The New York herald., 1922-01-28

anu indt ltS lUueuldte eAeCutlOu W.
headquarters in the Albemarle Build
ing, at Twenty-fourth street and
Broadway. He will 60 to Washington
to confer with Commissioner Haynes
Monday or Tuesday. rva-1
..Best People" Are Blnmed.
Director Day blames the popular at
titude Of disregard for the .Volstead
act upon the so-called best people" Of
the city. They are the ones." he said,
"wEo are making bootlegging a big
game. They are furnishing the up
keep of all the little eating places
where liquor is sold. The. big hotels
are helping the prohibition depart
ment. They are standing by the law.
and losing business as result. Many
people who used to eat in the big
hotel dining rooms have left tEem for
the restaurants where they can get
liquor
Mr.. Day said he understood that IN
some of the best hotels In the city the
volume Of restaurant business had
fallen Off almost 50 per cent. because
of their observance OF the liquor laws,
and that he had been informed that sew
eral had closed dining and grill rooms
because of the decline in business.
L. M. Boomer. head cf a chain that
includes the claridge, the McAlpin ana
the Waldorf Astoria, said last night
that Mr.. Days statement was correct.
Everybody who gets about New York. =
he declared, knows that the restau-
rants in the central hotel district are
supplying the lack of liquor that hotel
patrons feel Our big hotel dining
rooms are patronized only for neces-
sary meals; the theater supper business.
the parties are all being held in the
restaurants where the law is not OBJ
served as 1t Is by the hotels.
Closing Hotel Grills.
The Claridge, not long after prohibit
ton came. converted It's grill room into
a candy and tea shop. Only las. Satur-
day, it was learned from the Ritz-Carl-
ton management, the Crystal Room at
the Ritz was closed. Other hotel mar-
ayers admitted that their restaurant
business had fallen off badly, but said
they were keeping all their dining rooms
open for the sake OF appearances.
Mr.. Day said that upon his return
from Washington he expects to enlarge
the enforcement staff considerably.
There are at present few more than
80 agents In the State.
The director said that several liquor
distributing agencies and bonded ware
house brokers' agencies In the same
building as the old headquarters had
been trying to get into the Aibermarle
Building. and had evens gone to WASH
ington about II. Mr.. Day declared he
had an agreement with the agents OF the
building by which these companies would
not be- permitted in the same building
with prohibition headquarters.
TruckIoad Of Wine seised.
Izzy Einstein and Moe Smith, for the
third time this year, seized truck be-
longing to the Continental Distributing
Company OF 10 Bowery. The truck
was loaded with sixty-seven cases OF
sherry and port wine, consigned to the
MenOTan
for delivery. The seizure was made NJ
Ninth street and the Bowery ss
Izzy became suspicious when he noted
that the list OF names opposite addresses
where deliveries were to be made, COM
posing a congregation" included sew
eral that were not Jewish, although the
delivery sheets were signed by two
rabbis. These rabbis, he said, were
PhiIip Korut of 20 West 112th street
and Samuel Gerstenfeld OF $50 Grand
street. Einstein went to one OF the ad'
dresses given and found the consignee
M. Wilson Of 237 West Thirteenth street
Wilson admitted. according to the agent
that he had been solicited as pur'
chaser for the wine and had placed ar
order
A year ago Einstein and Smith seized
more than $4,000 worth Of wine belong
ing To the same company and about six
weeks ago they got another truckloao
Yesterday they arrested Herman Cohen
of 25t Madison street, the chauffeur, and
Jacob Levine of 256 Madison street,
clerk. They wers locked up In the Eas'
Fifth street station. charged with ille'
gal transportation Of liquor.
Bronx Druggists Convicted.
Two Bronx druggists were convicted
In the Bronx County Court yesterday
OF violations of the liquor laws. Vim
cent Mangione, whose store Is In Eas'
islst street. near Arthur avenue. was
convicted before Judge ULYSSES Walsh
ON a charge OF manufacturing. He was
emanded for sentence. According tc
detectives, the password at Mangione's
shop was Yum Yum" and his concoc'
tIon was known as $3.50" II was a
preparation consisting simply OF alco'
hol. water, sugar and a Kangaroo OF 4
kick. f+'"
The other verdict was returned agains'
Jacob Reiss Of 40 Franklin avenue. The
Bronx. He was charged with selling
and will be sentenced next week.
1t was reported In Cape May last might
that the presence there Of the Coas'
Guard cutter Kickapoo means that the
Government intends to shut down or
the activities of the rum runners who
are said to have been infestlng the Jer
sey coast for year or more.
Lieut.. Commander Hutson. chief off
Ger OF the Kickapoo. would not admit
that he had been sent to lower New
Jersey to hunt for rum runners, stat
ing that his orders were secret. III
said. however. that II nc ran across anJ
craft along the coast that was actins
strangely he would tow her into Cape
May harbor. Delaware Bay and Rivei
pjlots insist that rum runners have beer
operating off the Delaware coasts with
In the last month.
77TH's MIG REUNION ARRANGET