Evening star., 1922-03-07
tered, can be found the purveyor of
illicit spirits. :. -
In Alley Near Hospital
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tered, can be found the purveyor of
In Alley Near Hospital
Sibley Hospital overlooks an alley
in which bootleggers are thriving.
The government. printing office
overlooks another alley where the
bootlegger mingles with the dope
peddler or conducts the two branches
| Of Illicit business himself
One may walk into an express
of goods awaiting him and emerge
with neatly done-up package in
which reposes the alleged liquor.
One may go into a soft drink es-
tablishment to quar- some cooling
beverage, ostensibly. and emerge
also with beverage which is now
illegal to transport or to purchase.
Sold I'm Barber Shops.
A person may 80 into a barber
shop for hirsute attention and come
out with one package more in his
arms than he entered with. Literally
scores of ways and means of evading
arrest during the conduct Of the
Illicit business have been evolved by
the bootlegger.
Price List Of Assorted PolsOns.
Strongly suggestive of the profit
in peddling poisonous concoctions is
the price list.
Throughout the city, at boot
leggers headquarters. drinks are be-
ing sold at prices ranging from 70
to SO cents for Corn. whisky and from
IS to $1.25 for rye.
failing at from s12 to $50. while corn
| whisky is being sold from IS to $S
per quart. and gin for from 81 to
$40 per quart.
Case lots vary in price from 800
to $3.50 for whisky and gin.
At the stills in the mountains OF
Virginia around Roanoke the corn
| whisky ranges in price at from $3.50
| to $3.50 per gallon, while at places
within a short haul of the still the
liquor jumps from these figures to
price paid for large lots for trans.
portation into Washington. much of
| which is again distributed further
north and east.
Philadelphia Once Center.
For a time Philadelphia was a center
for corr whisky which was manufac-
| tured from cheap denatured alchol
that had been through a chemical
preparation Of charcoal. lime and
other ingredients. The price there
! was in the neighborhood of IS per
gallon.
The liquor comes in all sorts of con-
tainers. There are fruit Jars and
gallon jugs and metal canisters for
corn whisky. Elaborately decorated
and arranged bottles are used for
imported stuff" Old bottles which
once contained whisky of another
type are used time and time again
for the poisonous products Of today.
Diverse Types OF BoOtlegEers.
The types of bootleggers of Was.,-
lngton are as numerous as their
places of business. They range from
vaySf OF ND
snappy hat-the ideal clubman or
man n-about-town'-to the ragged
nondescript of the dens and alleys
They all have their status in boot
legdom, just as society outlines its
inches for more fortunate individuals
one of many classes, therefore. There
are whisky dealers and whisky run
ners. The dealers arrange the finer
points of the transactions. They
outline the methods to be pursued In
| the purchase, collection and distribu.
| ton of the Illicit products. They are
| the men behind the wheel. fgurative-
ly, while their runners are literally
! in that status in their speedy rum
running automobiles.
| The runners, or drivers, occupy
the most dangerous status in the
They take the liquor from the still
| or the distribution point over the
dark roads at night. running al
breakneck pace to beat the dawn and
! daylight and to reach their rendeZ-
vous without discovery.
Run in Fleets.
Sometimes they run in fleets. A
pilot car-small and speedy. without
cargo-runs ahead of three or -four
| big bootleg touring cars. loaded tc
! the brim with Illicit products, and
! scents the road ahead for danger OF
| for forces of the law. In case it dis.
covers something not wholesome fol
| the runners, it switches back anC
scurries to it's convoy, turning then
off into a dark side road until the
danger is past, when it resumes its
duty.
! In Virginia the formation of two
cars became so we'll known in rum
running that officers of the law es-
| pecially watched for it. In this for.