The New York herald., 1921-12-18
AZ Agents SwoOp Down on
Roadhouses Along the
Hudson.
REFORM BRINGS RESULTS
Head of Enforcement Depart
ment Says Conditions in New
York Are Cleaner.

Roy A. Haynes, Federal Prohibi-
tion Commissioner, arrived here from
Washington yesterday and spent the
day in conference with Ralph A. Day,
State Director, and E. C. Yellowley,
chief of the national staff of general
agents
He was still in the office when Il
squad of forty-two age returned
from a series of raids ma yesterday
along the Hudson. in Tarrytown, Har-
mon, Ossining and Newburgh. In all
ten places were raided. Some of these
were inns and roadhouses known to
motorists. The biggest seizure was
made in the Westors Hotel, directly
opposite Ossining police headquarters.
and not far from Sing Sing. The men
were complimented by the commits :.
sioner
Mr.. Haynes told newspaper men
that since June IL the entire prohibi-
ton enforcement machinery of the
country, with it's personnel. has been
completely reorganized. He said that
the force reached its maximum quota
yesterday, and that, although two
thirds of the men now occupied in the
work are new to it, they are taking
hold fast. The State directors, he said,
are all new men. There are now 1,15o
enforcement agents in the country,
he said.
New York Getting Better.
Michigan. Mr.. Haynes declared, is
the exemplary State in the matter of
enforcement. for the reason that CO.
operation between the various authori-
ties has been developed there mors
completely than anywhere else. He
thinks conditions in New York are
better than they have been, and lays
stress upon the fact that conditions are
more difficult here than they are any
where else. He commended Mr.. Day as
a fine type OF director.
1--WE are trying to put enforcement
across" Mr.. Haynes stated, "by the
use of straightforward business methods.
l also detect a shifting of public SEN
/ timcnt in our favor. Americans always
| respond to patriotic appeal, and we
are asking the country to respect an
amendment to the Constitution
Commissioner Haynes declined to dis
cuss the campaign against Broadway
and the theatre district which is be-
lieved to have some connection with his
visit. He said that so far as he knew
the hotels are behaving themselves, and
added that they will be made to If they
are not
1t is known that some OF the agents
regard the crusade against the Broad
way places as Intellectual, because e
thorough cleaning up would require the
expenditure of more money than Is be-
lieved to be available. That the Pro-
hibition Department is endeavoring to
economize was evident from Mr..
Haynes's announcement that an effort
is being made TO transfer all seized
liquor to Government warehouses to
avoid the payment of rentals.
The squad of forty-two agents, armed
with search warrants who went raiding
up the Hudson yesterday wet with no
resistance. Quantities of whisky. beer,
gin and wine were seized.
Ossining Raid Fruitful.
In Osslning two p.,ces were raided.
In westor's Hotel the agents found 204
bottles of whisky and three 25-gallon
barrels of wine. They left a summons
with George Eagle. the proprietor. who
| Is charged with possessing liquor.
| Four raids were made In Tarrytown.
| The largest haul there was at the
Grand Central Hotel, where a trunkful
of whisky and four packages Of liquor
were found. At the NllIko Inn In Har-
mon the agents found thirty-six quarts
of whisky and gin and half gallon of
port wine. There were three raids In
Newburgh. Summonses were left for
the bartender or proprietor in all cases.
Agents who visited the drug store Of
| Charles Silkes at s04 Columbus avenue
yesterday and seized quantity Of
iiquor there say they were offered $50
by the druggist to forget IT." They
| took the s50 they said. and informed
| Silkes he would be charged with bribery
| In addition to possessing and selling
without n permit.
Papers were filed I'm Brooklyn yester-
day applying to Federal Judge Garvin
| for an Injunction restraining United
States Attorney Collins State Director
| Day and John T. Rafferty,, collector OF
| Internal revenue Tor the Eastern as
trlct. from interfering with the manu-
facture and sale of beer for medicinal
purposes. The suit is brought by Plel
Brothers and Is representative OF the
views of other Brooklyn brewers 1t
attacks the validity OF the anti-beer bill
on constitutional grounds.
Following the publication OF figures
yesterday showing the falling off in the
amount of liquor being released since
the arrival here In August of Mr.. Yel-
lowley. IL was announced at prohibition
headquarters that $40 violations have
been reported during the same period
and 713 arrests made. Liquors and mash
seized total 27,6S5 gallons, with an actual
value mot bootleg prices) of S2s7.,3o.
In the arrest of Pasquale Garosalo.
proprietor of n fruit store at ~ Fulton
street, and Edward Long, restaurant
keeper at 12 Columbia Heights, both OF
Brooklyn, enforcement agents believe
they have stopped" two places from
which the worst sort or hooch has been
sold TO sailors from the Atlantic fleet
| and the navy yard.