The New York herald., 1921-02-27

the attack on booze sellers started thai
several groups OF agents got lost and
wandered OF Broadway and into Sew
enth, Eighth an0 Ninth avenues Some
OF the squad leaders carried maps OF
the citys streets, with dots to mark
the gin mills. and were guided by them
The squads that were mapless went
right ahead into unknown territory and
succeeded in gathering In more than q
score OF bartenders and managers and
collecting enough liquor to serve as evil
dence, IL was said
Preparations for the drive along Broad
way were completed at o'clock in the
afternoon in the office of Dan r. Chaplin,
who is in charge of enforcement in this
district He had his extra agents from
Boston meet In his Office in West Twen-
ty-seventh street for final Instructions.
They began at Broadway and Four
teenth street and presently were at
Broadway and Thirty-second street
where they took time to look into the
Oasis Cafe They served a warrant to
search and searched. and then they
made the usual arrest. A few minutes
later they were at the doors OF the
Marlborough Grill. Broadway and
Thirty Is.~th street. where the same per-
formance was executed. The Moulin
Rouge was next. with Healy's following
within fifteen minutes. and then a party
went 10 the Strand Roof. After collect
ing what was described as perfectly
good evidence they arrested Elias
Meirowitz OF 420 Riverside Drive presi-
dent OF the company that operates the
place.
Meanwhile the agents who had left
the Broadway tran and struck Seventh
avenue, had stopped off at Guffantfs
Restaurant, near Twenty-fifth street.
The prisoners from the various places
were taken to the West Twentieth. West
Thirtieth. West Forty-seventh and West
Sixty-eighth street stations.
With prisoners coming in by fves and
ters. and prohibition agents with un-
familiar faces making charges of Vol
ssefd act violations in great numbers.
tie police Lieutenants on desk duty were
a. a loss for a time to know what pro-
cedure to follow in accepting bail.
United States Commissioner Hitchcock
was called on the Telephone and asked
to fix bail. He said he thought $500
cash or realty would be enough and
that the prisoners might be released un-
til tomorrow morning. They will be
arraigned before him then.
The experiment of bringing men from
another city to raid in New York was
that the raids had been "airtight." that
no information concerning them got even
as much as 100 yards ahead of the raid
ing squads. and that no one had been
able to hide evidence.
And while the Boston agents were
making the city what 1t Is supposed to
be to-day some of the local talent was
making matters hot in the southern Sec
tion of Manhattan.
o I1II
was visited by Agent "Izzy" Einstein.
Vito Tennachio, who was in charge of
the place, was arrested, and. according
to reports, quantity of wine, sin and
vcrmuth was seized.
Moses Smith and Herman Wittenberg.
New York agents who have composed
what Is known as the dinner clothes"
squad, changed stif shirts for flannel
ones early in the night and went strolling
through Ninth avenue. The hrst arrest
they made was that of Martin Clcary.
who was found at 4S4 Ninth avenue.
The agents charged him with possessing
and selling booze.
Over at Tompkinsville a saloon owned
by a man who described himself as
William Kappey was raided There 1t
wes charged, the agents seized twenty
one quarts of whiskey, thirty bottles of
various brands of liquor and several
quarts of kiInmel.
All the raids were based, II was ex-
planned. on warrants issued by Federal
Judge Knox. For the last ten days the
Boston agents have been roaming
around the city, drinking. chatting and
getting evidence. 1t was stated that in
every instance where warrant was
issued. booze had been purchased at
least twice by some Government officer.
1t became known yesterday that By
ron r. Newton, Collector OF the Port.
has seized more than s1,000.000 worth
of liquor from steamships making the
port of New York, and that the stun
Is under bond. About 10 per cent Of
the booze Is synthetic and contains
poisonous substances. This Will be
thrown into the sea within a short time.
while the remainder Is TO be disposed
Of where II will do the most good. most
of IL going to hospitals.