Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-03-09
By the Associated. Press

NEW YORK, March S.-Izzy. Elm
stein. New York's most versatile rum
! hunter, announces he has added an
other to the current, series Of blues
songs. It's called Those Revenuer
Blues" and. according to Einstein, it
| proved a veritahle knockout in q
Brooklyn cabaret, where he first pre-
duced 1t. Izzy, the best hated of all
the city's force of bootlegger chasers.
had been trying to think out a
| scheme for getting the goods on"
| that particular cabaret for several
| weeks, when a violin case, seized as
liquor transporter gave him the
| Inspiration.
himself into musical frame of mind.
he strobe into the cab"ret, set his
violin case tenderly on a chair beside
him and ordered dinner-'with.'
| A cautious waiter communicated the
| Illicit part of his desire to the pro-
prietor.
! "Give Him Anything"
| "Sure-that''s Jake the fiddler. He
plays in the orchestra down at that
Give him anything he wants." said
! the proprietor.
| Then he hurried to Izzy's table to
make him welcome and bespeak for
| his guests one selection from Jake
the Fiddler's" famous fiddle.
| Sure, I'll play" said Jake" tenn
porizing until he got his evidence.
What kind OF music do you like?"
| "0h. any kind" said the proprietor.
| Well, said Icy. reaching for his
violin case as the waiter hustled in
with the merry-merry. 'I'n play
1 f1Nv tYa - nkn
mouthed bottle from the violin case,
poured in the evidence. and con-
Cluded:
| Those Revenusr Blues.n
| You could have knocked him over
with feather Izzy concluded.
Plays Many Roles.
| But musician is only one of many
roles that Einstein, the man Of many
| DISCUSSES, has played since he started
his quest of the illegal rum bottle as
a member of the federal prohibition
enforcement staff for New York
state.
| He has played everything from bat
,tle-scarred foot bali hero TO noctur;E
gravedtgger; from opulent evening
clothed man about town to grimy coal
HEAVIER on the New York water front.
/! Scores of rum purveyors have news
paper. pictures of him posted up in
conspicuous places. but none has
I
somehow to look different every time
he appears.
| Others have tried to scare him off
the job with threatening letters. en-
! bellished with daggers and other MUIR
! derous weapons rampant in pools of
blood. But he laughed at them. and
In at least one case used such a letter
as clew which led to an arrest for
violation of the liquor laws.
Free Lances.
| Einstein seldom works on assign
| ments from his chief, Ralph A. Day,
federal prohibition director for New
York state. Most of his raids and ar
rests result from free lancing activi-
| ties.
| Frequently a chance bit Of CONVEX
sation overheard on the subway or at
a street corner provides him with the
tip for a rich haul.
| Jack certainly has lot Of nerve. -
proudly to fellow passenger recent
~. He filled up our new car with
| whisky an hour ago and drove it right
| aboard the Albany night boat"
Einstefn. who had been sitting next
! to her friend, got off at the next stop,
hailed a taxicab. and caught the night
boat just as the gangpfank was being
pulled in. Liquor, automobile and
| Jack" were taken into custody.
/ A truckman who boasted about the
I OtS Wages hc SdEASu Udlcu
rags to freight station furnished
the tip on a large liquor shipment to
Cleveland.
| Mistaken fer Bootlegger.
Another truckman, who Einstein
\ hired to haul the seized goods to a
storehouse, mistook him for an opu-
tlent bootlegger and garrulously I'M
! folded the story of a moonshine dis
tillery In Brooklyn, which was raided
/! the same night.
! Recently Einstein put the efficiency
of his DISCUSSES to a stern test, when,
| with his partner, Moe Smith, he made
up as a negro, took his place in a
line of colored men in the Harlem
/! black belt" and bought canned to-
/; matoes'' and canned beans" in a
delicatessen store for 81 a can. The
tomatoes proved to be whisky. the
beans gin.
| Works as GravedigEer.
| He spent two nights recently In a
| cemetery, digging graves, and got the
| dope that enabled him to raid a
still with $50 gallons a day capacity.
/! Posing as a foot ball player, fresh
! from the gridiron. he bought drinks
and raided q saloon near Van Cort-
| land Park.
! He visited a musicians CLUB" up
town, played How Dry Am" on a