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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-03-01
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Curtains and Curtain Materials
For Spring
Reduced for Thursday Selling

Drapery Dept. - Upper Main floor
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-03-01

The balance of our Better
Dresses we have reduced to
$500 and S30.75. Val
ues up to $500.
The New York herald., 1922-10-04

about 1000 cases all brands in twenty
days time. You will get from Brad
ley all prices delivered Saint Pierre.
Miquelon.
II offer you the [word omittedl all
here for you for fifty cents case COM
mission.
mot one cent more.
.You will let me know if I can do
something for you. If yes | could
meet Won at Sydney at any time you
want and could so with you m
New York if necessary.
"I could go also direct from saint
Pierre to New York to meet you TO
fix the business.
"On the reception of this letter II
YOU need me let me know Immediately
and | will go. Your truly. ...."
Accompanying this letter came
price list of what the mercnaht mas
10 offer for immediate taking:
500 cases Old Orkney, SIS a case
$50 cases Haig & Haig, five stars
s25 case. 80.
100 cases Johnny Walker s2l a
case.
1sO cases Dewars Special, s24 case
case.
1000 cases Black and White, $2l.5o
q case.
1000 cases champagne (assorted)'
S24 a case.
5000 cases White Horse, S24 case
"These prices" the postscrip.
reads. will be met for you on poaro
your schooner ! will do shipper on
any bank here. II you want any
references on me wire here TO the
bank of st. Pierre or Canaoiah
Bank of Commerce"
tThe fourth story, TO be pupiIsneu 70
morrow. viii tell Of nigh' III .ne
cafe du Hayre. BIZ Miiiers rum
runners club, and the great spy "'s'
tery.(
The New York herald., 1922-10-04

Of the latter there are Olympe4
Lechevallier. Folqnet Freres. Paul
Charter, Gustave Dagort, Augusta
Fontaine, John J. Bradley, Ltd, of St
John, New Brunswick and the David
A. Clarkson Importing Company of
various American cities. There are
others, of course, but these at present
are the big ones, They import and
export, Bradley and Clarksor are the
forerunners of Canadians who are set
Ting here. BY spring there should be
six or eight more if plans carry.
You have been told in the preceding
story how an American ship changes
registry to French. a British ship
doesn't have to change. Down in New
York the uninitlated seem to be more
or less puzzled that Halifax clearings
have been found on rum runners
caught by the prohibition navy twelve
to twenty miles off Sandy Hook. Moth
ing could be simpler, and nothing more
Efficient We can dismiss that briefly
schooner clears from Halifax with
a few barrels or bales of this or that
for the Bahamas or other of the British
West Indies. 1t may be rum for all
OF that, because by paying the excess
export charges one may export spirits
from Canada to wet territory. But
that is beside our immediate question
The schooner clears from Halifax
Does she put forth az once for the wet
port designated on her papers? She
does not. III she is in the rum running
! traffic she will turn north and take on
her real cargo at st. Pierre. And then
taking care to remain away out-from
twelve to twenty miles off the Ameri-
can coast-she will proceed south in a
leisureiy manner. doing huckstering
business in booze, At such and such
a point she will hand small boat
anywhere from % to $50 cases of
whisky or what not and proceed to
the next small boat
OF these small boats more later when
the story Of Freddy Wilt the college
student who spent his vacation on a
rum runner, is told. Our Halifax
schooner peddies her cargo and pres
entity arrives in Nassau. Jamaica, or
wherever she may be going. There
! she loads booze again and clears for
! st. Pierre, But does she have any in
/ tention Of carrying her British whisky
/ to st. Pierre? What rot Why should
she carry British whisky to port that
/ is importing it direct from Scotland
and thereby saving a middleman's
profit?
! No, our Halifax schooner peddles the
| fresh cargo back again. The same
! process Therefore. we have her plow-
: ing up and down our coast hueksterinr
/ hooch from the north and from the
south. There are no wasted trips no
empty bottoms; no lost time or mo-
ton. Elementary, Elementary
At this moment in the improyised
warehouses of st. Pierre-warehouses
| and storage places scrambled together
| out OF the dry rot that set in when the
Newfoundland law against selling cod
bait TO St Pierre throttled the fisheries
OF this colony-there are not more
than $4,000 cases of whisky and cham
pagne. That figure is estimated for
THE NEW YORK HERALD reporter by a
local merchant whose business II is to
know the truth.
The policy is against overstocking:
ana here again st. Pierre is profitine
by lesson learned from Nassau The
idea seems to be TO keep no more than
10000 cases on hand, but keep II NOV
The New York herald., 1922-10-04

