
Tvs byla silenou, 'kdvz isl ST.
"a Geryase odmitla.
Mama" pravila uprimne
ia ii nerozumlm. Jake nepfa-
tele name? Koho Sc name O.
bavati?'
Iris Sc zardela a odpoyede-
la podrazdena "Kazdy 6lovek
ma sye nepratele, kdyz to
snad ami nevi. Bude to jen
tva vina, Ethel, budeme-li z
New-York tribune., 1921-11-20

10000 gallons at run. Fruit or grape sugar
IS used in combination with common com
pressed yeast such as the housewife uses for
her bread, and the product is fair, though
unmlstak kable, imitation of brandy.
When the product is run off it is carried in
one, five or ten-gallon packages to waterfront
saloons, where it is sold at price insuring
an enormous profit to nloonshiner and saloon
keeper alike The ultimate sufferer seems to
be the ultimate consumer who for cents
PONY" gets $50 proof spirits with which to
seorch his innards.
One hundred and fifty proof spirits contain
kick just about 70 points above par. The
legitimate bottled whiskey of barroom con-
sumption seldom runs above 80 or 90 proof, SO
the man who takes the Scent kind, if he's
in search of jolt in his drink is usually ac-
commodated.
1t is impossible for the New York moon
sinner, even with apparatus vastly superior
to that of his Southern rival, to turn out
brandy that does not bear the earmarks of
moonshne. A revenue officer needs but to
smell it to tell that the fusel oil and high
aleohos have not been refined out of it,
1t is aged, too, coed deal like the Union
prisoners at Andersonville used to age the
moonshine whisky they made You remember
the story.
"We made three quarts" said one of the
moenshiners, "but the guards stole two of
them, We had to hide the other one to age it,"
How long did you age it?" inquired the
patient listener.
"Two days. said the soldier.
Once the city moonshiner gets his product
into the hands of the saloonkeeper ne is safe.
That worthy bandit puts it in nicely labeled
bottles, proving that it was distilled in France
or Italy, or some other country it never saw.
and even if the agents find dozen bottles of
1T they have no way of tracing it's manu-
facture.
The New York moonshiner generally works
on the top floor of tenement house, or
sometimes even left building, so that the
fumes of distillatian are dispersed in the air.
He makes from ten to twenty times as much
brandy as his mountain counterpart does
whisky, because he has ten to twenty times
as many places to dispose of it. He sells
through fences, just as thieves do, and the
product is often introduced into the gulet of
the consumer in one or five or six salaons
owned by the same man, but conducted under
various names.
!hcfe ~ ho 1hoohsHthe WHISKY made in New
York for several reasons. In the frat place,
the water isn't suited to it's manufacture.
Chemists can't explain to the satisfaction of
the layman what's the matter with it, but it
won't do. In the second place, nobody wants
to drink it. Even the Scandinavian stevedore,
whose favorlte tipple is straight alcohol, turns
up his nose at its pungent odor and spurns it's
peculiarly retroactive kick 1t can be colored,
OF course, with burnt sugar and made fairly
palatable, but the aroma remains.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-20
TELL THAT
TO THE MARINES
(Comtinued from page one)

AS they rode out of town people were firnp at
them without much effect, and every once in
while bandit was killing citizen But
things changed when livery stable helper
named John j. Kloehr, who had often shot in
tournaments with the Daltons, stepped into the
street in full view of the bandits and began
pumping his deadly rifle. Kloehr, with the
bandits firing at him, shot Bob Dalton dead
and wounded Emmet. Then he shot Graf Dal
ton and Powers and Broadwell The latter
managed to climb on his horse, but was found
dead a mile out of town. Emmett Dalton.
badly wounded, tried to mount his horse and
was shot twice more by this coolest of marks
men. Then Emnet, wounded three times. sur
rendered and lived to do "stretch'' in the
penitentiary. Four men killed and one wound
el by one man, and all for $4,000 in loot. not
enough to buy car for modern bandits!
Black Jack Ketehun, whose gang specialized
in train robberies in New Mexico and Colo
RADIO, was said to be the "last of the train rob-
bers," Black Jack and his brother, Sam had
large and able following, and killed several
trainmen and sheriff or two before the leader
with thesromantic name was finally wounded
by F, A, Harrington, plucky conductor for
the Colorado Southern, who refused to let his
Jacks arm off and then signaled his train to
go on. Black Jack was found the next dav.
having been unable to mount his horse He
was hanged at Clayton, N. M. his head being
severed from his body.
Then came the inevitable announcement that
there would be no more train robberies. owing
TO the encouragement the authorities were
giving to the hod-ups. But Black Jack had
:1.L
Bart and the others, he had been compelled to
come back for more
nenry 'starr was another Western robber
VINO suffered because of failure to apply eff
''s.Sy 'hethoos TO the business Of train robbery
ana pank hold-ups. Starr usually worked
a4ohe. ne had varying success, and at one
TINE served several years in the Colorado state
psh'sehelary' he was released as model
prisoner and went back to the old way of max
<ag living His last job was the hold-up Of
TWO banks at Stroud. Okla, about two wears
ago. From these two institutions he secured
bare S4,ooO Then, when he was getting out
OF town, firing at the citizanry as he went a
ooy OF rousteen stepped out with a small cali
ber rife and shot the bandit from his horse.
the authorities gathering Starr in and caus-.
ing the glad news to be disseminated once
more that the 'last of the train robbers" had
been captured.
Throwing the marines into the breach may
change the situation.
With the "leathernecks" on guard, it is
quite likely mail pouches and express safes
Will arrive with considerable degree of regu~
iarity, and that the business of interfering
with such repositories of treasure will be made
extremely hazardous. even ii 1t is not alto
getaer PEI out Of the catalogue of employment
New-York tribune., 1921-11-20

