The New York herald., 1922-10-04

II is explained to US that 81 will be
added to the above prices case for
taking 1t off the importing ship, stor-
ing the liquor. insurfhg the storage
and loading it upon our schooner, And
then. IN a supplementary note, we are
informed that delivery of goods from
France and Scotland will be made
within one month after we place our
order. Fifteen days of thls is con-
sumed in some manner by the French
and Scotch shippers. Fifteen days
more are required for the stuff to reach
st. Pierre after being loaded upon the
ship in Scotland and France.
Now about financing our order from
IIechevallier's list. Inasmuch as we
are not more than strangers and have
put up no bond, we are required to
place the amount of our bill in one
of the banks in st. Pierre-say the
Canadian Bank of Commerce. We are
of attorney over that money, but the
bank holds it as security or bond.
The bank says to Lechevallier:
"These Americans have placed with
us sufficient money to pay for this
cargo T. o. b. their schooner. We will
order this stuff for you from Scotland
and France and Canada provided you
post with us one-third the amount we
transfer to cover the order That will
make 1t a business proposition all
around"
And our cargo is ordered 1t will be
ready for us in a month. In the mean
time we buy what we may find here in
st. Pierre and sat off TO peddle the
stuff down the coast. The bootlegging
game has changed quite a lot since its
first rough days in the Bahamas 1t
is not so easy, for example, to run
into north and middle Atlantic ports
as it used to be. The prohibition navy
has been pretty active-not. let it be
said, that it catches anything but a
very small percentage of the rum run
ming schooners.
The College BOY.
But rather than bother with our
hypothetical trip down the Atlantic
coast let US hear Freddy Wilt. Freddy
Wilt is 22 years old, third year man
in an American university. strong, adj
venturous and in love with money.
"A bunch of u.s." said Freddy to THE
New York HERALD reporter, used to
do bit of illegal drinking in fiat in
Seventy ninth street. We didn't do
much of 1t because It was too expen
sive-seventy-five cents to a dollar a
shot. But I was something of a reg
ular customer and the lizard who pre-
daA La At Il
had faith in me. He always had at
least twenty-five cases Of Scotch on
the premises.
"One night he said to me:
Say kid, do you want to make a
! little change? Yes? Wells if you'll
report here Tuesday, Thursday, Fri
day, Saturday and Sunday nights ]
can use you. ] want a nice looking
| kid like you TO deliver small orders
say half dozen bottle lots--to small
! customers
! well. believe me. saw things
For instance. I'd be in the fiat and the
telephone bell would ring. Somebody
over on the Drive or on Cathedral
Parkway or anywhere would send in a
hurry call for half dozen bottles OF
| Scotch. The party had been going big
! and the liquor had run short I'd
| hustle over with fresh ammunition
Wed get anywhere from SIS TO $25 a
bottle, according TO the party and the
| supply on hand.
IF our immediate stock ran low
we'd water the stuff down, recork II
and slap on new stamp-phony OF
course. Then, too. we'd take orders 70,
as high as ten or twenty cases at from
| $50 to S125 a case. The stuff kent
coming in regularly. ! soon learned
that this was but one Of a dozen such
blind tigers in New York, all of them
controlled by one group of men. There
was money i'm it for me because I'd
| get a dollar a delivery, and some times
couple of dollars, or maybe five
bucks from the consignee, depending
upon how much he or she had been
| drinking.
Last May the lizard who ran the
fiat worked out of said to me-
Say kid, are you looking for a
little recreation? If you are you can
ship aboard a schooner that's living in
the North River and take a trip on
her. IL means a couple of hundred a
| I'll Hn