much as you might pull down here,
but you're young and yearn for ex-
citement. so here's your chance
The New York herald., 1922-10-04

ing At least one French or British
ship arrives in port every week carry
ing whiskies and wines from France
and the United Kingdom. Thus the
balance of booze is kept. If the de-
mand grows so do the imports, Very
well.
Our typical schooner arrives and we
apply let us say, to Olympic, Leche-
vallier (this gratuitous advertisement
should make him the envy of his
ncighbors) for 1000 cases of whisky
and champagne. Being Americans
and being possessed of an American
schooner, he hustles us through the
business OF a change of registry. and
proceeds TO assure us that he has at
our disposa, so many cases of this
and so many cases of that,
Lechevallier. you must realize. Is
doing perfectly legitimate business.
We are the outlaws. He has as much
right to sell us liquor as he has to
sell us canned goods. 1t is not up to
OLYMPIC Lechevallier to enforce Ameri-
can laws.
But we protest, "you have but
500 cases of Johnny Walker. whereas
we want $500. And you have but
1000 cases of King George, whereas
our orders call for 1000 We shall go
elsewhere
I'm sorry" replied Lechevaliier
"but I'm afraid you will find limited
stocks of certain brands no matter
where you go. You have two ways
open to you. Inasmuch as you are
strangers and have not ordered your
stuff in advance. you will find it more
convenient to take a mixed cargo Of
whatever good whisky you can get.
At the same time leave with us an
order for what you may desire for
Your next cargo. After this first trip
you will be Sure of getting what you
want in the exact quantities you want
1t. Is that clear?"
Knowing that Olympic Lechevallier
is telling the truth and having con-
vinced him that We are a financially
responsible pair of rum runners he
makes up for us price list f. o. b.
Scotland, Canada and France and sets
his hand thereto to indicate his will
ingness to make, good.
In a moment you shall have the
price list. But first you must under
stand that while ordering the stuff
from abroad suggests greater expense,
precisely the reverse is true. Our
first mixed cargo is taken from local
stores priced f. o. b. our schooner at
from SIS to s25 a case. BY ordering
the stuff from the outside, according
to I.echevallier's quotations, we pay a
little less than an average price of s1s
case and get, moreover, the Simon
pure booze.
The New York herald., 1922-10-04
HARDING WILL APPOINT
NEAR EAST COMMITTEE
Special Dispatch 70 THE NEw YoRK HERALD
New York Herald Bureau.
Washington, ID, C., Oct. g.

Further American participation in re-
lief in the Near East was Indicated when
announcement was made at the White
House to-day that President Harding
would within twenty-four hours appoint
committee to cooperate with the Near
East Relief Committee. 1t was stated
on behalf of the President that Win HI
Hays would be chairman. Tine person
mel Of the committee will consist of rep
resentative American citizens and its
duties win be TO assist in raising funs.
The New York herald., 1922-10-04
NEW YORK CASH BACKS
ST. PIERRE RUM BASE
Syndicate Said to Include Millionaires and Senators
Who Buy at Mqueon Islands for $40 and
Sell in United States at $50 to S120
a Case With Risk at Minimum.
Special Dispatch to THE New York aspAlD.

Miquelon SThe done with this
purely commercial affairs of these French islands
Newfoundland the tell the
erstwhi calms Miquon
this scandal night
Philip the until
Rhode
gentleman started something But
that
running ships the
We shall combine with the
frankly skipper typical schooner figures
gather oure from the principal liquor merchants here ST.
The New York herald., 1922-10-04
DAUGHERTY TO SKIP
SEA SEIZURE RULING
Will Deal With Liquor Sales
Inside Three Mile Limit.
speoiai Dispatch to THE NEW YoaK HERALD
New York Herald Bureau,
Washington, ID. C., Oct. = -


New York Herald Bureau,
Washington. ID. C., Oct. 3 7 s,
Attorney General Daugherty will side
step an opinion on the legality of the
seizure of foreign liquor ships outside
the three mile limit Mr.. Dsugherty an
nounced to-day that his coming opinion
for the Secretary OF the Treasury Will
not deal with that important phase Of
the smusgling problem.
The Attorney Generals opinion will
cover these three main points: Is the
sale of liquor aboard Shipping Board
vessels outside the three mile limit
legal? Is the sale Of liquor legal out
side the three mile limit aboard any
American private vessel or Government
owned vessel? is it legal for foreign
owned ships to possess beverage liquors
inside the three mile limit?
The effect of the Attorney Generals re-
fusll TO pass on foreign ship liquor seiz-
ures puts the whole question up to the
United States Supreme Court and the
State Department.
The New York herald., 1922-10-04
millionaire Hacking.

