Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-10-03
BOOTLEGGER IN
WINDY CITY FIND
BUSINESS BRISK
As the Quantity of Good
Whisky in Chicago Slumps
the Supply of Wierd Con.
CoCtions Increases.
BY III, X. BUCK.

Copyright l9Sl Dy albuquerque couih"''
Chicago, Oct. with Chicago's
supply Of bonded liquor on the
wan. the thirsty amateur is forced
to seek tipple from strange deni-
zens Of the underworld, in back
alleys and on side streets and con-
tent himself--or herself-with
weird connections of killing, tint
ed moonshine or diluted alcohol
made by manufacturer of BARRIERS
supplies, tinctures and extracts,
etc.
This is the statement Of John ].
JelIaner, prohibition enforcement
officer of Illinois. But the de-
mand does not diminish and even
the flappers vanity box is not
without its shot of synthetic gin,
Jellander is gathering his forces
against the new element as well
az "the big fellow" but the task
ahead of him is a big one.
Let the Government Do 1t.
Let the government do it" has
been the motto of Illinois official
dom. The federal staff numbers
only fifty agents and Investigators.
The cooperation given them is
meager. A host of impostors, u.s.
ually we'll known criminals posing
as government officers. have by
wholesale shake downs given the
staff an unenviable reputation. The
lawful staff Is beset with temp
tations that surround bootlegging
imbedded in and protected by pol
itics and the life this personnel
leads on SIS a month salary from
Uncle Sam is the life of a $15
bank clerk turned loose in the
vaults of mint.
AS the quantity of good whiskey
in Chicago has dwindled, the num-
Der of substantial citizens" en-
gagged in supplying clubs. clubs
members and a clientele of BUSH
ness and professional men and
politicians, has diminished proper
tionately. A daily increase is re-
ported in bootleggers unable to
speak more than few English
words. Grimy Europeans who
would otherwise be shining shoes,
rustling baggage, sweeping streets,
o.: cobbling, form a long line of
law breakers picked up in alleys
back of hotels and in the vicinity
of railroad stations and brought in
for questioning.
Good Liquor Plentiful.
Despite the loss of prestige that
has attended a certain falling off
In sales of good liquor it has by
no means passed out Of existence.
Most quantities of bonded stuff
now are brought in from other
states. A fleet of auto trucks Is
operating from various Kentucky
points and q steady stream of con-
traband fluid passes through that
we'll known sieve, the Detroit riv-
err, and is reconsigned to points
here and beyond. Apparently the
| fact that Ontario has gone dry
has not materially affected busi-
ness of bootleggers operating on
the frontier.
Bootlegging under the protection
of the police has and continues to
menace the city. Its root extends
to cliques of politicians allied with
the political faction in power and
the protection achieved has come
from the ward politicians who
| have control of numerous precincts.
Hundreds of police have been used
to guard and protect booze ship
ments. Many police thus engaged
have finished the nights work by
stealing the booze shipments they
were guarding. They now fear
Chief of Police Fitzmorris, who has
sworn to take off the badge of any
policeman implicated and to take
it before his trial.
Dishonesty is not confined to the
police alone. If certain public Of
ficials who should know what they
are talking about are believed. II
an investigation were started at
the federal building you would see
lots of people jumping out of the
windows, said one public official
whose sources of information are
many and varied.
saloons Sell Openly.
The saloons continue to sell more
or less openly what is gulped down
mayhap a bit fearfully. under the
name OF good liquor. In the ma
jority of cases, 1t is nothing but a
colored concoction hawked as such.
A few cafes still sell diluted
drinks, but only a few. Generally
it is necessary to carry "hip"
liquor On parties or to deal with
ones favorite bootlegger-waiter.
The young crowd, flappers and
their escorts are perhaps the most
thorough "hooch trailers' and
their success is evident on every
gilded dance floor and in every
public dance hall in the city. There
was a time when likely looking
four cylinder bus would attract
boulevard vamps taking the air,
but now the common question Is
not "where to" but "got anything
aboard?" The youngster affects a
liking for gin, or what has come
to be known as gin, a white fluid
passing under the name, often re-
poses in the reticule. 1t appears
that most of the stuff is made
from juniper oil. but few can dis
tipguish that fact who have not
had access to a cellar of honest
| liquors.
Bootleg whiskey in Chicago has
revamped that old saying "Cher-
chez la femme" to Find the boot
leggers" in the case of many MUIR
der mysteries and other major
crimes. In fact, the latter appear
to originate in q bottle of new
liquor. The more spectacular
tragedies are continually being
found to have a connection with
the whisky that crazes.
American railroads own approx
imately 2,428,049 freight cars. &c.