the lnformer upon conviction of the offender
he has exposed Down South they paw less
per head, because it was found when the fee
was $50 that the moonshiners who couldn't
raise or buy enough corn for ''run" of whis-
ky were exchanging Jail courtesies, which is
to say that one of them would rig up burned
out still, and another would go to the nearest
revenue agent and reveal it's location The
raid and subsequent arrest resulted in Jail
term varying from thirty days to six months
probably the former when the agent
obliged to admit in court that the still was
very small one.
Thirty days in Jail for $50 split two ways
was profitable enough financially in the dull
season, especially when it came time for turn
about, and the original "informer posed as
the moonshiner, while the ''lnoonshiner"
turned informer and made his partner do the
heavier.
H. B. Taylor, Colonel Nuts chief lieuten-
ant, has had years of experience with the
Southern moonshiners. An informer he had
every reason to trust turned up five small
stills for him in one night, every one of which
Taylor found to be burned out.
"John," he said, 'you haven't played fair
with me on this. You've planted these stills
I'm not going to pay you cent"
John said not word but after Taylor had
gone ne wrote complaining letters to Wash
ington. Nothing ever came of them, but the
next time Taylor went into Johns territory to
raid still-a real one-somehody fired from
ambush and the horse of the man who rode
next to Taylor fell dead beneath him. An
other man get a bullet between his eyes,
Even when caught running a still, the real
moonshiner accepts his fate with nonchaance.
i amt askeered, is his philosophy 81
amt never seed a revenue agent could do more
an kill me. an if he kills me he kain't eat ME.
so what's he got?"
The New York agents have to fear no bull
lets, City moonshiners aren't even gunmen.
0ftentimes what appears to an inauistive
neighher to be an illicit still is nothing of the
sort. The agents frequently And the supposed
neonshiner is an East Side saloon owner,
blending his own whisky to escape paying the
$l0o fee the government demands as yearly
license. he takes several gallons of good
whisky and several more gallons that are no
good at all, and mixes them to make potion
calculated to be sold as good at a handsome
profit.
On scores OF occasions, however, the anony-
nous information has led to sure enouph
"cut" Of still with capacity Of 5000 10
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turned up in Brownsville. 1t must have been
worth $500, and was such fine specimen I'm
saving it to send to the department. I've
never seen one like it in this country.
"Well, here's letter from man who thinks
he'd like to earn $50. See what you can make
out of it,"
Every we'll, sir" says Jones.
Perhaps an hour later, perhaps in the next
week or not for month, an automobile rolls
up to the curb at No. = East Houston Street
and five get out There are that many
because nobody knows what they're really
likely to find themselves UP against.
Chances are there'll be no trouble New
York moonshiners, like their brothers Of the
mountains of Virginia, would a whole lot
rather run than fight, the polite little fiction
that credits mountaineer with bloodthirsty
"hetter-die7than=b spirit to the cons
trary Notwithstanding There are fights in
the South because the moonshiners often find
themselves in position to shoot and run-a
little privilege denied the New Yorker by the
very nature of the territory in which he
operates,
New York moonshner fears the revenue
agents mostly because he knows they will de-
stroy his still if they find it. Often the stills
III thls sectlon OF the country, unlike the home
MADE, sometimes copper, more often zinc con-
traptions of the South cost 5000 or s4OO. He
doesn't mind paying fine of hundred or
two but he hates to lose that still.
In none of their raids have the New York
agents come across what they call sscopuer
Kettle" still, which depends upon the old-fash
Toned wofn1' cold water and steam for distila-
ton. Those hereabouts are of the continuous
process, chambered variety, such as are in use
IN legitimate distileries throughout the coun-
try Steam is produced by gas fame instead
of by an open wood fire.
The distillation of spirits is absurdly simple
so simple in fact, that the anti-prehihi-
tionists tell US we'll be making our own MOON
SHINE In little tin stills on our kitchen stoves
II the prohibitienists have their way.
Ask revenue agent to guess and he'll
probably say there may be fifty moonshine
stills operating in New York to-day, mostly
on the East Side and in the Brownsville Sec
tlen OF Rrooklyn. 1t is impossible to find them
and the agents don't trouble to look for them.
When one is turned up and "cut" there is
pretty sure to be an informer somewhere In
the background
The FEDERAL statute allows fee Of sno r.