A'ANh 90 Juh HiibhN pun hONH HCttf
but you're young and yearn for ex-
element, so here's your chance.
Millionaire backing.
HE didn't seem over-anxious to
tell me more intimate stuff, but be-
fore he went he told me not TO be
afraid of going to Jail or anything
like that.
This is as safe as a church, he.
told me, We've been running stun
into New York for two years and
only three of our boats have got into
trouble and that only because the
captains were boneheads. There's
enough money back of this syndi-
cate to finance another war. One big
bank here in New York is in OH it,
There are several miliionaires--re-
spectacle ones-in on it. We have
several United States Senators and
Representatives on the list of po-
litical securities, and to make it com
plete we have several rich British
distiilers backing us up
well, I came up the coast from
Nassau. and before we had reached
Cape Cod we had lightered 5000
Mind you, we kept twelve and fifteen
miles off shore. The small boats
came and got it. We carried rifles
to repel pirates, but in all my four
trips up and down the coast we
never had bit of trouble. Once we
sighted an American revenue cutter
but she didn't even hail us or
speak us.
1T ought TO be simple enough to
you. We'd feed the small boats and
the small boats would feed the dis
pensaries, and the dispensaries would
dispense the booze. don't know
that anybody was fixed politically or
otherwise, but | do know that none
of the small boats ever got into a
jam that | heard Of
I'm going back to college with
500 in my hand. sPretty soft, what?
Maybe I'll take hack my old job run
ming small orders out of one of The
gangs fats II | can spare the time"
And that brings us to much
more interesting set of figures. We
shall assume that the Hypothetical
schooner that You and / set forth
with from st. Pierre has. rs have all
tuIi IutHeIS. arrangements
with the middlemen in the small
boats who buy our wares as we sail
south or north off the coast. We
know exactly where we are going to
be met by these feeders.
The booze has cost us. here In
st. Pierre, about $40 or $50 a case
on the average. We sell il to the
small boats at prices varying from
S45 to S55 a case. The middlemen
hand it over to the retailers for sos
to SIS case. The retailer dilutes
until often il is so per cent water
and so per cent. whisky. He sells
the diluted stuff at from $12 to
s22 bottle, according to his trade
1--WE are speaking only/of stuff that
leaves this port pure), or for rs cents
to 81 drink. Very often the mid
dleman is cut out and the retailer has
his own small boat.
You may figure out the profits for
yourself. The retailer is the big
winner.
a st. Pierre OHer.
Az this article ia heinc writtnn a
The New York herald., 1922-10-04
The Price List.

Olympic Lechevailier ct Gle
Commission ct Consignation.
ST. Pierrc-Miquelon, II Septernbre 1872
SCOTCH WHISKY.
The New York herald., 1922-10-04
a st. Pierre Oner.

As this article is being written a
letter penned in st. Pierre English
comes to THE New YORK HERALD
reporter from one of the most reliable
of St Pierre's French dealers in
liquor 1t is published as written.
Dear SIR" it reads, 81 was talking
with you about business. You will
write Immediately to John J. Bradley
Limited, Saint John, n. b. This
merchants will have big stock of
whiskey soon at Saint Pierre. Lot
The New York herald., 1922-10-04
RYE AND BOURBON.

RYE AND BOURBON,
T. OBJ. Freight Duty
Mon to ST. In ST.
treai. Pierre. Pierre.
Old Kentucky Bourbon.sl sli.50 81 $3.50
Ola Grow .'.....---.. li.OO o.o
Charter Oak, ll,l0 900
BRANDY.
Freight Duty
%. ID. to st. In ST.
France. Pierre. Pierre,
Hennessy xxx $1,000 81 $3.50
Marel NXN........... 1900 $50
%. LECHEVALLIER, EFT Gle.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-07-27
ANNOUNCE SHIPPERS
FOR SUNDAYS RACE
viii Be Fight Between johnson And Wal.
theirs For Place AS Other Upton
Skipper.

