The New York herald., 1922-07-31
ATLANTIC CITY LID
OFF, THEN -zOWIE!
Boardwalk Feels Safe as Jer-
sey Dry Chief Leaves, Lit
tie Suspecting-
NEW APPLEBY RAIDERS
Dowagcrs and Flappers Scam
per as Saharan Crash Hits
Fifteen Cabarets.

Special Dispatch to THE New YORK HERALD.
ATLANTIC CITY. ~ j.. July 3o.-The
prohibition enforcement agents descend
what they did to fifteen cafes will go
down in history along with other famous
massacres. Their raid upon the erst-
while free and easy places near the
was fearful shock.
1t was shock because Sam Cone.
head of the enforcement agents in New
Jersey, left this resort yesterday after
the cheap saloons and cafes back near
Atlantic avenue. Sam Cone has been
threatening to mop up the beach front
but seems to have been putting it off.
Atlantic City understands why now.
When Cone left yesterday the beach
front lifted the lid clear-that is, the
resorts where liquor was sold. But as
Cone departed E. B. Henson appeared.
Henson Is first assistant to John b.
Appleby, who directs the enforcement
agents in New York and New Jersey.
Henson had brought with him couple
of squads of helpers and, IS has been
said, what they did to the expensive
cabaret places must be recorded under
the classification Of cleanups.
Saturday Night Plus.
In nearly all the places visited they
say they found liquor. The excitement
ran high / nall of the places. but in only
one was there trouble. And that didn't
last long. When Henson and his men
entered one establishment they met
Frank Krull. special officer employed
by the management. Krull decided that
the least he could do and remain loyal
to his employers was to protest. Ac-
cordingly he did. Henson says that
Krull protested so much that 1t amounted
to interference with Federal officers.
Krull was locked UP and the raid went
on.
Virtually all the raided places were
crowded. 1t was the usual Saturday
night carouse. plus the carefree atmos-
phere created by the departure of Cone.
All the Boardwalk railbirds were con-
tributing to the merrymaking. The
ladies and gentlemen were singing over
their hooch. 1t was costing them as
much as two dollars a shot in some
gin anywhere for less than dollar and
half.
Four gambling men whose names are
familiar here and in New York were
staging what promised to be a most
remarkable party. They had fetched
their own cabaret with them. From the
fashionable hotels dowagers and flap
pers, magnificently upholstered, had
come to lend class to the evening. Sew
eral we'll known actors and actresses; a
few equally familiar names from Wall
Street a number Of merchant princes
they all were spending the night among
the cabarets.
Dignity and Crowd Flee.
But when Hensen and his men ap-
'peared dignity fled and so did the
crowd. The boardwalk has seen moth
ing like 1t for years. Gray headed ladies
were outsprinting their flapper daugh-
ters and granddaughter. They scampered
up and down toward their hotels, and it
is said. although not proved, that there
was much fainting and hysteria in some
of the city's very incest hotels, simply
because the hearts Of the elderly refugees
protested against all the running and ex-
citement attending the escape.
Here and there Hensen and his men
crashed their way through doors. up
setting a waiter or two in their crashing.
The managements of these places ordered
their orchestras to keep on playing and
their entertainers to keep on entertain
ing So while this fine show of indiffer
ence was being made Hensen burst
barrel tops and heaved cases and demi-
johns out. All the stuff was loaded into
motor trucks, but it is doubtful whether
the whole haul would fetch more than
$4,000 IL peddIed from door to door.
The reason for that Is That expecting
something like this the cafe proprietors
have not laid in large stocks but con-
tented themselves by buying from week
to week.