The seventeenth and final elimination
race of the Pensacola Yacht Club will
be held Sunday afternoon at two a'clock
off Palafox wharf. The shippers who will
sail in this event and their total number
of points to date are as follows: Wither-
i'll, SO, in No. 5; Johnson. "a. in No. 3;
Walthers, 90, in No. 2; O. Sheppard, q,
in No. 1; Cottrel, 81, in No. A. Witrerill
shippers so this race will be run between
Johnson and Walthers to decide which
one will be the other Upton skipper and
who will be the alternate.
At a meeting held last night, the lead
ing shippers discussed the Upton races
in detail. After Sundays race, the skip
pers and their crews will have four weeks
in which to train for the Upton races.
A meeting will be held Sunday evening
at which the Upton skipers and crews
will sign certificates of entry.
There will be no regular race Friday
but the Juniors will have the use of the
boats and will hold their first regular
race of their regatta on this day. Rumors
have been afloat recently that the Lip
ton races will not be held at the East
Shore Yacht Club at Fairhope, but Of
ficers of the Pensacola Yacht Club have
denied these rumors and state positively
that the races will be held at Fairhope.
E. Gautesen, local company, has been
awarded the contract to build IL sets
Of sails for the Upton races. Several
companies in Mobile and New Orleans
were in the field for this contract but
Gautesen's bid was considered the best
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-07-27
|. AND N. STILL
GETTING BUSINESS
& A. OeFunlak, General Freight Agent,
Says Strike Does Not Prevent Func-
tioning OF Railroad.

E. A. DeFuniak, General Freight Agent
Of the Louisville and Nashville railroad.
Is in the city for few days. and when
seen last night at the San Carlos hotel
said that while the strike was still hold l.
Ing up business throughout the country
to some extent, that the L. and N. was
continuing to solicit business and things
were not as bad as might have been an
ticipated. Mr.. DeFuniak said that he
could not go into detail as to the strike
situation. his official duties being con
fined to the freight department of the
L. and N
Mr. DeFuniak visits Pensacola quite
frequently in his official capacity. and
says that when he comes he notes some
improvement, but that he is always par
tlcularly impressed with PensacoIa's Won
derfully paved streets
You have one of the best paved cities
in the country" he said, and one OF
the prettiest, and always enjoy my Wis
it's here"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-07-27
INSPECT GROVES
FOR THE CANKER
Will Spend Month or More INSPECTING
Citrus Groves in Escambia County

Detailed to make a survey of the
citrus groves in West and North Flor
ida for probable canker infection, J.
L. Lazonby and T. r. Robinson, of the
state plant board working coopera-
lively with the bureau of plant indus
try of the United States Department
Of Agriculture, are now in Pensacola.
The inspectors travelling by auto from
one county to the other, are beginning
in this end of the state and will work
every grove in North and West Flor
ida.
They will spend a month or more in
going over the citrus groves of Escam-
bia county, it was stated. The prob
ability of finding the canker in this
section is not strong, it was said. but
considering the great damage it is
liable to do once it does ever get a
hold, the inspectors will make minute
Investigations of all groves, and es-
pecially those where any traces of the
canker have been found previously.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-07-27
EIGHTY BOYS
ARRIVE FIRST
day OF CAMP
Large Parties Arrived on Both
Morning and Night Trains.
Examinations Taken.
TWO HUNDRED MORE
WILL ARRIVE TODAY
VIII Travel the Regular Route of
Rookie Soldier Entering Uncle
Sans Army.

Elghty specimens Of wholesome Amer
icdh youth arrived in Pensacola yester-
oay morning and last night on the OPEN
ing day of the Citizens Military Training
ocnool to take the special course in coast
arIiiIery instruction offered by Uncle
Sam thirty two of the eighty arrived
Yesterday morning and proceeded at once
10 the barracks at Barrancas where they
went through the usual rounds of an
Ordinary rookie seeking admission into
the regular army.
200 Expected Today
Two hundred more are expected to ar
rive today it was stated, and they will
pass through the same inspections and
examinations as the others. The entire
20 or 800 which have signffied their in
tentlon OF coming to Fort Barrancas are
expected to all be here by Friday night.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-07-27
new MANAGEMENT
AT SAUFLEY BEACH
Mr.. D'AIemberte Resigns And Fred w.
Marsh viii Act AS Managing
Director

Lovers Of the surf who have kept away
from Saufley Beach during the past few
days because of the sea moss that ac-
cumulated in the waters along the bath
ing beach for some unknown reason.
making bathing a little unpleasant. can
again satisfy their tastes in perfect COM
fort. Quite as unexpectedly and sudden
as the moss came. so it has gone The
shifting of the winds or the fish or
something have cleaned the beach. it was
announced Yesterday. and now the
waters fine
Herbert Fl. D'Alembcrte. who has been
managing the activities at the beach for
some time, has resigned. and it will here
after be conducted under new manage
ment, 1t was also announced. Fred W.
Marsh has been appointed managing di-
rector of all operations. and will be as
sisted by John Gum. Aubrey Maura will
be in charge of the employees at the beach.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-07-27
REMARKABLE RUN
OF MAXWELL CAR

DETROIT, July 26-What in many
ways may be considered the most re-
markable piece of prolonged and al
most sustained cross-country driving
so far placed on the record books, has
been completed by Ray r. Mcnamara,
road engineer of the Maxwell Motor
corporation, newspaper writer on mat
ters pertaining to the automobile, and
the man who is said to have nearly
100000 miles of good, bad and in
different roadway fly under him in his
20 years in the industry.
In this. his latest achievement,
which carried him GAS miles closer
to the million mark, Mcnamara piloted
a Maxwell touring car, standard in
every detail. from Detroit to Los An
geles and return in II IL days driving
every foot Of the distance himself, car
rying no mechanician, treating the
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-07-27
SCHOOL BOARD HAS
LIVELY DISCUSSION
Members Lodge Objections Against
Two Items in Newly Prepared
Budget

A discussion that at times almost
bordered on argument arose at the
meeting of the board of public instruc-
ton yesterday over items included in
the budget prepared by the trustees
of special sub-tax district No. which
was submitted at the last meeting of
the board.
1t was approved with the exception
of two items. One was an appropria-
ton allotted for a teacher in the gram
mar schools of the city for the domes-
tic science department, amounting to
1920 and the other an appropriation Of
$500 for a supervisor of the city prim-
airy schools.
These items were decided at the last
meeting to be cancelled from the bud
get, and voted upon in like manner
and announcements given to the press
to this effect.
The trustees, P. K. Yonge, chair
man; Sam Pasco and George P. Went
worth, objected to the cancellation of
these two items and in conference with
the board this morning, placed their
objections.
o. ]. Semmes, a member of the
board, was bitterly opposed to the re-
placement of such items in the list,
stating that the public had been given
the statement that such expenses
would be dispensed with and that
domestic science was not absolutely
necessary in the grammar schools,
thus saving the expense in this de-
partment.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-07-27
STAND
TIES UP SYSTEMS
j. o. Bristol. General Chairman OF Fed
Grated Shop Crafts, Says Three
Roads To Blame,

j. u. Bristol, General Chairman of the
Federation of Shop Crafts Association
spent yesterday in Pensacola comforting
with the striking shop craftsmen. Mr.,
Bristol is one of the six general chairmen
who are handling the strike. and has
been making a tour of the entire system
OF railroads. That the Erie, Pennsyl-
vania and New York, New Haven and
Hartford railroad companies, are tying up
the railroads of the country, through their
refusal to allow strikers returning to
work to have seniority claims over men
who have taken their places in the shops
was the statement Of Mr.. Bristol who
said that with the exception of these
three lines, the railroads of the country
were willing to allow seniority rights,
and that it was the arbitrary stand of
these three roads that was preventing
the conference which might possibly re-
suit in the adjustment of the trouble
Mr.. Bristol stated that the Louisville
and Nashville is practically ignoring the
strike, SO far as the employment of
strike breakers goes, and that at only
two places on the system, at Covington
and Gordon, KY, is any very strenuous
effort being made by the railroad to put
in any large number of men in the places
of the striking shopmen.
At Gordon, which is the gateway of
the coal fields, handling an enormous
of business both north and south,
Mr.. Bristol stated that the entire popula-
ton of the city is with the strikers, and
that their efforts to introduce strike |
breakers has not been successful.